'Despite what project guys, clients, and accountants want to believe, every job is unique.'

Dear,

What you have written above has some truth in it.

But, in older days we were building plants in years, which we are making now in months with much lesser profit margin. Where is the way out?

Nowadays, we don't build P&Ds from scratch, neither the layout nor 3D models. What is there so Holy in pipe stress analysis that we can't use seed files from the past jobs of similar nature & save some time?

If these piping analysis softwares can reuse older day FORTRAN modules, why can't we? We, too, can learn from software developers.

At home, my daughter writes essay without a pen, just using a mouse, lifting paragraphs from Internet essays taking some time in integrating them with some alteration. Her justification, she is not as intelligent as the authors of the Internet essays she steals from, while putting the links in in reference.

regards,

sam