FRONT END ENGINEERING DESIGN CAPABILITIES

Align Your Automation Plan to Your Business Objectives

Is your project aligned with them into a plan that meets your business while creating a detailed project
your business objectives? objectives. A trusted advisor can help you foundation. Emerson will combine industry
build your plan. Emerson strives to earn expertise, process engineering and project
Do you have a well-defined that role in ensuring a successful turnkey management with our proven perceptive
scope for lowering the cost of solution that includes front end technology to deliver the return on
your project? engineering design (FEED), equipment investment (ROI) you expect from
selection, commissioning services, and your project.
Is faster implementation and implementation and operational
quicker start-up critical to your capabilities. Containing cost and reducing
company’s success? startup time
The first step to success is pre-project Do you know the effect of late changes on
planning through a FEED study. This study your project’s cost? Get it right from the
How will you identify and is the early design work done after beginning, and you can keep your project
mitigate project risks? conceptual business planning and prior to costs in check. Every dollar spent making a
detailed design. Critical to successful decision is multiplied by an order of
Whether it’s a large, complex greenfield project execution, it identifies and magnitude if the decision is delayed until
project or just adding a few upgrades, the mitigates project risks, thus lowering cost the next phase of the project. Spending a
key to success is proper planning– and reducing time to completion. few extra dollars up front will yield
understanding your current environment,
significant savings to the cost of your project.
recognizing advantages in the latest In undertaking a FEED study, Emerson will
technologies, and how best to integrate align your project and business objectives
Successful impact of a FEED
study
Influence and Expenditures for the Project Lifecycle FEED is the process of developing sufficient
Re: Construction Industry Institute strategic information with which you can
assess risk and calculate resource
commitment to maximize the chance for
project success1. The goal of a FEED study
n $1–Conceptual Engineering is to define the scope of work for a project
n $10–FEED in order to meet both your expectations
n $100–Procurement and the project requirements in terms of
n $1,000–Construction
factors such as budget, time, quality, and
safety. This phase of project development
n $10,000–At Startup
is so critical; the Construction Industry
Institute (CII) identifies FEED as one of its
best practices for successful project
execution2. Regardless of how you define
FEED and the goals of the study, few will
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dispute the value this effort will add Proven FEED Work Process
to the project. By performing a FEED
study you will realize benefits
throughout the project including:

Faster implementation
The sooner you can start up the
project, the sooner you will begin
realizing the cost benefits of the factors greatly increase the FEED Planning
improvements. Early identification opportunity for a successful process One of the first steps to executing a
of potential problem areas and/or automation project .4 successful project is to have good
necessary changes allows for early communication to identify not only
resolution, resulting in less impact Better project performance the project objectives, but also the
to the project. Faster implemen- According to a Construction business objectives. Emerson assists
tation and improved project Industry Institute study of 53 large with the development of the FEED
performance are key benefits to projects 5, the group of projects that team to ensure all key stakeholders
performing a FEED study, with cost spent the most effort on pre-project contribute to and align themselves
reductions of up to 30%. 3 planning (another term used for with the project objectives.
FEED study) averaged: Constraints for timing and budget
Identified and minimized n 20% lower costs are also reviewed and aligned during
project risk n 39% schedule reduction identification of the project premise
With project staff alignment, n 15% utilization/capacity increase and scope.
business drivers and constraints when compared to the group that
defined, the project risks are spent the least effort on pre-project Data gathering
identified and minimized. Business planning. For a project in an existing facility,
management can proceed with full data can be collected in the field
disclosure of opportunities to Delivering a plan with a using tools compatible with
mitigate risk and/or project proven FEED work industry-standard project engineer-
alternatives. process ing and database software. This
Emerson’s proven FEED work compatibility helps to expedite
Greater user involvement and process is built upon the checkout while accurately
management support recommended best practices of benchmarking and documenting
Studies show that projects lacking authorities such as Construction the existing equipment and
user involvement perform poorly, Industry Institute, Project installation. The analysis of this data
and that early planning, project Management Institute (PMI), and will result in documentation which is
definition and goal setting are major Independent Project Analysis (IPA) verified to minimize risk of
factors in gaining user involvement methodologies. unforeseen events related to the
and management support. These project.

Basis for design

Emerson’s Total Value Proposition Benefits From detailed design, construction
and commissioning to the
completion of each successful
startup, our years of experience help
you attain the best solution to meet
all appropriate standards and codes.
Together, we can evaluate project
alternatives to meet process and
business objectives, while reducing
cost and tightening schedules.
Communication and alignment Project Execution Plan study, Emerson will ensure the plan
throughout the project are The project execution plan has components including:
important to ensure the design and addresses project resources,
deliverables match your project migration plans, and required Project management plan
expectations. Emerson can include purchases. By understanding these n Project managers with the
third parties such as installation factors, contingency funds needed training and experience to deliver
contractors to ensure that the for a project can be significantly consistent results
design encompasses the complete reduced due to increased accuracy n Global best practices with an
scope. This minimizes expensive of the budget estimate. organized, structured approach
field change orders later in the n Budgeting, schedule control,
project. Economic Justification procurement, quality and
The FEED definition often includes requirements management
FEED estimate the required economic justification
The FEED process typically narrows in both investment requirements
the cost and benefit estimate down and the expected process and
“One of the major reasons for the
to +/- 10% of the overall cost of the business-related returns. An ROI success was due to the excellent
project, and identifies the risks and calculation can be determined as frontend engineering… The front-
issues that support this estimate. part of a FEED study to ensure that end package generated by
The estimate includes: the project clears the required Emerson and a small team from
n Detailed functional scope of the financial hurdles. Solutia allowed us to develop
engineering and design
n Detailed project execution plan Industry and technology plans and stick to them.”
n Detailed procurement plan expertise ensures
Greg Kanteres
project results
Final document Emerson provides a wide range of Project Manager, Solutia
The final FEED document is the expertise to meet the demands of
definitive technical and business your project, including some of the
Process automation engineering
project summary including all FEED process automation industry’s most
design
deliverable documents to be used experienced engineers and
n Automation contractor
by your organization and your designers. Emerson’s experts have
experience on small to very large
project team. These documents proven hands-on experience and a
projects
include: track record of solving complex
n DCS design, configuration,
problems across all process
migration and connectivity to
Project Scope Definition industries.
legacy systems
The project scope definition is based
You get a single point of account- n Engineer control buildings,
on aligning your needs with a plan
ability for your instrument and modular process skids and
that includes the engineering and
automation system project. Our analyzer housings
design work. Typical deliverables
automation expertise ensures that n Design and implementation of
include:
your project is technically sound, embedded advanced control
n Master project schedule
safe, timely, and that it derives the functionality
n Project Execution Plan
most benefit from today’s digital
n Budget plan Instrumentation and electrical
technologies.
n Alternative analysis report design
n Functional design specifications Our smart field instrumentation n Smart field instrumentation
n Engineering drawings approved technology leadership means you installation, commissioning and
for design get skilled and experienced start-up
n Required bill of materials engineers to help you design n Supplemental electrical
n Required resource allocation plan efficient new facilities as well as engineering related to
analyze and improve your existing automation projects
operations. In performing the FEED
n Supplemental mechanical and Working together in
structural engineering related to planning for success “For the validation project, the
automation projects Emerson will work with all of your key front-end work performed by
n Supplemental design, construction, stakeholders to ensure your project is Emerson was quite important as
and commissioning of piping related aligned with your business objectives, we needed to have accurate cost
to automation projects that project risks are identified early in estimates. It is the ultimate goal of
the project and plans are in place to every project.”
Safety instrument system engineering
mitigate those challenges. Emerson’s
design
n IEC 61511 certified FEED work
capabilities and experience are especially John Wilson
valuable when time is at a premium. By Project Manager, Dow AgroSciences
processes for safety systems
collaborating with a trusted advisor like
n IEC 61511 certified engineering,
Emerson, you can be assured a well-
installation, and commissioning of How to get started now
defined project scope is prepared that
safety instrumented systems Contact your local Emerson sales office
will lower the cost of your project
allowing for faster implementation and to retain this service. Prior to order
Power engineering
quicker start-up–thus realizing acceptance, Emerson will issue a written
n Complete power system engineering
profitability sooner. proposal for your review and approval to
from the utility source to the process
ensure that scope, deliverables, timing,
equipment
From full main automation contractor and budget meet your needs and
n Design of emergency/backup power
(MAC) scope, to main instrument vendor expectations.
systems for critical equipment
n Arc flash hazard assessments to (MIV), to supply of the automation
complement your facility's safe work system and configuration services,
practices Emerson can help.

Process engineering
n Process knowledge and experience to
meet performance and reliability
objectives
n Process definition and analysis
n Process descriptions and flow
diagrams
n P&ID development

1
Construction Industry Institute (CII). (1995). “Pre-project planning handbook.” Publication No. 39-2, Construction Industry Institute, Austin, Tex.
2
Construction Industry Institute (CII). (2007). “CII best practices.” (http://www.construction-institute.org/scriptcontent/bp.cfm?section _Order) (February 14, 2007)
3
Hwang, Bon-Gang and Ho, Jia Wei (2012), “Front-End Planning Implementation in Singapore: Status, Importance, and Impact” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(4), 567
4
(2010) CHAOS MANIFESTO: The Laws of CHAOS and the CHAOS 100 Best PM Practices, The Standish Group
5
Gibson, G. E., and Hamilton, M. H. (1994). “Analysis of pre-project planning effort and success variables for capital facility projects.” Rep. SD-105, Construction Industry Institute, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

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