Instrumentation And Control Systems Documentation, Second Edition - Softcover

Frederick A. Meier; Clifford A. Meier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936007517 ISBN 13: 9781936007516

Publisher: International Society of Automation, 2011

Synopsis

This second edition revises and updates the award-winning 2004 publication, incorporating improvements suggested by readers and to reflect subsequent changes in industry practice. It provides the knowledge needed to understand and develop the documents and symbols that define a modern industrial measurement and control system. In addition, it uses industry standards, especially ANSI/ISA-5.1-2009 - Instrumentation Symbols and Identification, to define and describe the symbol based "language" that identifies measurement and control devices.
The control systems documentation addressed within includes process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, instrument indexes and data bases, specification forms, logic diagrams, loop diagrams, installation details and location plans. The purpose and content of these documents, as well as options with regard to the information presented, are discussed in detail. Information is presented in the timeline of a typical design and engineering project. The sequence serves to show how the documents evolve and how they are interrelated.
The real-world obligation of control systems documentation to support interdisciplinary coordination during design, to provide sufficient detail to bid and purchase components and services and to support all construction work is addressed. The critical requirement that these drawings and data present critical information for on-going maintenance work is integral to this presentation.

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Meier's career spans more than 50 years as a control systems engineer, chief engineer, and engineering manager in the oil, chemical and engineering industries in the United States, Algeria, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He has held Professional Engineer licenses in New York, New Jersey, California, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. He completed U.S. Army training as an electrical engineer and has a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Rutgers University.
Fred has been an ISA member for more than 40 years. He has served as President of the New York Section; the Edmonton, Alberta, Section; and the Tar Heel (North Carolina) Capital Area Section. He was awarded the ISA District II Golden Eagle Award in 2000 and ISA's Golden Achievement Award in 2005.
Fred presented two papers at ISA 1982, "Why Not Be an Adaptive Manager?" and, jointly with coworker Trevor Haines, "Contractor Handling of Engineering for Distributed Control Systems". He authored the cover article for CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Feb. 22, 1982, "Is your control system ready to start up?" Fred and son Cliff (this book's co-author) presented a joint paper at ISA 1999, "A Standard P&ID, elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel". Fred also published an editorial viewpoint in ISA TRANSACTIONS, October 2002, "A P&ID standard: What, Why, How?'. This book won the Raymond

D. Molloy and the Thomas G. Fisher Awards in 2004.
After Fred's "first" retirement, he served as the ISA Staff Engineer; after his "second" retirement, as an ISA Instructor and Consultant; and, since his "third" retirement, as co-author of this book. Fred and Jean have been married for 62 years and are the proud parents of four children, four grandchildren, and two great granddaughters, all scattered across the United States and Canada. They currently live in Carolina Meadows, a retirement community near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Society of Automation
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1936007517
• ISBN 13: 9781936007516
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200