Manufacturing capital projects grow ever larger and more complex. At the ARC Industry Forum, ARC's Dick Hill led a panel, New Approaches to Automation Projects: Reducing Cost and Complexity. This panel included Emerson's Deston Day who is the director of Perfect...
When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com...
Last week's Petrochemical Engineering & Construction and Gulf Coast Shutdowns & Turnarounds conferences took place in New Orleans. Here are excepts from the full posts over on the Top Quartile Performance site. Beyond Best Practice: The Latest Thinking in...
Author: Scott TurnerThis is the final part in the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification (URS). The topic of this final post is 'Hardware'. As before, I am really interested in seeing your comments on this. I think understanding...
Executing capital projects grows increasingly difficult as their size and scope continues to expand. I caught up with Emerson's Kevin Jackson who has witnessed this growth over time. Kevin notes that today 65% of projects over a billion dollars fail. Likewise, 35% of...
Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the 'Control Philosophy'. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement...
Author: Scott Turner This is the third part of the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. The topic of this part is 'Scope'. If you missed the earlier two, see Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification and Process...
Author: Scott Turner This is the second part of the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. If you missed the first on, see Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification. The topic of this post is 'Process Overview'. We...
Author: Scott Turner In this five-part series, I will be providing guidance on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. I will try and pull ideas and information from a number of different sources. For example, I have recently asked people through...
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