nsight A publication of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine Issue 20 October 2007 SmartMarine 3D Expanding opportunities offshore

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1 A publicatio of Itergraph Process, Power & Marie Issue 20 October 2007 sight SmartMarie 3D Expadig opportuities offshore Itegrated egieerig Samsug Heavy Idustries Worksharig ad data hadover Sucor Improved materials maagemet Ledcor Idustrial

2 sight A publicatio of Itergraph Process, Power & Marie Issue 20 October 2007 Cotets Special Sectio Focus o the Marie Idustry 2 From the Top Stregtheig SmartMarie Eterprise 4 Techology at Work Samsug Heavy Idustries 6 Did You Kow? Maagig Data through the Marie Life Cycle 8 Special Sectio Focus o Caada 12 Viewpoit Sucor 14 Techology at Work Ledcor Idustrial 16 Tri Ocea Egieerig Ltd Golde Valve Award Wiers 20 Great Mids Through Time ABB 24 Page 4 Broadeig the scope Page 6 Cuttig desig errors Page 14 Meetig tight schedules Page 16 Maagig mega-projects Idustry Newsbytes 27 Evets ad Aoucemets 30 Idustry Outlook Techology Eablig People 32 Page 18 Desigig for the Arctic Isight is published by Itergraph Process, Power & Marie Itergraph Corporatio, Hutsville, Alabama USA To submit materials, write: Isight, Itergraph Process, Power & Marie, 300 Itergraph Way, Madiso, Alabama USA or isight@itergraph.com Isight is published quarterly by Itergraph Process, Power & Marie, Itergraph Corporatio, Hutsville AL For a complimetary subscriptio, call or isight@itergraph.com. Isight is published to iform ad educate professioals about techology ad issues pertaiig to the process, power, offshore ad shipbuildig idustries. Isight accepts ideas for articles but reserves the right ot to publish them for ay reaso. The cotets of this publicatio may ot be reproduced i whole or i part without the coset of the copyright ower. Images submitted for Isight articles are the property of ad published with the permissio of their respective owers. Itergraph, the Itergraph logo, SmartPlat, PDS, ItelliShip, SmartSketch, ad FrameWorks are registered trademarks ad SmartMarie ad SupportModeler are trademarks of Itergraph Corporatio. SAP ad SAP NetWeaver are registered trademarks of SAP. Microsoft is a registered trademark ad SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporatio. Itergraph believes the iformatio i this publicatio is accurate as of its publicatio date. Such iformatio is subject to chage without otice ad is subject to applicable techical product descriptios. Itergraph is ot resposible for iadvertet errors Itergraph Corporatio, Hutsville AL All rights reserved. Prited i USA. Editor Maagig Editors Cotributig Editor Editorial Director Graphic Desiger Patrick Holcomb Joh Deaver Lebro Miles David Joffrio Jaa Miller Joey Russell

3 20 Letter from the Editor Opportuities multiply as they are seized. Su Tzu Eve though this quote from the aciet Chiese geeral is approximately 2,500 years old, its meaig resoates strogly today more tha ever. As egieers, our professio provides the meas to expad boudaries ad meet the challeges of ew opportuities. Today s markets are growig by leaps ad bouds, ad we at Itergraph are hoored to play a role i helpig our customers to desig, build ad operate the extraordiary assets that make our global ecoomy possible. From deep sea offshore platforms ad giat FPSOs to the oil sads of Caada, Itergraph customers are at the leadig edge of exploratio to esure that eergy eeds cotiue to be met. Other customers are usig our solutios to build giat LNG carriers ad vessels that trasport goods ad spread ecoomic prosperity worldwide. Be sure to see our excitig aoucemet about SmartMarie 3D o the followig pages. Gerhard Salliger discusses i From the Top (page 4) how Itergraph is takig steps to better address the marie markets that we serve. I Smooth Sailig (page 6), Yeog Soo Bae of Samsug Heavy Idustries describes how the compay s choice of Itergraph solutios has helped to dramatically improve productivity. Turig our attetio to aother part of the globe, I am happy to cogratulate Itergraph Caada o its 30th aiversary (page 12). Our experieced team of professioals serves a variety of diverse customers from coast to coast. We are glad to serve a growig commuity of users i the oil sads. Paul Crowley from Sucor (page 14) discusses how SmartPlat 3D has ehaced worksharig ad data hadover. Deise Cosma from Ledcor Idustrial (page 16) also shares her compay s great success with the use of SmartPlat Materials. I Tri Ocea Egieers for Extreme Coditios (page 18), Joe Poletto speaks about how PDS has beefited work i the Arctic. It is truly ispirig to share how customers are usig our solutios to seize their ow rapidly multiplyig opportuities. I hope that you will ejoy this issue of Isight ad lear how idustry leaders are doig just that. Patrick Holcomb Isight Editor Executive Vice Presidet, Global Busiess Developmet Itergraph Process, Power & Marie Opportuities

4 Special Sectio Focus o the Marie Idustry Special Sectio From the Top Samsug Heavy Idustries Did You Kow? SmartMarie 3D Waves of Progress For more tha 20 years, Itergraph has supplied egieerig desig ad productio solutios to the marie idustry. Origially derived from the world s leadig plat desig solutios prove i the most complex ad demadig lad-side process ad power plats, Itergraph software has expaded ad evolved to meet the eeds of the world s leadig shipbuildig ad offshore marie compaies ad classificatio societies. Today, Itergraph SmartMarie 3D, the ewest geeratio of shipbuildig ad offshore desig ad productio software ad the idustry s first ew approach i 20 years is helpig customers deliver vessels ad offshore structures faster ad more efficietly tha ever. 2 Isight Issue 20

5 Itergraph Itroduces SmartMarie 3D Itergraph Corp. recetly itroduced SmartMarie 3D, its ext-geeratio software that streamlies desig processes, resultig i lower costs ad faster delivery for the shipbuildig ad offshore idustries. Previously kow as Itelli- Ship, SmartMarie 3D offers improved modelig, detailig ad maufacturig capability for offshore devices ad ships for urivaled productivity ad userfriedliess. SmartMarie 3D provides a multidisciplie, itegrated ad seamless desig eviromet that reduces costs ad shortes project schedules for shipbuilders ad offshore desig firms alike. It couples egieerig, automatic drawigs geeratio, productio plaig ad maufacturig. SmartMarie 3D is the most advaced marie desig solutio i the market today. It s a ext-geeratio, full 3D system, ot 2½ D as is the case with some other, old-fashioed systems that are still used i the marie idustry, said Gerhard Salliger, presidet, Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. The ew product bradig from ItelliShip to SmartMarie 3D reflects the ivestmet i the solutio by leadig marie systems cliets, such as Keppel FELS of Sigapore, COSCO Shipyard Group of Chia ad Grelad Group i Norway, to desig ships ad offshore devices more effectively. IItergraph Establishes Asia-Pacific Marie Services Ceter tergraph has established the Itergraph Marie Services Ceter i Seoul, Korea, to provide cosultig, support ad techical resources for its growig marie customer base i the Asia-Pacific regio. The compay has also lauched marie busiess uits i Japa, Chia, Southeast Asia ad Australia as part of this market emphasis. The expasio uderscores Itergraph s commitmet to serve its icreasig customer base of leadig Asia-Pacific shipbuildig ad offshore compaies, icludig COSCO Shipyard Group, Keppel FELS, Marie Desig ad Research Istitute of Chia, Samsug Heavy Idustries ad others. Yeog Soo Bae, executive vice presidet of Samsug Heavy Idustries said, The ew Marie Services Ceter is a sig of Itergraph s dedicatio to the marie idustry ad its willigess to respod to customer eeds. Itergraph is buildig o its success i the Asia-Pacific marie market with this sigificat busiess ivestmet, said Gerhard Salliger, presidet of Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. With two-thirds of the world s commercial ships ad offshore devices beig built i this regio, we will cotiue to grow our resources, helpig the idustry to icrease its productivity ad profitability by adoptig Itergraph s superior solutios. The Itergraph Marie Services Ceter will assist Itergraph pricipal customers, as well as facilitate the delivery ad executio of ew Itergraph techology to marie prospects i the regio. October 2007 Isight 3

6 From the Top Stregtheig SmartMarie Eterprise SmartMarie 3D represets a major step to address both the shipbuildig ad offshore markets By Jaa Miller Gerhard Salliger is resposible for the global strategic directio of the Itergraph Process, Power & Marie divisio. With early 30 years of idustry experiece, he is i costat cotact with customers, techology parters ad other market experts. Isight recetly spoke with Salliger about the growig offshore ad shipbuildig idustries ad how Itergraph is respodig to meet these demadig markets eeds with ext geeratio solutios. Isight: What are the curret challeges affectig the offshore idustry? Gerhard Salliger: There are two major challeges. The first is a matter of techology. May sub-sea oil ad gas fields deployed these days are i deep water areas. For these, ew techologies are eeded. New offshore devices are eterig the scee o a growig scale. A icreasig umber of today s offshore facilities are floatig hybrid devices 4 Isight Issue 20

7 half-plats, half-ships, like FPSOs. The secod challege is fiacial. The devices ad ships are very complex ad their cost is quite high. Isight: What is the outlook for the idustry? GS: The offshore ad shipbuildig boom will cotiue for the foreseeable future sice the demad for oil ad gas is risig, ad world trade volume is steadily growig. We are seeig a large umber of projects, ad the forecast cotiues to be strog. We put strog focus o the marie market. It fits i very well with our comprehesive market strategy. We are the defiitive No. 1 software vedor i the oshore oil ad gas, power geeratio, chemical ad life sciece markets ad No. 2 i the marie market. With SmartMarie 3D, we are well equipped to become No. 1 i this idustry as well. Isight: How is the offshore idustry similar to the oshore plat idustry? How are they differet? GS: Offshore ad oshore are similar i that they both deal with large capital assets that are techically complex. Ships, plats ad offshore devices cosist of pipes, cables, equipmet, steel structures ad more. Ulike most oshore egieerig compaies, shipbuilders ad may offshore egieerig compaies have large maufacturig facilities ad processes. Isight: ItelliShip is ow reamed SmartMarie 3D. Why has Itergraph chose to do this? GS: This is a iterestig story to share. We started specifyig ItelliShip i cooperatio with a cosortium of leadig shipbuilders i early Sice 1999, a large team of shipbuildig experts ad software specialists have worked together to develop this solutio to offer superior productivity ad performace for shipyards ad owers. ItelliShip wet ito first productio i 2004 ad the results are impressive. Sice the, may ships have bee successfully built with the software, icludig large cotaier ships, LNG carriers ad more. While we made the decisio to address the shipbuildig market with ItelliShip i 1998, we were also thikig about how to best address the offshore market. The oly questio was if our offshore solutio should be based o SmartPlat 3D or ItelliShip. The fact that i the last 18 moths SmartMarie 3D takes the user all the way from desig to fabricatio for structure ad outfittig all based o oe seamlessly itegrated techology. several offshore compaies have made their choice ad selected ItelliShip for their work made it easy to decide that it would be ItelliShip. Now we are reflectig this by extedig ItelliShip s fuctioal scope ad chagig its ame to SmartMarie 3D. Isight: How does SmartMarie 3D address the offshore ad shipbuildig markets? GS: SmartMarie 3D is very importat for both the shipbuildig ad offshore egieerig markets. These are boomig idustries ad the compaies i these idustries are workig at the limits of their capacities. Higher productivity is a key factor for them. A system that is able to reduce the desig ad productio time for a ship or offshore asset helps to icrease the speed of gettig a ship or platform built ad delivered. SmartMarie 3D takes the user all the way from desig to fabricatio for structure ad outfittig all based o oe seamlessly itegrated techology. Isight: What beefits does SmartMarie 3D offer the idustry? GS: With SmartMarie 3D, customers eed to eter data oly oce, ad ca use that data may times i differet phases of the desig ad productio process. This delivers a huge cost savigs potetial. Plus, the desig is based o customizable rules, ad is highly automated. Isight: Why should shipbuildig ad offshore compaies choose Itergraph? GS: We simply offer the better solutios. We have the best, most powerful ad productive products, based o state-of-the-art techology that is fully itegrated betwee its modules. Customers ca take advatage of the itegratio of 3D desig with itelliget 2D schematics, iformatio maagemet, materials maagemet ad project cotrols solutios. Itegrate that with the customer s ERP system (our SmartPlat Eterprise for Ower Operators versio 3.8 has recetly gaied Powered by SAP NetWeaver qualificatio from SAP), ad a customer gets a modular ad ope system which is very powerful, flexible, itegrated ad scaleable. This traslates to a big wi for everyoe. Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight. October 2007 Isight 5

8 Techology at Work Smooth Sailig for Samsug Heavy Idustries SmartMarie 3D Cuts Desig Errors ad Boosts Productivity By Jaa Miller The secod largest shipbuilder i the world, Samsug Heavy Idustries Co. Ltd (SHI) is strogly focused o the shipbuildig ad offshore markets. The South Korea compay has almost 11,000 employees ad sales totaled US$6.8 billio i SHI desigs ad costructs high value-added vessels such as LNG carriers ad large passeger ships, as well as drill ships ad shuttle takers, for which it is globally raked No. 1. The compay operates eight overseas facilities, icludig a ship block factory i Chia. SHI holds three iteratioal quality stadards ISO 9001, ISO ad OHSAS ad is iteratioally recogized for its quality, safety ad evirometal awareess. Seeig results SHI s Geoje Shipyard bega usig Itergraph SmartMarie 3D i productio i 2004 ad it has already yielded measurable results that have impacted SHI s bottom lie. Sice choosig SmartMarie 3D, we ve made a remarkable reductio i the amout of desig errors ad material costs. We ve also improved costructio productivity, said Yeog Soo Bae, executive vice presidet of Shipbuildig Desig at SHI. With SmartMarie 3D, we have reduced desig errors i half. We have also improved productivity by about 10 percet. SmartMarie 3D SHI uses SmartMarie 3D for desigig ad buildig the structure ad outfittig of ships (see table). The solutio helps SHI maage a Microsoft SQL Server database with 1.1 terabytes of active data. SmartMarie 3D supports cocurret egieerig ad a frot-loadig workflow. The solutio provides a large amout of productio iformatio to easily iterface with ERP systems, ad SHI is workig to take advatage of this by developig a iterface. Itegratios with third party solutio Eest, a structure estig program, alog with several i-house solutios, have proved very beeficial. These itegratios traslate ito a large reductio i desig labor hours at SHI, said Bae. Across the eterprise SHI recetly chose SmartPlat Foudatio, Itergraph s iformatio maagemet solutio, to improve its productivity. This marks the first implemetatio of SmartPlat Foudatio i the shipbuildig idustry. SmartPlat Foudatio forms a cetral data warehouse ad egieerig ad maufacturig data chage chael for large ad complicated ship desig. As shipbuildig projects grow larger while project schedules become shorter, a itegrated product ad egieerig iformatio maagemet system represets a key success factor. The shipbuilder ca exchage quality desig iformatio ad maufacturig iformatio durig the project ad deliver as-built iformatio to ship owers at the same time the project is completed. SmartPlat Foudatio will be used as a stadardized data warehouse i the shipbuildig divisio as a first step. SHI has plas to use Itergraph solutios for the etire desig process, i both shipbuildig ad offshore plat projects. I additio, SHI will stadardize its basic CAD format corporate-wide to Itergraph s SmartSketch. This Smart- 6 Isight Issue 20

9 Through the Workflow SHI takes advatage of SmartMarie 3D for a variety of shipbuildig tasks, icludig: Ship structure desig Ship outfittig desig SmartMarie 3D molded form SmartMarie 3D pipe routig Cableway routig Hager ad support Structure detailig SmartPlat Structure Cable routig Weight ad CG Structure maufacturig Equipmet placemet Plaig Iterferece check Plaig HVAC routig Hole maagemet Drawig Drawig Other Itergraph solutios used Complemetary solutios used SmartPlat 3D Eest SmartPlat Foudatio EzHULL SmartSketch SmartPlat Markup Plus PDS Samsug Heavy Idustries is usig Itergraph techology for a variety of high-value marie structures: Project Implemetatio Area Delivery Date 750,000 bbls FPSO Upper deck, cargo hold ,000 toes drill ship Aft E/R (excludig forward M/C room, thruster room) ,000 toes arctic shuttle taker All area ,000 toes drill ship Aft E/R (excludig forward M/C room, thruster room) ,000 toes drill ship E/R ,000 bbls FPSO All area ,000 bbls FPSO All area 2010 Sketch stadardizatio will exted to SHI s offshore plat divisio ad its subsidiary shipyard i Chia. I-depth services SHI s experiece has show that Smart- Marie solutios require far less traiig tha previously used software solutios ad its employees ca be fully productive i far less time i a matter of moths istead of a year or more. Traiig icludes basic courses such as a seveweek course for structural users, ad a three-week course for outfittig users. Itergraph supports our maagemet team with valuable services, said Bae. The Itergraph staff has also helped us with a umber of customizatio efforts, icludig catalogs, rules, specificatios, drawig labels, plus stadards data migratio. Prove experiece We chose Itergraph because they have adopted the most advaced, state-of-theart architecture, said Bae. Itergraph is a steady ad promisig compay, with strog experiece i developig both plat ad shipbuildig CAD software. SHI looks forward to eve greater success i the future, ad is lookig at possibly expadig its eterprise solutio by addig Itergraph SmartPlat P&ID to its solutio mix. Oe thig we pla to achieve i the upcomig year is to reduce desig cost, said Bae. SmartMarie 3D will be used for at least the ext 10 years for all of our projects as our mai CAD tool. Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight. October 2007 Isight 7

10 Did You Kow? Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise Boosts Productivity Solutios maage data through the marie life cycle By Tom Szoka Advaces i the software tools available to shipbuildig, marie egieerig ad productio orgaizatios have eabled them to move forward. While these treds are likely to cotiue, they will oly produce step-wise improvemets i their vertical segmet. To achieve major productivity breakthroughs, maage the accelerated speed of chages ad provide sigificat returs o ivestmet i techology ad tools, a broader, more horizotal strategy is eeded that exteds the domai across egieerig, busiess, material maagemet, ad productio systems. Give the scope of such a task, o sigle product or vedor will likely address all the requiremets. What is eeded is a scalable, ope solutio that ca serve as a itegratio ad data repository platform such that global project iformatio caot oly be created, but maaged i a cotrolled ad itegrated maer throughout the project life cycle. Effective ERP implemetatio A growig tred i the shipbuildig idustry is for shipbuilders to implemet eterprise resource plaig (ERP) systems like SAP. Oe of the keys to effective ERP implemetatio i a shipyard is effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee ERP elemets of work plaig ad material maagemet, egieerig ad desig systems, ad productio systems like estig ad shop floor maagemet. Effective itegratio ca yield up to a 8x beefit to that derived from automatio aloe (see Referece 1, page 11). This article will outlie productioprove methodologies for implemetig effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee ERP, egieerig ad desig, ad productio systems. Required data exchages Figure 1 outlies the effective data exchages that will be the basis of the discussio. Figure 1 Data exchages Arrows marked with 1 represet the exchage betwee materials maagemet ad desig systems. A major source for Bills of Material (BOM) i a typical shipyard is from desig tools. Arrow 1a represets that exchage. For ay effective data exchage to ERP s material maagemet system, there must be sychroizatio from the desig tool s material codes ad ERP s material codes. The arrow marked 1b represets the sychroizatio of material codes with ERP. Arrows 2 represet the exchage betwee productio applicatios like pipe fabricatio, plate estig ad profile estig. These applicatios create BOM (arrow 2a) ad require sychroizatio of material codes (arrow 2b). Arrow 3 represets publishig data from desig to productio applicatios. This exchage icludes part iformatio ad geometry for plate ad profile estig ad pipig materials ad coectivity for fabricatio. The data exchaged iherits material codes from ERP. Arrow 4 represets the publishig of top-dow early desig productio plaig iformatio to seed the work breakdow structure (WBS) i the ERP project services system. Arrow 5a represets WBS iformatio published from ERP to detailed desig tools so the detailed desig tools ca do further bottom-up assembly plaig. Arrow 5b represets WBS published from ERP to productio systems. Arrow 6 represets data exchage betwee desig tools for example, fuctioal-to-detailed desig for hull structure ad outfittig pipig. Maagig data exchages Cosider exchages 1 through 5 i the cotext of steel plates. Exchage 1a ad 3 cotai duplicate iformatio but for differet cotexts. I the case of 1a, early i the desig cycle, the exchage is primarily for refiig steel estimates. Later it provides detailed BOM iformatio i the cotext of WBS (5a). Exchage 3 cotais the same iformatio that each idividual part cotaied i 1a, plus the additioal geometric iformatio required for estig. However, the detailed bottom-up assembly iformatio exchaged i 1a is ot required durig umber 3 data exchage. 2a cotais the idividual parts from 3 plus the additioal plate ad profile stock iformatio. Three coditios exist i this sceario: Three systems (desig, productio ad ERP) share commo iformatio about steel. The shared iformatio eeds to stay cosistet. Each system eeds to add, modify ad delete its data throughout the project life cycle while maitaiig cosistecy. Data exchages for arrow 6 i Figure 1 ofte have the same coditios. A solutio to esurig data exchaged is complete, cosistet ad correct is to have a commo techical data ad documet repository as i Figure 2 with the data exchages from Figure 1 movig i ad out of the commo reposi- 8 Isight Issue 20

11 tory as a cetral hub rather tha poitto-poit exchages. require differet material iformatio for their tools. Let s cosider two examples from hull ad outfittig: steel plates ad valve iformatio (Figure 3). I both examples ad for most materials, the ERP system cotais iformatio for purchasig that is ot explicitly required i desig ad productio tools. I both examples ad for most materials, there must be a way of idetifyig materials that are commo to more tha oe applicatio. This is idicated by the overlaps of all three circles with material code i the middle. I the case of plate parts, raw stock sizes (legth ad width) are required for estig while this data is ot widely used i desig applicatios. The overlap betwee estig ad 3D CAD icludes material, grade ad thickess. No additioal iformatio is required i 3D CAD. I the case of valves, 3D iformatio is required for 3D CAD while all iformatio required for itelliget P&ID is cotaied i the overlap betwee 3D CAD ad itelliget P&ID. Examples of characteristics iclude valve types ad sizes. The Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise offers SmartPlat Referece Data to maage ad sychroize catalogs betwee ERP ad desig ad productio systems. SmartPlat Referece Data is a Web-based applicatio that offers a sigle database catalog for all disciplies ad tools. It cotais stadard itegratios to Itergraph ad AVEVA desig tools (Figure 4), ad SAP MM. Figure 2 Data exchages with commo repository Commo data ad documet repository characteristics I order for the commo data ad documet repository to be effective i maitaiig complete, cosistet ad correct data, it must cotai the followig characteristics: Itegratio with leadig ERP, desig ad productio tools out of the box to reduce implemetatio costs ad the time to productivity Ope ad extesible to eable exchage with data ad documets with other vedors desig ad productio tools ad i-house systems Provide chage iformatio what specifically chaged, who chaged it ad whe all i a easy-to-uderstad cotext Material maagemet itegratios There are three parts to material maagemet itegratios from the sceario preseted i Figure 1: BOMs from desig ad productio tools cotai correct material codes for ERP (1b, 2b from Figure 1) BOM iformatio from desig ad productio tools to ERP (1a, 2a from Figure 1) BOMs cotai work breakdow cosistet with ERP (5a, 5b from Figure 1) These parts must cotai the required characteristics of: Stadard itegratios out of the box Ope ad extesible Maage chage Material catalog sychroizatio Each piece of the itegratio triad ERP, desig ad egieerig, ad productio Figure 3 Steel plates ad valve material requiremets Figure 4 AVEVA itegratio SmartPlat Referece Data is cofigurable with supported iput/outputs i Microsoft Excel, XML, comma delimited, etc. Desig ad productio BOM to ERP As discussed, exchage 1a (desig BOM to ERP) ad 3 (desig estig iformatio to estig) from Figure 1 cotai duplicate iformatio but for differet cotexts. Early i the desig cycle, exchages 1a ad 3 could be combied to provide more detailed material estimates to ERP, offer bottom-up assembly iformatio, ad provide estig iformatio without markig lies ad bevelig for pre-estig. The data from 2a is combied with 1a to provide ERP with a complete picture of parts to be cut ad where they fit i the assembly hierarchy. SmartMarie Eterprise offers the Web-based Egieerig & Procuremet Iterface (E&PI) module for SmartPlat Materials to maage BOM from various sources, cosolidatig them ad providig iformatio to procuremet. The E&PI module allows BOM verificatio ad the additio of iformatio before sedig to procuremet, icludig: Check items agaist catalog Check data cosistecy Usig rules, calculate attribute values ad adjust bulk quatities Create material summaries ito requisitio packages with attached documets ad vedor documet requests October 2007 Isight 9

12 Did You Kow? E&PI cotais stadard itegratios to Itergraph ad AVEVA desig tools ad SAP. The same cliets that use Smart- Plat Referece Data s AVEVA itegratio use the E&PI itegratio. The SAP itegratio allows you to preset SAP madatory fields with defaults like etwork activity code, job type, material group, geeral ledger ad more. Of the 40 E&PI implemetatios, 22 iclude iterfaces to ERP (Figure 5). Figure 5 SmartPlat Materials E&PI ad ERP itegratio The E&PI module maages chage with the followig fuctios: Sed idividual BOMs ad/or grouped materials to procuremet, for example, group by block Summarize bulk materials ito requisitio packages Maage differet phases of BOMs like estimate, fial desig ad revisios Track what came from the desig system ad what was set to procuremet Maage chages ad compare phase/ revisios to items set to procuremet Aalyze chage to eable faster decisios Work Breakdow Structure Itegratio Cosistet WBS iformatio is required for effective productio desig ad exchage of BOM iformatio. Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise has a geeral purpose applicatio for maagig exchages of iformatio like WBS called SmartPlat Foudatio. SmartPlat Foudatio comes with a built-i data model for WBS, ad Itergraph s desig tools support exchage to/from this data model. This WBS exchage is used i productio at plat desig ad ower compaies like Chiyoda, Dow Chemical ad Air Products. Smart Itegratio Framework SmartPlat Foudatio allows data exchage i a variety of ways, but the preferred methodology is through the Smart Itegratio Framework. Smart Itegratio provides a effective way of maitaiig complete, cosistet ad correct data across software systems ad applicatios. The framework icludes ope, extesible commo schema ad documeted, supported software compoets for publishig ad retrieval of data ad documets. Implemetatios of the software compoets i the framework are called adapters. All of the Itergraph tools i the SmartMarie Eterprise like Smart- Marie 3D ad SmartPlat Materials come with supported adapters that use the same software toolkit available for customers ad other software vedors. The followig features come automatically to applicatios that itegrate usig the Smart Itegratio Framework: Security ad audit gives you full history of all data chages with the ability to tur the clock back i time to see what the project looked like at ay poit. You ca cofigure the system to oly allow users with appropriate privileges to publish, retrieve, view or maipulate data. Itegrated documet maagemet with SmartPlat Foudatio s documet maagemet capabilities is available. Relatioships betwee drawigs ad documets are published with their associated data. Figure 6 shows the relatioship betwee equipmet i Smart- Plat Foudatio, its drawig ad idividual graphic elemets withi the drawig. I this example, if the equipmet item also appeared i the equipmet locatio drawig that came from SmartMarie 3D, Smart Itegratio would have automatically created the relatioship from the equipmet item to that drawig. Figure 6 Relatioships betwee data ad documets i SmartPlat Foudatio Itelliget comparisos of documet revisios ca be made at the data level. Figure 7 shows a compariso of two revisios of the same schematic idicatig items that were added, modified ad deleted, all the way dow to idividual attributes o specific items. Figure 7 Comparig the data ad visual represetatio of two documet revisios Additioal value: workflow ad applets Up to this poit, we have focused o the three commo data ad documet repository characteristics that must exist for effective maagemet: Stadard itegratios out of the box Ope ad extesible Easily ad effectively maage chage This sectio will focus o the two features that ehace must exist characteristics: workflow egie ad eablig ew applicatios. Itergraph s SmartPlat Foudatio comes with a workflow egie that allows you to model work processes which ca ehace the ability to effectively maage chage. SmartPlat Foudatio s ope architecture allows cliets to easily itegrate work processes with workflows i ERP. Figure 8 shows a graphical view of a typical workflow alog with a checklist that ca be associated with a step. This same iterface eables users ad maagers to see the status of tasks to determie where the bottleecks are ad what is behid schedule. The egie ca be cofigured to otify users of tasks to be doe withi SmartPlat Foudatio with a optio to have otificatios doe via . It also icludes the ability to attach drawigs, documets or other data objects to 10 Isight Issue 20

13 Figure 8 Workflow cofiguratio i SmartPlat Foudatio the workflow. Workflows are fully auditable as per the rest of objects, documets ad data i SmartPlat Foudatio. A additioal value is to have elemets of the SmartMarie Eterprise solutio plug ad play ito a larger eterprise applicatio to further ehace user experiece i terms of maagig chage ad seeig the bigger picture. I support of this value, SmartMarie Eterprise comes fully equipped with compoets that ca plug ito SAP s NetWeaver portal. This permits the exchage of critical data with istaces of the SAP Busiess Suite family of solutios ad is itegrated successfully with busiess fuctios exposed through the SAP NetWeaver portal. Figure 9 shows a example of a NetWeaver portal usig SmartPlat Foudatio s 3D model to avigate from idividual elemets i the 3D model to data i SAP data ad a reliability system. Figure 9 Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise elemets playig i SAP NetWeaver portal Coclusios Implemetig ERP provides a opportuity for shipyards to trasform their busiesses A major aspect of the ERP implemetatio ad busiess trasformatio is providig effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee desig, productio ad ERP Implemetig a commo data ad documet repository is a effective way to esure data exchage is complete, cosistet ad correct For the commo data ad documet repository to be effective i maitaiig complete, cosistet ad correct data, it must cotai the followig characteristics:. Itegratio with leadig ERP, desig ad productio tools out-of-thebox to reduce implemetatio costs ad reduce the time to productivity. Ope ad extesible to eable exchage with data ad documets with other vedors desig ad productio tools ad i-house systems. Provide iformatio that chage occurred, what specifically chaged, who chaged it ad whe, all i a easy-to-uderstad cotext SmartMarie Eterprise cotais all of the elemets required to support itegratio betwee ERP, desig ad productio ad has successfully demostrated these capabilities at cliet sites aroud the world. Referece: 1. Guidelies for Specifyig Itegrated Computer-Aided Egieerig Applicatios for Electric Power Plats, EPRI (Electric Power Research Istitute) report NP-5159M, Research Project , May 1987 Tom Szoka is vice presidet of global busiess developmet for the marie idustry at Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. October 2007 Isight 11

14 Special Sectio Image courtesy Shell Caada Focus o Caada Special Sectio Itergraph Caada Sucor Ledcor Idustrial Tri Ocea Egieerig Ltd. Caadia Oil Sads Deliver Great Challeges ad Opportuities Alberta s oil sads deposits were described by Time Magazie as Caada s greatest buried eergy treasure ad could satisfy the world s demad for petroleum for the ext cetury. Oil sads is aother ame for a tarry mixture of bitume, a crude oil that is markedly thicker ad heavier tha covetioal crude oil; sad ad other mierals; ad water. This molasses-like viscous oil will ot flow uless heated or diluted with lighter hydrocarbos. Oce bitume is separated from the oil sads, it eeds to be further upgraded to make it viable as a eergy resource. Alberta s largest deposit is the Athabasca oil sads deposit, with a estimated 1.3 trillio barrels of bitume i place. Alberta s three major oil sads deposits cover more tha 140,800 square km a area larger tha the state of Florida. However, oly about two percet of the iitial established resource has bee produced to date. Please read o to lear how Itergraph helped three customers solve their challeges o billio-dollar projects i the Oil Sads ad Arctic regios. 12 Isight Issue 20

15 Global occurreces of oil ad bitume Source of data: Caada s Eergy Future, Natioal Eergy Board 2003 Image courtesy Shell Caada Itergraph Caada Marks 30 Years Servig its Customers Itergraph Caada is celebratig its 30th aiversary i 2007 thaks to a wide variety of customers. Today, Itergraph Caada ad its more tha 160 employees support a growig, diversified customer base. Itergraph Process, Power & Marie (PP&M) i Caada serves EPCs, ower operators ad govermet customers largely i the eergy sector, icludig uclear. Oe of the most excitig treds for Caadia customers is work i the Oil Sads. Itergraph PP&M customers iclude: AECL Jacobs Egieerig AMEC Ledcor Idustrial CNRL Nexe Colt SNC-Lavali WorleyParsos Shell Caada CoocoPhillips Sucor Exxo Sycrude Fluor Itergraph Offices October 2007 Isight 13

16 Viewpoit Sucor Meets Tight Schedule with Itergraph SmartPlat 3D Worksharig ad data hadover boost Firebag project By Paul Crowley For more tha 40 years, Sucor has bee kow as both a iovator ad a leader from our pioeerig work i developig the Oil Sads of orther Alberta, to our itroductio of more evirometally resposible fuel. Sucor pioeered the world s first commercially successful oil sads operatio i 1967 ad reached a ew milestoe i 2006 with the productio of our billioth barrel of oil. I 2006, productio at the Athabasca Oil Sads facility averaged 260,000 barrels per day. Costructio is ow uderway for the ext phase of oil sads growth, which is expected to deliver productio capacity of 350,000 barrels per day i 2008, growig i stages to a goal of up to 550,000 barrels per day i 2010 to Oe of our latest developmets is our Firebag I-Situ operatio, located 40 km ortheast of our origial oil sads plat. I-situ techology opes up the potetial to recover large reserves that ca t be reached ecoomically by traditioal miig methods. A idepedet evaluatio of our i-situ leases estimates recoverable resources with a potetial to produce about ie billio barrels of crude oil. Our i-situ operatios use recycled water i a closed system for steam geeratio. No additioal surface or groudwater is required ad o tailigs pods are created. I-situ developmet disturbs oly about 10 percet of the surface lad i the developmet area. Worksharig With our curret Firebag expasio work, we eed to mobilize very large egieerig forces to be able to complete the project o time ad withi the expected first oil recovery dates. There s a huge amout of ogoig egieerig work ot oly i Calgary, but worldwide. Our egieerig providers, such as Jacobs Egieerig ad Colt WorleyParsos, have severe costraits 14 Isight Issue 20

17 i regard to the skilled work force that they ca draw upo. To access a skilled resource base, we eeded to expad the market beyod a sigle egieerig provider ito a multiple egieerig eviromet across the world. I this maer, we re able to beefit from the best expertise from aroud the world rather tha havig to live with the costraits of a very small marketplace. That s why we chose Itergraph SmartPlat 3D. Worksharig was oe of the primary drivers for our selectio of SmartPlat 3D. Durig our first year of usig SmartPlat 3D, the top beefit has defiitely bee workshare. We ejoy a real-time worksharig eviromet with our egieerig providers i Mumbai, Charlesto, Edmoto ad Calgary, each workig eight-hour shifts. Data are a valuable asset Our secodary drivig force i choosig SmartPlat 3D was the ability to ow the asset data at the ed of the project. We believe that the data represet a importat asset to our actual operatios. We eed to cotrol how those data are deployed ad maaged withi our orgaizatio, so that whe we re operatig this plat, we ca create a effective iformatio workflow. We are lookig forward to the expected project completio i 2011 whe the database turover will certaily be a major milestoe. The other major beefit will be to our procuremet system. We are lookig at how we maipulate model attributes to our procuremet maagemet. The attributes describe the actual billig materials, takeoffs ad implemetatio across to the various fabricators ad maufacturig equipmet. Also i the future, we pla to provide our operators with the data so that they ca maage their plat i the most effective way possible. Productivity tools SmartPlat 3D has promoted our egieerig, procuremet ad costructio cotractors (EPCs ) visualizatio. SmartPlat 3D represets a sigificat advacemet toward achievig icreased productivity. Ay pipig desiger would rather work i a fully redered visualizatio tha a stick-model type desig. We have also implemeted real-time pipig clash mechaisms. Whe a idividual places a compoet withi the model, ay clashig is immediately evidet, rather tha waitig to ru a report later i the project. Sometimes our EPC will tur off the automatic clashig systems to speed processig because the models ca get quite large. But the fuctioality does eable them to perform oe-time placemet of objects without a lot of rework. Dedicatio to success Itergraph has implemeted may of our recommedatios i the latest versio of SmartPlat 3D. Itergraph has bee very proactive i workig with us to make the tool more effective through customizatio. Oe of the key thigs about SmartPlat 3D, as with ay 3D model, is that the large amout of data ad movig data aroud the world with limited Iteret highway pipelies ca become a sigificat issue. Itergraph has bee very supportive i streamliig the desig of SmartPlat 3D to elimiate data movemets that we did t eed. Itergraph has also helped us with customizig Work Breakdow Structure (WBS) diagrams to pull spools or isometrics out of the model. For example, we eed to be able to idetify a series of pipe rack modules from, i our case, a heavily modular plat. We eeded to break up those pipe rack modules ito specific groups of pipig isometrics. Itergraph has bee very helpful i buildig the macros that created the dicig of the models to be able to produce that WBS so that we could actually create the isometrics we desire. Sucor has a series of stadard pipe supports that we use for all of our pipig desig. I fact, it s itegrated with our procuremet strategies ad our fabricatio strategies. We use may commercially available custom pipe supports, but we commissioed Itergraph to create some specific parameterized pipe supports for us, ad these are ow icorporated withi our database. Now whe we place a pipe support, we get a Sucor pipe support with our egieerig rules ad itelligece built-i automatically. Itergraph has bee very supportive i helpig us work through the issues that we ve had. This has bee the biggest advatage of our relatioship with Itergraph. I give kudos to the Itergraph team for their commitmet to makig us a success. We had some teethig problems alog the way, ad I thik Itergraph recogized we ve take a pretty big step out with the product by startig the project i such a big way. Itergraph employees, from the very highest executive levels, have bee very supportive i assistig us, i committig to support us ad i makig sure that we re a success with this tool. Buildig o SmartPlat Eterprise Whe lookig for a solutio, we wated software that would be reasoably familiar to egieerig providers, either through their traiig o other software tools or through actual experiece with the product. We were already comfortable with usig PDS. Because of the similarity betwee PDS ad SmartPlat 3D, that made it a good fit. Of course, SmartPlat 3D has its ow special characteristics. Our future pla for SmartPlat 3D is to itegrate SmartPlat P&ID ad SmartPlat Istrumetatio through SmartPlat Foudatio. SmartPlat Foudatio will eable us to maage data back to the operators. This way, ot oly will we be able to create the project because of workshare, but we will also be able to share those data with our operators to make them more effective i what they do. Chagig the work process I ecourage other users to pla their SmartPlat 3D implemetatio, ad pla it well. Recogize that there is a learig curve. Sometimes egieers are excited about gettig a ew product, but the it turs out that they do t wat to put the work ito it. Remember that if you put the work ito it, you re goig to get good thigs out of it. You must also accept the fact that SmartPlat 3D represets a differet work process. Covicig your egieerig providers to chage their work processes to match the iput method of SmartPlat 3D takes a little effort ad a little time, but it s worth it i the ed. While travelig alog the learig curve, it s really all about implemetig ew processes ad ew ways to do thigs. We re excited to see where this great adveture leads us. Paul Crowley serves as director of egieerig with Sucor Eergy s Major Projects divisio, ad is based i Calgary, Caada. October 2007 Isight 15

18 Techology at Work Buildig Blocks for Progress Ledcor Idustrial chooses Itergraph SmartPlat Materials for materials maagemet By Jaa Miller Caada s Alberta Oil Sads are home to a boomig oil ad gas market. Ledcor Idustrial Group Ic. ad its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as Ledcor Idustrial) are helpig to make these eergy projects happe. The Ledcor Group of Compaies icludes six distict costructio operatios Commercial Buildig, Heavy Civil, Idustrial, Miig, Pipelie ad Telecommuicatios. The largest costructio operatio, dedicated to idustrial projects, is carried o by Ledcor Idustrial. The oil, gas ad miig orgaizatio of Ledcor Idustrial is uique i Alberta as a ope shop, privately owed costructio compay. Ledcor Idustrial is also differet from traditioal egieerig, procuremet ad costructio (EPC) maagemet firms because it does ot perform egieerig ad procuremet. Ledcor Idustrial specializes i costructio ad costructio maagemet. This makes iterfacig with upstream groups essetial. Material impact Materials maagemet is the first thig to impact costructio, said Deise Cosma, material cotrols maager at Ledcor Idustrial. If you do t have it, you ca t build it. Ledcor Idustrial eeded a tool to maage the growig umber of megaprojects that it supports i the Athabasca Oil Sads. SmartPlat Materials helps Ledcor Idustrial to maage all of the material movemet for three of its oil ad gas projects, collectively valued at approximately US$3 billio. We were basically a otebook ad Microsoft Excel spreadsheet compay prior to brigig i SmartPlat Materials, so it really did take us ito the ew milleium i idustrial costructio, said Cosma. Now ad the future Ledcor Idustrial cosidered a umber of factors whe lookig for a materials maagemet solutio. First, it eeded software that could meet its immediate eeds. SmartPlat Materials helps Ledcor Idustrial iterface with its egieerig ad procuremet providers i maagig material across three locatios, each with uique busiess requiremets. Ledcor Idustrial also eeded to maage a variety of disciplies, icludig structural istrumetatio, electrical, pipig ad mechaical requiremets. As a very robust system based o Oracle, SmartPlat Materials ca maage these multi-disciplie projects o a large scale, said Cosma. Fially, Ledcor Idustrial wated a product that was well supported ad would grow alog with the compay. Cosma said, We wated a supplier who would liste to our eeds, ad we recogized the partership that Ledcor could 16 Isight Issue 20

19 form with Itergraph i movig forward i our growth as a cotractor. Easy to use Oce Ledcor Idustrial chose SmartPlat Materials, Itergraph professioals came o-site for six moths. Itergraph studied our busiess ad really tried to uderstad what we required from SmartPlat Materials as a tool, said Cosma. They also provided all of the relevat traiig to successfully implemet SmartPlat Materials. Some advice I would share with other compaies implemetig SmartPlat Materials is to have the support of your seior leaders ad uderstad what it is that you wat the tool to do for your compay, said Cosma. Movig forward, it is truly impossible to chage the culture of the people that work i your idustry without the support of seior maagemet. Across three differet Ledcor Idustrial locatios, there are approximately 20 project material coordiators who use SmartPlat Materials. Typically these coordiators are former tradespeople or warehouse persoel with traiig i pipig disciplies. Our SmartPlat Materials users may have very miimal computer skills, but they have a lot of valuable idustry kowledge. That s key to our success, said Cosma. SmartPlat Materials itself is quite easy to trai the users. It s the kowledge base that we require for successfully maagig our projects. Multi-discipliary data Usually Ledcor Idustrial works with joit veture groups with multiple egieerig procuremet groups. This meas that it is maagig commodity code catalogs from possibly five differet egieers o a sigle project. The volume of data that Ledcor Idustrial maages o these mega-projects is fairly staggerig, said Cosma. The multi-discipliary facet of Smart- Plat Materials is very robust. Ledcor Idustrial maages multidiscipliary iformatio i SmartPlat Materials. Havig data i a cetral locatio eables the team to more effectively report to Ledcor seior leaders where we are i the scope of costructio, said Cosma. We ca also report back ay materials issues to our owers groups. Spool trackig module SmartPlat Materials tracks spool progress at Ledcor Idustrial s spool fabricatio facility i Nisku, Alberta. The facility feeds the module assembly yard ad the site. Typically, spool fabricatio starts the etire process, as the pipe valves ad fittigs are welded together. If you do t have your spool, you caot complete your module, sed your module to the site ad istall it, said Cosma. It s absolutely critical to kow where your spool is i its fabricatio, because it is upstream of a lot of our processes. Whe we first started workig with SmartPlat Materials, the spool fabricatio trackig module seemed to be desiged for subcotractors. Parterig with Itergraph, we idetified that we certaily eeded a more robust portio of spool fabricatio trackig as a fabricator, said Cosma. We worked very closely with Itergraph i developig our requiremets. As Itergraph has grow its busiess i the idustrial Oil Sads, the spool fabricatio trackig module is ow applicable to other cliets as well. Status reports ad forecastig Ledcor Idustrial s basic, guidig priciple for applyig SmartPlat Materials is to have the right material to the right place at the right time. With SmartPlat Materials, we have gaied the ability to effectively report our material status at ay give poit i a project, said Cosma. The compay ca also ow idetify material shortages o a 90-day forecast sceario. This meas that prior to crews ad equipmet showig up to complete a portio of work ad the fidig out that they do t have all of the material they require, Ledcor Idustrial is able to idetify that situatio far i advace. Cosma said, We will work with our owers groups to either fid a workaroud solutio to havig that piece of material missig, or otify the expeditig groups to try to get that piece of material to the required locatio as soo as possible. Worksharig Because Ledcor Idustrial is separated geographically, oe facility may have a compoet of costructio that is required at aother facility. Through its worksharig capabilities, SmartPlat Materials gives a overall view ito all three facilities, plus the silos, which are differet portios of costructio o a sigle site. This meas that Ledcor Idustrial ca idetify ay eeded material that is available at oe silo or facility, ad trasfer that material to aother silo or facility based o its costructio schedule. Expadig the workflow Ledcor Idustrial has a 18-moth roadmap for cotiued implemetatio of SmartPlat Materials, brigig requisitioig ad procuremet ito its workflow processes. The curret solutio that we use for these tasks is primarily a fiacial tool, ad does ot really give a lot of flexibility or meet the eeds of the scale of the projects that we re maagig, said Cosma. As Ledcor Idustrial moves forward i developig the procuremet module of SmartPlat Materials, it will eed to develop a iterface with its fiacial tool. At Itergraph 2007, we idetified several compaies that are farther ahead i their implemetatio ad itegratio ito their fiacial tool, said Cosma, ad we hope to leverage off of their success i that itegratio. Ledcor Idustrial has developed a close partership with Itergraph. We truly do feel that Itergraph is a cetral part of our team, both locally out of Calgary, ad the etire global group, said Cosma. Everyoe at Itergraph is really geuie i their desire for us to be successful as a cotractor ad with Smart- Plat Materials as a tool. Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight. October 2007 Isight 17

20 Techology at Work Tri Ocea Egieers for Extreme Coditios Deliverig quality egieerig o budget, o time, every time By Jaa Miller Tri Ocea Egieerig Ltd. used Itergraph PDS for its desig of the Taglu Field Developmet Project, part of the Mackezie Gas Project, located above the Arctic Circle i the Mackezie Delta of Caada s Northwest Territories. Tri Ocea Egieerig Ltd. is a Calgary-based firm specializig i oshore, offshore ad arctic oil ad gas projects. The Taglu Field Developmet project is a example of oe of Tri Ocea s specialties arctic egieerig ad logistics. With just a few short ice-free weeks to trasport the facility, ad with miimal ifrastructure earby to support costructio, Tri Ocea eeded to miimize field costructio, ad desig a facility that could withstad most evirometal challeges from severe cold weather operatio ad start-up, to floods ad permafrost protectio. The desig also eeded to accommodate atteded ad uatteded operatios ad to miimize surface disturbaces, icludig lad footprit. Tri Ocea validated the cocept of desigig Very Large Modules (VLMs) to eclose the equipmet ad materials. The proposed VLMs would be prefabricated to miimize actual costructio ad start-up time. Tri Ocea s desig team chose Itergraph PDS to desig both the VLMs ad associated site. The VLM executio strategy established that the VLMs would be fabricated i the Far East ad trasported by a all-marie route to the site i the Northwest Territories. PDS was particularly useful i helpig optimize the etire VLM desig, icludig size ad weight, to help reduce the barge draft through shallow shippig chaels, explaied Joe Poletto, chief of Desig/Draftig Services for Tri Ocea. Producig a 3D model of the facility ad beig able to automatically geerate drawigs, weight reports ad material take-offs from the 3D model was crucial for validatig the desig ad estimatig the topsides weight ad ceter of gravity. Tri Ocea s Desig Review Process was used to optimize the locatio ad desig of equipmet withi the VLMs, relative to cold weather ad atteded/ uatteded operatio. I summary: Itergraph products supported Tri Ocea s missio to deliver quality egieerig o budget, o time, every time, cocluded Poletto. Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight Isight Issue 20

21 About Tri Ocea Tri Ocea Egieerig is a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regioal Corporatio, a Native corporatio ad oe of the largest miorityowed compaies i North America. Tri Ocea provides comprehesive egieerig, procuremet ad costructio maagemet services. Sice the mid-1970s, it has desiged ad executed more tha 500 major projects i the upstream, midstream ad dowstream sectors of the global oil ad gas idustry. Tri Ocea s expertise i desigig facilities for extreme, harsh eviromets is well established. Amog the compay s successfully executed projects are: The world s first ad oly uder-ice subsea well completio Cocept developmet of the world s first exteded-seaso drillig ad resupply fleet i Arctic waters Desig of the world s most ortherly productio facility, just 75 miles from the magetic North Pole Drillig facilities desig for the world s The Taglu Field Developmet Project is located orth of the Arctic Circle i rugged terrai. largest offshore gas platform Detailed egieerig of the world s largest hydroge plat; plus the first offshore productio platforms i Caada, Russia ad Wester Australia Lowest facility cost-per-barrel for productio facilities i the North Slope of Alaska Two-time world record holder for rig desig for the logest-reach offshore well October 2007 Isight 19

22 Golde Valve Awards 2007 The 2007 Golde Valve Award Wiers BEST OF SHOW, Workig Views Samsug Heavy Idustries, Geoje Shipyard South Korea Trasparet Ship Jug Nak Hu This image created with SmartMarie 3D shows the whole ship model, focusig o the egie room ad trasparet hull structure. This model is composed of the deck house, upper deck, fuel casig, egie room ad more, ad they are filled with the various pipig systems, steel outfittigs ad equipmet. 1st Place, Aimatio Hyudai Egieerig Co., Ltd. Brazil Combied Cycle Power Plat, Outdoor Type Soohyu Park, Jeugji Oh, Taeji Chug, Jaehoo Ra This aimatio file, created with the help of PDS ad SmartPlat Review, was prepared for a presetatio requested by the project ower of a 340MW combied cycle power plat. 2ND Place, Aimatio Siemes AG Power Geeratio Group EE61 Germay Steam Power Plat Cocept Peter Tüxe This is a image from the model for the aimatio created with PDS ad SmartPlat Review. The movie shows several power plats ad icludes a sequece of applicatios to build the model. 3RD Place, Aimatio Selas Fluid Corp., Subsidiary of Lide AG Saudi Arabia Fa Aimatio William Fisch This fa aimatio was developed usig PDS ad FrameWorks Plus for a cliet presetatio. 20 Isight Issue 20

23 1st Place, Visually Complex Hatch Australia Beeficatio Area Deo Swaepoel This is a view lookig ortheast over the beeficatio area of the Ravesthorpe Nickel Plat i Wester Australia. Hatch used PDS, SupportModeler ad SmartPlat Review for the project. 2ND Place, Visually Complex Samsug Heavy Idustries, Geoje Shipyard South Korea Two Hearts of the Ship Jug Nak Hu This SmartMarie 3D image is captured i the floor from a Liquid Natural Gas Carrier model. It shows two operatio egies, pipe routes ad steel outfittigs used i the various systems ad the specific equipmet. 3RD Place, Visually Complex Quip S.A. Brazil PS3 Platform Mauel Luiz M. Pito Developed with SmartPlat Review, the module icludes a auxiliary geerator, coolig water system, chemical products (storage ad ijectio), air compressio, hot water ad other systems. October 2007 Isight 21

24 1st Place, Rederig ad Ray Traces Power Egieers, Ic. Turkey Geothermal Plat Steve Aderso This turbie view was created usig PDS, Itergraph s comprehesive, itelliget CAD/CAE applicatio for plat desig, costructio ad operatios. 2ND Place, Rederig ad Ray Traces Selas Fluid Corp., Subsidiary of Lide A.G. Saudi Arabia Fa Platform Access William Fisch Desiged with PDS ad FrameWorks Plus, this image depicts the fa platform access to remove the rotor ad motor. 3RD Place, Rederig ad Ray Traces Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Idia Precisio Matters for Power Pritpal Sigh The coils, drum, pipig ad headers arragemet are depicted i this image created with PDS ad SmartPlat Review. 22 Isight Issue 20

25 1st Place, WORKING VIEWS GS Egieerig & Costructio Corp. Turkey DHP-CCR Uit Yog-Joo Lee This is a view of the DHP-CCR Uit created usig SmartPlat Review. The backgroud images were take at the site ad assiged realistic materials. 2ND Place, WORKING VIEWS Worley Parsos USA Flue Gas Desulforizatio Nick Viscomi Desiged with PDS ad SmartPlat Review, this image depicts coal-fired power plat flue gas desulforizatio. 3RD Place, WORKING VIEWS Selas Fluid Corp., Subsidiary of Lide A.G. U.A.E. Rack Pipig for Ethylee Plat Kevi J. Alba This is a close-up view of rack pipig ad platformig created usig PDS ad FrameWorks Plus. October 2007 Isight 23

26 Great Mids Through Time Powerig Success ABB builds o 120 years of iovatio to lead the automatio ad power techology markets By Laura Patrick As oe of the world s leadig egieerig compaies, ABB helps its customers to use electrical power effectively ad to icrease idustrial productivity i a sustaiable way. The multiatioal corporatio operates maily i the power ad automatio techology areas. With strog global presece, applicatio kowledge ad local expertise, ABB offers products, systems, solutios ad services that allow its customers to improve their operatios whether they eed to icrease the reliability of a power grid, make their operatios more eergy efficiet, or icrease the productivity ad efficiecy of the maufacturig process. ABB has a log ad illustrious record of techological leadership i may idustries over the past 120 years. ABB s story traces its origis to two Europea compaies, Asea ad BBC, both with rich traditios of iovatio. Asea Elecktriska Aktiebolaget was fouded i 1883 by Ludvig Fredhom i Stockholm. The compay maufactured electrical lightig ad geerators. I 1890, Elektriska Aktiebolaget merged with Westroms & Grastroms Elektriska Kraftbolag to form Allmaa Sveska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, or Asea for short. I the early 1900s, Asea played a major role i the electrificatio of Swedish idustry, railways ad homes. Asea s success i trasmissio eabled it to expad iteratioally. The compay built the world s largest self-coolig trasformer i 1932 ad expaded its fa busiess by acquirig AB Sveska Flaktfabrike. Durig the 1940s ad 50s, Asea cotiued to grow as a major supplier to the power, steel, miig ad trasportatio idustries. Asea was the first compay i the world to maufacture sythetic, idustrial diamods i The followig year, Asea built the first static high Asea is fouded i Stockholm, Swede 1891 BBC is fouded i Bade, Switzerlad 1901 BBC builds the first steam turbie i Europe 1926 Asea supplies locomotives ad power coverters for the ew Stockholm to Gotheburg railway 1939 BBC builds the first combustio gas turbie for geeratig electricity Isight Issue 20

27 voltage DC (HVDC) trasmissio lie i its Gotlad project. The demad for HVDC techology i the 1960s eabled Asea to expad ito iteratioal markets ad ope sales offices i may coutries. The compay built the first uclear power plat i Swede, ad wet o to build ie of the coutry s 12 reactors. I 1974, Asea iveted the world s first idustrial robots. The i the 1980s, Asea became oe of the top 10 global compaies i power techology. BBC Charles E.L. Brow ad Walter Boveri established Brow, Boveri ad Cie (BBC) i Bade, Switzerlad as a electrotechical compay i Shortly afterward, BBC became the first compay to trasmit high-voltage AC power. BBC supplied Europe s first largescale combied heat ad power plat producig alteratig curret i Begiig i 1895, BBC delivered 1,000 electrical machies i motors ad geerators withi four years. The compay expaded its operatios ad established its first foreig subsidiary i Germay i BBC obtaied a patet i 1933 for turbie rotors costructed of idividual steel disks that are welded together. I 1963, the first data trasmissio at carrier frequecy was successfully achieved by BBC over a 735-kV high-voltage lie to the power statio cotrol uit. BBC developed the first gearless cemet drive i the world i The compay developed cotrol systems for a umber of motorway tuels i The i 1984, BBC istalled the first of ie geerators i the world s largest hydroelectric power statio at Itaipu i South America. ABB Asea ad BBC merged to form ABB (Asea Brow Boveri Ltd.) i ABB acquired 40 compaies i its first year, icludig Westighouse Electric s power trasmissio ad power distributio busiesses. I 1990, ABB embarked o a largescale program of expasio i easter Europe after the fall of the Iro Curtai. ABB cotiued to focus its growth strategy o Europe, Asia ad the Americas through a umber of strategic ivestmets, joit vetures ad acquisitios. ABB purchased Combustio Egieerig (C-E), a leadig U.S. firm i the developmet of covetioal fossil fuel power ad uclear power supply systems, to break ito the North America market. Cotiuig with its expasio plas, ABB purchased Elsag Bailey Process Automatio i 1998, which icluded Bailey Cotrols, Hartma & Brau, ad Fischer & Porter. This was the largest acquisitio to date i ABB s history, ad allowed ABB to become the leader i the global automatio market. ABB was formally listed o the New York Stock Exchage i Also durig that year, ABB was raked as umber oe o the Dow Joes corporate sustaiability idex for the third year i a row. I 2005, ABB set ambitious fiacial targets for 2009 ad reorgaized the compay ito five divisios, with a strategy focused o ABB s core power ad automatio techologies. I 2006, strog markets ad a focus o operatioal efficiecy helped ABB meet key fiacial targets, three years ahead of schedule. Stregth of today Headquartered i Zurich, Switzerlad, ABB had 2006 reveues of US$24.4 billio with et icome of US$1.39 billio. There are about 111,000 employees located i approximately 100 coutries aroud the globe. Havig helped coutries all over the world to build, develop ad maitai their ifrastructures, ABB has i recet years trasitioed from large-scale solutios to pioeerig alterative eergy developmets ad the leadig-edge products ad techologies i power ad automatio that eable utility ad idustry customers to improve their performace while lowerig evirometal impact. ABB s five busiesses are focused o its core busiesses i power ad automatio techology: Power Products Maufacturig etwork for trasformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, cables ad associated high voltage equipmet Power Systems Turkey systems ad services for power trasmissio ad distributio grids ad power plats Automatio Products Drives, electric motors ad geerators, low voltage products, istrumetatio ad aalytical, ad power electroics Process Automatio The world s largest istalled base of distributed cotrol systems; delivers itegrated solutios for cotrol, plat optimizatio ad idustry-specific applicatio kowledge ad services Robotics Oe of the world s largest istalled bases of idustrial robots, plus robot software, peripheral equipmet ad modular maufacturig cells. Laura Patrick is global public relatios maager of Cotrol Systems ad Products for the Process Automatio Divisio at ABB, Ic Asea builds the first 400-kV trasmissio lie 1971 BBC builds the most powerful trasformer i the world at 1,300 MVA 1988 ABB is created whe Asea ad BBC merge 2006 Strog markets ad a focus o operatioal efficiecy help ABB meet key fiacial targets, three years ahead of schedule October 2007 Isight 25

28 Take Advatage of Itergraph s SmartMarie TM Eterprise. Gai project, schedule ad cost beefits through your complete life cycle Choose a solutio that supports cocept desig through operatios. Itergraph offers best-i-class, stadaloe applicatios for materials maagemet ad project cotrols; 3D modelig ad visualizatio; ad iformatio maagemet. Take advatage of itegratig these applicatios to gai eve greater beefits. Optimize ad streamlie your workflows Reach project completios more quickly ad more accurately at less cost. The seamless itegratio betwee Itergraph s software solutios helps you achieve data itegrity while improvig work processes. Take advatage of the ewest techology i 30 years, built i respose to the eeds of ed users like you. Share your data with project stakeholders Beefit from clear, cocise ad complete data that you ca commuicate to maagers, vedors, suppliers ad operators as part of a itegrated value system. Ehace data sharig of the physical iterface ad promote chage maagemet betwee cotractors, especially betwee hull ad topsides cotractors. Take advatage of our itegrated data model ad materials optimizatio to build bigger, better marie facilities more quickly ad easily tha ever before. The New Wave i Marie Desig, Costructio & Operatio Itergraph ad the Itergraph logo are registered trademarks ad SmartMarie is a trademark of Itergraph Corporatio Itergraph Corporatio.

29 Idustry Newsbytes News I N D U S T RY bytes SmartPlat Eterprise for Ower Operators Gais Powered by SAP NetWeaver Qualificatio Itergraph SmartPlat Eterprise for Ower Operators versio 3.8, a precofigured egieerig automatio eviromet for plat operators, has gaied Powered by SAP NetWeaver qualificatio from SAP AG. SmartPlat Eterprise for Ower Operators exploits the power of the SAP NetWeaver platform to help esure data sychroizatio ad iteroperability betwee Itergraph s idustry-leadig plat egieerig automatio suite ad the eterprise asset maagemet capabilities of the SAP Service ad Asset Maagemet solutio. SmartPlat Eterprise used with SAP Service ad Asset Maagemet (through itegratio with SAP ERP Release 6.0) helps esure sychroizatio betwee the plat egieerig ad plat maiteace eviromets employig best-practice plat maagemet of chage-work processes. The SAP Itegratio ad Certificatio Ceter has certified that Smart- Plat Eterprise for Ower Operators properly itegrates with the SAP NetWeaver Exchage Ifrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) compoet of the SAP NetWeaver platform to exchage critical data with istaces of the SAP Busiess Suite family of solutios ad is itegrated successfully with busiess fuctios exposed through the SAP NetWeaver Portal. Samsug Expads Egieerig Desig ad Data Capabilities with SmartMarie Eterprise Samsug Heavy Idustries (SHI) has made a multi-millio dollar extesio of its commitmet to usig Itergraph s SmartMarie Eterprise solutios suite for the desig ad maufacturig of ships. SHI will exted its existig Itergraph software istallatio by addig a sigificat umber of SmartMarie 3D seats, reflectig SHI s cotiuous market success ad growth. I additio, Smart- Plat Foudatio will act as a cetral iformatio maagemet system for egieerig ad maufacturig data at SHI. SHI is a core affiliate of Samsug, the Republic of Korea s largest group compay ad a global leader i the shipbuildig ad offshore markets. The quatitative goal of the Smart- Marie Eterprise solutio extesio is a 10 percet productivity icrease i desig data which will positively affect maufacturig ad fabricatio processes as well, said Yeog Soo Bae, executive vice presidet, SHI. Our commitmet to Itergraph s marie solutios is a result of our logstadig successful busiess relatioship. We look forward to achievig our goal usig this state of the art techology. Braskem Selects SmartPlat Eterprise Braskem, Lati America s leadig petrochemical compay, has selected Itergraph s SmartPlat Eterprise egieerig solutios to ehace productivity, icrease the capacity of its idustrial plats, ad support the developmet of evirometally-compliat projects. Sisgraph, Itergraph s exclusive represetative i Lati America, was resposible for the sale. Braskem chose Itergraph s Smart- Plat Eterprise solutios icludig PDS ad SmartPlat Istrumetatio to stadardize its tools ad improve the accuracy of materials surveys i respose to its challege of buildig a ew pipig system i existig plats without iterferig with operatios. We selected Itergraph s solutios because they support our productivity requiremets, ca itegrate multidiscipliary data, ad reduce the time eeded to create egieerig desigs. Additioally, Itergraph provides the most complete solutio available ad its techology is trusted by the market iside ad outside of Brazil, said Jorge Luis Meezes, Braskem s egieerig maager. SmartPlat Foudatio Model Loader Exteds Beefits of SmartPlat Foudatio to AVEVA PDMS Users Itergraph s ew SmartPlat Foudatio Model Loader ow brigs the beefits of Itergraph SmartPlat Foudatio to AVEVA PDMS users permittig them the high itegrity viewig ad avigatio capabilities ad the same level of cofidece previously available to Itergraph PDS customers. With this ew capability itroduced to SmartPlat Foudatio from Itergraph s Process, Power & Marie divisio, AVEVA PDMS customers ca more easily collaborate durig egieerig, procuremet ad operatios with a ew level of iteroperability, flexibility ad cost ad time savigs. Viewig is provided by the itegrated SmartPlat Foudatio model streamig viewer. Now remote users ca rapidly view PDMS model graphics without the source applicatio o the desktop ad waitig for models to be distributed to the local file store. As a result, global collaboratio is icreased, ad waitig time ad IT costs are reduced. October 2007 Isight 27

30 Itergraph Lauches Stadard Database for SmartPlat Referece Data Itergraph has lauched a Stadard Database (SDB) for SmartPlat Referece Data that delivers a comprehesive rage of commodity codes that uiquely describe bulk materials throughout a project s life cycle. SmartPlat Referece Data provides cliets with a cetralized capability to efficietly maage catalogs ad specificatios for multiple desig systems ad materials maagemet. The SDB for SmartPlat Referece Data is a precofigured, recommeded practice solutio to eable rapid implemetatio of eterprise referece data maagemet ad/or materials maagemet. The SDB icorporates a comprehesive catalog of idustry-stadard material parts, orgaized ad described for out of the box use by ower operators, ad egieerig, procuremet, fabricatio ad costructio compaies. The cotet is pre-cofigured to eable catalog ad pipig specificatio iterfaces to itelliget 3D applicatios (iitially SmartPlat 3D, Itergraph s ew geeratio 3D plat desig software). CSC Jois Itergraph SmartPlat Alliace Program CSC, a world leader i IT ad busiess cosultig services, has joied the Itergraph SmartPlat Alliace Program. With more tha 78,000 employees i 88 coutries, CSC s rich expertise i busiess process trasformatio ad eterprise IT system deploymet will prove immesely valuable i assistig Itergraph cliets i realizig the full potetial of the SmartPlat Eterprise automatio suite. We uderstad that achievig the full beefits of our SmartPlat Eterprise techology ofte requires that our cliets address the broader issues of modifyig busiess processes, as well as techical, orgaizatioal ad cultural chage, said Patrick Holcomb, executive vice presidet, global busiess developmet, Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. As we roll out our ew SmartPlat Eterprise for Ower Operators offerig with packaged SAP itegratios, this becomes a eve more importat topic. We are very pleased to have CSC as a member of the SmartPlat Alliace Program assistig our cliets i addressig these people, process ad techology challeges. KKS Idustry Stadards to be Icluded i SmartPlat Eterprise Itergraph is expadig its commitmet to the power idustry by icludig the Kraftwerks Kezeichugs System (KKS) process plat desigatio stadards withi its SmartPlat Eterprise solutios suite. SmartPlat Eterprise solutios abilities to defie ad exchage KKS plat breakdow structures ad compoet codes, as well as their capability to defie KKS amig rules, will ow be eriched with actual KKS cotet, leadig to reduced overall project start-up times ad icreased desig cosistecy across differet disciplies. By deliverig predefied KKS cotet for the SmartPlat Eterprise tools, such as SmartPlat Istrumetatio or SmartPlat Electrical, Itergraph allows cliets to more easily beefit from the software s existig capabilities ad helps expedite the egieerig process for those cliets who adhere to these specificatios. KKS libraries are recogized as the idustry stadard for cosistet ad systematic classificatio of power plats. Itergraph is the first compay to receive permissio from VGB PowerTech e.v. (VGB), the idustry associatio that issues guidelies for the developmet, costructio ad operatio of power plats, to pre-cofigure its solutios with KKS stadards. Aquatech Jois Itergraph SmartPlat Alliace Program Aquatech Iteratioal, a water idustry leader offerig water ad wastewater treatmet solutios ad services to idustrial ad ifrastructure cliets, has joied the Itergraph SmartPlat Alliace Program as a services member. Aquatech will ow have the ability to offer services ad solutios to its customers based o Itergraph s SmartPlat Foudatio software, a ope, idepedet system that orgaizes ad maages plat iformatio for the life of the plat. Desiged for phased implemetatio by ower operators ad egieerig, procuremet ad costructio (EPC) firms, SmartPlat Foudatio builds a comprehesive electroic library about a plat. It ecompasses a plat s desig, modificatios, upgrades ad refurbishmet, effectively maagig the evolvig plat cofiguratio from frot-ed egieerig desig to plat decommissioig. Aquatech recogizes Itergraph as the premier solutios provider for process plat desig, costructio ad life cycle trackig software products, said Jim Matharu, vice presidet for ARIES, Aquatech s Eterprise Services Divisio. We also believe that SmartPlat Foudatio is the leadig techology for facilitatig plat data hadover ad is a growig force i helpig EPC compaies provide additioal value to their cliets. By workig with Itergraph, we see opportuities to ot oly assist our customers i a more efficiet hadover of egieerig iformatio from the project team to the ower operator, but also to better cotrol the flow of iformatio betwee all parties ivolved i the plat desig. Itergraph i the commuity This Germa youth soccer team proudly displays its Itergraph colors durig the recet seaso. 28 Isight Issue 20

31 Mark your caledar to atted Itergraph 2008! This is a evet you do t wat to miss. Nearly 1,000 process, power ad marie cliets, parters ad Itergraph professioals atteded Itergraph The aual users coferece features: Keyote speeches Breakout sessios Traiig ad workshops Networkig with peers from aroud the world Product demostratios ad parter presetatios Sig up to receive coferece updates at

32 Evets ad Aoucemets Record Number of Customers Atted Itergraph s Asia Pacific P2C2 Cofereces Itergraph s Asia Pacific cliets have met at Process ad Power Cliet Commuity (P2C2) Cofereces across the Asia Pacific regio, with may coutries reportig a sigificat icrease i attedees. P2C2 Cofereces represet some of the largest aual egieerig ad iformatio systems evets i the regio. The meetigs provide a opportuity for orgaizatios to lear about the ew techology ad methodologies that are eeded to remai competitive. Japa, Chia ad Southeast Asia have all see successful P2C2s i Jue ad July, attractig sigificat icreases i delegate attedace compared to the previous year s evets. Chia Chia s coferece boasted more tha a 20 percet icrease i attedees over last year. Orgaizatios attedig the coferece icluded: Shaghai SECCO Petrochemical Co., Ltd. SINOPEC Egieerig Ic. East Chia Electric Power Desig Istitute North Chia Power Egieerig (Beijig) Co., Ltd. Chia Offshore Oil Egieerig Compay A key part of the Chia coferece was a half-day maagemet forum. Seior maagemet professioals from both Chiese ad iteratioal compaies exchaged perspectives with each other ad Itergraph executives o a wide rage of busiess issues. P2C2 also covered the latest Itergraph product updates, approaches ad methodologies for egieerig ad operatioal excellece. Sice Itergraph has a growig presece i the regio s ower operator commuity, there were also sessios dedicated to the key issues withi this commuity, such as how to lower operatig risks ad costs. Oe of the major successes of the Chia coferece was a dedicated stream for istrumetatio ad electrical customers that showcased the SmartPlat 30 Isight Issue 20

33 Istrumetatio ad SmartPlat Electrical solutios. This year also saw the itroductio of ie additioal workshops coverig the etire Itergraph applicatios suite, ad several ew sposors, icludig HP, 3DS, Techserver ad CAXperts. Southeast Asia Southeast Asia P2C2 at the Amari Orchid Resort i Pattaya, Thailad recorded a 30 percet icrease i attedees compared to Orgaizatios attedig the coferece icluded: PTT Exploratio ad Productio Compay Bayer Thai Compay PT Iti Karya Persada Tehik Thai Nippo Steel Egieerig ad Costructio Corporatio Shell Refiig Compay (FOM) Berhad Itergraph s solutios were showcased i idustry-specific sessios coverig: Schematics ad 3D desig Egieerig excellece Operatioal excellece Material maagemet ad project cotrols Iformatio maagemet ad eterprise itegratio The evet was a great opportuity for preset ad prospective cliets to fid out exactly where Itergraph ad the idustry are headig. The keyote speech was give by Patrick Holcomb, executive vice presidet of Global Busiess Developmet ad Marketig for Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. South Korea held its P2C2 i Seoul September 13-14, with Australia closig the curtais o the 2007 P2C2 evets i Perth September Upcomig Evets IUGI Italia Itergraph User Group Meetig Veroa, Italy October P2C2 Easter Europe Cracow, Polad October Itergraph UK & Irelad 2007 PP&M User Group Aual Coferece Surrey, UK October 31 November 1 Hoeywell Users Group EMEA Salzburg, Austria November 5-8 hpsweb.hoeywell.com/cultures/ e-us/newsevets/usersgroup- Symposia/EMEA IUC East 2007 Caada Itergraph User Coferece Mississauga, Otario, Caada November P2C2 Cetral Europe CEGUG 2007 Maheim, Germay November World Eergy Cogress Rome, Italy November Itergraph User Group Frace Paris, Frace November EPEDC Europea Plat Egieerig ad Desig Coferece De Haag, Netherlads November sight O N L I N E All of the Cotet, All of the Time Iterviews with executives Profiles of projects aroud the world Articles by techology experts Features o historical idustry figures News o Itergraph ad customers North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific... Isight has the etire world covered. Isight: Your News ad Views for the Process, Power ad Marie Idustries. October 2007 Isight 31

34 Idustry Outlook Techology Eablig People By Joe Morray The huma side of egieerig has come to the forefrot i the past few years. This is due i part to the large icrease i project work with a associated demad o persoel; the agig of the expert class i egieerig which is rapidly headed toward retiremet; ad the global treds of outsourcig ad/or worksharig. The questios persist. What role should techology play i these dyamics? Is it people-ehacig or a catalyst for dracoia chages i the value ad security of our egieerig work force? Our experiece has show that, simply put, it depeds. The traditioal makeup of a project 20 years ago had a distributio cosistig of: A few people providig very high-value services A large umber of people providig relatively lower-value drawig ad documetatio services Itergraph s products have substatially chaged this equatio, ad will cotiue to do so. O project systems, we see a dramatic reductio i the umber of people required, with each perso leveragig, o average, cosiderably more cotet. For may, the ability to master Itergraph products has led to a substatial improvemet i work scope, pay ad self-realizatio. For those that have ot expaded their expertise, the compressio is beig felt i the outsourcig of their jobs or by havig more limited advacemet possibilities. My experiece has bee that the willigess to take o ew skills is ot limited purely to the youg. Yes, may have professioally grow ad matured with the computer, but seasoed egieers brig a uderstadig of the busiess that is further expaded because of the computer. Learig has o age limits. All of us are gravely cocered by the lack of qualified egieerig graduates comig ito the idustry. We all recogize the eed to improve the public relatios image of the projects idustry. I would argue that a equally limitig characteristic is our reluctace to cosider ad adopt ew techologies as they become available. College studets routiely gai proficiecy i may icredibly cool thigs, from visualizatio ad simulatio to advaced data maagemet related to the desig ad costructio idustries. The evelope of what could be cotiues to expad, but may of our compaies eed to prove that it will work before takig substative steps. Youg people view computer techology as itegral to virtually ay job fuctio. Techology is the uderpiig of ay successful workshare effort. It is essetial that iformatio be created, revised ad published at the speed of a electro i order for dispersed groups of people to work effectively ad optimally. Whether this is exchagig models ad best practices, or uderstadig the impact of various project processes, the commo uderpiig is iformatio techology itself. I the ed, we see the icreased use of techology as a differetiator amog compaies, people ad the resultig value delivery. For those that haress it, techology will be a secure platform for both persoal ad professioal growth. Joe Morray is presidet of Triity Techologies Corp., a process ad power idustries cosultig firm that helps O/Os ad EPC firms succeed i the use of iformatio systems. The compay specializes i drivig compaies to alig work processes, techology, ad orgaizatioal chage requiremets for the plat eviromet Isight Issue 20

35 SmartPlat 3D is today s ew stadard i plat desig. If you re tryig to fid creative ways to do more projects with your existig persoel, it s time you checked out the ew Itergraph SmartPlat 3D. The first ew plat desig techology i 20 years, SmartPlat 3D dramatically surpasses outdated plat desig software, providig a more productive solutio to desig plats. See how your orgaizatio ca achieve 20 to 35 percet productivity time savigs ad improve the quality of your deliverables whe you compare SmartPlat 3D with other plat desig software. Ad as part of the itegrated SmartPlat Eterprise, iformatio created i SmartPlat 3D is leveraged throughout the project to improve the productivity of other disciplies. Today s ew stadard i plat desig SmartPlat 3D. Iterested i learig more? Dowload our SmartPlat 3D Productivity White Paper at or call Out with the old i with the ew Itergraph Corporatio. Itergraph ad SmartPlat are registered trademarks of Itergraph Corporatio.

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