Enhancements to Production-ready Modeling Environment Support Engineering Productivity

Intergraph Corporation is shipping the newest version of SmartPlant 3D, the breakthrough plant design software that eliminates the productivity barriers imposed by current generation technology. The 6.0 version of SmartPlant 3D provides new capabilities and hundreds of enhancements ranging from integration and model translation to global worksharing, drawing production and reporting. SmartPlant 3D transforms advanced functionality, usability and work process improvement into business benefit to cut schedules, boost productivity and increase engineering quality. These benefits are enabled by breakthroughs in usability, rules-based design, global worksharing, drawing automation, real-time clash detection and operating plant support.

SmartPlant 3D 6.0 publishes models and data for engineering enterprise-wide use through the SmartPlant Foundation integration and workflow management hub. Additional integration now extends to SmartPlant Instrumentation and SmartPlant Electrical to further support up- and downstream concurrent engineering and to SmartPlant Review for 3D visualization. SmartPlant 3D references MicroStation models directly, enabling organizations to significantly extend the value of existing designs - especially those required for revamp projects.

Increased global worksharing performance makes SmartPlant 3D even more useful in supporting worldwide concurrent engineering and interference detection. Automated drawing production enhancements include improved performance for piping isometric drawings, new orthographic and isometric drawing types and batch scheduling for drawing generation during off-peak hours. Report improvements include simplified creation and editing of reports as well as a number of new report types ready for immediate use.

Gerhard Sallinger, president, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, said, "Industry leaders and visionaries like Bechtel, Chiyoda, Fluor, Shaw Stone & Webster and many others have intensively tested and are implementing SmartPlant 3D. Productivity analysis with experienced users of 1970s-era technology like PDMS indicates a 15 to 34 percent reduction in modeling costs through use of SmartPlant 3D, with additional productivity gains from cross-discipline integration within the SmartPlant Enterprise."

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