Lesson 1: What a Piping Designer Does — Role, Deliverables and Project Phases
Sample lesson 1 of the PipingDesigners beginner training series: the designer’s role, the main deliverables, project phases and review gates.
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It Looks Complete. Is It Ready? Rethinking How Piping Isometrics Are Released
A piping isometric can look complete and pass a quick review yet still not be ready for release. Four themes to test, and a release gate checklist.
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AI Slop in Piping: Would You Put Your Name to It?
AI slop means polished, unverified piping posts. The real line isn’t AI or no AI; it’s verified or unverified. Would you put your name to it?
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PipingDesigners.com: Building the Global Home of Piping Design
Discover the new PipingDesigners.com: a growing global resource connecting piping designers, engineers and professionals through technical knowledge, engineering tools, community and career opportunities.
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Piping Isometrics
Introduction: The word ‘Isometric’ has its origins in Greek which is the case with many English words. It is derived from Greek word ‘Isometros’, of equal measure (the objects measured using a fixed unit). It is one of the most important outputs, if not the most important output of overall Piping effort. Isometric is a…
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Piping Guidelines for P&ID Review
A P&ID is a schematic drawing of a process plant system. It has no relationship to scale, relative dimensions or true shape or character. It has no relationship to north, south, east or west. It has only a marginal relationship to up and down. However, through the use of standard symbols, line conventions and notes…
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Checking Drawings
Piping Designers – Check yourselves For those independent designers that work on their own, or that preliminary work that goes out for bid, there is no substitution for perfect work.Incomplete work and errors, all cost extra. Here are some useful tips to reduce what a checker would find to almost nothing. As a first step, check…
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Checking, Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Piping Drawings
Checking or the Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA/QC) in process plant piping engineering and design is a grossly misunderstood activity that is performed (or should be performed) by every piping group on every process plant project deliverable. Problems arise when checking is not done and when it is done it is often done incorrectly….
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Introduction to Line Numbering
This article is intended to answer some of the questions that come up about the subject of Line Numbers and Line Lists for a typical process plant project. Some of the questions that come up about Line Numbering include: What is it? Why is it? What does it mean? Who does it? Another question is…
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Piping Terms Glossary
Piping design and engineering uses a large number of abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms. This glossary is a practical A–Z reference to the terminology used in piping design, piping engineering, process plants and project delivery. Where an abbreviation has more than one meaning, each meaning is listed under the same term. Conventions vary between companies…
