Halliburton Company Business Unit Selects PlantWise™ Software For Conceptual Design
Design Power Contract Award: Kellogg Brown & Root
October 2001 - Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), has selected the PlantWise™ software suite as a principal tool for conceptual design of complex chemical process plants. The company is using PlantWise to generate computer models of new plant designs and to produce accurate cost estimates for proposed capital projects.
KBR has deployed the new software at the company's Houston headquarters. The software, recognized worldwide as a powerful tool for rapid conceptual plant modeling and automatic pipe routing, will be used in front-end plant design and engineering projects, where it enables users to quickly optimize plant layouts and visualize 3D models on the fly.
Halliburton Company, founded in 1919, is the world's largest provider of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries. The company serves its customers with a broad range of products and services through its Energy Services Group and Engineering and Construction Group business segments. The company's World Wide Web site can be accessed at www.halliburton.com.
Design Power, Inc. is headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company's Engineer-To-Order (ETO) solutions based on the Design++™ software engine include PlantWise and CustomWise™ for web-based sales automation of ETO products. Manufacturing, engineering, construction, and chemical process companies use Design++-based applications worldwide. Design Power customers include AMEC, Bayer AG, Beijing Design Institute (BDI), Black & Veatch, British Steel, Emerson Motor Company, Liebert Corporation, Fluor Corporation, Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc., Robertson Ceco Corporation, LG Engineering Company, Ltd., Techint S.A., Toyo Engineering Corporation, Samsung Engineering, Ltd., Selvaag Homes, and Snamprogetti Ltd. More information is available on the Design Power web site at http://www.dp.com.
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