CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 February 2010
Implementation Investments
BBA Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® 3D for Metals and Mining Projects
BBA, an independent Canadian consulting engineering firm active in the international energy and mining and metals sectors, has completed the design of its first project for Consolidated Thompson, the Bloom Lake project in Northern Quebec, with Intergraph®’s SmartPlant® 3D design solution.
BBA was selected to design the iron ore mine at Bloom Lake in 2006, and selected Intergraph SmartPlant 3D to execute the project. Since the successful completion of Bloom Lake with SmartPlant 3D, BBA has begun modeling on its next project, a gold mine for Osisko Mining, called Canadian Malartic, also using SmartPlant 3D.
BBA chose SmartPlant 3D because it is well-suited for the specific challenges related to metals and mining projects – large and complex equipment and very mining-oriented specifications for components. The software’s rule-based design and specification-driven capabilities provide true discipline integration into a single 3D modeling environment, minimizing rework for changes and ensuring consistency across designs.
"We are pleased with the results that we have achieved so far with SmartPlant 3D, and are excited about moving forward with it on future projects," said Steeve Fiset, president and CEO of BBA. "By adapting SmartPlant 3D to the mining industry, we add to our high value engineering a very efficient design capacity and provide our customers with a timely and cost-effective project execution with an extremely low re-work level at site."
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power and Marine president, said, “BBA demonstrates how SmartPlant 3D can benefit companies of all sizes and in all industries to be more competitive using this next-generation technology. And as SmartPlant 3D becomes the industry-standard for large EPC and owner operators, it gives smaller and midsize companies the opportunity to be on the same footing with their larger competitors.”
SmartPlant 3D is the multi-purpose design solution within Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise solutions suite. SmartPlant Enterprise provides full design, construction, materials and engineering data management capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance, and capital Project Life Cycle Management (cPLM) of large-scale process, power, marine and offshore projects. The software’s life cycle data management also enables a smoother handover for EPCs to owner operators and for owner operators to more easily maintain, refurbish or modify their plants.
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