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Plant-Design.Com, PipeMall.Com Traffic Sets New Record
Visitors Exceed 1,500 Per site Per Month Houston, TX, November 5, 1999. Information Assets, Inc. (IAI) has announced both Plant-Design.Com and PipeMall site traffic in October, 1999 exceeded growth expectations from September. "Site visitors increased 62% to 1,543 for Plant-Design.Com and 78% to 1,654 for PipeMall.com," said Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and Editor of Plant-Design.Com. "Hits were up 43% to 8,226 for PipeMall and up 34% to 12,541for Plant-Design. We exceeded our expected traffic of about a thousand visitors per site by over 50%. We are certainly pleased that interest in the site continues to grow." 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 November, 1999 went to EDG, Metairie, LA. The case history documented an example of a 3D literate engineering company successfully using a client-specified system and product data model without degrading cost or schedule. Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and Editor of Plant-Design.Com, said, "clearly the plant design community has come to depend on Plant-Design.Com for news and information. Our case history reviews continue to be a fresh source of productivity information for those interested in improving work processes. There is no other web site like it." 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/ |