| Hi , welcome to November's newsletter Firstly, let me welcome our site sponsors - PipingdesignU & AutoDesk. Their Sponsorship, in the form of taking advertising space on pipingdesigners.com helps us keep the site running, in terms of software upgrades & licences, servers and other day to day expenses, all meaning we can keep getting you the information you need.
So, please, take the time to look and see what they have to say. PipingdesignU: Piping Design U is dedicated to providing affordable piping design training and credentialing. It was established by Information Assets, Inc. under the direction of William G. Beazley, PhD, PE Autodesk: Switch to Autodesk Plant Design Solutions If you’re using AutoPLANT, you’re missing out on the latest version of AutoCAD® software. AutoCAD is made by Autodesk—and is at the core of Autodesk plant solutions. Our plant design solutions build on the latest version of AutoCAD and include comprehensive software for design, modeling, and project review to help you stay on schedule and within budget. Latest Article in TrainingThis month, we are introducing a new article in the Equipment Piping Section: Distillation Towers: The process used in the extraction of various hydrocarbons is distillation, and the process happens in a Distillation Tower. The various components or fractions in crude oil, that make up gas, petrol, diesel, heating oils, naphtha, ethylene, polyethylene and bitumen / asphalt, have different sizes, weights and boiling temperatures. These fractions need to be separated. So how does the fractionation process work? "Crowd-sourcing" our next article. We are looking for a new approach to writing articles for our various sections, such as the Tips, Tools & Training area of the site, and what we want to try is to "crowd source" an article. Someone suggests an area of training or general interest, and we use a specific forum thread to gather thoughts, opinions and debate on the subject. Given the number of users on pipingdesigners.com, we have amassed thousands of years (quite literally) experience in the piping field.
The hope is that this will enable many pipers to take some ownership of what appears on pipingdesigners.com. Once we feel we have reached a good level of comments on the thread, we will pull together the comments, and edit / weave all the debate and opinion into one coherent document.
Probably easier said than done, but I'd like to see what we can do. Why not give your opinion on the first article - Pump Piping? My Profile Have you visited you profile on pipingdesigners.com yet? Maybe it's time you took a look. As part of our drive to bring new features to the site, we have merged the forum with the rest of the site, with the exception of the jobs board. This means that your forum profile now enables you to login site wide - meaning, once logged in, you can comment on articles, connect with other pipers and post some of your fancy 3D Piping images on your gallery - to show off to other pipers.
This newsletter is connected to the site login, and you can turn if off in your profile settings (but why would you? It keeps you up to date, and it's only one email every month or two!) Many more features will be added & linked to your profile as we go on, and we will certainly be introducing "members only" content to the site at some point. Take a look at your profile today, and see what the piping world sees, when they see your name! (of course, you'll need to be logged in!) Jobs page The Piping job board is going strong. It is updated regularly with piping roles (just piping roles) from around the world. We don't want you to have to trawl through irrelevant jobs for other disciplines to find what you're looking for, we want to you be able to see just the piping roles you are looking for. You can also register your job profile and place your resume online with us to make it easier for employers to find you. *Note: the login/registration for the jobs area is separate from the Main site login. Share the love, and please forward this to other pipers that may be interested ... they may even thank you for it! | |