Plant Documentation 4.0 is a digital documentation system that reflects the current status of production plants and enables reliable administration of digitalized plants and processes. It is essential for commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, large-scale revisions, project-related documentation, loop checks, asset management, legal compliance, audits, and effective management of changes.
Plant Documentation 4.0 refers to the digital documentation that reflects the current status of production plants. It is an essential component of Industry 4.0, enabling reliable administration of digitalized plants and processes. The documentation is necessary for commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, large-scale revisions, project-related documentation, loop checks, and asset management, among other areas. Digital documentation is also necessary for legal compliance, audits, and effective management of changes.
Plant documentation has always been required for commissioning, but it is time-consuming, and controlling the delivered documents to ensure they tally with plant reality is challenging. Keeping the documentation’s status up to date is also challenging, especially for complex plants. However, digital documentation solutions, such as Rösberg Engineering GmbH’s I&C-CAE system ProDOK and LiveDOK, simplify the management of changes and enable everyone involved in the process to access the current documentation at all times.
LiveDOK: The Proven Solution for Effective Digital Plant Documentation in Industry 4.0
Digital documentation benefits asset management, troubleshooting, revisions, project documentation, loop checks, and package unit integration. It is also essential for effectively managing changes, as it enables reliable administration of digitalized plants and processes. “In all these and many other use cases, LiveDOK has been proving its worth for decades,” says Christian Stolz, Account Manager Plant Solutions at ROSBERG Engineering GmbH.
Christian adds, “With digitalization, the focus was on the PC, but with Industry 4.0, the focus is on the Internet. This also applies, so to speak, to Plant Documentation 4.0. We have been creating digital documentation for a long time and consistently developed our concepts further. One example is cloud enablement, which helps us stay up-to-date with the latest trends. Thus our customers get a tried and tested product that uses today’s state-of-the-art technologies to fulfil tomorrow’s technical and legal requirements.”
This documentation tool enables fast document retrieval and provides an overview of the plant’s components. It helps keep documentation up-to-date and ensures standardization in line with legal requirements. The tool gives all disciplines access to the documentation and ensures team members work with the same documents.