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Design Power's standard and custom solutions automate significant parts of the engineering process by integrating "Islands of Automation" and capturing in-house product and process knowledge for automated re-use. These design automation solutions reduce engineering time and cost with an order of magnitude. Design Power's unique Design++ engine provides an infrastructure that reduces the IT effort to create such solutions with more than 70%.

Today we provide significant and sustainable competitive advantage to companies that create metal buildings and residential buildings, construction site designs, process plants, factories, process equipment, mechanical products, networks, control systems and more.

Simulator view of cable manufacturing (courtesy Nextrom and Delmia)

Design Automation with Design++

Design++ is a knowledge-based engineering platform that significantly simplifies the capture of in-house engineering expertise and integration of legacy systems into an integrated design automation solution that boosts productivity, improves quality, accelerates delivery, and creates a sustainable competitive advantage. Design++-based systems can automate the entire design and engineering process.

Research shows that at an average seventy percent (70%) of application code is infrastructure. (See Standish Group's CHAOS Report, page 4). This report recommends the use of standard infrastructure software whenever possible. The CHAOS Report also shows that the probability of success decreases with the increase in size of an IT project.

Design Power's Design++ provides a stable and proven design automation infrastructure. This allows the application development team to focus on business rules rather than software technology resulting in faster deployment and lower cost. The resulting 70% reduction in project effort significantly enhances the probability of project success.

HBG Civiel uses Design++ to design excavations for building pits

CustomWise, is our web-based configurator built on Design++ for designed-to-order products that generates sales wins with instant proposals, 3D visualization, and drawings. Working at Internet speed, customers review, modify and select custom designed products that exactly meet their needs before placing an order. Try our demonstrations!

PlantWise

PlantWise enables rapid creation of fully piped 3-D plant concept model for immediate review and on-the-spot layout optimization.

Used in bidding, front-end, and early detailing, PlantWise has demonstrated:
AutoRouter - Pipe Routes in Seconds

In the oil and gas and chemical process industries, accepting a plant concept is a commitment to the plant and associated costs that extend throughout a plant's life. PlantWise is a unique suite of knowledge-centric software solutions that enable fully informed decisions at the earliest project stage, greatly reducing both project cost and schedule. It is a great sales tool that provides the customer with early visibility of the proposed plant solutions. Its rapid collaborative "what-if" change capability provides instant feedback to customer-requested modifications. Read more about the Added Value of Rapid Conceptual Design.

PlantWise users have several choices for transferring data into other plant design software. The highly flexible PlantWise Report Writer allows users to easily extract and format data suitable for importing into other software. Also, the AutoRouter Pipe Route Export provides a complete set of data for piping centerlines and components from which users have written their own translation routines for products such as PASCE, PDS, and PDMS. To complement those generic interface capabilities, Design Power provides several solutions specifically for Intergraph plant design products.

PlantWise is a Design++-based design automation solution.