Techstreet Now Offers Best Practices for Process Industry
Ann Arbor, MI USA - August 21, 2006 Today, Thomson Scientific and the process industry consortium known as Process
Industry Practices (PIP) announced a sales and licensing agreement to offer PIP Practices in single copy and multi-user
subscription formats on the Techstreet website, www.techstreet.com. Techstreet, a business unit of Thomson Scientific, uses
web-based technologies to speed delivery of industry codes, standards and technical information to over 125,000 customers
worldwide.
PIP is a self-funded consortium of process industry companies that share the goal of reducing process plant costs through
the development and implementation of common industry practices for projects and maintenance work. The Practices offer
detailed design, procurement, and construction methods for process manufacturing facilities based on a compilation and
harmonization of existing member company internal standards. The Practices encompass 8 disciplines, including:
Civil/Structural/Architectural, Coatings/Insulation/Refractory, Electrical, Machinery, Piping, P&ID, Process Control
and Vessels. Related industries such as power, pulp and paper, and pharmaceuticals will also find the PIP harmonization
process and published Practices to be of value. Versions of the U.S. voluntary recommended Practices can be used as the
basis to meet international requirements.
According to Andrew Bank, Director of Business Development at Techstreet, "PIP Practices are very relevant to our
engineering audience and offer a valuable addition to the industry standards our customers already use. The Practices offer
a way to achieve significant cost savings on capital projects and related maintenance work, reduce the costs for maintaining
internal company standards and improve knowledge management strategies."
Customers can visit the PIP information store at http://www.techstreet.com/info/pip.tmpl, where they can search, order and
download from the complete catalog of PIP Practices and related industry content. Practices are available for single-copy
purchase in print or PDF format, or as part of a multi-user, web-based annual subscription.
About PIP
Process Industry Practices (PIP) is a self-funded consortium of process industry companies that share the goal of reducing
process plant costs through the development and implementation of common industry practices for projects and maintenance
work. PIP operates under the umbrella of the Construction Industry Institute, a recognized research unit within the
University of Texas at Austin.
About Techstreet
Founded in 1997, Techstreet provides vital information resources and online information management tools to
over 90,000 engineers, corporate librarians and technical professionals worldwide. Through its e-commerce
website, www.techstreet.com, customers can search over 250,000 titles aggregated into one of the largest
online databases of industry codes and standards in the world. A web-based subscription service offers
multi-user access to a custom set of full-text standards. The company also offers publication fulfillment,
e-commerce, and information management solutions to associations and publishers, and continues to provide
innovative solutions in the field of Digital Rights Management.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2004 revenues of $8.10 billion, is a global leader in
providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides
value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of
law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning
and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn.,
Thomson has approximately 38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries.
The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at www.thomson.com/scientific and include Techstreet
offering a wide variety of engineering codes and standards;
ISI Web of Knowledge
SM facilitating discovery by offering seamless navigation to
high-quality, multidisciplinary journal (
Web of Science® ), patent
(
Derwent World Patents Index® ), and Web content, evaluation tools,
and bibliographic management products (
EndNote®);
Thomson
PharmaSM -an integrated information solution for the pharmaceutical
and biotechnology markets;
Delphion® providing access to full-text patent
documents from the world's leading patent authorities; and
BIOSIS Previews
® the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research.
Contact Information:
Betsy Henrichs
Marketing Manager
Techstreet
734-913-3935
betsy.henrichs@thomson.com
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Rodney Yancey
Manager, Corporate Communications
Thomson Scientific
215-386-0100 extension 1396
rodney.yancey@thomson.com
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