Top Ten Instrumentation Headaches: How 'visual engineering' is solving designers' and engineers' issues - across the industry

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Top Ten Instrumentation Headaches: How 'visual engineering' is solving designers' and engineers' issues - across the industry

Control systems play a vital role in all aspects of modern living, from helping us drive our cars, to safely running large petrochemical complexes and power stations. According to recent industry research, instrumentation is the biggest spend item in any plant. Capital expenditure on buying new instruments in 2010 was estimated at $5bn, with maintenance and operation costs projected to reach $4.9bn. AVEVA spoke to instrumentation and control experts across the industry and identified no less than ten key areas where other vendors’ instrumentation design technologies fail to meet engineers’ and designers’ requirements. These are the top ten headaches that the engineers and designers face on a daily basis.
Sponsor: AVEVA Inc
Format: pdf
Date: Feb 28, 2011