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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

COADE team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

COADE office will be closed on December 24th, 25th and January 2nd.

Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.

COADE President/CEO on Japanese Growth and Design & Engineering Integration to ENN Magazine

 

Click image above for PDF of article.

English summary: ENN Engineering Network Vol. 236, Dec 10th, 2009

In this article Thomas J. Van Laan, PE, President/CEO of COADE, focused on the role and benefits of integration in delivering real project efficiencies. He outlined how integration allows each discipline to effectively perform their primary tasks while allowing other stake holders to leverage the input and results that each workgroup produces.

Van Laan also touched on the fact that because COADE is a one-stop producer of plant design (CADWorx) and engineering (CAESAR II, PV Elite and TANK) software it is well suited to deliver the quality and depth of integration that the market demands. He also highlighted that this degree if integration is one that many users of COADE's engineering products have wished (and lobbied) to be made available for their current plant design systems. He pointed out that, regardless of the plant design solution COADE's engineering product users choose, the company still regards their needs as a top priority. Even though COADE would like to deliver the same degree of integration that exists between the COADE family of products, this is far more difficult when these solutions are not soured in house.

Turning to Japan, COADE's President and CEO was asked to comment on the rapid growth and adoption of COADE's product line in the country. Van Laan pointed out that Japanese customers want what customers all over the world want, and that is, cost-effective, easy-to-use plant design and engineering solutions based on open standards. He also touched on the fact that developers at COADE come from the industry and therefore know what users' needs are. He concluded by sharing that this industry focused competency has lead to a great degree of trust in the industry, and that trust is now showing itself in the fast growing Japanese market.

http://www.enn-net.com

Download PDF of article here (1360.9K)

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

ECAD Produces CADWorx 2010 Overview Video Exclusively for COADE 3D Products

Hi,

If you wanted to get to the heart of the 3D design portion of the previously-released CADWorx 2010 ECAD produced video, this is your lucky day.

The ECAD team have stipped out all of the P&ID content, leaving behind the pure grade 'A' meat of the 3D design aspects of the current release of COADE CADWorx Plant, Equipment, Steel and Isogen.

CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 Video Overview for COADE
CADWorx Plant, Steel, Equipment and ISOGEN

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

New COADE CADWorx 2010 Overview video produced by CGNP ECAD, Inc.

COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2010 Overview Video

This is a great video produced by ECAD, Inc. COADE Global Network Partner for the USA. This overview coveres the latest productivity release of the COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite.

To get the direct link to this video on ECAD's blog click here:

http://www.ecadinc.com/pdoteam/index.php/2009/11/new-features/

Visit ECAD's blog 'Process Design, from the Outside' for more jewels of wisdom by clicking this link:

http://www.ecadinc.com/pdoteam/

Thanks guys!

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

 

AB Mauri uses distributive intelligence of CADWorx P&ID to create relational project databases

I'd like to introduce you to this month's success story from the AB Mauri company. This story describes how AB Mauri used distributive intelligence of CADWorx P&ID module to create relational project databases.

AB Mauri was formed in November 2004 as a new operating division of Associated British Foods plc (ABF), an international food, ingredients and retail group. AB Mauri operates globally in yeast and bakery ingredient production with 50 plants in 28 countries, supplying plant and artisanal bakers and the food service and wholesale channels. Based in Sydney, Australia, the Global Technology Group of AB Mauri, the focus of this piece, is comprised of engineers, designers, scientists and laboratory technicians.

"CADWorx allowed us to develop a complete Design Life Cycle engineering solution."

Read the full story in US Letter and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant Professional
• CADWorx Steel Professional
• CADWorx P&ID Professional
• CADWorx Equipment

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Food and Beverage 

FEATURED RESELLER:

Cadgroup Australia Pty Ltd, Australia

 

First CAESAR II User Group - Houston Meeting a Success!

Last Thursday, November 19th, COADE gave the keynote to fifty attendees of the first COADE CAESAR II User group - Houston meeting.

David Diehl, COADE's VP Customer Experience and Richard Ay, VP Development, Plant Engineering Solutions outlined the changes in versions 5.10 and 5.20 in COADE's CAESAR II pipe stress analysis program. Both Diehl and Ay fielded questions from attendees on how to get the best from CAESAR II.

The event was organized and MC'd by Dharam Arya, PE of Mustand Engineering, Houston, Texas. Mr. Arya's ongoing aim for this user group is to encourage end-user cooperation in the development of best practices in pipe stress analysis amongst COADE CAESAR II users.

Immediate plans are to set up a steering committee for the group to plan next steps and its future direction. More on this at a later date.

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

 

Happy Thanksgiving! - Office closed Nov. 26th - 27th

COADE would like to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving.

In observance of this holiday we will be closed Novermber 26th and 27th and will reopen on Monday November 30th.

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

Webinar, December 8, 12:00pm CST: PV Elite for CodeCalc Users

with Mandeep Singh and Chris Schiller, COADE Inc.

 
   

You can view the answers to the questions that were discussed during this webinar here. 

Beginning 2010, the CodeCalc program will not be available for purchase as a separate product. It will still be a part of PV Elite, Pressure Vessel and Exchanger Analysis Software. In that form it will be developed, maintained and supported. The CodeCalc users who are current on their UMS will be automatically updated to PV Elite starting with version 2010 available in early January 2010. More info about the CodeCalc to PV Elite upgrade can be found here.

This webinar will introduce CodeCalc users to PV Elite and will inform users what to expect from the upgrade of CodeCalc to PV Elite that will take place at the end of the year. In this webinar we will demonstrate how easy it is to use PV Elite to model pressure vessels and will point out the aspects important to current CodeCalc users. The webinar will also include a short introduction to the PV Fabricator and its bi-directional links to PV Elite.

Speakers bio: 

Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh has worked for COADE since 1998 as a Senior Engineer. He develops both PV Elite and CodeCalc, provides technical support, teaches in the vessel seminars and provides product presentation. In his spare time, he uses PV Elite/CodeCalc on real-world design projects. He has been actively involved in COADE Discovery tours, showing the benefits of PV Elite to the clients worldwide. Mr. Singh holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. He brings together technical expertise of the pressure vessel industry and in-depth knowledge of PV Elite and CodeCalc.

Chris Schiller

Chris Schiller is a Technical Sales Representative with Plant Engineering Solutions for COADE, Inc. He has worked for COADE since 2001 and is responsible for increasing CAESAR II, PV Elite, and PV Fabricator sales in the U.S. and abroad. This experience has made him very knowledgeable  about the Engineering Analysis products implementation and their best practices. This gives him the proper background to provide technical presentations and training sessions dealing with the full suite of Engineering Analysis products.

 

COADE Video - Demonstrating Plant Design and Engineering Collaboration in Under 20 minutes

As promised in our 2009 COADE User Conference Keynote blog post we have posted the video by Tom Van Laan, COADE President and CEO; John Brinlee, Sales Development Manager, COADE Plant Design Solutions; and Chris Schiller, Technical Sales, COADE Plant Engineering Solutions.

This video, based on the original conference presentation, shows, in 20 minutes, how COADE's integrated plant design and plant engineering solutions improve collaboration by seamlessly passing information between various stakeholders in the design process.

Products Featured

CADWorx Plant Professional
CADWorx P&ID Professional
CADWorx Equipment
CADWorx Design Review
COADE CAESAR II
COADE PV Elite
COADE PV Fabricator

To view COADE Integration Video please click here

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

Links between Plant Design and Stress Analysis pays dividends for Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo

 

Here is a story from the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo Company (IMP). Learn how CADWorx Plant Professional and CAESAR II helped IMP successfully complete one of Mexico's biggest and most challenging refurbishment projects.

Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo provides research, engineering modification and as-built services to refineries, petrochemical plants and compression and pumping stations. The company portfolio of products and services are offered through five business units that include exploration and production, process engineering, project engineering, security and environmental and training.

"Using both CADWorx and CAESAR II allowed our design and engineering departments to work in a coordinated manner and to produce complex deliverables with a high degree of automation."

Read the full article in US Letter and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant Professional
• CAESAR II

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Petrochemical
• Offshore

FEATURED RESELLER:

Modelosoft, Mexico