Process engineering
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Process engineering is often a synonym for chemical engineering and focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and material manufacturing processes. Process engineering and process engineers are found in a vast range of industries, including the Chemical Process Industries (CPI), Mineral Process Industries (MinPI), Material Process Industries (MatPI), Food Process Industries (FPI), Biotechnological Process Industries (BPI).
Process engineering is also a topic in computer science and covers "applying engineering approaches, techniques, and tools to the construction of Process Models." [Rolland1998]
Process engineering deals with the subject of processes from the following perspectives
- Reasons / the rationale for process engineering and relate the objectives of the users to the Process Models that can best meet these objectives
- Representation of processes through Process Models
- The process of constructing process models (Meta-Process Modeling)
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References
| [Rolland1998] | C. Rolland. A Comprehensive View of Process Engineering. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference CAiSE'98, B. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1413, Pernici, C. Thanos (Eds), Springer. Pisa, Italy, June 1998 |