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

with Mandeep Singh and Chris Schiller, COADE Inc.

 
   

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 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 experinece 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

COADE Halloween Party 2009

Every year COADE continues its finest tradition, each Halloween our employees reveal their true selves. This year was no exception. Please click on the photo to see a bigger image.

Here is a group picture:

And the winners are:

1st place: Hippie (Mandeep Singh)

2nd and 3rd place: divided between the Witch, the Nerd and a Fairy Godmother(Nat and Loren Brown, Galyna Gorelick)

And the Losers are:

Happy Halloween!!

Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.

CAESAR II User Group - Houston, Texas

COADE CAESAR II User Group - Houston, TX.
Hosted by COADE Engineering Software

Date/Location: November 19th, 2009 - Houston, TX
Food: Light snacks and refreshments served
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM

Connect with the Houston CAESAR II user community, share knowledge and best practices, and meet with CAESAR II software developers at the CAESAR II User Group - Houston!

CAESAR II User group discussions will include:

CAESAR II 5.10 overview and capabilities:

• In-line flange analysis
• Tighter integration plant model
• Updated codes and materials
• Versioning/backup

CAESAR II 5.20 overview and capabilites:

• Productivity improvements
• New and expanded engineering codes
• Buried pipe enhancements
• CADWorx integration improvements
• Software locking
• Expert systems - New Loop Wizard

CAESAR II Q&A session

Discussions on future direction of the CAESAR II User Group - Houston, TX

CAESAR II User Group location:
Houston, Texas. November 19th, 2009. 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Gourmet India
13155 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX
tel: 281-493-5435

Register for CAESAR II User Group here

Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.

Webinar, November 5th, 12:00pm CST: CADWorx 2010 Pipe Support Module

with Mark Bross, Anadarko Petroleum Inc.

The just released CADWorx Plant Professional 2010 now includes a support assembly modeler to develop pipe supports that are closer to the real world objects. This highly sought after tool set will allow the user to develop their own pipe support assemblies using multiple support primitives and save these for future use.

Mark Bross, one of the 2009 COADE User Conference instructors, will demonstrate how easy it is to build and use pipe supports with the new pipe support modeler. Please join us for this important webinar.

Speaker bio:
Mark has over 37 years in the petrochemical business starting in 1971. He is currently the Drafting manager for Anadarko Petroleum Inc. and has specialized in plant layout, piping design and has been involved with the AutoCAD community since 1985. He was employed with Adev (Propipe) in the early 1990s and has consulted on other piping design software until switching over to the CADWorx plant design suite in the late 1990s.

 

COADE User Conference 2009 - It's a Wrap!

    
  
   

And it Just Gets Better...

COADE would like to thank each and every one of you that decided, in these uncertain times, to attend the COADE User Conference 2009, held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. Some attendees were very sad it was all over and even left distressed calls for help and solace on our discussion forum :-)

The conference was well attended with 260 attendees representing over 120 companiesfrom 24 countries, including; Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and of course, the United States, where 22 states (including the Great State of Texas :-) were represented.

The first event, unlike many conferences it was not the keynote but the Sunday afternoon golf tournament that kicked it off. The golf tournament was sponsored by ECAD, Inc. and held at the Woodforest Golf Club, north of The Woodlands. What a great course with attentive and professional staff.

The keynote was delivered in two parts, the first part was delivered by Tom Van Laan and his team showing (live) the integration between COADE's plant design and engineering solutions (details here: COADE Integration) and the second part by guitar virtuoso and funny man Mike Rayburn, who challenged our self limitations by encouraging us to ask 'Why not...?' and What if...?' (CUC2009 speaker info).

The classes were well received and as one attendee said "You guys have got the who's who of stress analysis lecturing." Well that may have been true, but one thing is certain, the level of plant design and engineering instruction and courses covered were to a very high level.

At this event we held the first CADWorx Plant Professional certification tests which was designed to give an accurate indication of the depth of knowledge of those tested. Some failed, many passed and notably two scored 100% - David Wolfe and Rod Abbott. Well done! On passing the advanced test one person was heard to say, "Good, now I get to keep my job," now that's pressure!

Another thing that was notable was the relevancy of the event sponsors that displayed and demonstrated their products and services at this event.

A shout must go out to IT Exchange Group who manged our event with wonderful attention to detail and always ensured that attendees received the best service and care. Our thanks to Dana, Vicki and their staff.

So are we going to do it all again? Oh yes!

Join us next year for the COADE User Conference 2010. For details check the conference website regularly!

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

Phaser Technologies develops deliverables in one week using CADWorx

This month's story is from the Phaser Technologies Company. Read and learn how CADWorx helped Phaser Technologies develop project deliverables in one week.

Phaser Technologies C.A. provides general project and engineering services for process, instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, civil, and oil and gas projects in Venezuela.

"CADWorx Plant Design Suite allowed us to easily generate and use the project data including ISOMETRICS, list of materials, 3D model."

Read the full article in US Letter format and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant Professional

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Oil and Gas Production

FEATURED RESELLER:

tuSoftware Representacion CAESAR, Venezuela

Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.

ECAD Update CADWorx Plant Design Suite AutoCAD Ribbons

CADWorx Plant Ribbon
 
CADWorx P&ID Ribbon
 
Just a few of CADWorx Plant and CADWorx P&ID Ribbons offered by ECAD

ECAD, Inc., COADE Global Network Partner for the USA, has updated their popular AutoCAD ribbons for the COADE CADWorx Plant Design Suite. These new ribbons greatly improve the ease and speed of use of COADE's AutoCAD based 3D plant design and P&ID schematic creation tools. These ribbons are offered by ECAD free of charge.

Click here for instructions on how to download your CADWorx ribbons

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.

COADE and ASD Automatic Pipe Support Placement

COADE, Inc. and ASD Global announce a joint initiative to provide an integrated approach to pipe support placement. Both companies will allow their products, COADE CAESAR II and ASD Pipe Support Optimizer (ASD PSO), to work together allowing ASD PSO to automatically place pipe supports into the CAESAR II pipe model based on all major analysis load cases.

In addition, because of the seamless bi-directional links between CAESAR II and COADE CADWorx Plant, designers can quickly optimize support locations in the design, thereby maintaining the integrity of both the engineering and design.

"Because 80% of the major firms in this industry use COADE engineering products, this collaboration not only gives our users a productivity boost, it has broad benefits for the whole plant design and engineering industry," said Thomas J. Van Laan, P.E., president and CEO of COADE.

For press release on COADE and ASD collaboration click here.

Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.