Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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this modularization. You've got definitely
increased engineering requirements, transportation
considerations. Going in and out of some of these
countries can be a significant issue that I've seen
with Dow Chemical, you know, working with the
government and even some of contractors on these
issues. You've got a decreased flexibility of
scope. When you have something prepackaged, there
is not a lot of room when you start getting into
project execution to change some of the
technologies. And obviously site constraints.
And then what I'm going to talk a little
bit about later on is the coordination,
communication, and organizational requirements that
I've seen after talking to George and Dave that OBO
is already implementing some of these that industry
has already been doing for several years.
Just some of the issues that come with
prepackaging can be broken into two basically main
topics. And one is vendor data issues and the other
I will get into after this slide. But you've got
communication problems with vendor data and what we
found in several studies with some of these chemical
plants was if you develop a standard preprinted form
for these vendors to eliminate, some of the problems
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