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Reusing by copying

Within the specialist disciplines, it is standard practice to create project-specific documents by copying parts of previous project documents and manually adapted them.

This process, which can be termed Reusing by copying can nevertheless cause a broad range of problems.

The reason why, despite these obvious shortcomings, most companies still apply the ‘reusing by copying’ principle lies in the high level of variance in mechanical and plant engineering and the high number of disciplines involved.