Paul,
It ammazes me that owner/opperators work against their interests.
So many have plants and units designed for them on a CAD/CAE system
they have no intention of installing or maintaining at their
installed plants. The improvment in technology does play a part but
a greater factor is lack of forward thinking that ignores the the
total life cycle of the plant.
What most of the plants have deliverd to them are a constructed site
and paper drawings - all of the intelligence that that they could
effectivly leverage is either lost, ingnored or disgarded.
The reason? All they ask for is a cheap build and drawings.
Surely a shame.
Vornel
- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, Paul Bowers <pbowers@p...>
wrote:
> vornel wrote (in part):
>
> > 7. Jobs in the 200m plus range are well suited to PDMS.
>
> > 8. Jobs that are well suited to PDMS constitute 5-10% of total
> > design build market - the rest of us are using AutoCAD,
Microstation
> > with or without 3rd party apps.
>
>
> Well said. Some companies tout the "total plant life" design
process and
> maintenance advantages of high-powered 3D CAD solutions but forget
that
> the CAD world changes frequently and often due to technology
improvements.
>
> Whatever wizz-bang 3D solution used now to build the plant in the
first
> place may not be the latest, bestest file format/software that you
> *should* be using 10 years down the road.
>
> All along, the "skills rquired" are directly related to the
operation of
> the sofware, which changes every few years.
>
> Paul
Received on Thu Nov 11 07:38:00 2004