IGES - AN INTELLIGENT GRAPHICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEM

To support plant operators to operate and manage the plant for better quality, safer, and less cost, this paper describes the design and imp lementation of an intelligent Graphical Engineering System - iGES. Fir st, three types of functions, data management, problem solving and uti lities, are designed to support the whole plant operation. Then, a dis tributed and integrated software system architecture is described. Wit hin this architecture, a central platform manages the functional distr ibuted components, in terms of data transfer and communication and int erfacing. Finally, the implementation issues are discussed in two phas es including technical and business decisions, current status and next step plans. Based on a few commercial packages, the first phase syste m has been implemented and installed into a project site for evaluatio n.