Steel‐making Plant Engineering Guide Development Based on Systems Engineering Standards: Feasibility Study and Concept Design

Abstract

AbstractEngineering industry is considered as a key industry which will drive the future of Korea. However, Korean engineering companies have recently made a huge loss and the lack of engineering capability is pointed out as a main cause of this situation. Unlike Korean engineering companies, world leading engineering companies have their own systems Engineering Standards/Guides ensuring successful fulfillments of the feasibility study, concept design and basic design processes.An Engineering standard for an organization is an essential means to shorten the time for engineering design, to maintain the engineering quality and to secure the engineering efficiency in the development of the complex system. One of the main reasons of Korean Engineering companies' lack of engineering capability is the absence of the Engineering standard.In the paper, we have developed a steel‐making plant Engineering standard based on a systems engineering standard. We used both ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 and NASA SE Handbook as main reference standards. First, we have introduced a lifecycle definition and a product breakdown structure of a general steel‐making plant. Then we have introduced detailed engineering processes of feasibility study and concept design phase. Finally we have introduced exit criteria for outputs of feasibility study and concept design phase to assess the degree of achievement.