| |
| | daratechPLANT2004 :: Article |
 | | Whether it be in oil and gas, chemical, power, or pharmaceutical industry, issues of data migration, operations and maintenance integration, and data hand-off continue to vex even the most forward thinking corporations. |
 | | Consequently, it is often the case that the plant was created in one version of software and the update is created in another version or another system entirely, depending on what tool the EPC might have used. |
 | | While plant creation software sales to EPCs continue to make up the majority of plant creation spending, the portion of sales to owner/operators has nearly doubled since 1998, going from approximately 22% then to 39% of total spending in 2003. |
| www.daratech.com /plant2004/article2.html (1338 words) |
|