Customer Testimonials
Learn more about the benefits our customers derive from the use of PlantWise™ by reading their testimonials (PDF format).
PlantWise Customer Successes
Automating conceptual design makes sense. Ideally it covers all disciplines and includes estimation. Automation provides speed that allows "what if" search for optimization and planning. Integrating estimation makes cost a design planning factor and not a mere consequence. Integrating all disciplines provides early planning coordination. Read what AMEC, Bayer, Black & Veatch, Fluor, KBR, LG Engineering, Snamprogetti, Techint, and Toyo Engineering say about the value of PlantWise in the FEED process.
AMEC, UK
"... this reduced the amount of material required and the subsequent cost by approximately 50%."
Graham Hoult, Senior Mechanical Engineer, AMEC, UK, Letter to Design Power January, 2001 (Full text)
Bayer Ag, Germany
" Bayer saved about 4-10% of project costs and about 2-4 month in construction by using PlantBuilder/AutoRouter [PlantWise] to quickly make changes to the equipment, structural steel and overall plant layout before the project proceeded, and established the value of using the new tool."
Bayer AG, in Chemical Online, March 2000
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Black & Veatch
"We're looking for the 'best of the best.' For example, we think Design Power with its autorouter program has a very good solution to an engineering design problem."
Ed Edmonson, VP Engineering, Black & Veatch, in Insight, Spring 2000, a publication of Intergraph Process & Building Solutions.
"The ability to move equipment easily in the model and determine material savings fast is very cost effective."
Black & Veatch Pritchard, Kansas City (Full statement)
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Fluor Corporation
"When they compared MTOs from both models, they found that the OptimEyes [PlantWise] design saved more than $1 million in total installed cost for piping."
Fluor Daniel, Inc. in Chemical Engineering November 1999
"The PDS piping work went much faster when they were working side by side with the PlantWise model. The piping project man hours were reduced with an estimated 20% ."
Piping Engineering Manager
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News: Fluor Corporation reaches 100 PlantWise License Milestone
Webcast: Fluor Corp. 2003 shows value > 2% of TIC
(demo at 30:30 mins, value: 42:30 mins)
Kellogg Brown & Root
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.
LG Engineering, Ltd., Korea
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Snamprogetti, UK
"It has been applied at proposal and early project stages for both layout and material optimisation and is key to the Company's overall Application strategy"
Peter Evett, Engineering Manager Snamprogetti UK (Full statement)
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Techint S.A., Argentina
"We are proud to be the first user of PlantWise in South America. This tool has been used as a work process benchmarking device to manage our Piping Account from the bid phase through final surplus reconciliation of the completed project."
Techint S.A. in Argentina
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Toyo Engineering Corp., Japan
"Similarly, Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) uses AutoPlant by Rebis for flow diagramming, and PlantBuilder and AutoRouter [PlantWise] by Design Power, inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) for 3-dimensional layouts and routing. Toyo's Feed toolkit reduces the total design time by 10-20%"
Youichi Nishi, head of Toyo's integrated plant design group, in the article "Feeding Frenzy at E&C Firms", Chemical Engineering , January 2000
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