integrated plant design solutions

INTEGRATED PLANT DESIGN SOLUTIONS
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ImageGrafix Software FZCO, Dubai, UAE (established in 1996) is a leading value-added
distributor for a wide range of engineering software, services and technical training solutions
provider for manufacturing, power and process industries in the Middle East and North Africa.
With over 17 years of serving local, SME, Corporate and international customers, ImageGrafix
is proud of its emphasis on providing quality support, using an experienced and qualified team
to discuss, appraise and deliver customer requirements.
ImageGrafix provides Plant Design software solutions, support, consultancy and training
that improves the business profitability of its customers. ImageGrafix has a unique and
specific expertise in providing design and engineering software and services to EPC and
owner/operator companies in the process and power industries.
ImageGrafix is the only Global Network Partner (GNP) for Intergraph's ICAS engineering
software solutions throughout the Middle East & Egypt and Authorized Value-added Reseller
(VAR) and Manufacturing Gold Partner for Autodesk. In addition, ImageGrafix is the regional
distributor for all the third party applications mentioned in this document, including Paulin
Research Group, Dimensional Solutions, Sunrise Systems and more.
Please visit www.image-grafix.com for full details on our company's subsidiaries, clients and
the products and solutions of our partners.
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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
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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 bidirectionally transfer models and related information
between the two programs.
CADWorx® Plant Professional and StruCAD®
CADWorx Plant Professional and StruCAD have bidirectional 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.
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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.
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CADWorx
Loops and CADWorx® P&ID Professional
CADWorx Loops produces automatic instrument loop
diagrams from CADWorx P&ID Professional Project
Database.
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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.
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