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M.J. Robinson

Abstract

Information management for plant operations M.J. Robinson Black & Veatch, Power Division, 11401 Lamar, Overland Park, Kansas, 64114, USA NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR INFORMATION OPERATIONS Special opportunities for information management are now available in the industry. A successful information management system will allow the coming generation, of power plants to be operated more efficiently and effectively. Successful information management is realized by directly coupling use and evolution of the system itself to each step, process, and working group pertaining to the plant for both design and operations. This approach allows operations to use all the information on which the plant has been based, to track all the data, references, drawings, and linkages for millions of objects to a singular framework. To accomplish such lofty goals, it is necessary to take advantage of existing, proven software components to the largest extent possible. By building on the framework of such t

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