Control system migrations : a practical project management handbook / / Daniel Roessler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790416403321
• Autore: Roessler Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Momentum Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-60650-445-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 629.8
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Systems migration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the author --; 1. Migration project justification -- Determining your approach -- Defining ROI -- System failures -- Parts availability or obsolescence issues -- Difficulty integrating with newer applications and systems -- Reduced availability of support services -- Operational inefficiency -- Summary --; 2. A comprehensive FEL -- Selecting your FEL resources -- Identifying key engineering deliverables -- Deliverable descriptions and content -- Important FEL decisions -- Summary --; 3. Bid specifications and vendor selection -- Control system -- The control system functional specification -- Hardware and software requirements specifications -- Control system bid instructions -- Decision criteria matrix -- Selecting a control system vendor -- Engineering, procurement, and construction services -- Requirements definition -- A complete EPC bid request package -- Bid evaluation and project award -- Summary --; 4. Scope, schedule, and budget scope -- Overall organization and approach -- Instrumentation -- Electrical -- Controls -- Civil-mechanical-building -- Communications and integration -- Testing -- Training and documentation -- Cutover -- Budget -- Schedule -- Summary --; 5. Project staffing -- Defining project resource requirements -- Project organizational chart -- Roles and responsibilities matrix -- Project schedule resourcing -- Extending the project team -- Establishing team communication -- Building an effective team -- Summary --; 6. Training -- Engineering -- Maintenance -- Operations -- Others -- Summary --; 7. Progress monitoring, change orders, and reporting monitoring -- Scope monitoring -- Schedule tracking -- Budget evaluation -- Overall progress calculations -- Adjusting plans -- Change order management -- Project reporting -- Summary --; 8. High-risk areas -- Graphics -- Third-party systems or application communications -- Staffing changes -- Poor teamwork -- Unforeseen logic complexity -- Field construction obstacles -- Cutover details -- Summary --; 9. Cutovers -- Correct methodology decision -- Thorough design details -- Comprehensive plan -- Prepared field team -- Control room leadership -- Strong operations coordination -- Complete loop packages -- Efficient checkout process -- Summary --; 10. Project closeout and lifecycle management -- Documented completion scope -- Phased financial closing -- Remaining milestones schedule -- Project delivery and acceptance -- Final project review meeting -- Lifecycle management -- Summary --; Supplemental resource list -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Reliable and effective control systems are a critical component of safe and profitable operations across process industries. And many of our industrial facilities today continue to operate using legacy control systems from the past four decades that are at or near the end of their lifecycles. Migration projects to modern control systems are complex, requiring detailed upfront planning, a methodical implementation strategy and astute project management.

Making democracy work : civic traditions in modern Italy / / Robert Leonardi, Robert D. Putnam, Raffaella Y. Nanetti

• Record Nr.: UNISA996199282003316
• Autore: Putnam Robert D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• ISBN: 1-4008-1014-0; 1-4008-1762-5; 9786612397424; 1-282-39742-7; 1-4008-2074-X; 1-4008-1305-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Classificazione: MG 62960
• Disciplina: 306.20945
• Soggetti: Regionalism - Italy; Decentralization in government - Italy; Democracy - Italy; Government - Non-U.S; Law, Politics & Government; Government - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Figures -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance -- CHAPTER 2. Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional Development -- CHAPTER 3. Measuring Institutional Performance -- CHAPTER 4. Explaining Institutional Performance -- CHAPTER 5. Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community -- CHAPTER 6. Social Capital and Institutional Success -- APPENDIX A. Research Methods -- APPENDIX B. Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors -- APPENDIX C. Institutional Performance (1978-1985) -- APPENDIX D. Regional Abbreviations Used in Scattergrams -- APPENDIX E. Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance ; (1978-1985) -- APPENDIX F. Traditions of Civic Involvement (1860-1920) -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.