Optimizing Piping Standards

July 7, 2009

Industry-wide standards have now moved to the global arena. Standardizing leads to efficiency. Efficiency leads to cost savings. It is good for our companies, our clients, as well as our contractors. And now, in this era of globalization, standardization of documents and symbols is even more critical. Why? We engineer in one country, design and draft in a second, and construct in a third (with a construction company from yet a fourth). Standardization from a global perspective is paramount to maintaining a competitive edge.

Thankfully, Process Industry Practices, or PIP for short, has taken the ISA, ANSI, ASME, TEMA and OSHA guidelines, and filled in the gaps making them the go to global standard for pipe designers.

I suggest that whenever gaps occur in your company’s standards or your client’s standards, guide them towards the new global standards presented by PIP. As pipe designers we often have opportunities to do this especially when it comes to P&ID’s and the Line List. By using the PIP standards your company and your client will benefit by becoming more competitive, more profitable, and certainly more marketable. From a global perspective standardizing leads to:

  • Reduced Cost

  • Facilitating trade across borders

  • Higher levels of safety

  • Creating new markets

Give your clients a global marketing edge by using the global standards introduced by Process Industry Practices www.pip.org (PIP).

Cheers,

R Van Hudson

van.hudson@piperpiper.us