Reaching the promised land
I had a vision, years ago, that one day we would get to integrate OTS projects with ICSSs and make the most of this for suppliers and end users alike.
Finally, in the 21st century, we have reached the promised land and this is a reality, and correctly so, we can call OTS systems DTs.
Unfortunately, in the past, OTS projects and ICSS projects were almost always kept apart and run as two different projects. I have worked for three ICSS suppliers and all three did the same. There were many reasons for that, but the main one was that the OTS project budget was much smaller than the ICSS budget, let alone the full project. For example, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) project could cost a few billion dollars; an ICSS, tens of millions; and an OTS could cost a million dollars or even less. This made the OTS project much smaller in the full picture of the project.
In addition to that, in the past, OTSs generally, and process models especially...