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On October 20, 2009, the CO-LaN Management Board has decided to re-commissioned
the Methods & Tools Special Interest Group (SIG). Dr Bill Barrett from US
Environmental Protection Agency has been designated as leader for this SIG.
Bill,
recipient of the CAPE-OPEN Award 2008, has been
active in CO-LaN for several years now, as software developer as well as
instructor of CAPE-OPEN related courses in the US and Europe. Representatives
from SimSci-Esscor, ProSim SA, AmsterCHEM and University of Trieste (Italy) have
expressed their interest in participating to the SIG activities.
The Methods & Tools SIG generally aims at improving the integration and at
expanding utilization of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) applications
within the enterprise through identification and resolution of existing
cross-cutting issues with the CAPE-OPEN platform, develop mechanisms for use of
CAPE within other application domains, and incorporate advances in information
technology into the CAPE-OPEN platform.
The key
responsibilities
of the
Methods &
Tools SIG
are:
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to resolve issues with the CAPE-OPEN common interface specifications
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to develop and maintain standards and protocols for incorporating
advances in information technology within the CAPE-OPEN standards
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to identify novel uses of CAPE and to provide CAPE-OPEN standards
for utilizing CAPE within these applications
The Methods
& Tools SIG
deliverables
for 2010
are:
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Parameters: minimum level of parameter support in Process Modelling Environments
and expansion of dimensionality concept
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Thermo version support: provide a means for Process Modelling Components and
Process Modelling Environments to expose which version(s) of CAPE-OPEN
Thermodynamic interfaces are supported
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Flowsheet Monitoring: review, revise and publish a specification document and
prototypes for the CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Monitoring interfaces
These
actions
should clean
up some
issues with
existing
interfaces
as well as
develop
flowsheet
monitoring.
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