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Open systems have arrived at Lyondell. (Lyondell Petrochemical Co.)
An open systems approach allows Lyondell Petrochemical to store massive quantities of process data from a wide range of sources gathered from three different operating systems. This data can be accessed by engineers and managers through an easy-to-use graphical interface that runs on the personal computers already in use.
In the past, only several hours of high resolution point data was stored and it could be accessed only through a complex manual downloading process. The key to the success of this project was an open systems strategy involving the TCP/IP networking protocol, X windows graphics standard and SQL database query language.
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