Virtual commissioning of process automation software in drinking water treatment plants
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In industry, the traditional factory acceptance test (FAT) of process automation (PA) software is being replaced by virtual commissioning (VC). In this paper VC is introduced in drinking water treatment. A quantitative measure has been defined to compare the shortenings of time-to-market of projects tested with VC and FAT, while taking into account the size and complexity of the software. The method has been applied to five projects with VC and five projects with FAT. Preliminary results show VC revealed errors which had been undetected by a previous FAT and down-time during SAT as planned.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011