New unity in plant engineering

At Achema 2018, Aucotec will be show­ing for the first time the com­pre­hen­sive expan­sion of its col­lab­o­ra­tive plat­form for plant engi­neer­ing. It is the only sys­tem that inte­grates all core dis­ci­plines in a ver­sa­tile data mod­el in a sin­gle data­base. Engi­neer­ing Base (EB) thus rede­fines the term “con­sis­ten­cy”.

Inherently collaborative

Plant engi­neer­ing is char­ac­ter­ized by major projects with a vari­ety of the most demand­ing engi­neer­ing and man­age­ment tasks. Since the var­i­ous dis­ci­plines involved are often devel­oped glob­al­ly, how­ev­er, it is also nec­es­sary to con­nect the many experts, from dif­fer­ent time zones, with their dif­fer­ent skills, lan­guages, tech­nolo­gies and engi­neer­ing cul­tures. Often, even the engi­neer­ing tools are different.
EB pro­vides spe­cial con­di­tions for this con­nec­tion. The cen­tral data mod­el at a sep­a­rate appli­ca­tion serv­er lev­el allows world­wide access to the entire plant doc­u­men­ta­tion, also via the Cloud. “Thanks to the ver­sa­tile mod­el, EB is inher­ent­ly col­lab­o­ra­tive, and the web con­nec­tion also facil­i­tates the nec­es­sary par­al­leliza­tion of engi­neer­ing. This is the only way in which col­lab­o­ra­tion can be effi­cient,” said Big­vand. All core dis­ci­plines work with the same data­base. If desired, changes are imme­di­ate­ly vis­i­ble in all rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the changed object, but can also be con­trolled, for exam­ple, via pro­pos­al fields.

“Motorization” of engineering

With its expan­sion, EB cov­ers the entire engi­neer­ing life­cy­cle in plant engi­neer­ing and oper­a­tion. The plat­form holds the ver­sa­tile data mod­el and orga­nizes the work­flows. Func­tions such as Aspen data import, TÜV-cer­ti­fied pipe class­es, DCS con­fig­u­ra­tion for dif­fer­ent DCS sys­tems in par­al­lel, project sta­tus man­age­ment or cause & effect tables at the press of a but­ton show the degree of matu­ri­ty of the solu­tion. Net­work­ing with 3‑D, ERP or PLM sys­tems as well as a web con­nec­tion are part of the stan­dard offer.
Aucotec at Achema 2018: Hall 9.2, Stand 12 B