BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 37) MARKET STORIES PL ANT enabled personnel to make decisions on the Drawings, sections, and views were gener- markets to fulfill its contracts at $180,000 design and appearance of different elements or more per day. ated from the 3D model. Some 300 people, already under design during model creation. half of them designers and the other half land When a mechanical breakdown causes an The cost of the facility will be $100 million, surveyors, took part in the design activities. outage, InterGen typically hires specialists to with the cost of design and survey work fix the problem as quickly as possible.Cost is The use of Bentley technology has totalling $1.5 million. also a consideration, so InterGen usually allowed us to be more competitive, project seeks a fixed-price contract for the repair manager Raphail Kirshenboum said. The work generally less expensive than paying quality of our executed work has increased, Database system supports design on the basis of time and materials. project timescales have been reduced, and work on 100 projects errors have decreased. Supporting Giprotyumenneftegaz's design On an annual basis, our performance work is an in-house database system and ProjectWise ... provides the and productivity increased five times, com- associated intranet technologies. Bentley simplest and fastest way to pared with our performance in 2000, using products used in design are integrated into the same number of personnel, the data system using MicroStation's APIs and source plant data, by both Kirshenboum said. its intrinsic ability to access databases. office and plant-based staff. All major projects were designed in 3D, The data system houses all projects cur- and the models were presented to the client rently developed, the volume of which for review. Bentley's visualization tools exceeds 100 GB. It is powerful enough to To enable contractors to quote a price for allow Giprotyumenneftegaz to work simulta- the work,InterGen provides them with draw- Project neously on 70 to 100 projects.The volume of ings, technical data, work orders, purchase Adaptation of Bentley Technologies to Russian information updated daily reaches 25 GB. information, photographs, access needs, insu- Oil and Gas Fields lation needs, coating systems, heat tracing The data system currently maintains requirements, and more. This package also Organization libraries for Bentley's PlantSpace P&ID and lets the contractor get people with the MicroStation's TriForma extension, and Giprotyumenneftegaz right skills to the job site and give them the a dedicated team of specialists constantly BE Awards category right instructions. creates new components for various Plant: New Technology Adoption design disciplines. Mix of paper, electronic As of early 2005, the databases included Project objectives data hampered maintenance work more than 120,000 items of pipes, pipeline To design a compressor station to treat gas Until recently,InterGen kept 40 percent of parts, and valves. More than 6,500 items of formed during oil production. The gas is treated its plant drawings in an electronic format and complex process equipment such as pumps, before being transported via pipeline to a the rest on paper.To find the right drawings processing plant 150 kilometers away. facilities, vessels, and tanks have been creat- for a specific outage,staff members often had ed, including approximately 2,000 3D Fast facts to search through file cabinets containing TriForma elements. I The $100 million facility will handle 1.8 billion thousands of drawings. Reprinted with permission from the October cubic meters of gas per year For instance, all valve drawings were filed 2005 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering. Bentley Plant solutions were used in the design together so if a valve failed,putting togeth- phases for the engineering survey, creation of er the repair package meant searching process flow diagrams, plot plans, and 3D through an entire file of drawings for the designing Fast, broad-based right one. The 3D model of the facility included more than Once drawings were found, staff members access to power plant 90 functional items from the plot plan, allowing pulled tag numbers and other information, full design of the process cycle of the data saves millions by using them to search paper files for other crit- compressor station ical documents such as data sheets. Some reducing downtime Bentley products used information was stored at the plant and some InterGen uses ProjectWise to at the office.The person putting together the MicroStation manage information needed repair package would usually need other MicroStation TriForma for maintenance staffers' help in order to find and copy the Bentley Structural required information. Bentley HVAC Assembling the repair package typically Outages are costly to a company such PlantSpace P&ID took up to five days, during which time as Massachusetts-based InterGen, which Bentley Interference Manager contractors could carry out only a limited operates power generation facilities on four amount of work. In the meantime, costs of continents. When a plant goes down, the Bentley Descartes company often must buy power on spot the outage escalated quickly. Volume 2, Issue 4 BE Magazine 37 Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 Bentley wins Enterprise Award LT. Gen. Strock adjusts USACEâs vision USACE teams up with Bentley Buying a 3D laser scanner BIM saves construction costs for General Motors auto plants BIM Roundtable Building News Lady of the Lake PowerCivil brings CAD back to civil engineering Civil News Better base mapping management helps City of Calgary share data citywide Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications streamlines engineering processes Geospatial News Bringing engineering disciplines together in Western Siberia InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance Boost from Bentley helps user group come together eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute Six more years of âpatch and prayâ CEO Greg Bentley outlines CEO Greg Bentley outlines âIntegrated Engineeringâ strategy BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 1) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 2) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 3) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 4) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 5) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 6) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 7) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 8) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 9) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Bentley wins Enterprise Award (Page 10) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Bentley wins Enterprise Award (Page 11) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - LT. Gen. Strock adjusts USACEâs vision (Page 12) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - LT. Gen. Strock adjusts USACEâs vision (Page 13) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - LT. Gen. Strock adjusts USACEâs vision (Page 14) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - LT. Gen. Strock adjusts USACEâs vision (Page 15) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - USACE teams up with Bentley (Page 16) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - USACE teams up with Bentley (Page 17) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Buying a 3D laser scanner (Page 18) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Buying a 3D laser scanner (Page 19) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - BIM saves construction costs for General Motors auto plants (Page 20) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - BIM Roundtable (Page 21) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - BIM Roundtable (Page 22) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - BIM Roundtable (Page 23) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Building News (Page 24) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Building News (Page 25) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Building News (Page 26) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Lady of the Lake (Page 27) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - PowerCivil brings CAD back to civil engineering (Page 28) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - PowerCivil brings CAD back to civil engineering (Page 29) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Civil News (Page 30) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Civil News (Page 31) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Better base mapping management helps City of Calgary share data citywide (Page 32) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications streamlines engineering processes (Page 33) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Geospatial News (Page 34) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Geospatial News (Page 35) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Bringing engineering disciplines together in Western Siberia (Page 36) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance (Page 37) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance (Page 38) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance (Page 39) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance (Page 40) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Boost from Bentley helps user group come together (Page 41) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Boost from Bentley helps user group come together (Page 42) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute (Page 43) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute (Page 44) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute (Page 45) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute (Page 46) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute (Page 47) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Six more years of âpatch and prayâ (Page 48) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Six more years of âpatch and prayâ (Page 49) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - CEO Greg Bentley outlines âIntegrated Engineeringâ strategy (Page 50) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - CEO Greg Bentley outlines âIntegrated Engineeringâ strategy (Page 51) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - CEO Greg Bentley outlines âIntegrated Engineeringâ strategy (Page 52) http://www.nxtbookMEDIA.com
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.