Siemens 2012 manual

3D visualization Acquisition of VRcont ext strengthened C OMOS portfolio Chemical Industr y Refer ence Evonik P ow er Plant Industr y Refer ence BWSC Inter vie w with Dirk W egg about trends in the oil & gas industry Issue 3/201 2 COMOS Plant Manag er F rom Int egrat ed Engineering to Int eg rated Operations[...]

“ The results delivered b y COMOS mee t our expect ations. COMOS v er y quic kly provided signif icant and quantif iable impro v ements in productivity and r eductions in project times. ” Lili Sun, Sr . Vice President, Sinopec Engineering Incorporation 2 COMOS Plant Manager | 3/201 2[...]

At this time, t he plant management of the future is being discus sed by experts at many confer ences and trade fairs. These events pro vide the ideal platform f or exchanging in - formation on tr ends, requirements, the lat est developments, and inno vative practical solu - tions in the proces s indus tr y . For example, plant designers and owner [...]

Cont ents 05 3D visualization and training software Acquisition of VRconte xt strengthened C OMOS portfolio 07 Chemical Industr y: Reference Evonik Standar dization supports acceler ated plant design 10 Pow er Plant Industr y: Reference BWSC Design of power plants in int erdisciplinary database 12 Interview with Dirk Wegg about trends in the oil &a[...]

COMOS por tf olio significantly strengt hened b y t he acquisition of 3D exper ts VRcont e xt Fr om the star t of the new fiscal year , the product will be a vailable under the trade name “ C OMOS W alkinside” and will expand the extensiv e por tfolio with powerful 3D visu - alization throughout the entir e plant lifecycle. The Walkinside soft[...]

With the integ ration of W alkinside in the COMOS portfolio, customers pr ofit from e ven great er productivity and additional benefits throughout the entir e value chain of plant management. The skills brought t ogether in C OMOS W alkinside will also be integrat ed in - creasingly in de velopment and suppor t, etc. and theref ore increase the inv[...]

St andar dization suppor ts accelerat ed plant design Researchers and engineers at Evonik cooper - ate very closely on a global basis in order t o facilitate the rapid mark et launch of innova - tive pr oducts. Nevertheless, the design of cor - respondingly tailor ed production plants gen - erally still takes sev er al years. This planning period c[...]

planning and plant cost calculation can be sig- nificantly minimized through the intr oduction of standards. “Initial considerations regar ding standardized P&ID creation wer e already dis- cussed 20 y ears ago. Howev er , we had to shelve these considerations as no suitable soft- ware t ools for t he realization of such standar d- ization we[...]

Par ticularly in Germany , companies are facing the problem of demog raphic development. Many sect ors suffer from skilled labor short - age and companies ha ve t o deal with the great difficulty of recruiting and qualifying suitable young prof essionals for specific tasks. This may lead t o a future los s of innovative strength in r esearch and de[...]

BW SC designs po w er plants on an int er disciplinar y dat abase in the system. In that wa y , all par ties involved in the design alwa ys know what changes the other engineers ar e making. The result is a more dynamic and effective design pr ocess which reduces the number of spr eadsheets, the number of e-mails ex changed and the number of errors[...]

may be true, but Claus Albr echtsen freely ac - knowledges that t he project – lik e many oth - er change pr ocesses in a compan y – involved a cert ain amount of daring and anarch y when BWSC’s engineers had to learn t o use C OMOS . “ T o be honest, you just dive in. And y ou mak e sure all the practical de tails are in order . I’d like[...]

» Inter view wit h Dir k W egg about trends in t he oil & g as indus tr y COMOS Plant Manager: Hello Mr . Wegg, can you t ell us about the dev elopments you ar e cur - rently witnes sing in the oil and gas industry? Dirk Wegg: The demand f or energy in indus - trialized and newly industrializing countries is steadily increasing. Ho wev er , ov[...]

and time. They must design highly-special - ized technical plants t o meet individual re - quirements fast er than ev er before. T oday , a great deal of time can only be sa ved by im - plementing parallel operational processes in plant engineering. In order t o benefit from such savings, collaboration spanning trades and companies is essential. Th[...]

condition of the plant is alwa ys available in digital format. The C OMOS sof tware solution offers precisely such an efficient data man - agement system and indeed, is alr eady being used successfully in a number of applications acros s the oil and gas industry. COMOS Plant Manager: Occasionally , COMOS has been criticized f or not of fering suf?[...]

NEWS An ev er increasing number of users are en - joying the benefits of engineering software for mobile plant management. Modern w eb and sharepoint technologies offer u sers increasing flexibility in terms of global col - laboration, help to impro ve the quality of information, enhance efficiency , and save time. Siemens has now ext ended its pla[...]

C OMOS customers now ha ve the oppor tunity of putting toge ther their own individual Ser- vice and Support newsletter . This newslett er is sent by e-mail and pr ovides them with fast and up-to-dat e information on the pr eviously se- lected t opics, for e xample, updat es and ser vice packs. T o be able to put t ogether an individual Ser vice and[...]

Since 2005, the FIW A group has been working wor ldwide as a certif ied Siemens partner for SIMA TIC PCS 7 and the chemi - cals industr y . The Romanian branch of the engineering compan y (SC FIW A RO SRL) has also been operating since August 2012 as a sales and ser vice partner for the COMOS software solution. Focusing on the oil and gas, pharmace[...]

The range of C OMOS training courses has been complemented b y six fur ther courses. We w ould lik e to intr oduce three of t hese courses in a little more detail below . In the Basic, Cabinet La yout, and MRO (Maintenance Repair Overhaul) courses, up to six partici - pants per course will be introduced t o specif - ic course content in a very prac[...]

Sometimes a little inf ormation has a big effect. In this rubric of the C OMOS Plant Manager , Doc C OMOS answers your ques - tions and gives you tips on ho w to w ork with the C OMOS sof tware solution ev en more efficiently . T oday Doc C OMOS an - swers the f ollowing question: “How could I realize a query ev en faster?” Doc C OMOS will intr[...]

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COMOS Plant Manag er 3/2012 3D visualization Acquisition of VRcontext strengthened COMOS portfolio Chemical Industry Reference Evonik Power Plant Industr y Reference BWSC Interview with Dirk Wegg about T rends in the Oil & Gas Industry Issue 3/2012 C OMOS Plant M anag er From Integ rated Engineering to Integrated Operations Publisher Siemens AG[...]