SABIC chooses Skire Unifier for enterprise project management solution
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has selected Skire Unifier as its strategic enterprise project management system for supporting global project management across the company's internal users...
View ArticleEPC Contractors Selecting an ERP Package
In recent years, a growing number of projects throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) have been carried out using Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) contracts. Because such contracts typically...
View ArticleFluor extends contract for AVEVA Plant
AVEVA Group plc (Houston), a leading provider of plant design and engineering lifecycle solutions, today announced that Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.), one of the world's largest publicly owned...
View ArticleOptimize Shift Scheduling Using Pinch Analysis
Pinch analysis emerged as a systematic design tool during the energy crisis of the late 1970s, particularly for the optimization of heat-exchanger networks and other heat-recovery systems [ 1 ]. Since...
View ArticleImproving Information Management
Maximizing quality, minimizing cost and meeting schedule milestones are ever-present challenges in large projects. While significant progress has been made in certain areas of facility construction,...
View ArticleImprove communication between production and management
With the introduction of the manufacturing execution system (MES) InfoCarrier, this firm has bridged the gap between management and production, even for complex, continuous production processes...
View ArticleSeamless integration of design and planning data
With Comos PDMS Integration, this firm (formerly innotec GmbH) offers a tool for seamless integration of Comos planning in the PDMS model for the planning of chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and...
View ArticlePiping specifications are now part of this database
Released in August, the newest version of Standard Database for SmartPlant Reference Data is a preconfigured, best practice solution to enable rapid implementation of SmartPlant 3D and materials...
View ArticleSafety-Instrumented Systems: Focus on Measurement Diagnostics
This article reviews key aspects of safety-instrumented systems (SIS) and provides useful guidance to help designers and operators optimize efforts to conduct safety-related measurements. Special...
View ArticlePrinciples of P&ID Development
The piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is often considered to be the principal document to ensure the proper design, operation and maintenance of CPI facilities. Too often, engineers must...
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