Re: Just a thought

true. ive been involved in preparing, developing or revising company standard/procedure related to pressure vessel, AST, piping, etc. Such standard/procedure has a life of 5 years before it undergoes review/revision to consider changes in Codes and current best practices industry. My understanding is that for a multi-national company, engineering and safety standards/procedures are normally prepared/issued at corporate level to insures continuity. Then at each Operating Unit or affeliates normally complies with it with some changes to fit their SOP.

• In PipingDesign@y..., "EVERETT W. NICHOLS" <enichols@b...> wrote:
  > I was a member of a corporate committee to review and issue
  engineering
  > standards, till I was given permission to take early retirement.
  Well now
  > everybody on the committee has retired or been promoted and it has
  been
  > disbanded. The company, a large multi-national chemical oufit, has
  downsized
  > so much that they had delegated the standards issues to a
  engineering
  > consulting firm. This one man group was never very helpful except
  for
  > trivial questions. Since then they changed consulting firms and
  have not
  > assigned anyone to address standards issues. The people now just
  follow the
  > old standards, which will become outdated, or just flounder or
  ignore the
  > need to adhere to standards, so I've been told. So yes this format
  gives an
  > opportunity for people to brainstorm problems and ask technical
  questions
  > where they maynot have any other resource.
  >
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: Christopher Wright <chrisw@s...>
  > To: ? <PipingDesign@y...>
  > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:22 PM
  > Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Just a thought
  >
  >
  > > >I think it has to do with an overall trend to out source
  > > Speaking as a consultant, I think it comes from an overall trend
  for
  > > corporate America to fill middle management slots
  with 'generalists' who
  > > continue learning less and less about more and more until they
  end up
  > > knowing nothing about everything.
  > >
  > > Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from
  > > chrisw@s... | this distance" (last words of Gen.
  > > ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
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  > >
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