Model based process-product design and analysis

This paper gives a perspective on modelling and the important role it has within product-process design and analysis. Different modelling issues related to development and application of systematic model-based solution approaches for product-process design is discussed and the need for a hybrid model-based framework is highlighted.

This framework should be able to manage knowledge-data, models, and associated methods and tools integrated with design work-flows and data-flows for specific product-process design problems. In particular, the framework needs to manage models of different types, forms and complexity, together with their associated parameters.

An example of a model-based system for design of chemicals based formulated products is also given.