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Plant-Design.Com, PipeMall.Com Traffic Continues Climb
Visitors approach One Thousand Per site Per Month Houston, TX, October 1, 1999. Information Assets, Inc. (IAI) has announced both Plant-Design.Com and PipeMall site traffic in September, 1999 was up significantly over August. "Site visitors increased 33% to 949 for Plant-Design.Com and 82% to 925 for PipeMall.com," said Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and Editor of Plant-Design.Com. "Hits were up 46% to 5,720 for PipeMall and up 34% to 9,318 for Plant-Design. Not only are we getting more traffic but they are staying longer and viewing more pages. We are delighted that the site is being so well received." Plant-Design.Com hosts news, case histories, employment, and events of interest to the plant design and engineering community. PipeMall.Com provides similar resources to the piping industry. Plant-Design.Com is the only web site focussing exclusively on high return process plant design and power plant design automation technologies and work practices. It has introduced some innovative resources, such as a "Standards" section devoted to data and integration standards for plant design software and a "Case Histories" section presenting case histories highlighting improved plant design work practices. Plant-Design.Com has also introduced an "Editors' Choice" award for Case Histories. The award acknowledges high returns on automation investment and superior quality in documenting results. The Editors' Choice award for September, 1999 went to Shell Chemicals, Houston, Texas. The case history documented a 10 to 1 increase in revenues over their e-commerce investment in Supplier Managed Inventories (SMI). Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and Editor of Plant-Design.Com, said, "we believe our constant striving for high quality Plant Design information is the reason traffic has increased. In particular, our case history reviews have produced a lot of industry referrals as people visited the site. Many industry conferences and events have requested our endorsement and our requests for our plant-design.com update email have jumped as well." About IAI Information Assets, Inc., specializes in E-Commerce and Web-based Engineering Applications. IAI offers a broad range of web page development and hosting products and services. IAI consults world-wide, from its offices in Houston and Beaumont, TX. Plant-Design.Com can be found at http://www.plant-design.com/ |