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Focus
Software and Mobile Apps
Advance engineering projects
with process simulation tools
ChemCad is an intuitive suite of
chemical-process-simulation software
that gives engineers a variety of
capabilities to improve productivity.
Version 6.5.7 includes such features
as the Thermo Acceleration operating
mode, which can help speed calculations
for complex simulations. The
software also allows for simultaneous
heat-transfer and mass-transfer
models in distillation columns, and
lets users run Excel Data Maps for
each time step in dynamics mode.
- Chemstations, Inc., Houston
www.chemstations.com
Platform eases collaboration,
data sharing and compliance
The ability to improve the aggregation,
integration, synthesis and analysis
of data from disparate resarch
and operating areas within an organizations
lets process engineers and
managers uncover knowledge that
is often hidden in massive volumes
of structured and unstructured data.
BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot (photo) is a
graphical-authoring application that
increases operational efficiency and
reduces costs for both scientists and
process engineers across a wide
spectrum of industries. With Pipeline
Pilot, users can complete projects
significantly faster, by leveraging existing
research, process and intellectual
property, and automating routine
data gathering and analysis. Realtime
reporting dashboards bring
into view experimental results and
process production metrics related
to a wide range of data-processing
functions, such as data retrieval,
manipulation, computational analysis,
filtering, and display functionalities.
- Dassault Systèmes Biovia
(formerly Accelrys), San Diego, Calif.
www.accelrys.com
Program speeds the execution
of brownfield projects
Aveva Everything3D 2.1 (Aveva
E3D; photo) builds on the software's
proven ability to deliver time and cost
savings for brownfield and revamp
projects, helping to increase productivity
for engineering, procurement
and construction (EPCs) and owneroperators.
Enhanced capabilities,
such as PointCloud demolition and
the ability to dislay laser data directly
on drawings, enable designers to interact
with 3-D models in ways that
have not previously been possible,
says the company. The software's
enhanced user interface helps to
reduce the learning curve and move
projects more quickly into production.
Aveva E3D includes the introduction
of HyperBubble technology, which is
said to allow the user to work in a
fully immersed, as-built environment.
For many projects, the software's
capabilities can reduce the need to
remodel existing plants prior to revamps,
and limit the need to generate
numerous drawings (which cuts
labor requirements). - Aveva Solutions
Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.
www.aveva.com
Software bundle supports
multivariate data analysis
Two software providers have collaborated
to release a software bundle
called The Unscrambler X DesignExpert
Upgrade, which provides
support for multivariate data analysis
and design of experiments. It enables
advanced multivariate methods, provides
a variety of data-visualization
tools, and helps users to cut through
large data sets that are common in
so many chemical process industries
(CPI) applications. The software also
helps users to screen for vital factors,
identify ideal process settings for top
performance, and discover optimal
product formulations. - Camo Software,
Oslo, Norway, and Stat-Ease,
Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
www.camo.com
Alarm-management program
reduces alarms by 80%
The DynAMo Alarm and Operations
Management software (photo) helps
CPI operators to better manage operations
and alarms, improve operator
effectiveness, plant safety, availability
and compliance. The solution
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Dassault Systèmes Biovia
Aveva Solutions
Honeywell

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