CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

3 April 2012

Product News

Intergraph® Supports the ISO 15926 Standard with the Release of SmartPlant® P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility

Intergraph® released its SmartPlant® P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility, a commercially available solution to support interfaces based on the ISO-based data exchange. This release further demonstrates Intergraph's commitment to open interfaces and standards.

SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility offers data exchange benefits between the process design schematics and the 3D physical design for engineering companies, as well as facility owners. This allows piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) to be exported in the ISO 15926 format, which means data as well as graphical content can be exchanged with other ISO-compliant plant design and information management solutions. Intergraph worked with longtime customers to develop an explicit value proposition and technical requirements used to guide the development of the SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility.

"The release of the SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility is another step that demonstrates Intergraph's continued commitment to satisfy client demand for openness and interoperability," said Patrick Holcomb, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine's executive vice president of global business development and marketing.

Holcomb cites the SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility as another in a long line of Intergraph efforts to support open data exchange between its industry-leading solutions, and other plant design solutions developed by other technology providers. This new capability will be further discussed during the Fiatech™ Annual Technology Conference & Showcase in Miami.

Intergraph is an active, longstanding member of Fiatech, an Austin, Texas-based not-for-profit international consortium working together to lead global development and adoption of innovative practices and technologies to realize the highest business value through a capital asset's life cycle. Recent Fiatech initiatives have helped accelerate the delivery of interoperable tools, systems, work approaches and processes, including an open source exchange of information through ISO 15926.

Holcomb, who represents Intergraph on Fiatech's board of advisers, said, "Intergraph and its SmartPlant Enterprise integrated solutions is a longtime supporter of industry standards. This support dates back to the ISO 15926 origins in the 1990s. Since then, we continue to contribute to valuable standards and develop interfaces that support compliance and satisfy client demand."

SmartPlant P&ID is an asset-centric, rule-driven P&ID solution in the global market and has created more than 500,000 P&IDs for plants from around the world. It helps users to develop and manage their facilities using SP P&IDs with a focus on the plant asset rather than the documentation representation. This accurately reflects the as-built plant for enhanced safety, quality, efficiency and productivity.

For more on Intergraph's support of ISO 15926, visit http://www.intergraph.com/ppm/iso15926.aspx.

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