ABSTRACT
Due to the recent retirement of engineering personnel, the number of piping engineers is rapidly decreasing. They are not actively responding to frequent design change requests from the owner. This study aims to develop digital rules for auto-mating pipe routing design. To this end, the piping design rules of EPC plants, codes and standards for piping design, and owner’s requirements were collected. A total of 8 stages of piping design rule taxonomy were established to categorize the piping design rules. The collected piping design rules were analyzed by experts, and a digital code of account for system recognition was established based on the classified rule taxonomy. Finally, the code of account for pipe route design was converted into a digital rule. The digital rule developed in this study can be used as a database for efficient information management as well as pipe route design.
