On Decision Support for Remote Industrial Facilities using the Collaborative Engineering Framework
This addresses cost reduction for remote industrial operations, but it appears incremental as it applies existing collaborative engineering methods to specific Australian contexts.
The paper tackled the problem of supporting collaboration and maintenance for remote industrial facilities, such as mining sites in Australia, by developing a decision support solution, with examples in industrial automation and smart energy systems.
Means to support collaboration for remote industrial facilities such as mining are an important topic, especially in Australia, where major mining sites can be more than a thousand kilometers from population centres. Software-based collaboration and maintenance solutions can help to reduce costs associated with these remote facilities. In this paper, we report on our collaborative engineering project providing a decision support solution tailored for Australian needs. We present two application examples: one related to incident handling in industrial automation, the other one in the area of smart energy systems.