Developing Guidelines for Instrumentation and Control: Implementing Standards and Verifying Work Performed

and Verifying Work Performed. Corporate guidelines help impose uniform procedures that promote safety, efficiency, and quality. This book is a how-to guide, aimed at instrumentation and control professionals, for developing performance guidelines for plant and/or corporate engineering functions. These functions include front-end engineering, detailed engineering, installation, and maintenance. Documentation needs at each stage of engineering and maintenance are discussed. Suggested procedures for planning, scheduling, and controlling corporate guidelines are presented. The creation and maintenance of the guidelines document itself is discussed. The book is also useful as a checklist for assessing internal work procedures or the performance of a contractor. The appendices to the book include examples of scope-of-work documents, change forms, and work specifications, as well as information about ISA standards and other standards-writing bodies.