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Intergraph 2010 Korea and Japan events great success

The Intergraph 2010 Korea and Japan conferences were a great success with hundreds of delegates at each event.

At Intergraph 2010 Korea, the session on SmartPlant 3D, PDS and Visualization was immensely popular. The other sessions were also very well received with positive feedback from delegates. Intergraph 2010 Korea featured keynote speeches by Intergraph Process, Power and Marine management as well as customer keynote speeches by representatives from Hyundai Engineering and SK Engineering and Construction.

Intergraph 2010 Japan also featured keynote speeches by Intergraph management and customers by representatives from JGC, Chiyoda, and Toyo Engineering. The SmartPlant 3D session was also extremely popular. This reflects the impact that Intergraph SmartPlant 3D is making in the industry and our customers are interested to learn more about the solution.

The Intergraph 2010 Asia Pacific conferences are off to a great start. You can still register online for Intergraph 2010, our annual international users’ conference, which will be held at the ARIA Resort at CityCenter™ in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, from August 30 to September 2. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to spark your imagination with creative solutions to your business challenges!

Relevant resources at your finger tips

The PP&M Resource Center provides you with a quick and easy way to find the information you are looking for.

The resource center is organized with you in mind. Whether you want to find the recorded webinar done on June 24, 2010 or you are looking for an issue of Insight magazine, the resource center can help you find it.  And if you aren't exactly sure what you are looking for, just use the handy search tool.

Be sure to check out the resource center today!

Two more days to save $300 for Intergraph 2010

The GetSmart! team will be blogging live from Intergraph 2010. Will we see you there? If you haven’t registered yet for one of the premier process, power, and marine industry conferences, now’s the time. There are 48 hours left to save $300 off the normal registration rate of US$1,399.

The conference begins August 30 and ends September 2, 2010, and will be at the ARIA in Las Vegas, Nevada. For Intergraph Process, Power & Marine attendees, preconference activities begin on August 29, with the annual Technical User Forum (TUF) meetings. Low-cost, hands-on training sessions follow on August 30. Customer-led sessions and technically focused workshops begin on August 31.

Among the more than 80 sessions for process, power, offshore, and shipbuilding attendees is a special keynote address, “Innovation 2010: A Commitment to New and Expanded Solutions.”

As the world’s leading provider of enterprise engineering software, Intergraph continues its 40-year tradition of technical innovation by consistently developing new productivity-increasing solutions and expanding its solution portfolio through selective acquisitions.

In this keynote session delivered by Charles Evans, Intergraph chief technology officer and executive vice president, and Patrick Holcomb, Intergraph executive vice president, learn more about Intergraph’s relevant technology advances of the past year, including enhancements to major product offerings such as SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D. The session also will highlight some of Intergraph’s newest solutions developed specifically for the process, power, and marine industries, as well as direction of the recently acquired CADWorx, CAESAR II, and SIGRAPH.CAE solutions.

Visit the Intergraph 2010 Web site to learn more, or register today. Remember, the current pre-registration rate of US$1,099 expires this Friday at 4 p.m. CST.

Popular hands-on training session to be repeated at Intergraph 2010

Due to an overwhelming response, a second “SmartPlant Integration Mapping – SmartPlant P&ID to SmartPlant Instrumentation” hands-on training session has been added to the Intergraph 2010 agenda in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Attendees of this session will learn about the process of mapping an engineering authoring tool schema to the SmartPlant schema. They will gain hands-on experience with the Schema Editor interface, as well as the opportunity to check out and map the SmartPlant Schema (CMF) file.

This class and 10 other Smart Learning Hands-On Training Sessions, are available for attendees of this key industry event. The conference begins August 30 with these training classes, and ends September 2.

The other sessions include:

• Reference 3D for Joint Venture Projects
• Automated Rules-based Tasks (in Smart 3D)
• Demystifying CAESAR II
• Introduction to Workface Planning
• Introduction to SmartPlant Construction
• External Functions in SmartPlant Instrumentation
• Translation Enhancements in SmartSketch Drawing Editor
• Common I&E Cable Management
• SmartPlant P&ID Automation
• Advance Wiring and Telecom in SmartPlant Instrumentation

Click here to learn more about these sessions. Then register for Intergraph 2010 by July 23 and save $300 over the regular registration rate. Then use that $300 to maximize your time in Las Vegas by taking a Smart Learning session. Please hurry. Space is limited, and several classes are almost full.

Miss any of our past webinars?

Did you miss one of our recent Intergraph GetSmart! Webinars?  Recorded versions are available for downloading anytime here.  Some of the most recent recorded webinars include:

• Piping Data transfer between SmartPlant Isometrics and SmartPlant 3D
• SmartPlant P&ID Technical Update
• Intergraph Electrical Solution - SmartPlant Electrical and Sigraph.CAE
• SmartPlant Spoolgen
• Interface Control - Managing the complex technical interfaces between project stakeholders to reduce risk and costs

Check out the upcoming webinar schedule here.

Platinum Pipe Awards to honor excellence in Smart 3D automations

The 2010 Platinum Pipe Awards Competition will recognize the most innovative automation ideas for SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D. Winners will be announced at the Intergraph 2010 international users’ Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, at the ARIA Resort at CityCenter, August 30-September 2.

You could receive US$2,000 and complimentary registration to Intergraph 2010 or Intergraph 2011. Each of the top three winners will receive recognition at Intergraph 2010 and in Insight magazine. Plus, winners could possibly see their idea come to life as a commercially viable Intergraph product.

The second annual Platinum Pipe Awards Competition is sponsored by Intergraph Process, Power & Marine and the Process & Power Client Community (P2C2). All entries must be received by August 10, 2010 – so prepare yours today!

There is still time to register for Intergraph Asia Pacific 2010 conferences

Intergraph’s Asia-Pacific regional user conferences are just around the corner in Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia – but there is still time to register for them.

The conferences provide delegates with a unique combination of valuable learning, innovative technical sessions that are based on real-world examples, and a remarkable networking opportunity that can lay the foundations of a long a successful business relationship.

The dates for the 2010 regional user conferences in Asia Pacific are:

• Intergraph 2010 Korea, 13-14 July, Seoul, Korea
• Intergraph 2010 Japan, 20-21 July, Nishi-ku, Japan
• Intergraph 2010 South East Asia, 3-4 August, Pattay, Thailand
• Intergraph 2010 South East Asia, 5-6 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

To register for these conferences, click on the links above or contact your local Intergraph office.

Register now for the next Intergraph GetSmart! webinar

There is still time to register for the webinar on Thursday, July 1, 2010, Interoperability between  the engineering design basis and SAP with SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators.  This webinar will:

• present Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators Operating Plant interoperability with SAP,
• show the integrations available,
• describe the business benefits offered, and
• describe the technology approaches adopted to achieve interoperability.

Maintaining the accuracy and consistency of essential plant engineering, maintenance, and operations information is crucial to safe and efficient plant operations. SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO) enables the synchronization of the Engineering Design Basis in SPO with the maintenance information in SAP EAM. It provides a SAP-certified "Management of Engineering Change" (MoC) process as well as a SAP NetWeaver® based Plant Information Browser. The NetWeaver based portal provides seamless access to information from SPO and select information in SAP; information is available via drill-down of the plant structure, structured queries, or from 2D/3D graphical navigation of the plant.

Register now for either the 8:00 a.m. (CDT) session or the 7:00 p.m. (CDT) session. 

Look forward to seeing you there!

Intergraph 2010 Platinum Pipe Awards Competition honors excellence in Smart 3D automation

Submit your Smart 3D automations in the Intergraph 2010 Platinum Pipe Awards Competition. The awards will recognize the most innovative automation ideas for SmartPlant® 3D and SmartMarine® 3D. Winners will be announced at the Intergraph 2010 International Users’ Conference in Las Vegas, August 30 – September 2.

You could receive US$2,000 and complimentary registration to Intergraph 2010 or Intergraph 2011! Each of the top three winners will receive recognition at Intergraph 2010 and in Insight magazine. Plus, winners could possibly see their idea come to life as a commercially viable Intergraph product. All entries must be received by August 10 – so prepare yours today!

Calculate your potential ROI from engineering the “Smart” way

A new return-on-investment (ROI) calculator allows users to calculate the savings of using Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise solutions over a non-automated environment (manual CAD paper drawings) for certain owner operator workflows. Using customizable inputs on the size of a plant (number of P&IDs, ISOs, cables, instruments, etc.), users can adjust the parameters to match their own plant. Then, users can select certain tasks in a plant such as piping system validation, inspection, or planned maintenance to find out the savings the “Smart” way of engineering provides.

The ROI calculator is part of “Engineering & Schematics: Promoting Owner Operator Workflows and Reducing OPEX with SmartPlant Enterprise,” Intergraph’s first Interactive Business Case . The Interactive Business Case is a dynamic document featuring several interactive and multimedia elements, such as: poll questions, demos, audio clips, an ROI calculator, links to other resources, and more.

The first section of the business case is available now. It describes the importance of optimizing control system performance; the challenges, success factors, and business drivers of control system calibration; and how SmartPlant Enterprise can help. Other sections will be added to the business case, each describing a specific owner operator workflow and how SmartPlant Enterprise assists.

Click here to visit the Interactive Business Case; a link to the ROI calculator is on page five.