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INTEGRATED PLANT DESIGN SOLUTIONS

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INTEGRATED PLANT DESIGN SOLUTIONS

ImageGrafix Provides Integrated Plant Design Solutions, which integrate from

Concept Design to Manufacturing. Our solutions help to integrate every phase of your design requirements such as Concept Design, Plot Plan, 3D

Plant Modeling and Analysis (Piping, Mechanical & Electrical)

etc to automate your deliverables and downsize your design time for every Project.

Integration in practice

Most probably one of the best examples of integration is the link between CAESAR II pipe stress program and AutoCAD® based CADWorx Plant Design suite. These two applications

were naturals for integration as the work done in both design and analysis has such a direct

and immediate impact on each other. What made this integration special was the fact that as both applications are developed by the same company, the developers of each program could

work very closely (both figuratively and literally) together. The success of this integration

which allows the stress engineer and piping designer to work exactly as they always have, but now they can benefit directly, in as transparent a form as possible, from the work done by

their counterpart across the departmental divide.

Quantifiable Benefits of Integration

Obvious benefits of an integrated solution are evident in the fact that data re-use leads to

work hour savings and reduced mistakes incurred during manual or semi-automatic data transfer. This indicates that one of the best ways to save costs is not by investing in faster

machines or increasing the efficiency at each of the engineering, procurement, or construction

stages of the process but by making sure information input is made useful at each subsequent stage of the process.

An Integrated System, a Distributed System

A major benefit of a system that shares all information is that it allows workflow tasks to be broken up and distributed to different project team

members – this may be done on a regional or discipline level, between EPCs and

owner/operator's, or in many other ways. If all team members can see and benefit from the work

of all others, there is no need to face the choice of

either having to assign the entire project design to a single individual (or single group) or risk clashes

and other incompatibilities between different team

members.

This shows that distributive design may well be the true payoff for an integrated engineering

system.

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CADWorx Plant Integration for Piping Designers

� CADWorx® Plant Professional and CADWorx®Design Review

CADWorx Design Review specifically developed for the review of CADWorx and ancillary models by designers, managers, owners and other

stakeholders. It provides ease of collaboration and intuitive methods for producing review deliverables such as markups, comments, redlining and

animations.

� CADWorx ® fieldPipe for Leica fieldPro

CADWorx fieldPipe for Leica fieldPro combines Leica

Geosystem’s laser precision with Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional. This mix delivers the most powerful plant as-built and

spool verification tool on the market.

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� CADWorx® Plant Professional and CAESAR II®

CADWorx Plant Professional and CAESAR II can bi-directionally transfer models and related information

between the two programs.

� CADWorx® Plant Professional and StruCAD®

CADWorx Plant Professional and StruCAD have bi-directional link, which helps to export the CADWorx Steel Model into StruCAD for doing connection design

and detailing and the user can bring back the StruCAD model to CADWorx Steel with joint connection.

� CADWorx® Plant Professional and SmartPlant Spoolgen®

CADWorx Plant Professional and SmartPlant Spoolgen are a great combination for small and medium mechanical or construction contractors who

perform new design for small projects or who manage fabrication and erection projects based on detail design done by others.

CAESAR II Integration for Stress Engineers

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CAESAR II® and PIPENET VISION Transient Module

PIPENET VISION Transient Module calculates the pressure

surge which can occur in a piping system due to valve closure,

pump trip, pump start up, etc. The surge force (surge pressure * pipe flow area) thus calculated by PIPENET can be

imported into CAESAR II model at all elbow pairs as force

spectrum, or time history using dynamic analysis of the CAESAR II pipe stress analysis software.

CAESAR II and Smartplant 3D Integration:

CAESAR II 2011 with its Enhanced PCF to export

function can export all known information from

CAESAR II to Smartplant 3D. CAESAR II has ability to bring SP-3D model into CAESAR II

engineering environment. The bidirectional interface has the ability to round-trip restraint loads, layout changes, and displaced shapes

CAESAR II® and FE/PIPE

FE/Pipe interfaces with the structural/piping model for CAESAR II. Neutral files from CAESAR II (.CII) can be read into the FE/Pipe "Beam Element Generator". The

required neutral file format is .CII for CAESAR II. Extensive review of the data conversion is performed

by the translator and warnings, notes, etc. are printed during the conversion process.

CAESAR II® and ISOGEN

CAESAR II have Isogen part of the software to provide

stress Isometrics drawing. Its read the CAESAR II output files procedure the Stres Isometrics with nodes

and shows the stress, restaint loads and displacement

on the selected nodes.

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CADWorx P&ID Integration for Process Engineers

� CADWorx® Plant/Plant Professional and CADWorx® P&ID

� Intelligent information from CADWorx P&ID

projects can be read by CADWorx Plant/Plant Professional to set parameters for any line that needs

to be modeled. Line number, line size, specification, service, area, unit etc. can all be set automatically in CADWorx Plant or Plant Professional simply by selecting a line from CADWorx P&ID.

� CADWorx® Loops and CADWorx® P&ID Professional

CADWorx Loops produces automatic instrument loop

diagrams from CADWorx P&ID Professional Project Database.

� CADWorx® P&ID Professional and CADWorx® Datasheets

CADWorx Datasheets generates Instrument and

Equipment Datasheets from CADWorx P&ID Professional Project Database. The datasheets are generated using industry standard (ISA) datasheet

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templates in Excel formats. The datasheet formats are easily customizable to

suit client requirements.

� CADWorx® Internet Publisher and CADWorx® P&ID

CADWorx Internet Publisher can publish all data (including linked

documents) from a CADWorx P&ID project to the internet, intranet, or CD and

allow access to that information to anybody with any standard browser, regardless of lack of CAD platform, applications or skills.

� CADWorx® Plant/ CADWorx® P&ID and Databases

CADWorx Plant/Plant Professional and CADWorx P&ID/P&ID

Professional seamlessly link to any ODBC compatible database to produce bills of materials or reports (line lists, etc.) available to any application that

supports similar standard databases.

PVElite Integration for Static Equipment Engineers

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� CADWorx® Equipment and PV Elite®

CADWorx Equipment users can now seamlessly import PVElite's Pressure Vessels and Exchangers designs. Similarly

Pressure Vessels modeled in CADWorx Equipment can now be

exported back to PVElite for design verification and analysis.

� PV Elite® and PV Fabricator® With this link PV Fabricator creates a 3D model complete With all of the analysis data available in PV Elite and

subsequently simplifies the process of creating 2D Fabrication drawings from the data rich 3D Model. This

feature increases the benefits of engineering and design

integration and removes the wasted time and the

introduction of mistakes that come from task duplication.

� PV Elite®/CodeCalc and NozzlePRO

CodeCalc (also included in PVElite) has an interface to

NozzlePro finite element analysis program developed

by Paulin Research Group. This allows users to perform FEA on vessel-nozzle junctions from within the

CodeCalc/PVElite program. FEA can be useful in cases where the geometry is

outside the range of WRC-107.

� PV Elite® and Foundation3D

PVElite interfaces with Dimensional Solutions' Foundation3D software - a comprehensive

foundation design and analysis of mechanical

equipment including horizontal vessels, tall towers and exchangers and design of foundations for exchangers, horizontal vessels

and tall towers. The interface extracts meaningful information from PVElite such as equipment geometry, shipping, operating, test weights and such other

information required to complete the foundation design of the equipment and also automatically generate BOM and the detail drawings within AutoCAD, thus saving hours of input, design and detailing time.

� PV Elite® and CAESAR II

PVElite can import the Nozzle loads from CAESAR II to perform the WRC 107

or FEA Calculation for sustain, expansion and occasional condition.