Control System Documentation: Applying Symbols and Identification, 2nd Edition Thomas McAvinew and Raymond Mulley This updated ISA classic provides the symbols and identification commonly used throughout the process industries. It contains sample P&IDs and numerous examples of symbols and tagging concepts. It provides most of the symbols and identifiers that are unique to instrumentation and gives practical examples of their use.

Understand and
apply the symbols
and documentation
used to define a modern
industrial instrumentation
and control system with
these practical,
easy-to-understand
resources.

Format: Softbound Book – 2005 ISBN: 978-1-55617-896-2 Length: 231 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $79.00; List: $89.00 www.isa.org/symbolsandID

Reading a P&ID

Job Training Systems

Learn how to read and understand Piping and Instrumentation Drawings (P&IDs). After completing the workbook, you should be able to identify symbols and function labels commonly found on P&IDs, describe how system components are related, and trace process stream flow and control loop functions.

Instrumentation and Control Systems Documentation

Frederick A. Meier and Clifford A. Meier

This book will train you to read, understand, and apply the symbols and documents used to define a modern industrial instrumentation and control system. To help you better understand process documentation today, insight into how, when, and why documents are developed, who develops them, and how they are used is provided. The types of documents discussed include process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, instrument lists, specification forms, logic diagrams, installation details, location plans, and loop diagrams.

Format: Spiralbound
Book – 1999
Order No.: RPIDWBOOK
Length: 102 pages;
Weight: 1 lb.
Member: $59.00;
List: $69.00
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Format: Softbound Book – 2004 ISBN: 978-1-55617-870-2 Length: 173 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $69.00; List: $79.00 www.isa.org/instdocument

To Show or Not to Show?

One of the challenges you will face is the depiction of third party systems on your P&IDs. If you have an island of equipment furnished by a third party, how much of that equipment should show on your drawing? If the third-party system suppliers have their own P&IDs, do you copy them into your drawing set, or possibly just include their P&ID with your set? As usual, there really is no right answer; each facility is managed differently, each project has a different scope and each stakeholder in the P&IDs has different requirements.

It is not inexpensive to redraw a P&ID within your drawing set, nor is it a particularly good idea to have two drawings that show the same thing—yours, and the system supplier’s. The drawings will probably only agree on the day they are checked and issued for use. As soon as someone makes a change, you start to “chase revisions”.

One successful and cost-effective approach has been to show the interface points between the vendor’s system and your control system—just show the components seen on the operator station. Then, on your drawing, refer to the vendor’s P&ID and operating manual for further details.

Source: Instrumentation and Control Systems Documentation

ISA Documentation Standards and User Resources for Industrial Automation and Control Systems The new ISA Documentation Standards and User Resources for Industrial Automation and Control Systems CD-ROM offers the widely used ISA documentation standards and technical reports, as well as several best-selling reference books. This comprehensive CD-ROM also includes the Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary, as well as chapters on “Process Instrumentation” and “Control System Documentation” from A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge, 2nd Edition.

Format: CD-ROM
ISBN: 978-0-9791330-9-1
Member: $249.00;
List: $599.00
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