CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 November 2008
Implementation Investments
New Case Study Highlights How Piping Layout Consultants Doubled Productivity Using CADWorx Plant Professional from COADE
COADE announced the publication of a new Case Study from Piping Layout Consultants, Inc. (PLC) that highlights how the engineering and design firm has doubled productivity and streamlined deliverables for its clients on such projects as the Indiana Colts football stadium and a biodegradable plastics plant that involved a 56,000 foot-length piping system and 6,000 man-hours of design work.
PLC had decided to move to 3D software designed specifically to automate the plant design process, choosing CADWorx Plant Professional from COADE because it offers many features, including collision checking, automatic ISO’s, bills of material, model walkthrough capabilities, links to stress analysis and stress isometrics. With CADWorx, the PLC designer enters each part of the design only once, and each deliverable is produced directly from the 3D model. Each drawing element can be checked once for all design views. The designers can adjust the design, and the software will update all views accordingly.
For typical projects, PLC is responsible for delivering piping isometrics (ISO’s) to the shop for fabrication and plan drawings to the construction managers for putting the project together. “Our intent is 100% fit-up,” said Keith McKinney, president of PLC. CADWorx Plant Professional from COADE is helping the firm toward that goal. “CADWorx reduced the time required per delivered ISO to about 4 to 4½ hours for typical renovation and expansion projects,” McKinney explained. “Overall, CADWorx enables our 10 designers to produce the work of 20 using traditional methods,” he concluded. This and other Case Study articles can be found at http://www.coade.com.
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