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INDUSTRYCHALLENGESPlant owner operators (O/Os) and engineering, procurement, andconstruction (EPC) companies alike are under continued pressure tomeet global demands in a fiercely competitive commercial environ-ment. “Faster and cheaper to market” is the double-edged call toaction that drives down project margins and expects more for less intoday’s CAPEX process, power, and marine market.

Given this scenario, what options remain for plant O/Os and EPCsneeding to retain, strengthen, or increase competitive advantage?Conventional approaches, such as top-down incremental cost reductioninitiatives, have run their course. Cheaper engineering design is helpful,but is no substitute for the more sophisticated skills that the industrycontinues to lose, along with its experienced workforce.

A new approach is needed: one that reassesses plant engineeringand operations in light of new productivity-enhancing technologiesthat go beyond today’s plant design solutions.

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BUSINESS LEVEL BENEFIT

Engineering discipline Save hours onengineering tasks.

Project Save weeks on schedule.

Extended enterprise Save a percentage of totalinstalled costs (TIC).

INTERGRAPH® PLANTDESIGN VISIONWhile plant design software has grown inscope, power, and sophistication, its designand engineering fundamentals have not alteredfor decades. Intergraph® recognized that a stepchange was needed: one that would result inplant design technology anticipating and leadingrather than following the industry, as O/Os andEPCs embraced a concurrent and collaborative,around-the-clock and around-the-world projectengineering environment.

The resulting solution offers more than anincremental change to plant design. Fasterengineering design is still important, but no lon-ger enough. The key component in Intergraph’splant design vision is to extend the scope ofplant design software to more directly manageand monitor evolving plant information and itsassociated project and plant relationships. Thisapproach represents Intergraph’s step change toplant design, transforming the way plant designis undertaken in the future.

THE SOLUTION:3D MODELING &VISUALIZATIONIntergraph’s 3D Modeling & Visualization solutionleverages the company’s domain and globalexpertise to offer innovative applications thatmeet your needs. It removes existing plantdesign limitations, and in their place introducesnew, multi-disciplinary, silo-free ways of working –in an optimized, integrated design andvisualization environment.

The resulting 3D Modeling & Visualization solu-tion provides true workflow-managed integrationbetween the process engineering design basisand detailed engineering disciplines, extendingacross and beyond the project enterprise. Thisconsistent, multi-discipline environment is truly“intelligent” and rules-based, “understanding” themany object relationships that exist within theplant model, and maintaining the design intentas changes occur.

This environment augments and further extendsIntergraph’s data-centric approach by introduc-ing additional engineering “intelligence” to all 3Dplant design objects managed within the 3D plantmodel. This approach also extends beyond currentplant design technologies to address increasingmarket demands.

It also allows for migration of legacy data fromother plant design solutions into Intergraph’s 3DModeling & Visualization environment. The solu-tion includes a more integrated, consistent 3Dplant modeling environment. Powerful, automatedtools enable rapid creation and updating of intel-ligent drawing and report deliverables from the3D plant model.

Value Propositions

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Improved PerformanceIntergraph has conducted research amongindustry users to measure the impact of its 3DModeling & Visualization solution on a plantenvironment. The results reveal that it:• Delivers up to 35 percent productivity savings

in key plant design disciplines compared toconventional software – and even more whenit is integrated using Intergraph’s SmartPlant®

Enterprise solution.• Saves time on 3D design modification

compared to its conventional equivalent.• Reduces remodeling between conceptual and

detailed design by seamlessly carrying forwardinitial conceptual layouts into detailed design.

• Cuts the time taken to check P&IDconsistency and accuracy between the 2Dschematic model and 3D digital plant model.

Setting a New Quality BenchmarkIntergraph is delivering a production-readycommercial solution with the power to transformthe industry. Underpinning this step change is acontinued focus on design integrity and quality.Design integrity and quality can be measuredin many different ways. It can be as simple asmaintaining certain design rules, or as complexas reducing engineering errors. Intergraph’s 3DModeling & Visualization solution addressesboth. For example:• With real-time interference detection, you see

potential spatial issues as they occur, ratherthan after the fact as conventional modelingsystems do today.

• Automated rules preserve design intent asmodel objects are moved and relocated inthe design, drastically reducing the amount ofrework caused by edits and modifications.

• The ability to track ownership of design

INTERGRAPH –THE MARKETLEADER

Intergraph understands your needs, basedon more than a quarter-century ofexperience with the industries we serve andthe people who use our solutions:

• Two-thirds of the plants built worldwidehave been designed using Intergraph plantdesign software.

• Intergraph solutions are used by theleading chemical, petroleum, and lifesciences companies.

• Intergraph continues to reinvest about 15percent of its revenue in the developmentof new technologies.

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areas that break assigned, automated rulesincreases the model quality and ensures thedesign owner is still the person in control ofthat section of the design.

• Integrating all the major disciplines, not justpiping and structural, guarantees a complete,consistent design. This ability has not beenoffered by traditional packages.

• Automated drawing production and modelmonitoring ensure that all drawings producedfrom the 3D plant model always reflect the cur-rent and approved model status. This meansno more hand-checking of drawings is neededto make sure they match the model.

Intergraph Smart™ 3Dwas the top solution in ourbenchmark due partly to itsintegrated work share andother appealing features, itsbright future, and integra-tion with other SmartPlantEnterprise solutions. Smart3D will enable Fives Cail toimprove design productivityand improve design quality.

M. Alain FruchartHead of Information SystemsFives Cail

Global, Concurrent Engineering SupportWhether your project leverages high-valueengineering centers, centers of expertise, oraround-the-clock engineering practices, the entiredesign team can collaborate more effectivelythan ever before. With Intergraph’s 3D Modeling& Visualization, you can replicate project dataanywhere in the world using established, industry-standard tools. In practice, this means that aschanges are made in one location, they areautomatically and incrementally propagated toother locations – with all project team membersworking in a single, concurrent environment. Thewhole process can be managed from one site.Enable different engineering disciplines to workconcurrently with continuous interference checkingin force. This helps identify design problems morequickly. The earlier a problem is detected, theeasier it is to correct – at significantly lower cost.

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Intergraph’s 3D Modeling & Visualization solutionhelps the industry shorten its project schedules,allowing plant revenues to begin flowing earlierand project financing costs to be reduced. Italso allows EPCs to better optimize their designworkforces, cut construction safety risks, andslash insurance costs.

Faster and Better Design –Without CompromiseThe 3D Modeling & Visualization solution providesa variety of business benefits. From a productivitystandpoint, the solution increases the level ofdrawing automation, increasing design accuracy.Engineers can take advantage of a quick andeasy-to-use environment that employs “wizards”to support and assist more complex modelingtasks, significantly shortening the learning curverequired to achieve productivity. Because 50percent of engineering time can be wasted lookingfor drawings and other documents, this increasedautomation boosts productivity and improves theefficiency of engineering design.

Importantly, the 3D Modeling & Visualizationenvironment also offers a unified, multi-disciplinaryenvironment in which you can learn how to usecommon tools spanning multiple disciplines. Thisis good news for design productivity, and forsmaller projects in which one designer can nowhandle a broader range of multi-discipline activities.These optimized, consistent system commandsand modeling functions also mean that engineerscan learn how to use the system more quickly,shortening project schedules.

Projects designed using Intergraph’s 3D Modeling& Visualization offer built-in data intelligence.Embedded engineering rules for all SmartPlant

Enterprise objects validate and ensure theconsistency of your design. When one pieceof design data is modified, others associatedwith it automatically update to reflect the designmodification, maintaining design intent. Theserelationships promote easier updates. Again,this accelerates the engineering process andimproves the overall quality of the underlyingdesign data. The resulting 3D plant objects arenow truly “intelligent,” understanding their ownfunctions and relationships relative to other 3Dplant objects designed within the SmartPlantEnterprise environment. Importantly, the 3DModeling & Visualization environment creates aunified disciplinary environment. A staff membercan easily learn how to use the tools of multipledisciplines – good news for productivity, and forsmaller projects and plant configuration manage-ment, in which one design engineer can nowhandle all the work. All discipline-specific tools,such as piping, structural, and equipment, onlyrequire a few commands.

Easier Modification Throughout the Life ofthe PlantBy improving the quality of asset design, the 3DModeling & Visualization solution improves effi-ciency, making it easier and cheaper for O/Os tomaintain and run their plants. O/Os can use thesolution to preserve the value of their engineeringdata while also making the plant modificationsthat are inevitable during the life of the asset. The3D Modeling & Visualization solution supports“as-is” and “to be” plant configurations, ensuringdata integrity while saving time and money.

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THE INTEGRATEDSMARTPLANTENTERPRISE FAMILYBeyond standalone use, Intergraph’s 3D Modeling &Visualization is also part of the SmartPlant Enterprise.SmartPlant Enterprise offers best-in-class applications and alow-risk, step-wise implementation approach to realizinga truly integrated engineering enterprise.

SmartPlant Enterprise includes:• 3D Modeling & Visualization• Analysis• Information Management• Engineering & Schematics• Procurement, Fabrication & Construction• SmartPlant Alliance Program

NEXT STEPS3D Modeling & Visualization applications are fully supported byIntergraph Process, Power & Marine’s global service networkand can be tailored to meet your specific requirements. Thesolution can be up and running within weeks, including usertraining for all key disciplines. To discover how this solutioncould help your business, contact us today.

Products that make up the 3D Modeling & Visualization solu-tion include:• Intergraph Smart™ 3D• SmartPlant Layout• PDS®

• SupportModeler™

• FrameWorks® Plus• SmartPlant Review• SmartPlant Interop Publisher• SmartPlant Markup

ABOUTINTERGRAPHIntergraph helps the world work smarter. The company’s software andsolutions improve the lives of millions of people through better facilities,safer communities and more reliable operations.

Intergraph Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) is the world’s leading pro-vider of enterprise engineering software enabling smarter design andoperation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph Security,Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) is the leader in smart solutions foremergency response, utilities, transportation and other global chal-lenges. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.

Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nordic exchange: HEXA B; www.hexagon.com), a leading global provider of design, measurement, andvisualization technologies that enable customers to design, measureand position objects, and process and present data.

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