Houston, TX, August 5, 1999. Information Assets, Inc. (IAI) has announced the first "Editors' Choice" award for Case Histories on the Plant-Design.Com web site is awarded to Eichleay Engineers of California. The award acknowledges high returns on automation investment and superior quality in documenting results. Plant-Design.Com hosts news, case histories, employment, and events of interest to the plant design and engineering community. The case history was written by Fred Adam, Project Engineer, and Todd Hancock, Consulting Engineer, both of Eichleay Engineers of California in Concord, California.
Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and Editor of Plant-Design.Com, said, "Plant-Design.Com searches for high return applications of automation technologies supporting plant design. Eichleay Engineers' implementation is an outstanding example of replacing manual practices with state-of-the-art software and integrating it into existing project work methods. We are proud to select them as our first award recipient." Eichleay Engineers used Rebis' AutoPLANT® 97 running in AutoCAD® and Research Engineers, Inc.'s STAAD® software to automate sizing of structural members and piping ISO generation. Their case history documents the manual methods they replaced and the software written to fully integrate the commercial packages.
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Plant-Design.Com's review of the case history can be found at http://www.plant-design.com/ and browsing "case histories" on the navigation menu. The case history is published on Rebis' web site at: http://www.rebis.com/corporate/press/success/eichleay.asp, and is copyrighted by them. For more information about Rebis, contact: Nathalie van Mulken, Rebis, Phone: (925) 933-2525, x. 279, Fax: (925) 933-1920, E-mail: nathalie.van.mulken@rebis.com.