INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL DESIGN | LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
management of nuclear I&C design
Lifecycle Engineering hardware design is mainly achieved through the development
of drawings and lists and the use of industrial software automation-aided design. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a novel process solution that aims to
streamline information flow about products and processes throughout the lifecycle By Xu Zhang, Zhang Yao, Yanqun Wu and Hao Peng,
Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory, Nuclear Power Institute of China
WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE industrial revolution, the engineering design process has gone through various stages from manual drawing to computer-aided automatic design to product lifecycle management. Further development took place between the world economic globalisation and the integration of industry information. Now, automation is being integrated with the artificial intelligence and the internet of things to give new power to the traditional manufacturing industry. This era has been dominated by intelligent manufacturing, the so-called ‘fourth industrial revolution’. The traditional engineering design process requires a
combination of advanced design idea and efficient aided tools to improve competitiveness. As an auxiliary design tool, the emergence and development of industrial software is one of the important symbols of ‘the third industrial revolution’. At present, open industrial software generally provides a good secondary development function to meet users’ customisation needs and to help users achieve the
desired design state faster and better. Users can typically add customised functional modules to realise some functions that the software itself does not have. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a process solution that aims to streamline information flow about products and processes throughout the lifecycle. This approach ensures the availability of the right information in the right environment is available at all times through a series of functional modules that are designed and integrated into the design process through the secondary development of software. These modules and software effectively alleviate the problems of current engineering design version confusion, repeated design, human error and other challenges. PLM is not only an advanced design concept to manage
the data information generated in the whole lifecycle process of product creation, use and recycling, but also a progressively unified management strategy, an active product creative process. Introducing PLM strategy into
The second industrial revolution
Manual drawing
Computer-aided design
The third industrial revolution
Automation
The fourth industrial revolution
PLM
Right, Figure 1: Development history of engineering design
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