CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

CAU2013 Express continues in Asia-Pacific

Intergraph is bringing the highly successful CADWorx & Analysis University (CAU) Express events to the Asia-Pacific region. The APAC events kick off in Yokohama, Japan on April 23; then Beijing, China on April 25; Seoul, South Korea on April 30; and wrapping up in Singapore on May 2. They will include education tracks on CADWorx for plant design, and CAESAR II and PV Elite for piping and vessel analysis and design.

CAU2013 Express is a series of one-day plant-focused learning experiences designed to help designers, engineers, and other stakeholders improve their knowledge and skills, and enhance their organizations' production through collaboration between deisgn and engineering analysis.

Be sure to book your spot at one of the CAU2013 Express events in Asia-Pacific! Click here to find out more.

CAU2013@HxGN LIVE Classes Now on HxGN LIVE Website

CAU2013@HxGN LIVE topics are now live on the HxGN LIVE website!

All of our CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite classes are available for selection on the HxGN LIVE website, including such subjects as: CADWorx - 2D drafting and advanced 3D modeling, CAESAR II - piping analysis best practices and finite element analsysis, PV Elite - ASME 2013 code updates and product updates...

...these are just a small fraction of what CAU2013@HxGN will offer. To view these classes and more click here

CAU2013@HxGN LIVE is scheduled for June 3-6, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

For event overview or to register, visit http://www.coade.com/CAU/HxGN/Home.shtml

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training: March 4 - 6

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 4-6, 2013 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 4-6, 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1650

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

Intergraph Discovery Tours: India, December 11-14, 2012

 

We invite you to join us at our Intergraph CAS Discovery Tour events, in conjunction with KLG, our Global Network Partner for India. These events will take place at the following cities and dates:

Mumbai - December 10, 2012
Vadodara - December 11, 2012
Chennai - December 12, 2012
Kolkata - December 13, 2012
Delhi - December 14, 2012

These discovery tour stops will include the demonstration of CADWorx® 2013, the next generation solution for plant design with improved routing, quicker and more intuitive modifications, and many other enhancements for faster and more intelligent modeling. The software also now provides rules-based piping design and layout and new features for importing AutoPLANT data and converting project data in a drawing.

There will also be examples of how CADWorx integrates with Intergraph CAESAR II® for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite® for vessel and exchanger analysis, allowing designers and engineers to share information seamlessly in a collaborative work environment, enhancing productivity for all stakeholders.

Hosting the event locally is KLG Systel Ltd., Global Network Partner for Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions.

For information about KLG Systel, visit http://www.klgsystel.com/. 

For information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit http://www.coade.com/CADWorx/CADWorx%20Overview.shtml.
For information on Intergraph CAESAR II visit http://www.coade.com/products/caesarii.
For information on Intergraph PV Elite visit http://www.coade.com/products/pv-elite.  

 

Related articles

Intergraph CAESAR II webinar: Dynamic Piping Analysis in CAESAR II, Part 3: Seismic Analysis of Piping Systems by the Response Spectrum Method - November 29 at 10AM CT

Intergraph PV Elite Webinar: Whats New in PV Elite 2013!

Intergraph CADWorx Webinar: CADWorx DraftPro Overview, November 27 at 10AM CT

Intergraph CADWorx webinar: CADWorx I&E (Instrument & Electrical) Overview Part 2, December 20 at 10AM

PV Elite 2013 Release Announced for January 2013

The PV Elite 2013 release is marked by several major advancements, all of which are aimed at increasing productivity and giving our users tools which will make their jobs easier and more enjoyable. Such as:

Code Updates

 

• PD 5500 2012 Edition Incorporated. 
• Tema 9th Edition 
• The AS/NZ 2011 Wind Code was updated. 

These code updates will allow end users to meet their global analsysis requirements.

Productivity Enhancements

• All new Updated Ribbon Style User Interface. 
• Quick calculation Screen, Search and Highlight Feature
• Output Processor , Search and Highlight, Select all, Report List coloring, Drag and Drop functionality
• CodeCalc has been completely re-written into a modern style application that matches the look and feel of PV Elite 2013
• PV Elite Graphics , Color code by thickness, Material etc., 2D and 3D screen separate
• Print directly to PDF, even if you have not purchased a PDF writer, all modules, graphics reports etc.

All productivity enhancements allow the user to perform their tasks using PV Elite 2013 in a more efficient manner.

New Analysis Features

• Integrated API 579 Part 4 General Metal Loss 
• ASME VIII-1 Material Data 1943 through 1974 
• PD 5500 Jacket Analysis 
• PD 5500 Limpet Coil Analysis 
• EN 13445 Limpet Coil Analysis 
• ASME VIII-1 Fatigue Analysis updated (from latest Div. 2) 
• PV Elite 2012 R1 Features included 
• EN-13445 Exp Joints 
• European Structural Steel 
• EN-13445 Local Stress Analysis 
• Improved Metric defaults 
• Japanese Wind Code 
• European Nozzle Load table 
• ASME Stainless Steel MDMTs computed 
• Complete Exchanger MDMTs Computed (tubesheets) 
• MDMT table sorted for Shell side and Tube side results 
• Use differential pressure for tube design 
• Indian Earthquake Code, vertical acceleration component added 
• Updated EN-13445 Materials Added 

 

Now that these new analysis features have been directly integrated into PV Elite, the analysis can be performed seamlessly and the reports are in the same style and format as the rest of the PV Elite calculations. This menas that users will no longer have to perform separate calculations and include the results of those calculations as separate attachments to their PV Elite reports.  

Related articles

Intergraph PV Elite Webinar: Whats New in PV Elite 2013!

CAESAR II and PV Elite Available on the Hexagon Marketplace

Det Norske Veritas succeeds with PV Elite vessel modeling and design review

Headquartered in Oslo, Norway and with 9,000 employees and 300 offices in over 85 countries, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is an International Association of Classification Societies organization and one of the world’s largest providers of risk management services to the maritime, energy, food and beverage, and healthcare industries.  In Brazil, DNV has completed a number of projects for oil giant Petrobras and is the country’s leading management systems certification body. The company has also been active in Brazil's shipbuilding industry.

PV Elite provided accurate design review data necessary which helped us develop reliable and consistent surveyor and approval reports

Read the full story in US Letter and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• Intergraph PV Elite^®

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Oil & Gas - Offshore
  
• Ship Building
  

Announcing CAU2012 Drivers of Success winners: Congratulations to our winners!

CAU2012 Drivers of Success Competition has now concluded and we are happy to announce our winners in the Intergraph CADWorx Plant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite categories. These winners are awarded with paid conference fees for one representative, plus paid hotel accommodation and travel to/from their cities.

And the winners are:

CADWorx Plant Design: FLSmidth

In this project FLSmidth  was tasked to supply a large $100m, 40,000 tonnes per day greenfield copper concentrator facility for a mine in Mongolia. Using Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional FLSmidth developed piping plans and sections, ISOGEN isometrics, and used the program’s live project database to create materials lists that automatically attached unique part numbers directly from the piping specifications.

CAESAR II: Mott MacDonald

In this project Mott MacDonald worked on a PNG LNG project that included gas production and gas transfer through a 700km pipeline. The scope of work involved the use of Intergraph CAESAR II to analyze above ground and buried pipelines across varied terrain and occasional fault lines and through multiple substations. CAESAR II statics modules, dynamics module (used for seismic analysis), buried soil modeler, and ISOGEN isometrics were heavily used.

PV Elite: L&T Chiyoda Limited

L&T Chiyoda Limited, a joint venture between Larsen Toubro, India and Chiyoda, Japan, used Intergraph PV Elite for vessel design for a large and complex pressure vessel in a Petrochemicals complex project. The vessel weighed 1000 tonne, was 82m in length, 9.6m in diameter, and was  fabricated in one piece. ASME Code calculations were created easily and quickly for MDMT, Nozzles, External Pressure, Hydrostatic testing, MAWP, MAP, Flanges etc.

Our runner-up winners are:

CADWorx products:

• Flexitech Consultants, India
• Empresas Y&V, Colombia

CAESAR II products:

• Amiantit Fiberglass, Saudi Arabia
• L&T Chiyoda Limited, India
• Engineers India Limited, India
• Genpro, Brazil

PV Elite products:

• GMMOS, United Arab Emirates

Collaboration Benefits - New category!

• Agility Group, Norway
• Fichtner Consulting, India
• Metka S.A., Greece
• Iberdrola, Spain

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the CAU2012 DOS competition.

For more information about CAU2012, visit: http://CAU2012.coade.com 

 

Intergraph CAS knowledge Base Articles Released

Intergraph has just released a set of knowledge base articles that provide instruction and guidance on product use and best practices for the Intergraph CADWorx & Analsysis Solutions (CAS) products: CADWorx®, CAESAR II®, PVElite® and TANK™. The latest article, submitted by Chempute, Intergraph Global Network Partner in South Africa, describes how users can create non standard equipment and add intelligent nozzles and piping connections within CADWorx Plant Professional. To read this latest article click here: Download Intergraph-CAS-Knowledge-Base-Article-CADWorx.pdf (171.3K)

 

These knowledge base articles are available via Intergraph eCustomer to all Intergraph CAS customers under current maintenance, for details on eCustomer visit, http://icas.intergraph.com/content/ICAS-Benefits-of-eCustomer. To sign up for eCustomer users should contact their local representatives, for details of local representatives visit, http://www.coade.com/Support/Dealers.shtml 

 

For information about Chempute, visit www.chempute.com.

Intergraph PV Elite 2012 Release 1 and webinar announcement

The Intergraph PV Elite 2012 Release 1 is now available. Below is a summary of the main features of this release. You can visit PV Elite 2012 page for a detailed information about this release.

A webinar highlighting the new features of PV Elite 2012 R1 will take place on July 31 at 10AM CT. To register for this webinar, visit: PV Elite 2012 Release 1.

Main features of PV Elite 2012 R1:

• Expansion Joint Calculations for U-shaped and Toroidal bellows per EN-13445. 
• European structural steel database added.
• European Nozzle Load Table included. 
• "Nicer" metric defaults (mm units). 
• Local Stress Calculations per EN-13445. 
• Some "popular" ASME materials added to the EN-13445 database

Please refer to PV Elite 2012 page for a complete list of the 2012 updates.

For information on Intergraph PV Elite visit:
http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/pvelite/ 

 

CAU2012 Drivers of Success: Two weeks left to submit your story!

CAU2012 Drivers of Success Competition ends July 15th. Don't miss your chance to participate in the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis University 2012 Drivers of Success Competition! If you are an Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II, or PV Elite user, submit your success stories of using our products by July 15, 2012. There will be three first-place prizes and three runners-up prizes each for: CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite.

Reasons to participate:
•    Chance to win an all-inclusive trip to Houston, TX
•    Chance to attend powerful training for FREE
•    Feature your company and your team
•    Get acknowledged for your hard work
•    Enhance your career credentials
•    Receive an award and certificate

Prizes:
First-place prizewinners will receive an all-inclusive trip (including return flights from anywhere in the world to Houston, TX, along with hotel and conference fees) to this year's 2012 Intergraph CAS University. Runners-up will receive an Apple iPod Nano or iTouch. And, as a way of saying thank you for taking the time to tell us your story, every submission will receive a token of our appreciation.

What Do I Have To Do?
Simply complete the Drivers of Success Registration Form by July 15, 2012 to make your submission. It will be reviewed by our judges for suitability and entry into the final selection process. To review Drivers of Success Q&A, please visit: Drivers of Success 2012 Q&A

Submit your story here

CAU2012 Drivers of Success: One month left to submit your story!

CAU2012 Drivers of Success Competition ends July 15th. Don't miss your chance to participate in the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis University 2012 Drivers of Success Competition! If you are an Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II, or PV Elite user, submit your success stories of using our products by July 15, 2012. There will be three first-place prizes and three runners-up prizes each for: CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite.

Reasons to participate:
•    Chance to win an all-inclusive trip to Houston, TX
•    Chance to attend powerful training for FREE
•    Feature your company and your team
•    Get acknowledged for your hard work
•    Enhance your career credentials
•    Receive an award and certificate

Prizes:
First-place prizewinners will receive an all-inclusive trip (including return flights from anywhere in the world to Houston, TX, along with hotel and conference fees) to this year's 2012 Intergraph CAS University. Runners-up will receive an Apple iPod Nano or iTouch. And, as a way of saying thank you for taking the time to tell us your story, every submission will receive a token of our appreciation.

What Do I Have To Do?
Simply complete the Drivers of Success Registration Form by July 15, 2012 to make your submission. It will be reviewed by our judges for suitability and entry into the final selection process. To review Drivers of Success Q&A, please visit: Drivers of Success 2012 Q&A

Submit your story here

Intergraph CAS and CodeCAD Discovery Tours, Canada in May and June, 2012

 

We invite you to join us at the Intergraph CAS and CodeCAD Discovery Tour events that will take place in the following locations:

• Vancouver, Canada - May 15
• Edmonton, Canada - May 16
• Calgary, Canada - May 17
• Toronto, Canada - June 13
• Montreal, Canada - June 14
• St. John's, Canada - June 15

Our worldwide Discovery Tours attract hundreds of plant designers and engineers every year who are looking for efficiency, cost-saving, and collaboration benefits that can be achieved with Intergraph CADWorx and Analysis products.

Learn what CADWorx can do for you and join other successful CADWorx users in producing your "deliverables with 100% accuracy" (Read Kantey & Templer case study here).

Learn how CAESAR II can help you save your money and develop accurate deliverables (Read Mott MacDonald case study here).

Benefits of attending:

• Learn about CADWorx 2013
• Hear about CADWorx fieldPipe capabilities
• CAESAR II Version 6.0 pre-release sneak peek
• PV Elite feature report - latest version 2012 and upcoming 2013 version
• Learn about the benefits of an integrated system
• Networking and knowledge sharing with your industry peers

 

 

To register for the events, visit:
http://icas.intergraph.com/forms/IDT-PDS-2012

For more information about CodeCAD, visit: http://www.codecad.com/.

 

 

CAU2012, September 24-25 Houston, TX: Pre-Registration Open

CAU2012 Pre-registration is now open. CAU is an annual user conference that provides powerful training opportunities for CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite users that will be taking place September 24-25, 2012 in Houston, TX.

 What does CAU2012 include?

•    Two days of powerful, advanced technical training
•    Interactive technical labs
•    Networking with industry peers
•    Meeting and interacting with product developers
•    Learning about the future of Intergraph CAS products

Additional reasons to attend CAU2012:

•    Product-specific tracks
•    New classes with advanced content
•    Learn how to be more productive and effective
•    New venue: Marriott, Sugar Land, TX
•    More affordable

More info at: http://www.coade.com/CAU2012/Home.shtml

Save $200!
We are offering an early-bird registration rate of $695 to all who complete a no-obligation pre-registration for CAU2012 between now and May 31st. When you pre-register you will be sent a regisration code that is unique to you which can be used when full registration opens on June 1st and until to June 30th. Pre-register here and we will gladly send you your unique pre-registration code.

Remember: You can pre-register with no obligation! One code per person, codes can only be used once, so each person will need their own code. If you register after June 30th your code will not provide you a discount.

 

Would you like to attend CAU2012 for Free?

Submit your story to the Drivers of Success Competition 2012 using CADWorx, CAESAR II, and/or PV Elite and enter to win an all-inclusive trip to Houston, TX. Drivers of Success Competition 2012

 

CAU Express a Global Success with 849 Attendees

Intergraph CAU Express Events Attracts Over 849 Attendees in Four Weeks!

ICAS takes CADWorx & Analysis University (CAU) on the road, with CAU Express, and boosts CAU annual end-user attendance by almost 700%.

CAU is a two-day, in-depth training event that takes place each fall in Houston, Texas, covering the ICAS products: CADWorx, CAESAR II and PV Elite. CAU has always been enthusiastically embraced by our users, but because of its location it has been a very US-centric affair with only modest attendance from outside the Americas.

Making CAU Global
For CAU we had always attempted to recruit attendees from overseas, but for many engineers, designers, and their companies, the cost of travelling to these events made attendance difficult. That is why this year, instead of specifically attempting to recruit attendees from overseas, we decided to take CAU Express on the road to those regions with a strong ICAS user base.

What is CAU Express?
CAU Express is a value-priced, single-day event that showcases a selection of both new and highly regarded classes from our annual two-day CAU event.

Each stop kicked off with a keynote on “Enhancing Productivity Through Collaboration” by Rick Allen, senior vice president PP&M, and president of ICAS. After the keynote delegates each attended 4 x 90 minute classes for their chosen product track or field of interest. Each day ended with roundtable discussions on the products and an evening reception.

Some locations also included SmartPlant 2D solution tracks, given by local distributors and Intergraph offices.

Where was CAU Express held this year?
March 22^nd Johannesburg, South Africa, Chempute, Attendees: 75
March 26^th Dubai, UAE, Image Grafix. Attendees: 95
March 28^th and 30^th Mumbai and Chennai, India, KLG Systel. Attendees: 170
April 25^th Yokohama, Japan, Intergraph Japan, 87
April 27^th Beijing, China, AECSoft. Attendees: 237
April 30^th  Seoul, Korea, Intergraph Korea. Attendees: 106
May 2^nd Singapore, IOCS Asia. Attendees: 79

A total of 849 end-user attendees

Interesting fact: the largest classes were in China for CAESAR II, with 135 attendees!

What attendees have said

Your event yesterday was fulfilling and truly rewarding. It’s so great to have Mr. Dave Diehl and your team supporting us technically. I look forward to the next CAU express.

Darwin Santiago, Mechanical/Piping, Penspen International Ltd., Dubai, UAE

My sincere thanks to you all for hosting CAU EXPRESS in Mumbai. It was indeed a memorable day for us. I appreciate the efforts put in by you all for making this event successful. Last but not least: Please conduct CAU in Mumbai every year!!!!!!!

Deputy Chief Engineer, Pipe Stress, Mott McDonalds, Mumbai, India

Those that made it happen…
We could not have pulled this off without the help of our local partners. A special thanks goes to the ICAS session instructors that were on the road for two separate two-week blocks over a seven week period, delivering quality until the last delegate left. These valiant souls were: Richard Ay and Dave Diehl, CAESAR II; Sonia Delgadillo, CADWorx; and Luis Sanjuan, PV Elite (this was his first business trip with ICAS since joining 3 years ago). Also ICAS Regional Managers, Rob Herrington (IME) and Chris Schiller (APAC).

A special mention to the ICAS marketing team: Elvira Ballard and Alex Timofeyev for globally promoting CAU Express and closely working with our local partners. Also we want thank Kelly Montgomery and Eileen Tan for their help in making the APAC stops such a success.

Note: CAU2012 will be held September 24-25, Houston, Texas. Details will be posted on www.coade.com and Intergraph event sites in the coming weeks.

Vornel Walker
ICAS Marketing

CAU Express 2012 Events in Yokohama, Beijing, Seoul, and Singapore - A Success!

Intergraph CAS held CAU 2012 Express events in April that took place in Yokohama, Beijing, Seoul, and Singapore.

CAU Express April 2012 welcomed over 490 attendees...for a one-day, advanced technical learning, and powerful networking seminar. Thank you to all of you who helped us make each CAU Express stop successful! 

We are looking forward to welcoming attendees to CAU2012 in September 24-25, 2012 in Houston, TX. To hear more about this event and to learn how you can save $200 off the CAU2012 registration price of $895, join us for a 30-minute webinar on May 8, 2012 at 10AM CT. Register here.

CAU2012 Drivers of Success Competition: Submit Your Story And Enter To Win An All-Inclusive Trip To Houston, TX!

Don’t miss your chance to participate in the Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis University 2012 Drivers of Success Competition! If you’re an Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II, or PV Elite user, submit your success stories of using our products by July 15, 2012. There will be three first-place prizes and three runners-up prizes each for: CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite.

Reasons to participate:

•    Feature your company and your team
•    Get acknowledged for your hard work  
•    Enhance your career credentials
•    Receive an award and certificate
•    Chance to win an all-inclusive trip to Houston, TX
•    Chance to attend powerful training for FREE

Prizes:

First-place prizewinners will receive an all-inclusive trip (including return flights from anywhere in the world to Houston, TX, along with hotel and conference fees) to this year’s 2012 Intergraph CAS University. Runners-up will receive an Apple iPod Nano or iPod Touch. And, as a way of saying thank you for taking the time to tell us your story, every submission will receive a token of our appreciation.

What Are We Looking For?

You can base your submissions on projects from any industry, as long as you have used CADWorx, CAESAR II or PV Elite during the project. If you use CADWorx, CAESAR II or PV Elite and like the results, we want to know! See an example of one of last year's winner's here.

What Do I Have To Do?

• Simply complete the Drivers of Success Registration Form by July 15, 2012, to make your submission.

To see CAU2011 winners and review Drivers of Success Q&A, please visit: Drivers of Success 2012 Q&A

CAU Express 2012, March and April 2012: Reserve your seat!

CAU Express 2012 Registration continues!

CAU Express consists of in depth training sessions on CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite, all packed into a one-day, high-powered learning experience, that will not only leave you well informed, but will help you become a better plant designer and engineer.
2012 CAU Express classes:

CADWorx:

•    Intelligent P&IDs Creating Useful Documents for the Complete Project Lifecycle
•    Building Piping Specs to Improve and Speed Model Creation
•    Build Plant Models using the Latest CADWorx Plant Professional
•    Creating Quality Plant Deliverables Quickly and Accurately using CADWorx Plant Pro
•    Leveraging Point Clouds to Produce Accurate Models of Existing Plants

SmartPlant:

•    Developing the P&ID for the Plant Life Cycle
•    Next Step in Control System Engineering
•    Powering your Facility Efficiently, Reliably, and Safely

CAESAR II:

•    Dynamic Analysis Screening – a Qualitative Approach
•    Using the Full Potential in CAESAR II Load Case Combinations
•    Creating useful drawings through CAESAR II with minimal expertise
•    Recent changes in B31.3 and What They Mean to You

PV Elite:

•    Catching Up With PV Elite Capabilities
•    How to effectively use Wind and Seismic Load Cases
•    Leveraging Vessel Code Similarities and Differences for Effective Vessel and Exchanger Design
•    The Importance and Principles Behind Effective Flange Design and Servicing

2012 CAU Express dates and locations:

March 2012:

Thursday, March 22 – Johannesburg
Monday, March 26 – Dubai
Wednesday, March 28 – Mumbai
Friday, March 30 – Chennai

April 2012:

Wednesday, April 25 – Yokohama
Friday, April 27 – Beijing
Monday, April 30 – Seoul
Wednesday, May 2 – Singapore

WTo view CAU Express 2012 webinar: "CAU Express 2012 - Why you should attend", visit: CAU Express 2012 webinar

For more information about these events, visit: CAU Express 2012

To register for these events, visit: CAU Express 2012 Registration

 

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training, March 5 - 7

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

We invite you to attend PV Elite Productivity Training from March 5-7, 2012 in Houston, TX.

Date: March 5-7, 2012
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: $1500

Intergraph PV Elite Productivity Training is designed to help you get the most out of the best pressure vessel and exchanger design and analysis tool on the market. Whether you are an engineer or designer focused on the initial design, fabrication, or re-rating, for either vessels, tall towers, or exchangers - this course is for you.

The instructors of these courses are experienced PV Elite developers who will give you valuable insights into, not only best practices, but also why and how codes and standards effect the final design. During this course, attendees will work on case studies using typical vessel and heat exchanger models. As an added benefit attendees will receive 2.1 CEU's for the successful completion of this course.

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

What you will learn:

• Design of internal and external pressure
• Analysis of stresses due to loads on nozzles, clips, etc.
• Flange design and analysis. 
• Nozzle design and analysis. 
• Exchanger design, including ASME (UHX) requirement 
• Vertical vessel skirt, base ring and leg and support lug design 
• Horizontal vessel saddles support design 
• Wind and seismic loads 
• Rigging analysis 
• Introduction to Fitness for Service 
• ...and much more

Register for PV Elite Productivity Training here

CAU Express 2012: Registration is now open!

Welcome to the first CAU Express events for CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite!

Based on multiple requests from our users we are happy to offer you our first CAU events for 2012 and this time we will be coming to a city close to you! CAU Express consists of in depth training sessions on CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite, all packed into a one-day, high-powered learning experience, that will not only leave you well informed, but will help you become a better plant designer and engineer.

Our CADWorx, SmartPlant, CAESAR II, and PV Elite product experts will help you expand your technical knowledge and you can network and share your experience with others. Each event will be capped off with product focused Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and a networking reception.

Here are our 2012 CAU Express dates and locations:

March 2012:

Thursday, March 22 – Johannesburg
Monday, March 26 – Dubai
Wednesday, March 28 – Mumbai
Friday, March 30 – Chennai

April 2012:

Wednesday, April 25 – Yokohama
Friday, April 27 – Beijing
Monday, April 30 – Seoul
Wednesday, May 2 – Singapore

We conducted CAU Express 2012 webinar: "CAU Express 2012 - Why you should attend" on February 9th at 8.30PM. To view this webinar recording, visit: CAU Express 2012 webinar

For more information about these events, visit: CAU Express 2012

To register for these events, visit: CAU Express 2012 Registration

 

PipeServe Engineering achieves success on Greek power project with Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II, and PV Elite integration

Headquartered in Athens, Greece, PipeServ Engineering provides engineering services to the oil and gas industries, including petroleum refining, and for to power generation and other heavy industries.  TUV Austria Hellas chose PipeServ for the design of a series of combined cycle power plants in Greece that involved engineering and design for piping and supports within the plant facility and for auxiliary systems, large bore hot and cold pipelines involving 2,500 supports, 300 spring hangers, a pipe rack and steel structures. PipeServ performed stress analysis for small bore hot pipelines and finite element analysis for buried circulating water pipelines of 2.5m in diameter. They also provided mechanical design and construction drawings for three tanks and seven pressure vessels, including construction drawings.

"The advanced capabilities of this easy-to-use and proven solution provided fast project set up and a quick learning curve with almost immediate productivity and we also benefited from the easy customization of databases and efficient coordination among specialties.”"

Read the full story in US Letter and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• Intergraph CADWorx^®
• Intergraph CAESAR II^®
• Intergraph PV Elite^®

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Power - Non Nuclear

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Houston TX and Denver CO, USA, January 26 and 31, 2012

Intergraph will be hosting Discovery Tour events on January 26 in Houston, Texas and on January 31 in Denver, Colorado, USA that will demonstrate Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional and CADWorx P&ID Professional, including how they integrate with Intergraph CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite for vessel and exchanger analysis. The presentations will show how this integration breaks down barriers between engineering and design so that both groups can share information seamlessly in a collaborative work environment, enhancing productivity for all stakeholders. Hosting the event locally will be ECE Design, Intergraph Global Network Partner for Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions.

For information about the event, visit www.ecedesign.com/cadworx_discovery_tours. To register for the event, visit http://icas.intergraph.com/forms/IDT-ECE-Design-2012.  For more information about ECE Design, visit www.ecedesign.com.

For more information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/cadworx/. For information on Intergraph analysis products visit http://www.intergraph.com/ppm/analysis.aspx.

 

Intergraph® CADWorx® & Rohrleitungstage, Jan 2012 - Deutschland und Schweiz

Wir freuen uns, Sie zu unseren ersten Integraph CADWorx & Rohrleitungstagen im neuen Jahr in Deutschland und der Schweiz einladen zu dürfen.

24.1. - Frankfurt

26.1. - Basel

Die Digitale Kette der Rohrleitungstechnik mit den Produkten SmartPlant Isometrics & PICODA und unsere ICAS Produktreihe CADWorx, CAESAR II®, PV Elite® und TANK™, sowie ihre Integration, sind Schwerpunkt dieser Veranstaltungen.

Alle weiteren Informationen und Ihr Anmeldeformular, finden Sie hier. Wir freuen uns auf Sie!

Mit freundlichen Grüβen,

James Wright & Helmut Exner

Intergraph PP&M Deutschlang GmbH

 

Intergraph CADWorx Discovery Tour, Jan 2012 - Germany and Switzerland

Intergraph will host two CADWorx & Piping Discovery Events in Germany and Switzerland this January.

24.1. - Frankfurt

26.1. - Basel

These events will be held in German and focus on SmartPlant Isometrics & PICODA and the integration with our ICAS product range CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite and TANK. Please visit our website for more information and your registration. We look forward to seeing you!

Kind regards,

James Wright & Helmut Exner

Intergraph PP&M Deutschland GmbH

 

L&T’s Heavy Engineering IC succeeds with PV Elite in their Multi-Project Environment

Headquartered in Mumbai, India and serving clients in 40 countries, Larsen & Toubro’s Heavy Engineering IC (L&T) designs, engineers and manufactures equipment and systems for clients in the oil and gas, refinery, cracker, coal gasification, petrochemical, fertilizer, and related sectors. This includes thermal and mechanical design, engineering and stress analysis, procurement, project management, logistics and specialized services. Leveraging Intergraph PV Elite, L&T has successfully designed pressure vessels and heat exchangers for refineries and fertilizer and petrochemical plants plus of related equipment and facilities.

“We found that PV Elite calculates actual weight and center of gravity more accurately, which allows us to eliminate the time-consuming practice of manual calculations.” 

Read the full story in US Letter and A4 format.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• Intergraph PV Elite®

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Chemical & Petrochemical
• Refineries & Fertilizers

Intergraph PV Elite 2012 Release is now available

The Intergraph PV Elite 2012 software is now available. Below is a summary of the main features of this release. You can visit PV Elite 2012 page for a detailed information about this release. 

A webinar highlighting the new features of PV Elite 2012 will take place December 14th at 10AM CT. To register for this webinar, visit: What's New in PV Elite 2012.
 
Main features of PV Elite 2012:

• ASME Section VIII Division 1 and Division 2 2011a new code updates are incorporated
• ASME Appendix 41, EIH Support plates is added
• PD 5500:2009 code changes are implemented
• Implementation of ASME code case 2695 (Div 1 using Div 2 formulas and Div 1 allowables)
• ASME pure-metric yield stress database is included
• Wind/Seismic code updates for several codes
• The example problems in ASME publication PTB-3 (Div 2 problems solution manual) is added.

Please refer to PV Elite 2012 page for a complete list of the 2012 updates.

For information on Intergraph PV Elite visit:
http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/pvelite/

 

 

INCHEM TOKYO Show, Tokyo, Japan November 16-18, 2011

Intergraph will be exhibiting at INCHEM Tokyo 2011 on November 16-18, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan with demonstrations of CADWorx Plant Professional for intelligent plant design and 3D modeling, CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis, and PV Elite for vessel and exchanger analysis. The presentations in booth 2C-14 at this plant engineering conference will include highlights of the productivity-enhancing integration, among these programs that break down barriers between engineering and design so that both groups can share information seamlessly in a collaborative work environment. Intergraph Japan is managing the company’s participation locally. 

 

INCHEM is Japan’s only specialized exhibition focusing on chemical and process industry plants. For information on the event, visit http://www.jma.or.jp/inchem/en/index.html.  For information on Intergraph Japan, visit http://www.intergraph.com/global/jp/.

 

For information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/cadworx/. For information on Intergraph’s analysis products visit http://www.intergraph.com/ppm/analysis.aspx.