INVITE Science Talk 2025 - Smart Automation
We invite you to an INVITE Science Talk where we take a deeper dive in smart automation. Aim is to keep the dialogue and interaction within our network vivid and discuss relevant topics for science and industry. It is an open event so please share it with other interested colleagues or friends.
Time: May 15th, 2025 from 10.00
Title: From Intentions to Engineering Concepts - How Intention-based Engineering can increase the Comprehensibility in Planning
Abstract: Plant operators in the process industry have to adapt to increasingly individual and volatile customer requirements, resulting in more flexible and highly automated plants. In addition to the costs, the construction and operation of such plants are significantly affected by decisions made in the early engineering phases. Due to the increasing complexity in the planning of flexible and highly automated plants, decisions made are becoming more difficult to comprehend. This is further aggravated by the lack of systematic capture, linking, as well as consistent use of requirements and engineering concepts, and leads to subsequent mistakes, e. g. incorrect system integration of automation components. Therefore, there is a need for a higher degree of systematization and formalization of the early engineering phases of process plants.
By modeling intentions of engineering disciplines, the comprehensibility in planning can be increased. Ontology-based approaches for goal-oriented requirements engineering can be used to describe goals, goal strategies and requirements as integral parts of intentions. Thus, knowledge can be represented in a formal and interdisciplinary way in the early phases and suitable engineering concepts can be developed systematically on this basis.
A description model in the form of an ontology for the formalized and knowledge-based description of intentions is developed and integrated into a process model for the systematic and consistent modeling of intentions. The process model comprises the formulation, modelling and operationalization of intentions for the development of purposeful engineering concepts. This intention-based approach can be used to analyze modularity in plants and to develop service-oriented automation concepts.
Presenter: Dr.-Ing. Artan Markaj