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Enjoy a new Golden Valve Award desktop calendar

Download your February 2012 desktop calendar wallpaper spotlighting the first place Golden Valve Award for Animation. Click here to download the 1280x1024, 1366x768, or 1680x1050 (scalable to 1280x800) version and set the image as your desktop background.

Casey Fardoun and James Smith from Burns & McDonnell created the award-winning animation. A benzene reduction plant was laser-scanned using Leica Geosystems technology. The animation incorporates point cloud data combined with the PDS design to ensure design and modeling accuracy.

The next Golden Valve Award winners will be announced at the Hexagon 2012 International Users’ Conference in Las Vegas. Register to attend Hexagon 2012 today to save $500 with our pre-registration rate!

Take advantage of group registration discount for Hexagon 2012

Hexagon 2012 promises tremendous value to the process, power, and marine industries. Held June 4-7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the informative sessions and networking potential are unmatched by any other industry event.

Did you know that if you bring a group of six or more people to attend the international users’ conference, you can receive a substantial discounted rate of $699? Several customers from around the globe have already leveraged the Hexagon 2012 group registration program:

• CB&I Inc.
• Fluor Corporation
• Kiewit Power
• Nexen Inc.
• Technip
• WorleyParsons Ltd.

If your company isn’t listed, it’s not too late to join. Learn more here.

Fluor gains competitive advantage with SmartPlant Enterprise

Proper planning, training and business mindset are the key to success. In the latest issue of Insight magazine, read how Fluor is creating a competitive advantage with its use of SmartPlant Enterprise. Its implementation plan focused on four key areas:

• Retraining a multi-office global organization in the most efficient manner possible
• Implementing SmartPlant Enterprise applications in an integrated project execution environment
• Determining the work process and organizational changes that position Fluor for a "Next Generation" of project execution
• Implementing a rules-based environment to strengthen its competitive position and support the coming knowledge and experience shortages

Read the complete article here.

Ignite your imagination at Hexagon 2012

Ola Rollen, president and CEO of Hexagon, invites you to attend Hexagon 2012, June 4-7, in Las Vegas. Click here to watch the video.

The conference is sure to ignite your imagination with creative solutions for your business challenges and provide the perfect opportunity for networking with peers and industry leaders from around the world.

Intergraph PP&M will offer an array of great sessions led by experts in the design, construction and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Learn how you can leverage Intergraph's SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise engineering solutions to boost productivity, reduce timelines and ensure data accuracy across the facility life cycle. Learn more.

Register today!

Intergraph user group conferences attended by 5,500 delegates worldwide in 2011

Intergraph attracted 5,500 delegates to its global series of 2011 user group conferences for the process, power and marine industries. User conferences were held in 25 countries on six continents and drew the highest attendance ever for the annual sessions.

The conferences featured the latest releases from the SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise portfolios, Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions and Leica Geosystems’ Smart Scanning solutions, offering attendees unprecedented scope and value. The global theme, “Building a Smarter World,” demonstrated how Intergraph technology empowers organizations to improve their business through industry-specific technologies that make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter.

Eight Intergraph user conferences were held in six Asia-Pacific countries in 2011 and attracted approximately 2,000 delegates. The Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa user conferences were attended by more than 1,200 delegates in 13 countries.

In the Americas region, Intergraph 2011 PP&M Canada in Calgary, Alberta, was attended by a record 149 delegates. Four Latin America sessions were held in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela and attracted nearly 250 users of Intergraph solutions.

To view this press release, please visit the Intergraph press room at: http://www.intergraph.com/assets/pressreleases/2012/01-12-2012.aspx

 

CADWorx DraftPro free design tool available to the plant design and engineering community

Intergraph has released its newest product, Intergraph CADWorx DraftPro, an intelligent AutoCAD-based plant design package, and is offering it free to the plant design and engineering community (www.cadworxdraftpro.com).

Built on the company’s CADWorx Plant Professional package, which offers full 3D intelligent plant design, live collaborative database links, automatic isometrics and on-the-fly collision checking, CADWorx DraftPro enables designers to quickly and efficiently create intelligent, specification-driven 2D plant and piping plans, sections, and elevations, with full bill of materials capabilities.

To view this press release, please visit the Intergraph press room at: http://www.intergraph.com/assets/pressreleases/2012/01-10-2012.aspx

Want to learn more about CADWorx DraftPro? Register now to attend the Jan. 26 webinar, "What is CADWorx DraftPro and Who is it For?" (A time zone converter is available on each registration page)

• Americas & Europe, Thursday, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m. CST Register
• Asia-Pacific, Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. CST Register
  
  
  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy networking at Hexagon 2012

One of the benefits of attending Hexagon 2012 is the opportunity to network with users from around the world to share ideas. At last year's conference, Curt Moreno from Cadalyst remarks in this video:

I've seen a lot of people sitting down illustrating processes to one another ... this is exactly what you want, is to inspire users to talk to each other. You're sharing at a very grassroots level. You're not just increasing knowledge; you're increasing interdependence. And that network is what Hexagon stands on, and the better it is, the better the platform.

Learn more about the Process, Power & Marine track at Hexagon 2012, June 4-7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Bring your group to Hexagon 2012

Do you have a large group of employees who would benefit from attending Hexagon 2012? The group registration program delivers a discounted rate of $699 for groups of six attendees or more.

If you are an employee from CB&I Inc. or Technip, be sure to take advantage of this special rate! If your company has not enrolled in the program yet, it’s not too late. Please click here for all the details. The international users’ conference will be held June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

Download your January Golden Valve Awards desktop calendar

Ring in the new year with January 2012 desktop calendar wallpaper featuring the top winners of Intergraph’s Golden Valve Awards. This year, two companies shared the Best of Show prize. Click here to download the 1280x1024, 1366x768, or 1680x1050 (scalable to 1280x800) version and set the image as your desktop background.

COSCO Shipyard Group and Keppel FELS Ltd. both submitted images of semi-submersible drilling ships designed using Smart 3D and rendered with SmartPlant Review. Pictured on the left, Keppel FELS Limited developed the isometric view of a semisubmersible drilling rig. Gu Xiaogang from COSCO Shipyard Group created the image on the right, an isometric view of the Sevan 650 drilling rig.

The Best of Show winners were each awarded US$1,000 and complimentary registration for the Hexagon 2012 International Users’ Conference in Las Vegas. Register to attend Hexagon 2012 today to save $600 with our special Think Forward rates!

Download new Smart 3D Drawings GetSmart! webinar

The GetSmart! Webinar Series turns to Smart 3D drawings with this recorded webinar, "Smart 3D Improved Drawings Content." Learn about the latest content and tools available to ease the administrative burden for clients starting new projects with SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D (collectively known as Smart 3D). The Smart 3D Drawings team has created an improved set of view styles to automate orthographic drawing creation to help you save time and simplify project setup. This new content will be delivered on our eCustomer support site.

In this recoded webinar, you will learn more about how Smart 3D’s improved drawings content can help you:

• Minimize the need for manual touch-up by taking advantage of new view styles that produce better automatic drawings
• Improve performance and gain ease of use thanks to a significant reduction in the numbers of graphic rules, label rules, and dimension rules
• Boost productivity with new view style options, including independent grid bubbles and equipment centerlines

Click here to download the recorded webinar.

To register for other GetSmart! webinars or to view other recordings of past webinars, please visit our schedule page.