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	Process Safety Management Author: Ian S. Sutton 429 pages. Paperback 2nd Edition, 1997 ISBN 1-57502-528-0 Price: $59.50 (U.S.) If you’re involved in process safety management, then this book is for you. It helps you to set up a practical working program that will lead to regulatory compliance, increased safety and better overall operations. Process Safety Management is a practical book – it is based on years of real-life experience gained working in a wide variety of industries and companies.
	Writing Operating Procedures for Process Plants Author: Ian S. Sutton 302 pages. Paperback 2nd Edition, 1995 ISBN 1-57502-057-2 Price: $35.00 (U.S.) Writing Operating Procedures For Process Plants helps you organize a procedures-writing project so as to produce a high quality manual – one that the operators will want to use – as efficiently and as quickly as possible. The book also describes how to write procedures so as to meet process safety management requirements.
	Management of Change Author: Ian S. Sutton (in conjunction with Warren-Forthought) 166 pages Paperback ISBN 1st Edition, 1998 Price: $45.00 (U.S.) This book explains the meaning of the word “change” in the context of process plants, how change can be managed, and what needs to be done to meet regulatory requirements, particularly the OSHA process safety standard, 29 CFR 1910.119.
	PSM/RMP ReportEditor: William G. Beazley, PhD Monthly, since 1991 Price: $395.00 (U.S.) The PSM/RMP Report is the oldest and most respected newsletter providing accurate and concise information on OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) and Programs (29 CFR 1910.119) and EPA’s rule for Risk Management Plans (RMP) and Programs (40 CFR Part 68). The PSM/RMP Report covers requirements, compliance methods and technology, computer tools, and other strategies to minimize and even benefit from the impact of PSM and RMP compliance.

As a result, the second class was able to spend more time on skills that integrate their industrial experience with their piping training.  For example, class 2 spent an extra week of lab work on PDMS beyond a full week of PDMS instruction.  This week included significant development of PDMS models plant equipment, which benefits directly from their prior experience with surface and constructed 3D geometry on other work assignments.  Bill said, “this led to their creating much more detailed and extensive models in their lab than with similar classes.  In short, they make great equipment modelers.”

The class also visited a working power plant, courtesy of DTE Energy.  The Plant, Belle River Power Station, permitted students to see coal fired boilers in service and turnaround conditions, a rare opportunity.  The level of questions from the class clearly demonstrate their knowledge of pipe, valves, fittings and equipment.

Finally, the efforts made to structure the class within Angel are paying big dividends.  The class used more use of the videos, practice quizzes and web links to review and extend class lecture and labs.  This increased the amount of equipment of equipment modeled and the level of comprehension about their function.

Bill Beazley summarized by saying, “this class continued the high level of competence we achieved in the first class. Not only are they proven pipe designers but they stand ready to bring into the field their long experience in other industries. They should all do well on their next piping assignment.”

Macomb College uses instructional videos recorded by William Beazley and Marketed by the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (www.spedweb.com).

IAI Trains Automotive Designers to be Piping Designers

IAI is completing it first class for Automotive Designers who wish to become Piping Designers. Funded by the State of Michigan the designers are retraining for other industries, including piping design. The first class is 17 industrial designers as piping designers. All will test for SPED PPD Level I.

“It is a little appreciated fact that the center of the automotive engineering world is Detroit, Michigan. Says Bill Beazley, IAI President and Class Instructor. “ What is also little appreciated is that much of this engineering talent has been laid off, with little hope of working again in the Auto industry.” One expert estimated the there are three to five thousand unemployed engineers and designers in the Detroit area.
“These folks are hungry, eager to change careers and are accustomed to lower wages.

And they can be trained. Adds Beazley, “make no mistake about their level of ability: This group of designers represented the most interesting combination of experience, maturity and capability I have seen yet.”

The experienced designers have easily mastered the typical training applications of fabrication planning, spool takeoff, control valve station layout, and pump suction/discharge piping. Beazley said, “their questions, however, showed an application focus and a disciplined methodology often seen in highly experienced designers. They were hungry to learn, came early and stayed late. They show the intensity typical of someone escaping from a dead end to a promising future.”

What’s more, the designers bring developed skills from automotive design that clearly apply in piping design. They have been working in confined spaces routing tubing and cables, placing components and checking for interference. They have designed jigs and tooling that increases fabrication and assembly efficiency. Some have planned parts flow, staging and movement into place just as pipers have to plan logistics and construction. The frequently have to practice modular design and coordinate their interfaces with others. They understand documentation and paperwork. They are used to tight schedules (18 month programs) and know how to meet deadlines.

Michigan has also funded their PDS training provided directly by Intergraph. They can explain and defend all of their drawings and designs.

These are serious folks who want to work. Today they might work in Houston, California or South Carolina. Tomorrow, when there are hundreds or thousands trained, they might attract EPC companies to Michigan. As one piping manager said about his company, “they like to locate offices where there are lots of low cost resources.” Why go overseas when there are better prepared folks right here at reasonable rates?

For more information, contact:

William G Beazley, PhD

President

Information Assets, Inc.
9211 West Rd.
Suite 143-191
Houston, TX 77064
713.443.9914

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IAI Completes Second Piping Engineering Boot Camp®

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 22, 2006. Information Assets, Inc. (IAI), has completed its second Piping Engineering Boot Camp® course. The Piping Engineering Boot Camp® course is designed to enable fresh engineering graduates to perform to reimbursable productivity levels immediately and accelerate their professional development in subsequent months. This second class nearly doubled the size of the first class (Fall, 2005) to 21 students.

This class was sponsored by Technip Geoproduction Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Malaysian Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), (formerly known as Malaysian Shipyard and Engineering Sdn. Bhd.), a wholly owned subsidiary of MISC Berhad, in turned majority owned by Petronas. The course was part of the Industrial Skills Enhancement Program (INSEP) training initiative and was held at the Selangor Human Resources Development Centre (SHRDC) in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Technip and MMHE design offshore Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) and related facilities.

This version of the Piping Engineering Boot Camp® is tailored to fresh graduates. It involved 6 weeks of training over about 30 topics. Attendees both used industry standard piping design tools and completed a design project. Written reports were prepared, complete with drawings and analyses and presented in English.

Successful graduates also are required to pass the Professional Piping Designer (PPD) Level I Certification exam offered by the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED). The exam is a 3rd party documentation of the quality of the piping design training received. For more information, see www.spedweb.com.

Dr. William G. Beazley, President of IAI and class instructor, said, “This was our most successful class ever. It was a complete design experience for each engineer, spanning a full range of tasks from instrumentation to piping design to fabrication to erection planning.” Dr. Beazley has prepared nearly 3,500 slides for IAI’s Piping Boot Camp® series of training programs. A portion of the training slides are used by the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers for their Process Plant Layout course.

About IAI

Information Assets, Inc., specializes in Piping Engineering and Training Applications. IAI consults world-wide, from its offices in Houston, TX.

Information Assets, Inc., 9105 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N., Suite 700-192, Houston, TX 77064, 713.443.9914

Sutton Technical Books to Carry Managing Contribution
New eBook Outlines Improved Approach to Enterprise Performance and Metrics

(December 5, 2003, Houston, TX) Knowledge Base International is pleased to announce distribution of its new eBook, “Managing Contribution,” by William G. Beazley, Ph.D. by Sutton Technical Books. The eBook outlines a new approach to enterprise metrics and performance management that overcomes the limitations of other approaches. The eBook format was chosen to distribute the book more efficiently and be used more conveniently. Sutton Technical Books (Houston, TX) is a widely know distributor and publisher of industrial books and eBooks.

Managing Contribution introduces a new analysis technique called “Contribution Analysis.” “Contribution is the value added to an expected opportunity to deliver products and services,” says author William G. Beazley, Ph.D. “Contribution Analysis finds the quantitative impact of contributing activities. It simplifies finding enterprise performance metrics and applies to more business models.”

The author of this eBook, Dr. William G. Beazley, is founder and president of Information Assets , a company that provides consulting services to a wide range of industries. Dr. Beazley is an internationally recognized author, and has published many papers, articles and newsletters. He can be contacted at www.infoassets.com.

A website has been set up with information about the eBook at www.managingcontribution.com and about contribution analysis at www.contributionanalysis.com.

Sutton Technical Books is online at http://www.suttonbooks.net . They list the book at www.suttonbooks.net/emcon/managing-contribution.html

William G. Beazley, Ph.D.
Information Assets, Inc.
9105 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N.
Suite 700-192
Houston, TX 77064
713.443.9914
wbeazley@infoassets.com
www.infoassets.com

KBI publishes new eBook: Managing Contribution, by William G. Beazley, Ph.D.

Houston, TX
December 3, 2003

Knowledge Base International is pleased to announce publication of its first eBook, “Managing Contribution,” by William G. Beazley, Ph.D. The eBook outlines an new approach to enterprise metrics and performance management that overcomes the limitations of other approaches. The eBook format was chosen to distribute the book more efficiently and be used more conveniently.

Managing Contribution introduces a new analysis technique called “Contribution Analysis.” “Contribution is the value added to an expected opportunity to deliver products and services,” says author William G. Beazley, Ph.D. “Contribution Analysis finds the impact of contributing activities.”

The author of this eBook, Dr. William G. Beazley, is founder and president of Information Assets, a company that provides consulting services to a wide range of industries. Dr. Beazley is an internationally recognized author, and has published many papers, articles and newsletters. He can be contacted at www.infoassets.com.

A website has been set up with information about the eBook consult www.managingcontribution.com and about contribution analysis consult www.contributionanalysis.com.

The book is available from Knowledge Base International via www.kbintl.com.

William G. Beazley, Ph.D.
Information Assets, Inc.
9105 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N.
Suite 700-192
Houston, TX 77064
713.443.9914
wbeazley@infoassets.com
www.infoassets.com