CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 April 2013
Implementation Investments
Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Selected for Use by Leading Clean Energy Technology Firm
Intergraph is pleased to announce that its Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise has been selected by Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), as its strategic plant design suite for its boiler and environmental businesses.
B&W PGG, which engineers, procures, manufactures and constructs steam-generating systems and environmental systems for its utility and industrial customers, is now in production with SmartPlant Enterprise to support growth and competitiveness, ensure improved quality and productivity and reduce costs.
B&W PGG decided on SmartPlant Enterprise following an extensive two-year evaluation of its legacy tools measured against Intergraph's market-leading technology.
B&W PGG determined Intergraph's next-generation SmartPlant Enterprise, with its intelligent, rule-based technology and automation capabilities, is the ideal match for its needs and selected the integrated suite of SmartPlant Enterprise solutions, including SmartPlant 3D Materials Handling Edition, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant Foundation and SmartPlant P&ID, as well the SmartPlant Reference Data management environment and Standard Database for SmartPlant Reference Data.
B&W PGG chose SmartPlant 3D Materials Handling Edition because of the advanced plate modeling capabilities, which enable automated production of fabrication and erection drawings. The solution's unique capabilities, coupled with the standard specification database, rules and relationships, and integration with the SmartPlant Enterprise, were key to B&W's selection of SmartPlant 3D.
SmartPlant Enterprise's implementation and use in preparation for production required no customization and no configuration – simply installing the software as it was delivered. With Intergraph's guidance, B&W PGG initiated a pilot project in mid-2012 using SmartPlant Enterprise's out-of-the-box capability and successfully produced piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and fully correlated 3D design.
"We see our standardization on Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise as a strategic decision that will enable us to execute projects more efficiently and at a higher quality," said B&W PGG President and Chief Operating Officer J. Randall Data. "SmartPlant Enterprise is helping us establish more effective work processes and, ultimately, will help make us a more competitive business."
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, "B&W PGG's selection of Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise, and in particular SmartPlant 3D, validates that our solutions go far beyond what the company's legacy tools were capable of in terms of increasing productivity and quality while reducing costs."
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