This paper describes an approach to extend process modeling for engineering design applications with fault-tolerance and resilience capabilities. It is based on the requirements for application-level error handling, which is a requirement for petascale and exascale scientific computing. This complements the traditional fault-tolerance management features provided by the existing hardware and distributed systems. These are often based on data and operations duplication and migration, and on checkpoint-restart procedures. We show how they can be optimized for high-performance infrastructures. This approach is applied on a prototype tested against industrial testcases for optimization of engineering design artifacts.his electronic document is a "live" template. The various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions given in this document.