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Plant Design: Plant Design (Process Plant Design, Power Plant Design, etc.) refers to the automation technologies, work practices and business rules supporting the design and engineering of process and power plants. Such plants can be built for chemical, petroleum, utility, shipbuilding, and other facilities.

Plant Design is used to designate a general market area by the many vendors offer technologies to support plant design work.

Plant Design is often further differentiated by the type of industry sector targeted. Thus such terms as:

• Beverage Plant Design
• Chemical Plant Design
• Dairy Plant Design
• Food Plant Design
• Nuclear Plant Design
• Offshore Stuctures Plant Design
• Paper Plant Design
• Petrochemical Plant Design (Petro Chemical Plant Design
• Pharmaceutical Plant Design
• Power Plant Design
• Pulp Plant Design
• Refinery Plant Design
• Sanitary Plant Design
• Ship Design (Shipbuilding Plant Design)
• Utility Plant Design
• Water Treatment Plant Design
• Wastewater Plant Design

Design disciplines are also used to differentiate areas of plant design. Reference is often made to:

• Process Design (Process Plant Design)
• Piping Design (Piping Plant Design)
• HVAC Design (HVAC Plant Design)
• Structural Design (Structural Plant Design)
• Electrical Design (Electrical Plant Design)
• Instrumentation Design (Instrumentation Plant Design)

Computer-Aided Plant Design or Plant CAD is sometimes used to refer to CAD software tailored to Plant Design (also called Computer-Aided Process Plant Design, Computer-Aided Power plant Design, etc.). Similarly, Document Managmement, Internet, Intranet, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other technologies have been tailored to Plant Design.