Thursday, September 27, 2007

Plant Design and Capital Project Best Practices

We have written on this subject, many times. For this entry let's focus on design objectives. Every great project engineer will tell you that any project begins with defining your design objectives. In our view, a great design objective list includes reliability and maintainability objectives. We also think that a great installation effort includes a process for verifying the quality of the installation - much more and beyond typical verification of process capability at start up.


There is much, much more to plant design and world-class manufacturing than process flows, process chemistry, and standard design methods. These are all important, but a project manager must stay focused on the fact that all of these issues are equally important.

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