Optimization for P&ID Development: The Time Efficient Approach

This Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) standardization in process industry makes a lot of sense. P&ID is a kind of control document. Many projects of similar kind are executed over time with some project specific changes. For such a project, designing fresh P&ID or editing old P&ID does take huge time. The mistakes in old versions are carried forward in next project as well. Instead of preparing new P&ID from scratch or editing previous projects P&ID, we standardize it. Standardizing is not only referring standard philosophy but also minimizing development hours to reduce time to market. Our method proves to be time efficient as well as fewer howlers. Onetime efforts can save many man hours. In this paper Instrumentation and other equipment option for an application are prepared in AutoCAD. Document thus prepared can be very much helpful while bidding also. As P&ID is the document of high importance in initial phase of project, if it could be completed in very short time then will be much beneficial to organization. Time and quality are measure constraints of project management, time invisibly refers to cost, and thus time for development of P&ID must be reduced.