Plant design softwares

Growing Opportunities for Mechanical and Related engineers in Plant Design

Every mechanical industry is process oriented and requires facilities like power, chemicals, fluids (including water) and structures (shops) for manufacturing the products. The design and management of these facilities is called Plant Design which is essential for any manufacturing industry.

Modern industries that are set up today use the Computer Aided Design (CAD) technique to design and manage their plants. The fact is with the rapidly increasing industry setup, there is a big shortage of Plant Design engineers using CAD in India and abroad.
Types of industry using PDMS

• Process industries

• Pharmaceutical& Food,Paper, Pulp, Cement and Chemical Industries

• Power Industries
• Mining & Mineral Industries
• Marine Industries
• Rubber Products
• Offshore Industries

• Oil & Gas Industries,Petroleum industries

The following are some important stats regarding opportunities in Plant Design:

• As per the popular job search engine Naukri.com, more than 2 lakh vacancies are available for piping design.
• PDMS Piping engineers are in good demand in abroad and they are paid healthy.
• Currently India is becoming one of the favorite destinations of piping design solutions and it has further increased the chances of employment in this segment.

AVEVA PDMS

AVEVA PDMS is 3D design software for all types of plant project, from the smallest upgrade to new-build projects of unlimited size and complexity. PDMS users range from small engineering contractors to many of the largest multinational process and power companies. AVEVA is the developer of PDMS and headquartered in UK.

Advantages of PDMS

• The ability to perform multiple design checks across the entire design eliminates errors, and enables ‘right-first-time’ engineering.
• Accurate materials information eliminates over-ordering and delays on site due to a lack of required materials or information
• Clash checking and integrity checking ensure higher quality designs and less rework.
• Reduced site work, concurrent multi-location engineering, higher design efficiency and higher quality all combine to reduce schedule time.

Success stories of AVEVA PDMS

AVEVA PDMS enables productivity and workflow improvements for INITEC Energia

INITEC Energia is one of Spain’s largest engineering companies, focusing its activity on the construction of electricity generation facilities.

The introduction of AVEVA PDMS created the opportunity to look more closely at their work processes. As a result, INITEC Energia have made many improvements, and focused better on creating the true integration the workflow requirement.

AVEVA PDMS has helped Farnham & Pfile Engineering, Inc. to become a preferred contractor for plant upgrade projects

Farnham & Pfile Engineering, Inc., located in Pennsylvania, USA, is a full-service company whose core business is in the designing and building of industrial construction projects. These projects range from new construction to upgrades of coal processing plants, synfuel plants and material handling facilities.

Choosing AVEVA PDMS they were able to meet and even exceed plant owner’s expectations on quality and by adhering to critical schedule and budget requirements.

Farnham & Pfile quickly saw the results and benefits of AVEVA PDMS in their operations workflow on their existing projects. These benefits included a reduction in engineering hours, and increased accuracy which helped to eliminate costly errors in detailed design, leading to reduced installation time.

AVEVA technology supports India’s power industry

Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) is an integrated power plant equipment manufacturer and one of the country’s largest Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).

With adopting AVEVA PDMS they achieved around 18% direct savings in material costs on major projects, because they were able to fully route all the pipe runs.

AVEVA expands in fast-growing India

India is the one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. With rapid economic reforms and a constant large influx of foreign capital, India has shown great agility in the last couple of decades. According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, India’s GDP at purchasing power parity could overtake that of the United States by 2050.

Considering these factors AVEVA are making major investments to increase their geographic reach and to further improve the scope and quality of our services for our rapidly growing network of customers in India’s oil & gas, power and marine industries.

AVEVA Plant has enabled L&T- Chiyoda to handle much more complex and advanced projects

Using AVEVA PDMS has resulted in significant savings in effort which would have been spent on remodelling vendors’ equipment. For the PDO project, LTC is importing models of compressors and accessories designed by their vendor (GE) in Pro/ENGINEER, using the AP203 format. Together with PDMS’s powerful model editor, this makes equipment positioning and the associated pipe routing work quick and efficient

Technip takes wind farms offshore using AVEVA PDMS

By using one integrated system for both the structural and outfitting design work, Technip saved hours of engineering time, thanks to greater flexibility between the engineering and fabrication disciplines. The use of AVEVA PDMS for this project allowed the engineers to work in parallel, sharing the most up-to-date design information in one common 3D model.

List of Companies using PDMS

There is an exciting career for mechanical engineers in INDIA for Plant Design.

At present this is the best bet for Mechanical and related engineers for a superlative career.

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