Optimizing any cooling plant for minimal energy consumption is a demanding science. In many cases, minimizing chiller plant energy consumption requires modifications to the plant design, including ...

Consider layout and production flow simultaneously during facility design and renovation. Doing so will ultimately save design time and effort. Interdependence precludes effectiveness when facility ...

With the information developed in Chapters 1 and 2, your next step is to utilize three time-tested tools to assess the efficiency of your existing layout and test proposed improvements. See Chapter 2 ...

Water flow in a steam generating power plant may range from the small such as process samples to the very large, i.e., condenser cooling water. From direct experience, the author has observed that ...

Before Duerr Inc. laid out its new building, it had a wish list built over years to start the planning. The company’s best single investment? The central material handling system. Husky’s Factory ...

Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.