Re: Re: Piping software

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 13:30:00 EST

On Nov 2, 2004, at 8:59 AM, vornel wrote:

> You'll get a great demo from most vendors but if you always have in
> mind what you need to produce to make money and how easily it will
> be to intergrate such a solution you will be well ahead of many that
> look at (and buy) Plant Design software.
This is excellent advice. A vendor demo is just a song and dance, unless it is directed at your office design cycle. ROI figures are nonsense at best unless the person working it up uses real world data from your own office accounts. Vendors usually fake the learning curve, either becasue they don't know enough about your office practice and skill level or becasue they don't know enough about real world piping design. You can see this for yourself by telling the rep that you want a guaranteed maximum time by which all of your designers will be skillful enough to produce a productivity increase equal in value to the software cost. Otherwise you pay nothing.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=d64mwktS0FeDhjLhuvEw44laSTb2vYW9x_WIfoHtpB_2Wl-070LVWrYNCk9FbMCB4-HQ_0i_EW5UJVZM8w">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

...................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Tue Nov 02 13:30:00 2004