INTERGRAPH Process, Power & Marine (Intergraph PP&M) has spent many years developing and offering integrated design, construction and operation solutions for the chemical industry. Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise software offers the largest set of market-leading solutions in the industry, from the schematic design of an asset through to physical modelling, materials management, construction, fabrication automation and information management.

At the centre of SmartPlant Enterprise software is Smart 3D. It provides a fully integrated design and manufacturing environment to support the design of integrated facilitates, be it plants, storage tanks, or other. Smart 3D can handle the dense and complex structural and outfitting designs required in modern designs.

Seamless data integration project software: Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise solutions, including Smart 3D are delivered with out-of-the-box integrated architectures that seamlessly integrate the flow of information between them. Data and design parameters are entered only once into the authoring disciplines and re-used downstream.

Real-time global work-sharing application: All enterprise applications, including Smart 3D, deliver global work-sharing capabilities, allowing companies to electronically share work internally or externally in real time. In addition to the schedule benefit of leveraging other offices, Intergraph’s work-sharing capabilities improve quality by electronically enforcing all project or company standards across the globe.

Efficient design: Smart 3D is the most advanced and productive 3D design solution that effectively enables optimised design, increasing quality, interoperability and productivity, while shortening project schedules. In addition, upgraded Model Data Reuse (MDR) capabilities enable efficient reuse of design that is not possible in any other 3D CAD application. Users can reuse Feed or old designs with different catalogues and specifications, by leveraging Smart 3D’s unique rule re-use, tag renaming and specification interchange.

“Technip designers will take advantage of 2014’s improvements around jacketed pipe design and deliverables extraction. One of the reasons Technip adopted Smart 3D was because of its integration with Intergraph’s 2D design tools. Smart 3D 2014’s Design Basis Viewer provides an easier way to compare and update the Smart 3D model with the data in SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Instrumentation and SmartPlant Electrical,” says Thomas Kerjouan, Technip France Smart 3D administrator.

Project planning software: Smart 3D’s planning environment reduces the overall project schedule by allowing users to define physical boundaries and construction packages for the different modules / blocks at early stages of the project.

Power facility lifecycle-management software: SmartPlant Enterprise’s solutions include rule-driven design, relationally linked data between design disciplines, and complete visible management throughout the life of the offshore facility. “Empresarios Agrupados has used Smart 3D, SmartPlant P&ID and SmartPlant Instrumentation in a number of relevant combined cycle power generation plant and nuclear plant projects, experiencing productivity increases,” says Rafael Huete, IT department manager. “The company plans now to expand the use of the tool in projects in Africa and in the Middle East, while focusing on optimising the implementation of SmartPlant Electrical Detailed and achieving further integration with other systems.”

Financial enterprise software for owner operators: Companies can reduce their capital expenditure and improve their return on capital employed with Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise for owner operators.

Advantages of Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise:

• Enjoy higher quality data, leading to less reworks during design and in the field;

• Reduce the risk of loss of critical asset intelligence due to a retiring workforce;

• Keep your maintenance data updated for auditability and ensure correct procurement of replacement parts;

• Realise significant savings on design time and costs; and

• Improve facility safety with better configuration management and ensured data consistency.