Spi software engineering

We prepared the Piping and instrumentation Diagrams that contains the control loops, instruments, control strategies etc to make sure a full cycle project with Smart Plant Instrumentation is possible. I used SPI to handle of the most important engineering activities in control and instrumentation field, instrument sizing.

In this course, I used SPI INtools to size a differential pressure transmitter, a control valve, a safety valve and a thermometer - thermowell. At this stage I followed on the instrumentation wiring and instrumentation profiles by connecting the instruments from junction boxes to PLCs and marshaling cabinets. This was definitely a very challenging and time consuming project but I had the determination to produce a training course which is easy to follow and yet cover all the requirements of Smart Plant Instrumentation software suite.

I took the opportunity to add many of the engineering experiences I encountered in my work specially in instrumentation and control fields are transferred to the training. As of today, thousands of engineers and professionals have accessed the course and I had the great opportunity to connect with brilliant engineers along the way.

Below is a short summary of some of the engineers and their experiences about the training. Please click to enlarge the reviews. Being certified in CMMI for example, can put the company in higher competitive edge and make it gain more sales due to the evidence of existing mature software process based on standard method.

Meeting organization goals, projects delivery, quality standards, valuable products, professional documentation are outputs from SPI. Project delivery on time and based on the specification with high quality will improve customers satisfaction and improve the sales process.

Employees get job satisfaction from producing a good quality product and knowing what to do without workload and the time consumed to resolve conflicts or to eliminate issue due to an immature process. Introducing tools to automate things and improve quality and ensure consistency. Moreover, enabling different employees to play different roles in the project. Despite these motivators, companies may be afraid to go through SPI project because a lot of factors and some companies may already have sufficient process and have a good revenue and it is successful, is it a necessity for that kind of companies to pursue SPI project!

I think not, if you already do not have a pain you do not have too, so, what about the other companies? Similar to the motivators, demotivators can be taken from different perspectives, and here are the common demotivators for SPI and they are very correlated:. Due to the nature of the companies to deliver the projects on time, they faced a lot of time pressure which make it harder for them to dedicate time to the SPI project. While I see this as weakness and actually a driver for SPI.

SPI took a long time and it is a costly process while It is necessary if you have issues as discussed before. As we just mentioned SPI is a costly process, because it needs time and dedicated resources, and not only that but also skilled resources especially in SPI. Most of the small companies do not have metrics to measure and compare their progress or improvement which make it sometimes impossible to identify measure the improvements of the SPI.

It is mainly because the management cannot understand the benefit from SPI and they do not fully support doing this change as well as the other factors like lack of resources, budget, time, …etc. Sometimes, the company has a high staff turnover which can be an issue to impose the SPI culture change and this can lead to endless SPI.

Some organization are very small and have very few resources. The SPI will be too big for that kind of companies. Some organizations may face a bad implementation for SPI that made them do not want to be involved in the same issue once again or maybe from another organization who tried to go through the SPI project.

Another demotivator that they did not have the proper orientation of SPI and the direct benefits in practice. Similar to the SDLC, SPI has a lot of methods and you can as well define your own method if it is effective or combine between more than one if you do not have any preferences or organization need to adopt a specific method.

SPI methods mainly categorized into two categories: inductive bottom-up approach and prescriptive top-down approach and most of them are cyclic with four main steps. The table below contains examples of the methods in each category. The SPI project is like any project which can have challenges which can make it failed.

It has some special characteristics as it involves change management and re-engineering practices. There are huge reported failed SPI projects due to many reasons. It is important to understand what are the success factors for the SPI project to consider them during the implementation. You may be heard a lot of companies want to be certified CMMI and seek different target levels without actually having any mature software process at hand.

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