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Solution
Enersul selected CEA Systems’ Plant-4D, a data-centric design software solution specifically for plant engineering that was interoperable with its primary design-build process software, AutoCAD and allowed it to fully customize its CAD interface.
Plant-4D transitioned all the CAD information into mathematical data. It also allowed customized and seamless transitions from P&IDs and 3D modeling to Isogen spool drawings. For example, Enersul can change the high-level for a water tank and Plant-4D will automatically update its water level symbology on the P&IDs, reducing inconsistencies on the drawings and ensuring a dynamic parameter set regardless of changes. This creates an internally consistent drawing, regardless of edits, that complies with original specifications, safety parameters and constructability issues.
Results
Plant-4D has helped Enersul manage front-end logic, programming and customizing for design-build of its projects. The company also established a full tracking system for all changes that maintains the time and place of the change, with intuitive user-friendly indicators of the specific changes.
After realizing the benefits of customizing its internal application of Plant-4D to its P&IDs and knowing that specifications are ever-changing, Enersul decided to dedicate a full-time person to customization. It thinks this new approach will yield significant long term savings and allow full utilization of the software’s benefits.
With more than four projects completed using Plant-4D, the Enersul team estimates a 15-20% increase in productivity and accumulative time savings to draft P&IDs for its clients’ projects.
CEA Systems Inc.
Houston, Texas, USA
www.cea-int.com
Enquiry No. 500
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