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Gerhard Sallinger thanks customers for another successful year in divisional keynote at Intergraph 2010

Earlier today, Gerhard Sallinger, president of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, led an inspiring keynote address, “Better Solutions for Better Facilities,” in which he gave the annual update of the division, its strategies, its performance, and its work to provide real value to its customers. He shared how Intergraph SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise solutions enable customers to design, build, and operate safer, more reliable, and more efficient plants, offshore structures, and ships.

Sallinger then acknowledged the 2010 Intergraph Sapphire Circle winners. The Sapphire Circle program allows the company to recognize the top 1 percent of its global employee workforce through nominations submitted by fellow employees. Through their exceptional standards and work ethic, the employees receiving this award support and “live” the overall Intergraph mission, vision, and core values, every day. Sapphire Circle recipients from the Process, Power & Marine division include:

• Yan Cheng – China
• Randy Cleary – United States
• Davide Guzzi – Italy
• Santosh Raghavan –Singapore
• Narahari Sanga – India

Next, Sallinger discussed the rules-based design capability in Smart 3D, which can act as a “watchdog” by incorporating safety rules into the design system. Smart 3D can also facilitate more error-free design, reducing the need for late and sometimes poorly documented modifications to be made during construction.

Joe Morray, president of Trinity Technologies Corp., led a safety roundtable including Raul Hermosillo, manager, Site Projects and Turnaround Benchmarking, IPA Global; Russ Novak, director, ARC Advisory Group; Patrick Holcomb, executive vice president, business development, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine; and Sallinger. They discussed a number of industry trends and factors involving safety efforts.

For more information on Intergraph’s approach to safety, please visit http://www.intergraph.com/go/smartsafety.

Greetings from Las Vegas!

Intergraph 2010 is in full swing, with the majority of Process, Power & Marine sessions beginning today. One of the highlights was the awarding of the Platinum Pipe automation contest.

Samsung Heavy Industries won first prize for its entry that automatically places a ship's accommodation area into a SmartMarine 3D model. This tool automatically adds 3D equipment, furniture, and joiner wall panel. The greatness of the automation is that it allows SHI to finish the joiner plan quickly and pass the 3D model to other disciplines. The automation was submitted by Mi Ja Kwak.

Second place was awarded to Darren Litherland of Grenland Group in Norway. There was a tie for third place between L.S. Soo of Hyundai Engineering and Haibo Zheng of Chinergy. Congratulations to the winners, and look for videos on these automations soon. 

2010 Golden Valve Awards Desktop Calendar Wallpaper available for downloading

The Q3 versions of the 2010 Golden Valve Awards Computer Desktop Calendar are available for downloading. Select your favorite winning image of the third quarter:

• WorleyParsonsGroup, Inc. — 3rd Place Visually Complex
• Selas Fluid Processing Corp. — 1st Place Rendering and Ray Traces
• ECM S.A. Projetos Industriais — 2nd Place Rendering and Ray Traces (pictured here)

Each image features a three-month calendar and can be set as your desktop background. Download the zip file to receive all three images. The calendars are available in two sizes: 800x600 and 1024x768.

Download them now.

The Golden Valve Awards competition recognizes the most innovative and well-executed uses of software supported by Intergraph Process, Power & Marine.

The Q4 images will be available for download in September.

The Shaw Group Inc. recommends Intergraph SmartPlant 3D

In this new video, see how The Shaw Group, a global EPC headquartered in the U.S., has used Intergraph’s SmartPlant 3D to gain productivity and worksharing benefits.

The Shaw Group is a leading global provider of engineering and construction. Andrew Guard, director of computer-aided engineering and information technology at The Shaw Group, shares his personal recommendation of the 3D design solution in the video.

Intergraph SmartPlant 3D is the industry’s most advanced and productive next-generation, rules-based, data-centric 3D design system for automated design in the process, power and marine industries. Customers using SmartPlant 3D typically realize 25- to 35-percent initial increases in productivity.

GetSmart! team blogging live at Intergraph 2010

Next week, August 30-September 2, the GetSmart! blog team is attending the Intergraph 2010 International Users' Conference in Las Vegas, NV, USA.  So, we will be blogging live from there.  Here are a few of the exciting events/sessions from the complete schedule:

• Intergraph Executive Keynote
• T. Boone Pickens Keynote
• Power Focus Group Luncheon with guest speaker Dr. Robert Peitier, Editor-in-Chief of Power Magazine
• TechExpo breaks
• Using SmartPlant 3D Automation to Design for Modular Construction: A Case Study by Bechtel Corporation
• Introduction to WorkFace Planning
• Reducing Costs and Risks of Turnarounds: An Integrated Approach
• Toyo Engineering’s Use of SmartPlant 3D with SmartPlant Enterprise Integration for EPC

You can stay up-to-date on all the conference happenings by signing up for the GetSmart! blog RSS feed here. 

See you in Vegas!

Intergraph 2010 Guest Keynote: A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens

The guest keynote speaker at Intergraph 2010 is T. Boone Pickens, one the world’s foremost authorities on the global energy and energy security markets. Recognized around the globe, Pickens has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine, CEO of the Decade by Financial World, and one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century by Oil and Gas Investor. During this thought-provoking keynote session, “A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens,”  this best-selling author will offer his views on global solutions for today and the future as well as candid responses to attendees questions. Regardless of your interests, we promise you a thought-provoking keynote presentation that will help you to see a new world of opportunities everywhere you look.

Register now for this week's webinar on rules-based design and safety

There's still time to register for "Rules-Based Design: The Watch Dog for Safety in the Engineering Enterprise" webinar, part of the special GetSmart! Safety webinar series:

• Register to attend Aug. 25, 7:00 p.m. CDT (A time conversion chart is available on the registration page)
• Register to attend Aug. 26, 8:00 a.m. CDT

Rules-based design is a watch dog that can help build better, safer plants, offshore structures, and ships. Rules-based design can incorporate safety rules and considerations into the design system. It also can facilitate a more error-free design, thus eliminating late, sometimes poorly documented modifications often made onsite during construction.

Rules-based design capability in SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D, collectively known as Smart 3D, is a top differentiator to traditional design systems. This webinar will feature several prominent examples of how rules-based design can help to increase Safety in the Engineering Enterprise, including area classification, explosion analysis, access and spacing management, and containment design.

Bangkok Post features Intergraph’s next-generation engineering software

Bangkok Post, an English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand, ran an article featuring Intergraph’s next-generation engineering software. Intergraph senior management, Tom Doran, Executive Vice President of PP&M in Asia Pacific and Chin Kong Far, Vice President of PP&M in Southeast Asia, along with Harsh Sethi, CEO of Intergraph’s Thai partner, Neon Infotech, were interviewed for the article.

Intergraph’s suite of Smart solutions adopts a data-centric approach for accurate, integrated and reusable data that helps to increase usability, efficiency, and productivity, as well as increases safety in plant facilities. Harsh Sethi, CEO of Neon Infotech, recognized that there is a growing trend in the industry to build a single source of data for the entire enterprise and Intergraph’s Smart solutions can help organizations to achieve this.

Tom Doran, Executive Vice President of PP&M in Asia Pacific, acknowledged the challenges facing owner operators today and highlighted that Intergraph has evolved into a knowledge-driven engineering software provider that allows use of rule-driven data that can be configured, changed and modified to serve business requirements. There is strong demand for next-generation engineering software in the Southeast Asian region, particularly in Thailand, as pointed out by Chin Kong Far, Vice President of PP&M in Southeast Asia.

To read the full article, on the Bangkok Post Web site click here.

Crucial considerations during the design stage of a power plant

Crucial considerations during the design stage of a power plant—how does software help to master the challenges posed.

Each major engineering discipline would insist there are several considerations that are crucial at any given time during the design stage. Overall, making sure all major plant components are designed and accounted for, and that each engineering group affected by those components has the most up-to-date information is one of the most important considerations.

The physical layout of the plant must be completed and communicated, but also making sure that shared data about major pipelines, the instrumentation and controls of those pipelines, the electrical loads of major equipment inside the plant and the thousands of miles of cabling connecting them is probably the most crucial consideration of all.

Software helps in this endeavor by allowing designers to reuse data that has already been entered by someone else. This can reduce or eliminate keyboard entry errors, but more importantly, software can also aid in the notification of those designers when the data is changed due to a new design parameter or material change situation. Power plant designers spend much more time reacting to change and validating data than they do in creating the data in the first place. Software helps to reduce the negative impacts of those changes by notifying users earlier in the process so they can avoid purchasing incorrect components or producing incorrect drawings.

Discover how Intergraph's software has helped companies such as AECL, Burns & McDonnell, Siemens Power Generation, and URS Washington Division.  Read the power industry spotlight. 

Intergraph 2010, still time to register online

Online registration for Intergraph 2010 ends August 20--register today!

With so many things planned this year, you won't want to miss Intergraph 2010.  From the TUF meetings to the keynotes to the sessions there is something of interest for everyone. 

Friday is the last day to register online for Intergraph 2010, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, at the ARIA Resort at CityCenter™, August 30 – September 2.  There are only a few days left.  Online registration ends at 4:00 p.m. (U.S. CDT) on Friday August 20.  Register now to ensure a smooth process on-site, and save $200 off on-site registrations rates.

See you in Vegas!