Plant Design Standards come in many types and we welcome your contributions to this page! Current Standards's Categories are:

• Design Specifications
• Product Definition Data (i.e., Step)
• Fabrication Specifications
• Electronic Commerce and EDI

Design Specifications

ASME Codes and Standards

Process Industry Practices Home Page

Product Definition Data (i.e., Step)

Important STEP sites (Source: Mark Palmer, NIST):

• PIEBASE (Overview Web Site)- Process Industries Executive for Achieving Business Advantage Using Standards for Data Exchange
• PIEBASE (Executive Committee Web Site), Executive Committee Member userid and password are required for access.
• ISO TC184/SC4 (The ISO sub-committee overseeing ISO 10303 (STEP))
• pdXI (The Process Data eXchange Institute)
• PISTEP (STEP for the Process Industries - UK consortium)
• PlantSTEP (Plant Informaiton Interchange via STEP - US consortium)
• POSC (The Petrotechnical Open Software Consortium)
• POSC/CAESAR Association
• USPI-NL (Standardization of Plant Information in the Process & Power Industry- Dutch consortium)
• EPISTLE (European Process Industry STEP Technical Liaison Executive

Other Product Data

Common Industry Material Identification Standard

UN/SPSC - Standard Product & Service Codes

Fabrication Specifications

FMA/TPA Pipe & Tube Bending Manual (2nd Edition)

Cold Pilger Technology

Electronic Commerce and EDI

Chemical Industry Data eXchange

Petroleum Industry Data Exchange Committee (PIDX)

We Welcome Your Suggestions

We welcome your suggestion on new standards and specs for the piping and plant design industry! Please email your suggestions to William G. Beazley