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QGC

Companies using these emerging PROCESS STANDARDISATION QGC
technologies along with single-source Standardisation and reuse are the
integration of power, automation and biggest ways to drive down cost and
telecommunications can typically save time during the design phase by
up to 30 per cent in capital and increasing familiarisation and reducing
operating expenditures. Project the need for training on custom
schedules can also be improved by 25 project-specific designs.
per cent while start-up and Major projects often involve several
installation hours can be reduced by engineering, procurement and
40 per cent. construction (EPC) contractors across
various locations who must work to a
CLOUD ENGINEERING common set of design requirements
The ongoing QCLNG project Virtualisation, emulation and and objectives. Where you have
is one of Australia’s largest simulation are technologies that can numerous globally-based project
capital infrastructure projects be used to facilitate application delivery centres, cloud computing
software testing in the cloud and allows for a sole project engineering
introducing extra cost and delays. without requiring the hardware. This entity that works from a single
Fortunately, new technologies are removes the time and cost associated engineering database and in the local
facilitating different approaches for with coupling up simulated I/O for language of each contractor. Cloud
more efficient and cost-effective functional testing of the application computing ensures standard designs,
project management. By standardising software. By testing application engineering workflows, methodologies
processes and using cloud engineering, software in the cloud, hardware can and support tools. Lessons learned
automated data management, smart be shipped to site much sooner are available to all project execution
I/O systems and soft marshalling, leading to a faster completion of groups, thereby promoting a common
companies are now able to decouple installation and field loop verification. approach aligning teams and
the hardware and software Cloud computing paves the way for minimising surprises.
engineering activities. Removing these ‘virtual commissioning’, using process
interdependencies means that models which can significantly boost AUTOMATED DATA
development efforts can proceed in the value of functional testing by MANAGEMENT
parallel. This decreases project providing more realistic feedback. This Automated data management
complexity, increases predictability means far fewer modifications on-site eliminates many manual, error-prone
and accelerates completion. during commissioning. tasks, lowering costs and reducing
time spent in functional testing. It
does so by converting information
Companies using these emerging from various sources into a common
data format, auto-generating
technologies along with single-source application software and project
documents, storing multiple revisions
integration of power, automation and of design data, creating reports and
telecommunications can typically handling all aspects of third-party
sub-system integration.
save up to 30 per cent in capital and Using workflow manager tools, for
operating expenditures example, allows project managers to
deal more efficiently with inevitable

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