Articles
Design++
- NCI continues to praise Design++ solution. (07/05/06)
- AutoDesk Spotlights Major DP Customers (11/01/98)CAD Galvanizes Production for Metal Building Manufacturer
CustomWise
- Robertson Ceco Automates Design Process, Leverages Designer Knowledge (11/15/01)Pre-engineered Building Manufacturer Boosts Productivity, Shortens Design Cycles
- Readers Choice Award, Desktop Engineering Magazine (01/15/01)Each issue Desktop Engineering gives a Readers' Choice Award to the product that has received the most reader interest in a recent issue.
- Giving Customers What They Want, When They Want It (01/15/01)Web-based software lets customers build products to order and have them delivered at the same time and for the same price as off-the-shelf items.
- Value-Chain Report -- Company Delivers Configuration Solution (10/15/00) [External]CustomWise Furthers 'Spreadsheet Simple Solution' for Mass Customization (Industry Week).
- Product Configurators Are Not the Same as Configuration Management With or Without PDM (10/15/00) [External]By whatever name you choose to call it, PDM is not really a stand-alone topic anymore. It is now part of a far larger venue, which, unfortunately, has not made PDM any easier to explain and understand (Desktop Engineering).
- Configure, Engineer Products Remotely (10/04/00) [External]Automate the configuration and engineering of complex manufactured products with a new Web-based product configurator from Design Power Inc. (Industry Week)
- Product Configurators - The Big Picture (07/15/00) [PDF]An Article in MIDRANGE ERP, by Ulf Ström and Alan Axworthy (PDF, July 2000)
- Advanced Automation Builds Profits (03/15/99) [PDF]An Article in Computer-Aided Engineering (PDf, March 1999)
PlantWise
- Could Design Power's Intelligent Plant Layout and Routing Technology Revolutionalize Front-End Engineering Design? (02/15/01)From Daratech CAD/CAM, CAE Industry Update, Reprints Available.
- Vendor Profile: Design Power, Inc. (10/15/00)From Daratech CAD/CAM, CAE: Survey, Review and Buyer's Guide, Reprints Available.
- Front-End Design Tool Cuts Methyl Chloride Plant Costs at
Bayer (03/28/00) [External]Using the PlantWise suite from Design Power, Inc. (Cupertino, CA), Bayer enhanced its ability to optimize designs and improve plant efficiency by rapidly reconfiguring models to reflect changing plant parameters (Chemical Online)
- Feeding Frenzy at E&C Firms (01/01/00) [External]Long before any land is cleared, concrete poured or metal delivered, nearly one third of the capital costs of a new plant can be saved by using front-end engineering and design (Feed) software (By Charlene Crabb, with Takashi Kamiya, in Chemical Engineering, subscription required).
- Design Made Easy (11/01/99) [External]An article in Chemical Engineering. The availability of the right software toolset is fundamental to the quality of a design engineer's work. (By Kristine Chin, in Chemical Engineering, subscription required).
- Front-End Plant Design Saves Time and Money (11/01/99) [External]An article in Chemical Engineering. Years of experience has taught engineers at Fluor Daniel, Inc. (Sugar Land, Tex.) that complex piping can often account for as much as one-third of a project's cost. This article in Chemical Engineering discusses the key to reducing the cost. (Chemical Engineering, subscription required).
- Integrated Concept Design in Chemical Plant Construction (05/15/99)Design Power Success: Bayer, AG of Leverkusen, Germany
