Industrial plant engineering solutions

Certain industries can significantly benefit from an integrated plant process design and engineering solution, particularly:

• Pharmaceutical: Pharmaceutical manufacturing requires stringent controls, validation and regulatory compliance. An integrated plant process design and engineering solution can streamline the design, engineering and commissioning of production facilities to meet these rigorous standards.
• Battery: Battery material production has complex process steps which require highly optimized equipment. With an integrated plant process design and engineering solution, battery manufacturers can reduce experimentation time and cost, ultimately achieving faster scale-up and innovation.

Many companies struggle with investing in new technology without fully understanding how to effectively utilize it. They often resort to creating in-house solutions to integrate new technologies, manually synchronizing data in the absence of integration and relying on traditional experimental design methods to minimize redundant experiments. While companies recognize that improving process design and plant engineering with digitalization is costly, without the right strategy, it could all be inefficient and unsustainable.

A plant process design and engineering solution beats these complexities. It is a comprehensive solution that helps you integrate model-based experiments, and product and process development into data-centric engineering, so that you can validate and optimize process design and plant engineering with efficiency and simplicity.

Integrating the digital twin and simulation into the design workflow empowers engineers to develop more innovative, resilient and sustainable processes. By creating a virtual model of the proposed process, engineers can rigorously test and validate the design for optimization. Simulation allows them to explore different scenarios, identify bottlenecks and fine-tune operating parameters to maximize efficiency and productivity. The digital twin acts as a testbed for evaluating control strategies, predicting maintenance needs and training operators — all without disrupting the actual process. This approach streamlines the design phase, reduces risk and ensures the final process meets performance targets.

Learn how pharmaceutical companies can use the digital twin to scale up processes, evaluate design options and discover the optimal layout for production lines.

Our plant process design and engineering solution consists of best-in-class software solutions:

• COMOS offers a holistic approach that utilizes a central data platform and ensures consistency of all project-related data for plant engineering.
• gPROMS supports the entire concept-to-operations process design cycle. It enables you to leverage the most comprehensive process digital twin to help accelerate process design, quantify and manage risk and determine optimal process designs that generate value over the lifetime of the plant.

With an integrated plant process design and engineering solution, you will reap benefits from the start:

• Implement data management platforms tailored for team and partner collaboration to ensure data security and confidentiality.
• Create virtual product and plant designs by leveraging the most comprehensive digital twin so that you can validate and optimize with accuracy.
• Utilize state-of-the-art solutions to design more sustainable processes and engineer more sustainable plants.