Different modeling and simulation approaches applied to industrial process plants

Agostino G. Bruzzone, Francesca Madeo, Margherita Dallorto, Davide Poggi, Angelo Ferrando

Abstract: The Process Industry represents a business sector currently affected by a positive trend in Fast Developing Areas; as result the Modeling & Simulation is becoming back pretty active in this sector to support plant engineering, automation and control solutions.In this paper, it is proposed a state of art about solutions in modeling Industrial Process Plants; then the authors propose a model as decision support system for a chemical industry with focus on logistics activities. The case highlights the importance of M&S for supporting Industrial Companies in decision making and analysis. The proposed work includes description of the different phases: Data Collection (Flow Data, Time Tables and Costs Tables are critical), Conceptual Model Development, Model Implementation to simulate logistic processes and Execution & Analysis.