PACKAGE ENGINEERING, INDEX _ INTRO
Site Objective
This site is operated as a general information source for the Package Engineering (PE) of Machinery and Plant for the Onshore and Offshore Process Oil and Gas Industry. Its purpose is to produce comment and discussion for those interested in the subject. PE is also a subject form of engineering which has been overtaken by the popularity of managed engineering, e.g. the attraction of HSE subject issues as opposed to the engineering which produces them. There is also the intention that the site should generate interest in young people who for a career might be persuaded to take up this type of engineering The Buttoned pages which follow have been created to outline the scope, content and skills employed. They are referenced by random subjects to illustrate the concepts and practises used.
What is a Package, Packaging?
In simplistic terms a definition is “to group items together as a single unit”. Package Engineering is the engineering necessary for the single unit to function to its design requirements, restraints, specification etc which are required from it as a collective unit.
Why Package?
Packaging allows the incorporated separate items to be treated as a unit for manufacture in its optimum location, handling, transportation and lifting.
Why treat Packaging as a specialist subject?
As can often be the case specialist equipment manufacturers, structural steel fabricators, module builders etc do not necessarily have the spectrum of manufacturing disciplines necessary to create packages. It is desirable that packaging takes place in a location where such a range of disciplines is available.
Packaging Location?
Where this activity is carried out can be in various locations e.g. sometimes the equipment manufacturer does have the extension of disciplines to allow both manufacturing and packaging to be carried out in the same location. Alternatively other locations exist e.g. at a specialist packager since they may have sapient knowledge of the incorporation of the items of equipment into the recipient structure and its related pipe work, cabling etc.
p.s., this site was previously run as an information site for Manpro Ltd, it is now operated as a general information site covering packaging and modularization in the onshore/offshore petro chem. Industry. Format and content of the site is Copywrite Manpro UK
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