Aging — and some cases failing — infrastructure is becoming a top-of-mind issue for managers in the petroleum, chemical and power industries. Seventy-seven per cent of executives in a recent poll stated that aging infrastructure has impacted operations in their companies in terms of downtime and cost.
Because outright failure of industrial infrastructure has become a new reality, a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit distills the problem and offers a variety of investment strategies and specific investments to counter the threat to operational performance. Anyone with a vested interest in addressing this industry-wide problem can get a copy of the report You can download a complimentary copy of “The Impact of Aging Infrastructure in the Process Manufacturing Industries” from the report’s sponsor, Oracle.