Collaborative and Distributed Chemical Engineering. From Understanding to Substantial Design Process Support

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Nagl ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls Informatik III an der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen.

Goals, Approach, Functionality of Resulting Tools, and Project Structure.- A Model-Driven Approach for A-posteriori Tool Integration.- A Scenario Demonstrating Design Support in Chemical Engineering.- The Interdisciplinary IMPROVE Project.- Application Domain Modeling.- An Introduction to Application Domain Modeling.- Product Data Models.- Document Models.- Work Process Models.- Decision Models.- Integrated Application Domain Models for Chemical Engineering.- New Tool Functionality and Underlying Concepts.- Using Developers' Experience in Cooperative Design Processes.- Incremental and Interactive Integrator Tools for Design Product Consistency.- Multimedia and VR Support for Direct Communication of Designers.- An Adaptive and Reactive Management System for Project Coordination.- Platform Functionality.- Goal-Oriented Information Flow Management in Development Processes.- Service Management for Development Tools.- Integration Aspects.- Scenario-Based Analysis of Industrial Work Processes.- Integrative Simulation of Work Processes.- An Integrated Environment for Heterogeneous Process Modeling and Simulation.- Design Support of Reaction and Compounding Extruders.- Synergy by Integrating New Functionality.- Usability Engineering.- Software Integration and Framework Development.- Steps towards a Formal Process/Product Model.- From Application Domain Models to Tools: The Sketch of a Layered Process/Product Model.- Work Processes and Process-Centered Models and Tools.- Model Dependencies, Fine-Grained Relations, and Integrator Tools.- Administration Models and Management Tools.- Process/Product Model: Status and Open Problems.- Transfer to Practice.- Industrial Cooperation Resulting in Transfer.- Ontology-Based Integration and Management of Distributed Design Data.-Computer-Assisted Work Process Modeling in Chemical Engineering.- Simulation-Supported Workflow Optimization in Process Engineering.- Management and Reuse of Experience Knowledge in Extrusion Processes.- Tools for Consistency Management between Design Products.- Dynamic Process Management Based upon Existing Systems.- Service-Oriented Architectures and Application Integration.- Evaluation.- Review from a Design Process Perspective.- Review from a Tools' Perspective.- Review from an Industrial Perspective.- Review from Academic Success Perspective.