Bringing the lost art of systems engineering & integration back to well control equipment
Safety Emerges
As you enjoy your 4th of July holiday celebrations, please pause to consider some thoughts regarding safety. Like most systems engineers, we think of safety as an emergent property. Safety isn’t something you hold in your hands or decree, it’s a result. It results—or...
read moreIntegration Ain’t Rocket Math
Always Integrate For Project Success In our experience, good systems engineering and good project management always go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. You need to integrate both in order to reduce ambiguity and uncertainty on any complex project....
read moreTips Regarding Categories and Tags in Our Blogs
Systems Engineering & Integration Terminology The INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, 4th Edition, references ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 for definitions and discussions related to technical and supporting processes that a systems engineer utilizes. The categories we use...
read moreDo This One Thing To Eliminate Most Project Woes
We recently helped a client initiate a project to improve their rig incident reporting process. The first thing we did was insist on building a project charter—something that's not very common in the industry. A project charter in and of itself is not that...
read moreFollow His Advice? Maybe …
In the August 2016 edition of Offshore Magazine, one of the principals of a large project management consulting company advised that you should be watching graphs for inflection points to help alert you that a critical decision is required on your project. Let’s do as...
read moreBe Sure to “Plan The Promise”
"Plan The Promise" is a phrase we coined which means, at its most fundamental level, to plan out in detail whatever you’re about to promise to your client(s). It means doing your due diligence and making smart commitments on behalf of your business. To be able to do...
read moreSo, WHY Are We Doing This Project Anyway?
I recently taught a young engineering student and some high school graduates heading off to engineering school about how to properly manage capital equipment manufacturing projects in the oil and gas industry. The students were surprised to learn that many projects...
read moreIt’s Déjà vu … Again
Quality is conformance to requirements. – Philip B. Crosby What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 1:9 The low price of oil is forcing a lot of restructuring within the oil and gas...
read moreThe Order of Magnitude
With the US Presidential election looming this year, it's impossible to scroll through the comments section of popular news websites and not see conspiracy theories about a “New World Order” of secretive power elites conspiring to rule the world. But at LinRich...
read moreHow Much Systems Engineering?
A University of South Australia doctoral thesis by Eric C. Honour found that the optimum amount of systems engineering cost for a single system development project should be 14% of the overall project cost. Does this mean a drilling contractor should spend $105MM on...
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