Houston, TX, September 2, 1999. Information Assets, Inc. (IAI) has announced the Plant-Design.Com September, 1999, "Editors' Choice" award for Case Histories goes to Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Houston, Texas. 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 documented a four to one return on Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews using the 3D plant model developed during design of a Citgo Refining and Chemicals Inc., gasoline additive plant.
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. Raytheon Engineers' electronic model review services for Citgo are an innovative demonstration of the re-use of 3D design models in compliance and other maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) applications. We are proud to select them as another Editors' Choice award recipient." Raytheon used Intergraph's Plant Design System and DesignReview software to design the plant and conduct design, compliance and MRO reviews and analyses. Their case history documents the manual methods they replaced and the work practices used to work with their client.
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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 Intergraph' web site at: http://www.intergraph.com/pbs/library/Raytheon.pdf, and is copyrighted by them. For more information about Intergraph, contact: Intergraph Process & Building Solutions, GD3003, Huntsville, AL 35894-0001, (800) 260-0246.