Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the unproductive time and additional cost to re-engineer a safety control system for a Floating Production Storage Offloading vessel that was originally engineered and documented in computer-aided design (CAD). Design/methodology/approach – The “As...
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| author | Zhou, Jingyang Love, Peter Matthews, Jane Carey, Brad Sing, C. Edwards, D. |
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| description | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the unproductive time and additional cost to re-engineer a safety control system for a Floating Production Storage Offloading vessel that was originally engineered and documented in computer-aided design (CAD). Design/methodology/approach – The “As-Built” drawings contained numerous errors and omissions, which resulted in a “requests for information” being raised and productivity rates reduced – these costs and productivity losses are quantified. The use of CAD to originally engineer and document the safety control system was found to be inefficient as a 1:n relationship existed. Systems Information Models (SIMs) presents an alternative method to produce engineering documentation for the safety control system; where a 1:1 relationship is created between the model and the real objects. By constructing a 1:1 model, information redundancy can be eliminated, which reduces the propensity for errors and omissions to be made by engineers. Findings – The use of a SIM to re-engineer and document the new safety control system resulted in significant productivity benefits being achieved. Consequently, it is proffered that a paradigm shift from a 1:n to 1:1 perspective is required for engineering electrical and instrumentation systems so as to ameliorate the quality of documentation produced and productivity. Originality/value – The paper concludes by suggesting that future research is required to examine how processes and procedures can be re-designed to accommodate the use of a SIM. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-103782022-10-06T07:04:16Z Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation Zhou, Jingyang Love, Peter Matthews, Jane Carey, Brad Sing, C. Edwards, D. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the unproductive time and additional cost to re-engineer a safety control system for a Floating Production Storage Offloading vessel that was originally engineered and documented in computer-aided design (CAD). Design/methodology/approach – The “As-Built” drawings contained numerous errors and omissions, which resulted in a “requests for information” being raised and productivity rates reduced – these costs and productivity losses are quantified. The use of CAD to originally engineer and document the safety control system was found to be inefficient as a 1:n relationship existed. Systems Information Models (SIMs) presents an alternative method to produce engineering documentation for the safety control system; where a 1:1 relationship is created between the model and the real objects. By constructing a 1:1 model, information redundancy can be eliminated, which reduces the propensity for errors and omissions to be made by engineers. Findings – The use of a SIM to re-engineer and document the new safety control system resulted in significant productivity benefits being achieved. Consequently, it is proffered that a paradigm shift from a 1:n to 1:1 perspective is required for engineering electrical and instrumentation systems so as to ameliorate the quality of documentation produced and productivity. Originality/value – The paper concludes by suggesting that future research is required to examine how processes and procedures can be re-designed to accommodate the use of a SIM. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10378 10.1108/IJPPM-10-2014-0151 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130103018 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Zhou, Jingyang Love, Peter Matthews, Jane Carey, Brad Sing, C. Edwards, D. Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title | Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title_full | Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title_fullStr | Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title_short | Toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| title_sort | toward productivity improvement in electrical engineering documentation |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130103018 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10378 |