Plant design management system1

1. 3D Plant Design Management
System

2. 3D Plant Design Management System
Introduction
 It is a computer-aided design which is used in the Process and Power generation industries for
detail engineering.
 It reduces the engineering and construction cost.
 It shortens design, construction and commissioning schedules.
 It improves operating efficiency, safety, environmental impact and regulatory compliance and
all quality factors.
 The deployment of 3D Plant Design Management systems may be seen as differentiating firms
that seek to leverage computer technology for competitive advantage from firms with more
traditional engineering approaches.
 Now-a-days 3D Plant design technology becoming as a cornerstone of plant lifecycle
information management.

3. Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

4. Conceptual Design / Proposal phase :
 Process and power generation project costs are sensitive to conceptual design decisions.
 Plant design software facilitates the economic analysis of design alternatives before project
costs are committed. For example, 3D modeling enables design engineers to perform
cost/benefit analysis for alternate plot plans.
 Accuracy and consistency of the documentation for conceptual design tasks, including process
design and simulation, plant layout, cost estimation, process control specification and
equipment specification are critical determinants of project cost.
 Computer-aided conceptual design in general, and 3D design modeling in particular, can
enable design intent to be communicated more efficiently and accurately among engineering
personnel, which improves both quality and timeliness of project design.
 Additionally firms can report a favorable reception by senior management to animated 3D
walkthroughs and photo realistic slide presentations at client companies.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

5. Engineering and detail design phase:
For engineering and detail design of process and power generation facilitates, 3D technology
promises the following benefits.
 Improved quality through data integrity.
 Consistency and standardization of design.
 Constructability analysis.
 Elimination of expensive plastic models.
 Design and design segment re-use on future projects.
 Input from operations at the design phase.
 Automated interference checking.
 Input data for engineering analysis and simulation.
 Improved overall efficiency through automation of production of engineering drawings and
reports.
 Better project control and coordination.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

6. Engineering and detail design phase:
 The integration of piping specifications and code requirements as well as ANSI and DIN
standards in a consistent database allows engineers to avoid costly mistakes by trapping errors
and out-of-specification design.
 A related benefit is that 3D models can be automatically exported to analysis applications to
test the designs for mechanical stress, hydraulic analysis, thermal stress and other factors, which
can both improve design quality and reduce project cost.
 Interference checking between disciplines such as piping, equipments, HVAC, structural steel
and electrical.
 3D Plant design system provides the automated production of engineering drawings and reports.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

7. Construction phase:
Plant construction costs, including construction labor, equipment and materials for typical process
and power generation projects represents approximately 80% to 90% of a total project costs.
Construction-phase benefits of using 3D plant design technology include,
 compressed construction schedules
 reduction in field rework labor due to improved interference detection
 higher-quality documentation for job sequencing and craft work
 more reliable and clearer status reporting and verification
 improved costing schedules
 reduces fabrication cost and bulk material cost up.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

8. Construction phase:
Rework can be reduced to as little as 2% of total construction labor when 3D plant design modeling is
utilized during the construction phase.
3-Dimensional plant design databases can be used to generate bill of material (BOM) and material
take-offs (MTO) automatically, which can lead to more accurate procurement, reduced bulk
Material surpluses, and consequently improved project cash flow. Live links from engineering
schematics and the 3D model to component catalogs can also enable more intelligent procurement
scheduling.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

9. Operations and Maintenance phase:
Operations and Maintenance phase benefits of using 3D plant design technology include,
 optimization of maintenance schedule
 improved safety management
 streamlined component and drawing research for operations troubleshooting
 provides enhanced training and minimize facility turnaround and outage time.
Visualization of the work space enables intelligent maintenance planning, a benefit more easily
achieved with a 3D model than with 2D drawings and physical models.
Plant life cycle management
Benefits of 3D Plant Design System

10. 3D Plant Design software’s
 Plant Design System (PDS) – (Intergraph)
 Plant Design Management System (PDMS) – (AVEVA)
 PlantSPACE - (Bentley )
 AutoPLANT 3D – (Bentley)
 Smart Plant 3D – (Intergraph)
 CADMATIC – (Elomatic)
 PlantWise – (Design Power)
 PASCE 3D – (EA Systems)
 CADWorx – (Autodesk)
 CCPLANT – (Dassault Systems)

11. Plant Design Management System (PDMS) – (AVEVA)
Plant Design Management System (PDMS) can be used to design any type of plants such as
 Oil & Gas
 Power plants
 petrochemical plants
 offshore platforms
 chemical and pharmaceutical plants
 consumer products (food, beverages, cosmetics, soap, paper and so forth)
 waste water treatment plants
 Cogeneration facilities
PDMS helps companies achieve more with fewer resources by providing:
 Automation that improves productivity
 3D-Modeling that helps designers create a better design
 Dynamic walkthroughs that allow operations and maintenance personnel to interactively view
the plant before it is constructed.
 Interference checking to reduce or eliminate field rework.
 Accurate material take-offs that cut costs.
 Specification driven design and checking that improve accuracy.
Introduction

12. Plant Design Management System (PDMS) – (AVEVA)
Schematics Environment:
 P&ID, PFD and IDM
 Material Take-off (MTO)
 Reports
Equipment Modeling:
 3D Equipment models
Structural Modeling:
 3D Structural Model
Deliverables from PDMS

13. Plant Design Management System (PDMS) – (AVEVA)
Piping Designer:
 3D Piping models
Electrical Raceway Module:
 3D Raceway models
 Material Take-off (MTO)
Pipe Stress Analysis:
 Stress analysis neutral file for CAESAR
Pipe Support Designer:
 3D Pipe support models
Deliverables from PDMS

14. Plant Design Management System (PDMS) – (AVEVA)
Isodraft for Isometrics:
 Isometric Drawings
 ISOGEN MTO neutral file
 Parts list (Bill of Materials)
2D Drawing (Draft):
 2D Drawings
Report Extraction:
 Material Take-off report for piping, equipment and pipe supports
 Reports on Project, Design and reference database files
Deliverables from PDMS

15. Comparative strengths of PDMS
 PDMS provides database integration between P&ID and piping design. This provides design
reference for routing pipe and eliminates errors.
 ‘Piping Designer’ is a specification-driven task. The piping job specification is accessed
during the placement of each component or pipe. It avoids mistakes by trapping errors and
out-of-specification design.
 Implied material items like gaskets, bolts and welds are placed automatically. They are
invisible graphically and listed in the bill of materials.
 Non physical data such as branch calculations or gasket separation, wall thickness
calculations are hard corded in the software itself.
 The Piping Assembly Language (PAL) enables to define the parameter necessary to place a
piping assembly (group of components) automatically in the model.
 PDMS generates stress neutral file for third party software’s like CAESAR.
 PDMS allows to extract isometrics from a 3D plant model. The ISODraft software is designed to
be flexible because drawing practices vary from one company to another. In addition to
isometric drawings it generates ISOGEN MTO neutral file, Parts list (Bill of Materials) and Cut
pipe report.

16. Plant Design System (PDMS)
3D Model - Snapshots and walkthrough