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    1. Inter-Discipline Check (IDC) involves review of engineering documents and deliverables by multiple disciplines to ensure quality and catch errors. 2. Engineering design projects typically involve process, piping, civil, mechanical, instrumentation, electrical, and other engineering teams. 3. The IDC process ensures complete project awareness, review of critical documents for errors and inputs, and capturing of information like vendor data.

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    1. Inter-Discipline Check (IDC) involves review of engineering documents and deliverables by multiple disciplines to ensure quality and catch errors. 2. Engineering design projects typically involve process, piping, civil, mechanical, instrumentation, electrical, and other engineering teams. 3. The IDC process ensures complete project awareness, review of critical documents for errors and inputs, and capturing of information like vendor data.

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    1. Inter-Discipline Check (IDC) involves review of engineering documents and deliverables by multiple disciplines to ensure quality and catch errors. 2. Engineering design projects typically involve process, piping, civil, mechanical, instrumentation, electrical, and other engineering teams. 3. The IDC process ensures complete project awareness, review of critical documents for errors and inputs, and capturing of information like vendor data.

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    The key takeaways are that IDC or Inter Discipline Check is a quality process to ensure error-free engineering deliverables by having relevant disciplines review documents. It aims to catch errors and ensure information is captured across disciplines.

    The main engineering disciplines involved are Process, Piping, Civil/Structural, Mechanical, HSE, Instrumentation, Electrical, Project Engineering, Quality Assurance, Telecommunications, and Cost Engineering.

    The purpose of IDC is to create project awareness, ensure all critical documents are reviewed for errors and correct inputs by relevant disciplines, and assure information flows during project execution so deliverables are useful for construction.

    Importance of Inter Discipline Check or IDC (PDF)

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    Anup Kumar Dey December 8, 2019

    What is IDC or Inter Discipline Check?


    IDC or “Inter Discipline Check” is related to the quality of engineering deliverables.
    This term is frequently used in the engineering design and consulting field. The
    main objective is to provide error-free Engineering deliverables to the construction
    team that paves way for a smooth Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of the
    Plant or Processing Facility. This is a very good tool for improving the quality of
    engineering deliverables with minimum error.

    This article specifically explains the Definition, Description, and Importance of IDC.

    Engineering Disciplines involved in Design firm


    Normally, a multi-disciplinary team is engaged in providing consultancy and design
    services in the chemical process industry in engineering design and consulting firm. The
    engineering teams that normally constitute the engineering design and consulting firm are

    Process Engineering
    Piping Engineering
    Civil and Structural Engineering
    Mechanical Engineering (Static and Rotary)
    HSE Engineering
    Instrumentation Engineering
    Electrical Engineering

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    Project Engineering
    Quality Assurance (QA)
    Telecommunications Engineering
    Costing Engineering, etc.

    Importance of IDC Process


    During the execution of any project, All the above-mentioned engineering teams prepare
    several engineering documents and deliverables. However, with very few exceptions,
    most of the projects are multi-disciplinary in nature. It means, to complete engineering
    activity drawings, documents, and calculations are required from all disciplines. To brief,
    the complete engineering package of any project comprises items from all disciplines.

    In a multi-disciplinary project environment, drawings, documents, and deliverables for all


    disciplines become a joint or co-ordinated effort of all disciplines. Also, the process
    engineering group is the start point of any project. As many inter-related disciplines are
    involved in creating engineering deliverables, chances of missing an item or generating
    an error are high. The IDC process, therefore, is an activity to ensure the following:

    1. Complete project awareness creation among the assigned multi-disciplinary team


    2. Ensuring that all critical documents/drawings/calculations are reviewed, marked and
    corrected as required by the multi-disciplinary team for correct inputs, removal of
    errors and ensuring that the project quality plan is followed for producing first-class
    project deliverables
    3. Assure that information is flowing periodically during the project execution phase.
    For example, vendor data, design review(s), HAZOP data, etc. are captured in the
    engineering deliverables which ensures that these deliverables are useful up to the
    level for the construction of the plant.

    Documents requiring IDC


    The author, being a process engineer, The IDC is explained in context to process
    engineering. The process engineering documents/drawings that need an IDC from other
    disciplines are typically listed below:

    Process Flow Diagrams (need IDC only from Instrumentation and QA)
    Project Design Basis (Require IDC from Piping, Instrumentation, Mechanical, HSE,
    Electrical, Civil, Projects, QA)
    Process & Instrument Diagrams (IDC from Piping, Mechanical, Instrumentation,
    Electrical, HSE, Projects, QA, Civil)
    Process Datasheets of Equipment (Piping, Mechanical, Instrumentation, Electrical,
    QA)
    Instrument Process Datasheets (Instrumentation, Piping, Electrical, QA)
    Hazardous Area Classification Drawings (Electrical, Instrumentation, HSE,
    Mechanical, Piping. QA)
    Operating, Control and Safeguarding Philosophy (Instrumentation, Mechanical,
    Piping, QA)

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    Plant Operating Manual (Piping, Instrumentation, Mechanical, HSE, Electrical, QA)
    Commissioning and Pre-Commissioning Procedures (Mechanical, Instrumentation,
    HSE, Piping, QA)
    Design Review and Closeout Report (Instrumentation, Mechanical, HSE, Piping,
    Electrical, Projects, QA)
    HAZOP Review and Closeout Report (Piping, HSE, Instrumentation, Projects,
    Mechanical, Electrical, QA)

    The aforementioned deliverables are just a few examples of the important process/HSE
    deliverables that require an IDC. Similarly, there are many more deliverables and some of
    them could also be project-specific.

    Some of the engineering deliverables from other disciplines that need IDC from the
    process are:

    1. Piping Material Requisitions or specifications


    2. Mechanical Material Requisitions or specifications
    3. Instrument Material Requisitions or specifications
    4. Pipe / Valve / special in-line fittings Vendor Data
    5. Electrical Load List prepared by Electrical
    6. Equipment (Static / Rotating / Package) Vendor Data
    7. Instrument Vendor Data

    IDC Matrix
    Not all disciplines are required to review all deliverables. For example, A process
    engineer does not need to do an IDC for a transformer or sub-station specification, or an
    IDC of civil foundation drawings and structural piles. In a similar way, the process
    engineer need not review an electrical single-line diagram or instrument loop drawings. It
    doesn’t make sense for a process engineer to review cable schedules. So IDC is required
    from relevant disciplines only.

    So there must be some analysis of what deliverable requires an IDC and from whom.
    That’s why good engineering companies prepare an IDC matrix that specifies the
    discipline-wise individual deliverable which requires an IDC and from whom.

    About the Author: This article is written by Mr. Ankur Srivastava, a Chemical Engineer
    with more than 33 years of process engineering experience in oil and gas, refining,
    polymers and petrochemical industries.

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