CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 September 2004
Implementation Investments
East China Electric Power Design Institute Embarks on Engineering Enterprise Integration Pilot Project with Intergraph Process, Power & Marine
The East China Electric Power Design Institute (ECEPDI), in alliance with the Process, Power & Marine division of Intergraph Corporation, is developing a comprehensive, standardized enterprise integration environment for electric generating plant engineering design. The feasibility project under way aims to create the standard system for electric power generation facility engineering and design throughout China. The solution includes SmartPlant® 3D, INtools® and SmartPlant P&ID. The engineering tools are integrated through the SmartPlant Foundation workflow and information management software, supported by The Engineering Framework. The ECEPDI initiative supports China's efforts to increase generating capacity to meet the needs of economic development.
The integrated enterprise platform supports engineering and design of a standard 600-megawatt power plant, including piping, structural, electrical and instrumentation and control components comprising more than 60 major equipment units and 400 pipeline models. Based on SmartPlant Foundation, the solution is pre-populated with integration protocols, defined workflows, standard reference data and equipment catalogs. ECEPDI plans to later integrate Intergraph MARIAN® for materials and supply chain management and SmartPlant Electrical for electrical engineering.
SmartPlant 3D ( http://ppm.intergraph.com/smartplant/sp_3d.asp ) is for data-centric, multi-discipline concurrent engineering and modeling, while SmartPlant P&ID provides piping and instrumentation diagram creation ( http://ppm.intergraph.com/smartplant/sp_pid.asp ). INtools enables lifecycle instrumentation engineering, design and operational documentation ( http://ppm.intergraph.com/intools ).
Vice President Zheng Shaoyin, ECEPDI, said, "ECEPDI recognizes this is more of an integration, information and workflow management challenge than an engineering tool problem. We are working with Intergraph on the feasibility project because of its expertise and advanced technology leadership. Intergraph also has a long history of quality support and training services in China and a substantial investment in personnel and facilities."
"Coupled with accelerated construction programs, ECEPDI's pilot project represents a turning point for the electric power generation industry in China," said Kevin Stanley, senior vice president, Americas & Asia Pacific Business Unit, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. "The institute's enterprise integration platform promises to provide a comprehensive engineering basis for China's plans to design and build hundreds of nuclear, gas and coal-fired electric power plants to meet the rising electricity demands of the country's continuing economic boom."
East China Electric Power Design Institute (ECEPDI, http://www.ecepdi.com/ ) is a regional planning, surveying and engineering institute. As leader of the electric power design field in China, ECEPDI provides comprehensive engineering, consulting, project management and contracting services for fossil fuel and conventional island nuclear power plants, substations and transmission projects including long-span river crossings. The institute engineered the first fossil fuel units made in China and conventional island for nuclear power plants as well as China's first 500 kilovolt high voltage direct current transmission project. ECEPDI has engineered more than 150 power plants with a total combined capacity of more than 37,075 megawatts. Founded in 1953, ECEPDI employs more than 1,000 people and is headquartered in Shanghai.
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