The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts (Part 9 – Working together)

(This is the ninth and last in a series looking at the benefits of using promis•e in all phases of the Plant design process)

So far in this series, I’ve treated this as a simplified process where there are very discrete stages where one group stops work, turns over the project to the next group and work continues.  In the real world things become much more complex.   There are multiple groups involved at different locations that are all working on the project concurrently, and sending back work for review and approval.  The use of the promis•e database makes promis•e more difficult to work with in this more complex environment.  There is a bit more bookkeeping involved and projects have to be split into sections allowing the “master” versions to be editable by only one group at any given time.  New in the SELECTseries 3 release of promis•e is the ability to do remote-concurrent engineering with promis•e.  Using ProjectWise caching servers and the database replication built in to SQL server or Oracle, a project can be worked on by users in different parts of the world without any need for breaking apart or re-synchronizing changes.    

I’ve tried in this series to demonstrate that there are benefits to each group in the design process to use promis•e, regardless of what the other groups are using.  But the additional benefits that occur when everyone is using promis•e should demonstrate that the “whole” benefit, even divided among the individual groups, can dwarf the partial benefits of each group using promis•e in isolation from the others.

Every group that is a part of the process, share the benefits of:

·         Reduced hours in managing project lifecycle from birth to death.

·         Improved accuracy in design and asset management.

·         The ability to harvest data for asset management.

·         Greater Uptime of the plant or asset.

·         The accurate and clear documentation that is a necessity to minimize danger for electricians wiring and maintaining the electrical systems.

·         To name just a few…