Engineering and operational software is driving digital transformation of worker roles
For many years, engineering and operation disciplines within industrial settings were totally detached. In very simple terms the process of designing, building and operating a plant involved a series of handovers from engineers to engineers. You would design the processes, hand over to an engineering company who would design and build the plant, and the control vendor who would design and program the control system and in the end hand everything over physically to the end user to operate the plant. Under such a fractured model, accessing and maintaining the latest documentation for optimizing operational efficiency and profitability of the plant was always and continues to be a major issue if not driven by the owner and operator. With process design software today, there is no longer the need to handover to someone who’s building the plant. All this is done via software that professionally interfaces with the design software that allows people to build the plant and automatically pro...