Putting up a large industrial facility is a job that involves considerable responsibility. After a facility is commissioned it has to produce reliably for many years. To ensure a long life-span with as little disruption as possible, during the construction of the facility in all areas from design to commissioning the work has to have as high a quality as possible. The customer expects smooth progress in the construction, since every delay during building and every subsequent malfunction of the facility costs him money.

Anyone who has planned and built a large industrial facility knows how quickly small mistakes find their way into the documentation and how devastating their effect on the whole project can be. Innumerable documents and files are combined and repeatedly updated .Usually this is done by hand, since the file formats of the different documents are often not compatible with each other. That errors arise during this process is virtually unavoidable, since even the most concentrated of employees enter data incorrectly at times or enter them twice. This means that there has to be a continual checking to ensure that the information is correct, which takes many hours and has an effect on the length of the whole project.

Another difficulty involves making certain that everyone participating in the project has access to the current data. What the engineer plans, the controller has to include in his calculation and the buying agent has to put in the ordering system. Every section needs access only to a certain part of the information in the data pool of the project. To filter out this part is just as time-consuming as collecting it. Further, different sections or even different individuals do not interpret concepts and symbols in the same way, which means that the same component might be named and handled differently in different sections. The consequences are easy to imagine.

This leads to costs for your company that actually have nothing to do with the project. In the worst case you cannot keep to your planning schedule and cannot turn over a facility on time.

With Visual PlantEngineer we offer you a true alternative. Without a long training period for your employees, you can reduce the planning-time of a plant significantly - and at the same time improve the quality of your work.

Our software can be employed for process engineering plants in many industrial branches - for example:

• surface coating
• biotechnology
• the chemical and pharmaceutical industry
• the processing of textiles
• the production of food
• the fertilizer industry
• energy production