Ivo Willems

TL;DR: An intelligent plant development library environment is presented in this article, which includes an EPC knowledge system capable of incorporating know-how of one or more construction firms in the form of assembly objects.

TL;DR: In this article, an expert system for providing optimized recommendations regarding a construction project is configured to generate conflicting optimization recommendations, where each engine provides one or more recommendations optimized in accordance with the priorities of a functional discipline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method for managing congestion points of a plant lifecycle, where access can be provided to a project database, as well as a congestion engine coupled with the project database.

TL;DR: In this article, a capital project optimization tool is presented, where a current component can be correlated with historical components to identify if similar historical components have been used in similar circumstances, and if so the engine can determine if the similar historical component where over-engineered.