> > Does the computerized logic for plant/process
> >control come from the computer programmers/IT department or the
> >engineers?
> My own feeling is that you can't really automate design, because it's
> intuitive and non-linear. Programmers supply the tools that make it
> quicker to communicate and verify the features of the design but the
> design comes from inside. The tools aren't creative and they don't
> organize the effort; their main purpose is documentation and the
> associated communication.
Design is a creative (iterative) process and engineering is an analytical (linear) one (although they both often overlap). If you can get both working "in harmony"[1] you've got a very powerful combination.
Just my thinking.
Paul
[1] Trained as classical violinist at an early age, sorry.
Received on Thu Apr 01 01:13:00 2004
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