IC693CPU352-DE The difficulty of cross-departmental collaboration and information synchronization, I believe that many people have felt, and the big factories have derived the Internet “black talk” of “pulling through” and “alignment”, using simple words to express complex things.

If there is any industry that suffers the most from alignment, engineering must be on the list!

IC693CPU352-DE Engineering design usually involves more than 10 design majors such as process, equipment, civil construction, pipeline, electrical, instrumentation, etc. The massive design information generated by cross-specialty and multi-system often leads to problems such as difficult data retrieval, unclear flow direction, poor sharing, and wrong transmission, which makes designers have to deal with a lot of repetitive labor and cumbersome format management, thus affecting design efficiency and quality.

In recent years, under the joint exploration of Siemens and Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Co., LTD. (Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Co., LTD.), the process industry engineering design is finally no longer trapped in this, and turns to a fast, lean and economical digital collaboration road.

IC693CPU352-DE Sinopec Shanghai Engineering is one of China’s earliest large-scale integrated engineering companies engaged in petrochemical, pharmaceutical and chemical engineering design and general engineering contracting. Since its establishment in 1953, Sinopec Shanghai Engineering has completed more than 8,500 domestic and foreign engineering projects. Sinopec Shanghai Project is also the creator of many “China’s first”, from the first penicillin production line in New China, the first vitamin C production workshop to the design of the first petrochemical introduction device, and then to the first refining and chemical integration and coal integration base… Behind these brilliant are inseparable from this “national engineering enterprise” figure.

Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Co. LTD

IC693CPU352-DE In recent years, rounds of industrial changes have advanced by leaps and bounds, and market competition at home and abroad has become increasingly fierce. Determined to become the “head goose” of the world engineering company, Sinopec Shanghai Engineering has turned its attention to digital collaborative innovation, hoping to solve the problem of data and resource sharing under the traditional design mode, so as to achieve improved quality, reduced cost and increased efficiency. Siemens’ COMOS platform integrated software solution for the process industry has thus entered the vision of Sinopec Shanghai Engineering.

Integrated software solution for Siemens COMOS platform

IC693CPU352-DE “The realization of digital collaborative design is the first and key step for Sinopec Shanghai Engineering to become a ‘cloud engineering company’.” Wu Xi, deputy manager of Sinopec Process Room, said, “As early as 2015, we set up a joint development team with Siemens to jointly create an integrated, open integrated engineering design platform in the form of demand co-creation. Since the platform was officially launched two years ago, more than 60 integrated projects have been engineered, which has greatly improved design efficiency and quality.”

Taking the process room where Wu Xi is located as an example, under the premise of the same number of personnel, the number of projects that the department is responsible for has increased by about 60%. “The new platform not only allows everyone to fully experience the benefits of digital collaboration, but also allows the industry to see a practical and high-quality development path.” “He added.

IC693CPU352-DE “Data should bring value, not shackles.” Wang Jian, senior engineer of Sinopec Shanghai Engineering, said, “In order to break the data silos under the traditional engineering design system, our joint development team carried out several iterations of demand analysis, model building and user test feedback, and finally customized the digital collaborative design platform based on the Siemens COMOS platform solution. The original dozens of non-circulating data flows, business flows and workflows within Sinopec Shanghai Project have realized the ‘multi-flow integration’ and transformed the blockage into a thin one.”

Perfect data management system, open data standards and technologies, and reliable data quality are the prerequisites for “turning blockage into thinning”. Unlike most industrial software, the COMOS platform is unique in that it can integrate data from different sources into a single database with local development, centralized management and maintenance, and avoid data silos from the source.

In addition, the COMOS platform’s comprehensive review mechanism can effectively reduce data errors, and Siemens engineers customize expert rules based on the experience and needs of Sinopec Shanghai project to set the scope of data. When the platform finds errors or non-standard data, it will immediately send a reminder, reducing unnecessary calibration time and protecting data quality.