For more than 25 years, CADWorx & Analysis Solutions has provided software for multiple plant design and engineering disciplines. Our aim is that design and engineering should share relevant information seamlessly, thereby maintaining accuracy and improving efficiency.

Our solutions are used around the world by nearly every major owner operator and global EPC firm. Likewise, thousands of mid to small size companies are benefiting from the powerful, yet scalable, solutions that we develop. With CADWorx & Analysis Solutions you can create revenue-earning deliverables quicker and more accurately while the ease-of-use enables you to get started immediately.

What Do We Offer?

The CADWorx Plant Design Suite is an integrated, complete software series for plant design that provides:

• Quick and easy creation of fully intelligent 3D plant models on both AutoCAD and BricsCAD platforms
• Intelligent drawing and database connectivity
• Advanced levels of automation
• Easy-to-use drafting tools
• Bi-directional links with our Analysis solutions

Real-life Project Example: Process Plant Refurbishment

Mercury Engineering, an engineering services provider, was contracted to upgrade an existing process plant located near to Groningen, in the Netherlands. The project scope was the design of a new process plant with product pipelines that needed to connect into an existing facility. To achieve this, it was necessary to route the new pipelines along an existing pipe bridge, and across the roof of the existing structure and into a new building. The main goal of the project was to shorten the project schedule by maximizing the amount of piping pre-fabrication that could be completed off-site before piping installation was performed on-site.

Overcoming Challenges

The initial challenge was how to capture the as-built situation quickly and accurately. Mercury Engineering determined that it would be necessary to laser scan the existing building, roof space, and pipe bridge. This would provide an accurate design basis for the new pipe routes and tie-ins that had to be designed. Having this information available would also help to ensure and guarantee that the new piping would fit on the pipe bridge and could be constructed inside the existing building without clashing.

Visualization of the pipe bridge inside the CAD system helped to identify space for the new pipelines, enabling them to be routed easily alongside other existing services, which made connecting the old and new building seamless.

The pipework installation was detailed before the new building was constructed. As the building was being erected and took shape, it was laser scanned, and the new point clouds were integrated with CADWorx Plant Professional. Using CloudWorx in combination with CADWorx, Mercury Engineering was able to make minor modifications to the pipework as the project was on-going, to align the routings and to make changes to the overall design to reflect the changing as-built condition of the new building.

Realizing Results

For this project, Mercury Engineering needed a solution that was able to detail mechanical, electrical, and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) design as well as produce trusted, high-quality, industry standard piping isometrics. The company selected CADWorx Plant Professional due to this breadth of modelling capabilities, cost-effectiveness, and its ability to produce 2D deliverables in DWG formats. Another key reason was the short learning curve and ease of use – Mercury’s staff new to the product required only 3 days of training before they were productive.

Mercury Engineering received significant benefits from using CADWorx solution on their project:

• Schedule certainty due to ability to track progress better
• Ability to design and build right first tTime due to access to accurate as-built data inside the CAD environment
• Reduced labor onsite due to the ability to generate high quality isometrics, which helped to avoid the need for on-site fabrication

Ciaran McCreary, 3D VC / BIM engineer at Mercury Engineering, commented on the company’s experience of CADWorx tools: “We were very happy with the staff who performed our training and implementation services. Using CADWorx tools enabled us to get started immediately – we were able to produce fabrication isometrics immediately after completing our coordination process.” You can read the complete case study here.

Curious to Try It Out Yourself?

There is no better way of learning than trying it out yourself. Hence, we offer you a free trial of CADWorx Plant Professional, or CAESAR II, our pipe stress analysis software.