Integrated piping engineering design management model for oil & gas industry in India

Abstract

Effective management of Piping Engineering Design is indispensable to sustain the competitive advantage of any engineering company. Piping Engineering Design Management consists of two sides - Design Product Engineering Side & Design Process Side. Previous researches in this field in different industries have found out many challenges or issues that need to be taken care of in order to make an effective design management model. However, those researches have only concentrated on some issues on a particular side of the design management cycle while not addressing the others. So, the models that have been built so far did not provide integrated management of all the identified issues on both the sides of the design management cycle. But the future demands an efficient design management model that caters to all the identified issues on both the sides. This research takes the existing knowledge in this field a step further by highlighting the minimal aspects of a much needed model catering to all the identified issues plaguing the management of engineering design on both the product & process sides of engineering design management, a step that the previous studies have not uncovered.