CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite: Insider Blog

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

 

SPED Houston Chapter Meeting October 6th

 

NETWORK ON TAP

A New Houston Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED) Chapter Event

October 6, 2011

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Sherlock’s Pub
10001 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77077 
Level 4 Floor room

Meet Kerry Pritchard, SPED’s new Houston Chapter Coordinator and let us hear from you about what you want from your Houston chapter.

Five $200 All-Events tickets will be given away as door prizes! 

SPED Members and all Houston Pipers are Welcome!  RSVP to spedsrvs@spedweb.com

Thank you to NES Global Talent for sponsoring refreshments.   

 

Article: Hydrocarbon Engineering June, 2011 - Storage Tank Safety and Standards

 

 Hydrocarbon Engineering - June, 2011

Gary Carson, Equamark Inc., USA, describes the important role that oil storage tank standards play in tank design and our environmental safety.

Steel aboveground storage tanks are a key link in the worldwide distribution of energy, buffering the cyclical needs of our society. Because of the need for these tanks to be close to populated regions any loss in the integrity of these units can cause catastrophic damage. There are obviously some natural disasters that cannot be designed for, such as the recent tsunami off the cost of Japan, but designing and building to strict standards can make for a safer, and therefore easier, coexistence between facilities and the communities they serve.

This article also touches on what happens when things go wrong and the causes of these, mostly avoidable, disasters, and how software like Intergraph^® TANK^TM help make aboveground storage tanks safer.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• Intergraph TANK
  

Download Hydrocarbon-Engineering-2011-06-Intergraph-CAS-TANK

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Society of Piping Engineers and Designers- Midwest Chapter Meeting

 

Mark Your Calendars!

Join SPED for the kickoff meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the
Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED) Thursday, June 30, 2011.

This first meeting is an important step in developing a Midwest Chapter of SPED.  Founded in 1980, SPED was created to benefit Pipers through training, professional development and certification therefore, “Promoting Excellence and Quality in Piping Design”.  SPED’s home office is in Houston, Texas with worldwide membership, a chapter in Calgary, and membership initiatives in the U.K., Ireland and Spain.

Executive Director, Dr. William G. Beazley will join us for this meeting.

SPED Membership is not required to attend the kickoff meeting.

When: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:30 PM

Where: Piping Layout Consultants, Inc.,
11605 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY

R.S.V.P. to Ronald.Waldon@cieng.com

Refreshments will be served.

Midwest Chapter
Ron Waldon, Ronald.Waldon@cieng.com, +1 502.371.8660

Society of Piping Engineers and Designers
9211 West Road, Ste 143-219, Houston, TX 77064
www.spedweb.com • www.professionalpipingdesigner.com

Also plan to attend the

31^st Annual General Business Meeting, 2011 Corporate Member Showcase and Technical Briefs

on October 27-28, 2011 at the Houston Marriott Energy Corridor Hotel in Houston, Texas.

 

 

Hexagon 2011: Intergraph® CADWorx® & Analysis Solutions Co-hosts Visualization Keynote

At Intergraph @ Hexagon 2011, Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (CAS) co-hosted a keynote address entitled “Reducing OPEX through Visualization Enabled Work Processes”.

The presentation took place on Thursday June 9^th and outlined how Hexagon’s family of products, and strategic partners, can work together to improve change request workflow, bringing changes online sooner, and help improve safety.

A movie overview of the Intergraph CAS presentation can be seen on YouTube here with HD options: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaS1cvXqFxQ

Featured products were: Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional, Intergraph CAESAR II®, SmartPlant® Foundation, and INOVx® RealityLINx®.

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Intergraph CAS Resellers DePLAN Soft and IOCS Asia launch New Blogs

Greece 

If you have been desparately looking for for updated CADWorx information in Greek, your wait is over! Our authorized reseller for Greece, DePLAN Soft has lanched their first blog: http://cadworx-gr.blogspot.com

More information about Intergraph CAS in Greece can be found at: http://www.deplan.gr

Singapore

If you want the latest Intergraph CAS news in Singapore then the new IOCS Asia blog (http://iocsasia.blogspot.com/) is the place to go.

For more information on IOCS Asia visit their website: http://www.iocsasia.com

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Intergraph CADWorx Discovery Tours: Germany & Austria - June/July, 2011

Guten Tag,
 
wir freuen uns, Sie zu unseren CADWorx®- & Rohrleitungstagen 2011 einladen zu können. Gerne würden wir Sie bei einer unserer vier Veranstaltungen begrüßen:

- Am 9.6.2011 von 9.00 Uhr bis 17.00 Uhr im Hotel NH Danube City Wien
- Am 15.6.2011 von 9.00 Uhr bis 17.00 Uhr im Hotel Dorint an der Messe Köln
- Am 5.7.2011 von 9.00 Uhr bis 17.00 Uhr im Hotel Feierabendhaus Marl
- Am 14.7.2011 von 9.00 Uhr bis 17.00 Uhr im Hotel NH Ambassador Ingolstadt

Intergraph PP&M ist bekannt für Enterprise Engineering Software für Planung, Bau und Betrieb von Prozessanlagen. Während unserer CADWorx- und Rohrleitungstage möchten wir Ihnen unsere bereits im deutschen Markt erfolgreich eingeführte Digitale Kette der Rohrleitungstechnik mit den Produkten SmartPlant® Isometrics & PICODA präsentieren. Der Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf der imposanten Weiterentwicklung von PICODA und SmartPlant Isometrics gegenüber 2008. Die Firma Siemens Energy hat diese Lösung inzwischen weltweit eingeführt. Darüber hinaus werden wir Ihnen unsere neuerworbene Lösung für weniger komplexe Projekte, die Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (ICAS) vorstellen:

• CADWorx® - die AutoCAD-basierte Komplettlösung für eine effiziente 2D + 3D Anlagenplanung
• CAESAR II® - der Standard für Spannungsanalyse von Rohrleitungssystemen
• PV Elite® - Software für Design, Analyse & Evaluierung von Behältern & Wärmeaustauschern
• Tank™ - das Softwarepaket zur Planung, Analyse und Evaluierung von Ölvorratstanks

Intergraph CADWorx ist besonders geeignet für mittlere Unternehmen, die mit hochwertiger Engineering-Software im Markt bestehen und wachsen möchten. Während unserer Veranstaltung möchten wir Ihnen gerne typische Arbeitsabläufe präsentieren.

Besonders freut es uns, dass wir die Firma Koernig Weber Engineering GmbH & Co. KG gewinnen konnten, Ihre Erfahrungen mit CADWorx zu präsentieren und somit die Anwenderfreundlichkeit dieser Produkte aufzuzeigen.

Für weitere Einzelheiten zum Tagesablauf verweisen wir Sie auf unsere Webseite. Dort finden Sie auch ein Formular für Ihre Anmeldung, über die wir uns sehr freuen würden.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, 

James Wright ICAS- Solutions Intergraph PP&M Deutschland GmbH +49 (0) 285 19 66 136

Helmut Exner PIPING & CADWorx Solutions Intergraph PP&M Deutschland GmbH +49 (0) 89 96106 4805

 

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Join us for Intergraph @ Hexagon 2011 - June 6-9, Orlando, Florida

 

Join us at Intergraph @ Hexagon 2011, taking place between June 6 – 9, 2011 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. Set in over 200 acres of lush tropical landscape the resort is a "World Beyond Compare!"

The Intergraph CAS products: CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite, and TANK, will be featured plus special sessions focusing on installation and facility capture, featuring CADWorx fieldPipe and CADWorx for Leica CloudWorx, and sessions from end users sharing their successes using our solutions. Attendees will also get to see integration between SmartPlant 3D and both CAESAR II and CADWorx.

Intergraph @ Hexagon 2011 is the perfect chance to learn how to build a smarter world. This exciting international conference also offers the chance to preview new technologies, attend presentations by industry experts, participate in targeted tracks and break-out sessions, get hands-on training, and hear inspiring keynotes from today's thought leaders.

You'll experience:
• Previews of new technologies
• Compelling customer testimonials
• Hands-on training, demonstrations and workshops
• One-on-one guidance from industry experts
• Insightful and visionary keynote presentations
• Dynamic panel discussions
• Great activities promoting networking and relaxation
• And much more!

For more information, please join us on your favorite social networking platform and sign up for conference e-mail updates.
 
To register click here: http://www.hexagonconference.com/register/

For session information click here: http://www.hexagonconference.com/sessions/

 

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Hydrocarbon Engineering July 2010: P&ID's Becoming More Intelligent

Hydrocarbon Engineering - July, 2010

Gary Carson, Equamark Inc., USA, describes how P&ID’s can be made to be useful and effective IF they provide the desired levels of content, quality and accuracy. Recent innovations in plant design software are helping to elevating P&ID’s to increasingly important roles in the plant design and engineering process.

In this article you will read how P&ID's and 3D models can share information to provide accurate designs. Also how P&ID projects can be published in HTML format, with all relevant information, and how this allows stakeholders unprecedented access to to the latest information, without having to use the original CAD or authoring tools that were use to create them.

Download Hydrocarbon-Engineering-July-2010-intelligent-PIDs-20100922.pdf (2563.9K)

PRODUCT INDEX:

• Intergraph^® CADWorx^® P&ID Professional
• Intergraph^® CADWorx^® Plant Professional
  

Intergraph Discovery Tours: Middle East. October 10th - 14th

The Middle East 2010 Intergraph Discovery Tour, hosted by Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions (Intergraph CAS) and co-sponsored by Atheeb and ImageGrafix with stops in four cities, will feature overviews of the Intergraph CADWorx® Plant Design Suite, Intergraph CAESAR II® and Intergraph PV Elite™. During these sessions we will outline how Intergraph solutions are helping break down barriers between engineering and design, by helping both groups share information seamlessly, in an integrated work environment. We will also share our plans and visions for this integration in the SmartPlant Enterprise environment.

Each event will start at 9:00AM and end at 2:00PM. This is a free event.
 

Agenda
9:00AM - 9:10AM  Welcome & Opening from Dealers & Distributors
9:10AM - 9:30AM  Intergraph Corporate Overview
9:30AM - 9:50AM Intergraph CAS Overview
9:50AM - 10:45AM CADWorx Now & Future
10:45AM - 10:55AM  Break
10:55AM - 11:10AM User Story Presentation
11:10AM - 11:40AM CAESAR II Now & Future
11:40AM - 12:10PM PV Elite Now & Future 
12:10PM - 12:40PM ICAS 20 Minute Challenge
12:40PM - 13:00PM Q&A
13:00PM - 14:00PM Lunch
 

To register for these tours, click on the location below:
 
Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, October 10th
Doha, Qatar, October 11th
Dubai, UAE October 13th
Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 14th

 

Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED) Memeber Showcase, Oct. 28, 2010

 
“Promoting Excellence and
Quality in Piping Design”

On October 28, 2010 the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers will celebrate it’s 30^th Anniversary with the 2010 Corporate Member Showcase and 30th Annual General Business Meeting at the Houston Marriott Energy Corridor from 6 PM until 9:30 PM. Dinner will be served.

Tickets available at www.spedweb.com.

Pipers can network, see the latest products and services from SPED Corporate Members, and hear presentations from three Piping Industry experts:

• Kathey Ferland, Project Manager
  University of Texas at Austin
• Thomas J. Van Laan, P.E., Senior Vice President
  Intergraph, CADWorx & Analysis Solutions
• Paul Spring, President, Business Development and Product Strategy
  AVEVA

In conjunction with the Annual Meeting, a Professional Piping Designer Certification Review and Exam will be held on October 28th with Dr. William G. Beazley at the Marriott from 8 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. For more information, or to register email spedmgr1@spedweb.com.

Contact:
Sarah Evans
Marketing
Phone 832.286.7678
www.spedweb.com 

 

Intergraph 2010 Greater China: AECsoft Represents CADWorx, CAESAR II & PV Elite

 

There is still time to register for Intergraph 2010 Greater China!

This year’s conference will be held in Chengdu, China, from 9-11 August at the New International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The three-day event will feature keynote sessions by Intergraph customers from different industries, as well as keynote addresses by Intergraph senior management.

At the event, AECsoft Engineering Software Co., Ltd., Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions Global Network Partner, for China, will be showcasing Intergraph® CAESAR II®, for pipe stress analysys; Intergraph PV Elite™, for Pressure Vessel analysis; and the Intergraph CADWorx® Plant Design Suite, for AutoCAD®-based project design and deliverables.

The conference will feature several insightful sessions that include insights into how organizations can implement effective strategies to transition from existing systems to the Smart 3D environment. With an ever-increasing number of owner operators specifying Smart 3D for their projects, it is critical that organizations are able to effectively and quickly implement Smart 3D, and Intergraph is able to provide the expertise and support for a smooth implementation.

If you would like to attend Intergraph 2010 Greater China, please register here. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn about the latest business solutions and technology developments!

About AECsoft:

 
北京市艾思弗计算机软件技术有限责任公司作为PPM行业的综合软件供应商,已经走过了15年历程,软件方案涉及工艺设计,详细设计以及施工和运营改造等方方面面.我们是CAESARII管道应力分析、PV Elite压力容器设计和3D工厂设计软件供应商,拥有从销售到培训、技术支持的全部能力,深受用户信赖.我们的客户遍及全国,多达700多家.伴随intergraph对COADE公司的并购,我们成为了Intergraph CAS 全球渠道代理商,负责中国区业务,继续拓展市场,支持和服务于您,与您共同发展!

Intergraph 2010 reschedules to Las Vegas, Aug 30 - Sep 2, 2010

 

Dear Intergraph 2010 Attendee,

As previously communicated, Intergraph was forced to reschedule Intergraph 2010, Intergraph's annual international users’ conference, due to unprecedented flooding in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. We are pleased to announce our new conference venue – the new, spectacular ARIA CityCenter™ Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 30 – September 2.

The 61-story ARIA and 67-acre CityCenter comprise an extraordinary urban resort destination featuring dining, shopping, entertainment, and recreation that are astonishing, even by Las Vegas standards. Intergraph chose this location after a national search for a venue that met our conference specifications and the necessary level of quality and service that you, our customers, have come to expect.

We are making every effort to ensure a seamless transition for all our conference attendees. For your convenience, we have posted answers to frequently asked questions for attendees, speakers, and sponsors relating to the conference, and hotel and travel reservations at www.intergraph2010.com/faqs.aspx. Should you require personal assistance or additional information, please e-mail intergraph2010@intergraph.com or call +1.256.730.1000 or 800.730.4647 (toll free in the U.S.).

If you had not signed up, and are debating whether or not to attend, this is now a great opportunity to do so.

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.

Hydrocarbon Engineering features PV Elite

 
Hydrocarbon Engineering January 2009

COADE announces the publication of an article on Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Godrej) of India that discusses the firm’s use of COADE PV Elite for vessel analysis and design on the largest single piece of equipment ever undertaken by the company, weighing in at 800 metric tons. The magazine article, titled “A Study in Contrasts,” appears in the Hydrocarbon Engineering January, 2009 issue and discusses a polypropylene reactor project designed, fabricated and shipped out of the Mumbai port as a single unit to be installed at the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation’s Ibn Zahr PP-III Project in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. 

Using PVElite, Godrej completed the massive project in record time.  Calculations were carried out by PV Elite software, which also provided the code and mechanical design calculations and inputs for fabrication drawings.  The article notes that because of PV Elite’s accuracy and speed of use, Godrej PED was able to rely on it to prepare accurate information for bids for almost any region of the globe.  
The article can be found here Hydrocarbon-Eng-Godrej-PV-Elite-200901.pdf (1133.6K)

The Hydrocarbon Magazine website is at www.hydrocarbonengineering.com

PRODUCT INDEX:

• PV Elite  

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Petrochemical  

FEATURED RESELLER:

• KLG Systel, India

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

World Pipelines features CADWorx FieldPipe

World Pipelines Magazine - December, 2008

Read how IMAGE Custom Engineering Solutions, LLC (IMAGE CES), Field Services division (IMAGE Field Services), based in Houston, Texas, USA, has successfully completed the as-built computer modeling of over 70 of approximately 200 gas compression stations owned by CenterPoint Energy Field Services.

What is most remarkable about this project is the speed, accuracy and ultimate ‘intelligence’ of what was produced.  IMAGE CES completed this first phase in record time using only two onsite engineers to produce fully intelligent 3D plant, piping and equipment models of each site to an accuracy of one-eighth inch.

To achieve this task this task they used CADWorx fieldPipe from COADE Inc.

“To do what we have done in six months would have taken us maybe years to do manually,” explained Don Nuckels, PE, President/CEO of IMAGE CES.

Read the full article here.

PRODUCT INDEX:

• CADWorx Plant
• CADWorx fieldPipe

INDUSTRIES SERVED:

• Gas Compression
• Gas Transmission

FEATURED RESELLER:

• Location: Houston, USA

New Release: CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx

CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx is a new CADWorx fieldPipe configuration that allows designers to quickly develop intelligent 3D plant and piping models from point cloud data.

The package does this by enabling the designer to select discrete points from previously captured, or legacy, laser point clouds that are typically used to gather physical plant design data. Once the piping specification is set the selection of these discrete points allows the system to accurately determine the diameter and direction of any pipe run - taking into account any rolls, offsets or falls present.

Once the designer has used CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx to create these intelligent 3D models they can be used to produce design and fabrication deliverables such as: bills of materials, automatic isometrics, spool drawings and 2D drawing output; for example elevations, plans and sections.

Read news release here.

See video of this solution in action here.

Other languages, besides English,  can be found here.

For product info email Brian Cudd bcudd@coade.com

For pricing and orders email Nicole Ashcroft nashcroft@coade.com

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx is a new CADWorx fieldPipe configuration that allows designers to quickly develop intelligent 3D plant and piping models from point cloud data.

The package does this by enabling the designer to select discrete points from previously captured, or legacy, laser point clouds that are typically used to gather physical plant design data. Once the piping specification is set the selection of these discrete points allows the system to accurately determine the diameter and direction of any pipe run - taking into account any rolls, offsets or falls present.

Once the designer has used CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx to create these intelligent 3D models they can be used to produce design and fabrication deliverables such as: bills of materials, automatic isometrics, spool drawings and 2D drawing output; for example elevations, plans and sections.

Read news release here.

See video of this solution in action here.

Other languages, besides English,  can be found here.

For product info email Brian Cudd bcudd@coade.com

For pricing and orders email Nicole Ashcroft nashcroft@coade.com

Vornel Walker
Marketing Manager
COADE Inc.

CADWorx User Registration

The CADWorx user community is strong and vibrant. We want to make this community work for you by using it to inform and instruct. To do this we need some important information from you as a user of CADWorx. Many of you have registered online and are benefiting by receiving update notices, event news and have contributed by answering questionnaires. We want the rest of you to benefit as well so please take some time and register on line. It is easy and painless and the benefits are enormous. As a registered user you will have the opportunity to participate in the upcoming CADWorx 2009 beta program starting on March 31^st. Our first annual CADWorx User Conference will take place in October and all registered users will be invited. Again all registered users receive notification of updates as they become available.

Registration is easy, from the Plant Menu go to "About" and then "Register Online" or select this link CADWorx User Registration

Please take the time to register today and invite your entire CADWorx group to do the same.