Chapter 3: OTS Project Execution and Best Practices
I have been delivering OTS systems for the past 30 years, working with many OTS suppliers, and in 2013 I started a consultancy business helping OTS end users get the most out of their systems.
In the 1970s and 1980s, when OTS systems were new to the process industry, suppliers running OTS projects were executing projects with Distributed Control Systems (DCSs) (Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSSs) as they're known these days) because either the companies building them were DCS companies, or the smaller companies building them were guided by the DCS manufacturer.
Since the two projects (OTS systems and DCSs/ICSSs) are different in nature, particularly their execution methods, different companies had their own (almost ad hoc) OTS project execution strategies.
In this chapter, we will discuss a model that has proven over my years of experience to be the best practice in the execution of such projects, namely the...