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Engineering to Business: Optimizing Asset Utilization Through Process Engineering

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September
2002
Andy Howell, Vikas Dhole, Wayne Sim, Kevin Hanson

Asset owners who integrate the process engineering, operations and business lifecycles of their facilities can improve return-on-capital by up to 4%. Use this virtual-asset model (VAM) to optimize your business assets.

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