Design Power Launches Intelligent Front-End Plant Design Family
The advanced yet easy to use front-end plant design family includes PlantBuilder™ for process plant layout & optimization, PlantDrafter™ for automated drawing production and AutoRouter™ for automated pipe routing.
Houston, TX, January 25, 1999 - Today at Daratech, Design Power, the leading supplier of Intelligent Design Systems, launched a comprehensive family of front-end design plant design tools. This family of products allows customers to quickly develop plant concepts, visualize them in 3D, automatically route pipes then automatically produce fully annotated drawings.
PlantBuilder is the premier front-end plant design tool. It enables plant concepts to be quickly created and visualized in 3D.With it's straightforward user interface and powerful feature set, conceptual plant design early in the design cycle is easier and more efficient than ever before. Once a design is created in PlantBuilder it is easily exported to AutoRouter for automated pipe routing.
AutoRouter routes pipes between the equipment in the concept model. This includes highly detailed equipment models, pipe racks and other structures. Using the intuitive interface, designers define basic information about the equipment and plant configuration, hit the route button and AutoRouter handles the pipe routing...automatically. Modifying anything in this intelligent plant model revises the pipe routing...automatically.With the plant design concept layout complete and pipes routed, designers use PlantDrafter to produce detailed drawings automatically.
PlantDrafter automatically produces fully annotated 2D drawings from 3D models created with PlantBuilder or PlantBuilder/AutoRouter software. The software automatically produces multiple drawing types including: plot plans, detached plans, piping or isometric drawings. To ensure complete customer satisfaction, Design Power also offers complete drawing customization services.
With the Intelligent Design technology that forms the foundation for each product in the family, the efficiency of the plant design cycle is greatly improved. According to Mr. Yoichi Nishi, Process CAD/CAE Manager for Toyo Engineering Corporation, "The new front-end plant design family from Design Power is impressive. It's powerful and easy to use. This enables our front-end design team to quickly validate complex project requirements."
Design Power, Inc. is the leading supplier of Intelligent Design System technologies for design, engineering and manufacturing. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company's products are used by manufacturing, engineering construction and chemical process companies worldwide. For more information, please visit Design Power online at www.dp.com.
