1. Process, Power & Marine
E X E C U T I V E B R I E F I N G
SmartPlant®
3D – Intelligent, Integrated Plant Design
Gain Greater Efficiency and Integration
Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies face increasing challenges to
support globally dispersed, concurrently engineered projects as part of an extended project
enterprise involving customers, plant owner/operators (O/Os), fellow EPCs, and their suppli-
ers. Managing the value chain and associated changes to work practices in order to support
the extended project enterprise is key to extending your competitive advantage.
These challenges are not only focused on best practice engineering activities to support the
overall plant life cycle. Better integration, communication, and collaboration at the project and
data levels with other suppliers, vendors, and fellow EPCs are major keys to your success.
As the leading supplier of 3D plant design software spanning the last two decades,
Intergraph designed SmartPlant®
Enterprise to deliver ever greater efficiency to the industry
through increased automation within engineering disciplines combined with greater integra-
tion between disciplines. As a result, SmartPlant Enterprise is based on a modular architec-
ture to allow clients to take implementation in a step-wise fashion.
A member of Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise software family, SmartPlant®
3D offers sig-
nificant benefits at the enterprise, project, discipline, and end-user levels. It is now helping
to realign the way EPCs approach and engineer new capital projects in the future.
In practical terms, SmartPlant 3D offers designers a significantly better way to design plants
by providing an advanced and consistent plant design environment based on a data-centric,
rule-driven architecture. By integrating key engineering disciplines, the resulting environment
shatters the constraints imposed by traditional plant design software, resulting in increased
design productivity.
Productivity Benefits
SmartPlant 3D can achieve 20 to 35 percent productivity time savings in key plant design
disciplines as compared to older plant design software. In addition, when integrated into the
SmartPlant Enterprise, this productivity percentage is magnified.
SmartPlant 3D provides productivity time savings between 50 to 90 percent when making
3D design modifications in comparison with older plant design software.
The process of integrating plant data developed between other engineering disciplines offers
tangible project-related productivity savings, including:
SmartPlant®
Layout, based on SmartPlant 3D, reduces remodeling between conceptual
design and detail design by 90 percent when used in conjunction with SmartPlant 3D.
Using SmartPlant technologies, the time taken to undertake P&ID consistency checking
between the 2D schematic model and 3D digital plant model can be reduced by more
than 90 percent.
Design Reuse – Designs can be archived, retrieved, and re-used from project to
“SmartPlant 3D continues to demon-
strate business value. In preliminary
benchmarking, we determined
SmartPlant 3D increases equipment
and piping design productivity over
current systems by some 30 percent,
through reduced command entries
and its streamlined user interface.”
Dave Hargy
Director, Shaw Stone & Webster
“SmartPlant 3D is a product of tens of
millions of US dollars in research and
development to dramatically improve
productivity compared to the 1960s
technologies currently available.
SmartPlant 3D enables our clients to
improve disciplinary productivity imme-
diately and sets a path to even more
interdisciplinary productivity found in
the greater SmartPlant Enterprise.”
Gerhard Sallinger
President, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine

2. project to “jump-start” similar projects.
Legacy data can be effectively brought into SmartPlant 3D.
Interdisciplinary Integration
SmartPlant 3D has been designed for productivity in both modeling and inter-
discipline integration:
Provides a consistent, integrated family of multi-disciplinary SmartPlant 3D applica-
tions based on the familiar Microsoft Windows user interface. This boosts productivity
and substantially reduces software learning curves by offering a familiar, easy-to-use
3D design and modeling environment.
Enables SmartPlant 3D designers to more effectively capture and manage design
intent via design rules and relationships between SmartPlant plant items. This helps
to retain and in many cases increase engineering and corporate knowledge, increa-
sing overall data quality and integrity.
Offers intelligent integration, providing a money-saving step toward a truly integrated
engineering enterprise. Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance Program encourages
third parties to move into this environment to help expand integration benefits to
your business.
A New Way of Working
Intergraph has architected and developed SmartPlant 3D to address the constraints
imposed by existing technical, software, data management, functional, and integration
deficiencies by enabling an optimized, integrated design environment used to define
and manage the 3D plant model.
Intergraph’s SmartPlant environment strives to maximize your return on investment,
while protecting your existing investments around infrastructure, training, and
organizational processes. This helps support changes in the way the global plant design
industry manages plant assets through the complete life cycle. SmartPlant 3D is helping
drive and shape this change and, as a result, helping to increase competitive advantage
to your organization.
A Decision for the Future
If you are using PDMS today, contact Intergraph for access to detailed 3D modeling
discipline productivity analysis results, or to set up a test of your own to validate and
prove these benefits which will ultimately accelerate your business. Special upgrades
and migration assistance from PDMS to SmartPlant 3D are available now.
Intergraph, the Intergraph logo, and SmartPlant are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are
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is subject to change without notice and is subject to applicable technical product descriptions. Intergraph is not responsible for inadvertent errors.
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