An Information Model for Modernizing Brownfield Plants in the Process Industry

The concept of data-centered companies is of rapidly increasing interest within the process industry due to applications like data analysis, plant optimization and visualization. However, chemical companies face high barriers regarding the wide variety and heterogeneity of data along the brownfield plant lifecycle caused by the long history of tool-focused enterprises. This paper proposes an Information Model architecture for the process industry and an approach to overcome the hurdles associated with brownfield plants and information mapping.