Refocusing CAD and CAE on O and M
Conference
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OSTI ID:94224
- Sargent and Lundy, Chicago, IL (United States)
In the late 1980s, computer-aided design (CAD) software started to migrate from larger computer equipment to personal computers. Since then, competition in the desktop computer market transformed the personal computer (PC) into an office equipment commodity. The technological improvements accompanying that change transformed CAD from an expensive, specialized tool to an office software commodity that is a graphical counterpart to the word processor. The cost reductions and performance improvements have made many application concepts, previously too cumbersome to apply, cost effective and helpful. Applying these ideas has increased the level of CAD usage in their offices dramatically. Part of that growth has been an increasing number of projects directly aimed at helping reduce operation and maintenance (O and M) costs. This paper describes those projects and discusses the application of CAD to O and M work.
- OSTI ID:
- 94224
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950414--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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