ABSTRACT
Implementation of industrial plant projects requires making use of a number of different types of specific expertise in a variety of specialty fields, each calling for lifelong accumulation of knowledge and on-the-job experience. Manufacturing industries are often identified with the type of main products, which require often quite complicated plants composed of many items of equipment, extensive and complicated configuration of piping and cables, sophisticated instrumentation and automation, huge amounts of structures, and big network of underground facilities. Industry is an economic sector dealing with production of goods and/or services. Industrial revolution is the age that started within the second half of the 18th century. Process engineers are the persons who deal with engineering, design, checking, and controlling industrial processes. Similar to classifying process plants, projects are named generically according to the industry or the main product, as a refinery project, power plant project, and pharmaceutical plant project.
