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EXPERIENCES & NEWS

CADISON® has tremendous opportunities to gain market share11 important Reasons for CADISON® R11

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Ajit Joshi: “Improving Project Efficiency by over 30%”

Our stated goal at ITandFactory is to help our

customers improve the project engineeringefficiency by over 30%! Myself – along with the

Executive Management Team of ITandFactory – arecommitted to this objective.

With inherent benefits of the object oriented database,shorter learning curve by virtue of being part of the

Autodesk ecosystem and enhanced performance with 64 bitsupport, CADISON® has matured into a scalable solution.CADISON® is capable of managing even large and complex

projects in a seamless, integrated manner.

With the upcoming R11, we bring in several new features,functionalities and interfaces – primarily focusing on our goal toimprove the project engineering efficiency. Citrix-support wouldgo a long way in enabling CADISON® as a distributed solution.It is our first step to take CADISON® on the cloud. And yes, wealso bring back the support for XP platform, especially for thebenefit of those who missed it in R10 due to not migrating to

Windows 7.

We plan to bring in the next 2 major releases with 6-monthly cycle, as against 12-monthly cycle, with our

continued focus on improving quality, scalability,stability and performance. I can assure all

customers and prospects – and you shall seeand feel for yourselves –

CADISON® IS ON THE MOVE!!

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We want to bet with you that even your company is able to reach “30% efficiency improvement” through the use of CADISON®.

In case you visited this year’s CADISON® International Conference 2011, youcertainly won’t be ready to make this bet any more …

Many wishes and requests of our customers from recent events have been put intopractice in the meantime. Distributed work, or “CADISON® goes distributed”, is nolonger the desire. But – thanks to Citrix-technology – put into practice today. You’llfind more details in this publication.

Since July this year ITandFactory is working under new management. The ExecutiveManagement Team (EMT) – consisting of the gentlemen Michael Brückner, SebastianDörr, Stefan Kraus, Ralf Lehmann and Boris Mebarek work hand in glove with the newManaging Director Mr. Ajit Joshi to determine the company’s fortune. This teamencompasses the relevant disciplines of Development, Service, Sales and Marketing– use “your contact person” for evaluation of your needs. We want to give our thanksto the former managing directors Georg Kremer and Hans Ekdahl for their work inthe recent years and to wish them all the best for their future.

CADISON® R11 is a new milestone in the development of CADISON®: Inch-Support, many extensions in Electrical Designer, further features for Inventor-Interface, Safety Conception Step 2, Integration of new AutoCAD-Features,CAESAR II Interface, new Engineer2Web and many other items. And one importantmessage for many users: XP is back again! … what are you still waiting for?

“Follow the footprint of our customer” is the slogan for more intensive internationalorientation of ITandFactory – with the new team and in cooperation with Neilsoft.How can we give you the support you need?

Enjoy reading CADISON WORLD!

Sebastian Dörr – Vice President Sales Europe

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EDITORIAL

3 Welcome

NEWS

2 Ajit Joshi: “Improving Project Efficiency by over30%”

6 CADISON® R11.0 – Secondary Pipe Supports7 New CADISON® Partner in Israel18 DWG-Exporter for Visio18 CADISON® Hotline starts in India

INTERVIEW

5 “We have tremendous opportunities to gain market share!”

SUCCESS

10 “Turbo-Engineering” saves times and costs

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8 CADISON® goes distributed! CAD without Workstation – only a dream for companies?

16 11 for 11 – 11 important Reasons for CADISON® Release 11

20 Flexible data model supports integrated 3D design

BEST PRACTICE

19 CADISON® Online – Integrated Digital Plant Modelin the Web 2.0

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22 CADISON® Best Practice – “Praxis-Workshop2011”: A Successful Story with Perspective

23 “Reduce your Design Process Time” Seminar inPune for Equipment Manufacturers

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11 Calendar in English and German for take-out22 Contact information 22 Imprint

“Turbo-Engineering” saves times and costsTMS Turbomaschinenservice GmbH plans new steam turbi-nes and inspection work with the engineering tool CADISON®.

11 important Reasons for CADISON® Release 11R11 Roll-Out: 1. December 2011 – Mark your calendarand make an appointment for upgrading to R11!

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Where do you see room for improvement of CADISON®?We have to increase the global impact of this product. Up

to now we have established a strong presence in the DACHregion, with 300+ active customers and 6500+ licenses. Ournext goal is to expand into Emerging markets like India as wellas other matured markets of USA and other Europeancountries. Also keep in mind that most of our customers arealso moving globally and with Neilsoft’s international footprint,we are able to help them make this transformation in a smoothmanner.

Since you have very ambitious plans: Can you provide theneeded R&D resources?

Absolutely and in fact we have already worked out anaccelerated product development plan with 6-monthly majorreleases for next 3 cycles! To further improve efficiency forour customers, we are now also providing segment specificcustomized solutions to meet our customer’s standardizationand design automation goals.

Good luck! Let us switch to a more technical issue: SinceCADISON® is running on to top of AutoCAD, ITandFactorydoesn’t deliver an own geometry engine. You can say tosome extend this is a lack in the portfolio. Do you agree?

We don’t want to invest in building our own 3D kernel andthat’s not our business! Our strategy is very clear: we are aninnovative engineering oriented solution and not CAD driven.Having said that, even today CADISON® is the best plantdesign solution on the AutoCAD platform and we want tointegrate even more tightly into the Autodesk ecosystem. Forexample, CADISON® is very tightly connected to Inventor,Autodesk’s other 3D CAD product.

And we have started to integrate Revit which isaddressing the AEC and BIM market. And again the questionremains: Why should we push our customers to go away fromAutoCAD when they have already invested in it? It is the mostwidely used CAD platform and in fact our customers love thefact, that it’s much easier for their existing AutoCAD users tolearn CADISON®.

Okay, that sounds convincing. What is your recommen -dation for document handling? E.g. in the case of a multi- site infrastructure?

I would like to answer this question in two parts:CADISON® provides an excellent document, revision,workflow and change management capability. We alsoprovide integrations to other document management systems(DMS). Our many large customers have already deployedDMS and we optimize their resources by delivering a tightintegration.

The second part of the answer: We want to make sure tobuild a solid project engineering and project management

Newly appointed Managing Director of ITandFactoryGmbH, Ajit Joshi, answers to the question of the editorialboard of Economic Engineering

Mr. Joshi, congratulations on the new position! With whatideas do you approach the new business?

What attracted me to Neilsoft and ITandFactory was theproduct suite of CADISON® and its potential to enhancecustomer’s engineering project efficiency by at least 30%. Inmy former employments, I had designed a plant, had writtensoftware for plant design, had automated such planningprocesses and integrated with PLM. Our vision for CADISON®

is to create and deliver the best integrated plant engineeringsolution & services to help our customers improve theirproject planning, investment optimization, risk management,project completion speed and energy efficiency of the plants.

Can we take some of the learning’s from the PLM vendorsserving the discrete manufacturing industry or the ERPsolutions providers?

Surely. CADISON® combines the engineering workflow intothe single system and thus significantly accelerates theplanning processes. The common object-oriented data modelfor the different fields of application (tender planning, processengineering, installation planning, pipeline planning, electricalengineering, instrumentation etc.) makes it possible tointegrate all planning phases so that time and costs are saved.With CADISON®’s modularity and reusability, we are able tosignificantly reduce the cost of plant design, modificationsand maintenance.

I assume after your inauguration you discussed theobjectives with the joint venture partner Triplan. To whichconclusion you came?

Our both shareholders have a very strong engineeringlegacy and have been providing a tremendous support togrow CADISON® into a global solution. Secondly we are fastbecoming a complete integrated engineering solutionprovider while our competition is only pushing boxes.

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disciplinary workflows, produces updated parts list for thecompany’s ERP system and uses existing AutoCADinvestments. We have a lot of customers working withenterprise ERP systems like SAP, Navision, Movex or Infor.Most of our customers decide to have all the informationinside the CADISON® Project Engineer database in order tohave only one front-end to the project engineers. So, for theproject engineering, CADISON® is the leading systemexchanging data with the ERP system for the engineers.

Thank you for your statements!

Interview: Bernhard D. Valnion,

Editor in Chief of Economic Engineering

layer which contains comprehensive project communication,tracking and productivity measurement capabilities.

As regards to multi-site, CADISON® Engineer2websolution provides direct web access to the CADISON® objectdata and structures, which can be viewed or edited using asimple web browser. We’re also moving to support CADISON®

on Citrix platform. Additionally, we have started a couple ofpilots to move CADISON® solution on the cloud. In short, a lotof progress is happening with respect to concurrent usage ofCADISON®.

What is your strategy for ERP integration?CADISON® is a comprehensive integrated engineering

tool that provides a central database solution to improve inter-

CADISON® R11.0 – Secondary Pipe Supports

Pipe supports are critical in overall piping design anddetailing in process plant. In general pipe support consists ofprimary and secondary support. Primary or standard sup portsare the specialized items bought out from manufacturers andare mainly governed by pipe specifications & stress analysis.

Secondary supports are supporting structures for thesestandard supports. These are also equally significant,especially in large plants considering activities involved in itsfabrication, procurement of material and tracking throughoutthe plant. Along with pipes, these secondary supports areused for cable trays and ducting supports as well.

Starting with CADISON® R11 secondary support modelerfunctionality will be available to make handling of secondarysupports easier and seamlessly integrated into CADISON®

3D Designer workflows.

Some of the salient features are:· Intuitive user interface to help user in creating different typesof secondary support assemblies. User can also modify theexisting assemblies by editing them in-place, and save theconfiguration of support assembly for repeated future use.· New CADISON® object type is created for secondarysupport assembly. This will help in customized reporting &tagging of these assemblies in CADISON® project.· Assemblies will use structural profiles from MATPIPEcatalog – hence can be used with any Internationalstructural profiles.· All commonly used support assembly configuration areallowed.

· Support assemblies are automatically linked to relatedstandard supports. This will help in easier tracking andpossible indication in isometric drawing.· Customized bill of material report can be generated basedon structural profiles and plates used in support assemblies.This will not only help in procurement but also in bulkfabrication.

Secondary support modeler functionality will help insubstantially improving the productivity by removing any needof using Xref of third party or plain AutoCAD drawings andmanual work involved in tracking & linking to standardsupports in CADISON®.

Preview to CADISON® R12Support modeler for assembly of standard support

components of fixed and flexible sizes.

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“CADISON® has convinced me from the very beginning andI expect a great potential for the future”, said Mr. Yoav Reuven,Managing Director of YoArtVision during the period ofintroductory training.The overall service package of ITandFactory ensures thesuccessful start-up of this new partner.

“We appreciate this partnership for the development of newpotentials for our CAE solution CADISON® in cooperation withthe services rendered by Neilsoft”, said Mr. Ralf Lehmann,Vice President Sales Europe.

At the beginning of the year, ITandFactory concluded apartnership with the Israeli company YoArtVision. It is aleading project management company in the energy, security,healthcare and real estate sectors. They are our exclusiveSales-Channel for CADISON® in Israel. In May this year the introductory training for this newCADISON® distributor took exclusively place in Switzerland.Currently, the first test installations and benchmarks withpotential customers are underway. Results are promising andYoArtVision expects the first contract conclusions by the endof this year. The company has been successfully active in the field ofengineering for many years and has the required knowledgenot only for marketing of CADISON® but also for acting asService Provider. They offers all essential services aroundCADISON®.

New CADISON® Partner in Israel

Windows XP ist back again!CADISON® R11 now supports Windows XP

R11 Roll-Out: 1. December 2011Mark your calendar and make an appointment for upgrading to R11!

What are you waiting for …

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CADISON® goes distributed!

CAD without Workstation – only a dream for companies?

Wordwide access to your infrastructureStructures in business world are getting more flexible –

and this statement is even applicable to IT divisions. Scenariosare changing more frequently, e.g. as a result of purchases,going public or global expansion of companies. Infrastructuremust be adapted to those new requirements for instance,international trusts are faced with the challenge to provideemployees the rapid and unrestricted access to theirinfrastructure. In case of cooperation, the external employeesneed access to network parts which may be very urgent; andpersons may be rapidly exchanged according to the project.

The administration effort may become problematic veryquickly, especially in cases where infrastructure is de-central.In this model each branch has its own server, even thesmallest branch, and all employees have a so-called FatClient, i.e. a fully equipped computer where all applicationsnecessary for the employee are locally installed. All these

units need on-site maintenance. Administrators make theupdates frequently on each individual computer – thenotorious “sneaker administration” is enormously intensive inboth the time and costs aspect.

Optional terminal unit with Citrix XenApp ServerfarmThis effort should be reduced to the lowest possible level

without excessively limiting the IT. To this end the companiesconcentrate their efforts on centralized infrastructure – allessential data and applications are concentrated in onecomputer centre, for instance in one Citrix XenAppserverfarm. Thus own servers or even distributed computercentres in branch offices are no longer required. TheDesktop-Virtualization plays an important role:

This technology makes it possible to operate evenindividual workplaces on the servers instead of local

computers. The workplace is now only equipped with oneoptional terminal unit with internet connection – almosteverything is possible here from conventional PC’s andlaptops up to tablets and smartphones. This makesadministration much easier since all maintenance work canbe performed in the computer centre saving on both time andcost. Moreover, it is sufficient to provide only a few installationsof relevant applications from a central place so that licensefees are drastically reduced.

Concrete security advantages can be added:Applications and data deposited in a central location can bemuch easier protected against loss or unauthorized access.

Key factor: User friendlinessEmployees may fully profit from

the many advantages of thistechnology, provided advantages areeasy to use without impeding theworkflow. User-friendliness is animportant key word in this respect:Users want to work with their terminalunits in the virtualized environmentwith the same speed andperformance known from locallyinstalled applications on traditionalPC’s. In the ideal case they will feelno difference. The scope ofperformances handled inconventional office applications withrelatively low service requirements,

and without any larger problems, frequently reaches its limitsin case of multimedia contents.

This is especially applicable to design environment: CADapplications with complex 2D and 3D presentation call for

high-performance workstations. Apart from user friendlinessthe productivity of design engineers is the decisive factor inthis case: If the application in the virtualized environmentcannot work fluently, progress of projects is delayed and –

“With it we can provide complete CAD workplaces viastandard DSL connections at any location. At the same time,we have complete control in the data center over thedeveloper desktops and are in a position to execute alladministrative activities very efficiently.”

“In principle we try to keep current administration expensesas low as possible and therefore have been using Citrixtechnologies for many years to provide applications” says Michael Paga, IT manager at Intensiv-Filter.


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under extreme conditions – even the success of the projectmay be in doubt. Therefore, the companies hesitate until nowto use the Desktop Virtualization in this specific field.

Virtual CAD workplaces – HDX3D makes it possibleThe HDX3D Technology of XenDesktop offers Citrix the

chance to use the advantages of virtualization so thatcentralized work is possible – even in the field of CAD design.The dedicated “Graphic-Server” (Blade PC) in the computercentre replaces the local workstation. This computer hassufficient processor capacity and specific graphic con -figuration that offer even the required hardware acceleration.For instance, performance is increased by means ofCompute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). This systemoutsources workload originally processed only by CPUpartially at the graphic processor and thus data is calculatedmuch quicker.

The connection to users’ hardware is established via theICA-Protocol (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture).The terminal unit of design engineers is used only for currentscreen content and for exchange of mouse and keyboardentries. The different components of HDX technology ensurethat the user working in this virtual model can work rapidlyand with comfort like in an on-site installed special

workstation. Latencies (delay times) in the network arecompensated in the same way like possible bottlenecks inthe bandwidth. However, certain minimum requirementsshould be met: The Wide Area Network (WAN) shall providea bandwidth of 2 to 5 megabits, and the latency should notexceed 100 to 150 milliseconds.

Safe and low-cost substitute for workstationsThe de-centralized infrastructure in conjunction with

Desktop Virtualization allows companies to rapidly and easilyprovide fully equipped CAD work -places in any optional locations. Onlythe internet connection is required.

Thus, the companies may avoid anumber of problems known from useof locally installed workstations. Thisis even applicable in case of adefective terminal unit. The user caneasily change over to anotherDesktop-PC or Laptop and continueits work without any interruption.These Terminal Units can be replacedmuch easier and quicker than specialhardware. Another cost advantagebecomes evident: In case of thetraditional approach the price for onefully equipped CAD workplace mayeasily exceed the limit of a few ten

thousands of Euros. Use of standard servers in the computercentre in combination with slim client units on user’s side ismuch cheaper. This saving potential can be even improved

for international trusts when employees are operating indifferent time zones. These employees may jointly use onephysical Graphic Server since they will have access atdifferent times. In case external employees are added – e.g.for a time-limited project – they will be integrated very rapidlyas well so that they can work productively after a very shortperiod of time. The responsible executives need no longercare for confidential product details and internal information:

Applications are handled centrically and data remains within the computer centre;

no data transfer takes place.

The advantages of Desktop Virtualization are remarkable.Companies are able to operate a flexible and safe ITInfrastructure at reasonable expenses. Even in the complexCAD environment – due to its problematic and extremelydemanding character – the virtual workplaces are no longerillusionary: With technologies like HDX from Citrix the virtualworkplaces will reach domains in which their use wasunimaginable before.

Quotations abstracted from article: Intensiv-Filter virtualizes CAD workstations globally with

XenDesktop; Michael Paga is IT Manager at Intensiv-FilterGmbH & Co. KG, headquarter in Velbert, Germany

“On the one hand, the running administration expense rosevery quickly – software updates and patches had to beinstalled on each individual end device. On the other hand,there are also security aspects” says Paga. “Protection ofsensitive design data has the highest priority here but is notthat easy to implement in a distributed client architecture.”

“We used to have to estimate total costs of 28,000 Euro fora single new developer workplace. Through the use of Xen -Desktop these costs are reduced to a fraction” says Paga.“With this solution, however, we are not only saving moneybut are especially gaining flexibility: in the future we will beable to temporarily involve external developers withouthaving to be concerned about the security of our data.”


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“Turbo-Engineering” saves times and costs

How has the Austrian TMS Turbomaschinenservice GmbH– the experts in the area of steam- and gas turbines –achieved this goal? Through the use of the engineering toolCADISON® and while developing a high degree ofstandardization with a variety of pipe classes. The quality – orin other words: the efficiency and with this the energyefficiency – of a technically very complex steam turbine,depends heavily on the expertise of designers, the smallestpossible component tolerances in production and thegoodness of the highly contaminated materials.

Providing high quality equipment is not solely the domainof large companies! While complementing the expertise ofpartner companies and harmonize working methods andbusiness philosophies, also the smaller community providerscan deliver high-quality at relatively modest cost.

TMS is an example for that. The staff working there planand take over turbo-machine revisions. The services rangefrom identification of the machine condition and repairs to theproduction and delivery of spare parts, but also rebuilding thehydraulically controlled machines to modern electronics on-line machine diagnosis and increasing machine-efficiency.

For the partner and co-owner General Turbo SA Bukarest,the TMS engineering office plans new combined cycle plants.On this basis, the manufacturing is then done by GeneralTurbo. The results speak for themselves such as TMS CEOFranz Sattler says: “Compared to major vendors offering acomplete machine range to the highest power ratings – likeSiemens, Alstom, MAN – and compared to the low-costproviders, we score with two main advantages: Our turbomachinery achieve the high efficiency of large corporationsbut are considerably less expensive.”

General Turbo and TMS aggregates are used in theindustry (often as co-generation plants for combined

generation of heat and electricity), as well as in municipalities(district heating, biomass heating plants, incinerators). Ordersfor new machines in the range 15 to 17 MW for example arecoming from the sugar, the petrochemical and paperprocessing industry.

Complete Basic and Detail EngineeringThe TMS-planners in the Vienna office are completely

responsible for the orders of the entire basic and detailengineering. The engineering part includes both, themechanical and technical part and the plant design i.e. theintegration of the steam turbine plant in the peripheralequipment (supply and disposal of various media).

The planners are working with different tools:· for the mechanical machine design - the turbine itself - TMSuses the planning tool SolidWorks· for the process- and layout-design, the piping- andinstallation-planning of the individual machines, aggregatesand components is done with the engineering toolCADISON®

The level of detail of the machine design is very high(3000-4000 hours of engineering!) The integration of the highlevel of detail is not required for the piping plan, only theoutline (reduced level of detail) of the machine and theconnection points of the piping is needed.

Object-oriented System DesignWhat make CADISON® in a special way as the tool differs

from other planning tools? CADISON® was designed as anobject-oriented database-driven engineering solution and notas a purely CAD tool! With the integrated database, all projectdata are automatic and immediately available in the various

TMS Turbomaschinenservice GmbH plans new steam turbines and inspection work with the engineering toolCADISON®. If the pipeline planning for a steam turbine requires with the help of a 3D model – compared to conven-tional 2D-planning – only 10 percent of the time, you can certainly speak of a “Turbo-Engineering”!

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modules such as P&ID, 3D piping layout, isometric generation,automatic report generation etc. With the object-oriented datamodel it is possible, to integrate all phases of planning in onedatabase - thus saving time and money. And it does not matterwhether the project will start with technological engineeringdata or graphical data.

Each component of the machine is stored in the databaseand is accessed by users in the planning stages from there.This begins with the proposal, but does not end with thedocumentation. A component will be specified in the planningprocess more precisely, receives their media information, etc. – everything happens in the database. Stored associatedinformation are always the same for each user in every module.

Standardization reduces the programming effortWhy was the choice at TMS for CADISON®?

A lot of work was spent for the standardization of modulesand the introduction of different pipe classes – where theynow benefit from.

“Because our equipment always has repetitive elementsand changes from project to project are relatively low, theengineering tool CADISON® is for us the perfect solution.”

Backgrounds: While planning steam turbines, five different3D-patterns have to be planned: These are the pipes for thecondensate cooling water, oil, steam and drainage. Thesesupply – and waste-lines are part of every steam turbine andmust always be re-designed new – changing only details ofthe planning but not its fundamental structure. This means,that a once proposed drainage pipe can be used again fromone machine to another, just changing dimensions (forexample, rather than DN 100, DN 300) and of course thegeometric position. The TMS engineers can thus take overfrom previous projects to adapt the design and parts.

Sattler: “We have standardized these recurring designelements putting them into base modules with a maximum ofoptions - and strike off the unnecessary pieces. Deleting isalways easier and faster than adding! This works moreover forthe offer text: the approximately 100-page document is basefor the specific project-offer and stripped to e.g. only 30pages.

Business Benefits:· CADISON® offers advantages over2D AutoCAD with savings on a levelof approximately 1:10!· MATPIPE – the catalog-system –efficiently manages standardcomponents and pipe classes· CADISON® provides an integratedsolution from the scheme to materialextract · CADISON® is easy to learn andprovides fast results

“We wanted a system that allows us to plan all type ofpiping and where we get quick results. With CADISON® wehave from scheme up to the material extract an integratedsolution – and that saves us a lot of planning time”

“We need only about 10 percent of the time compared to apure example AutoCAD 2D design” says Sattler. Hisconclusion is unequivocal: “A 2D schematic drawing iscompared with a 3D model CADISON® Stone Age!”

The main advantages in the planning with the3D solution CADISON®:· the whole process from planning to installation of a systemhas become much faster and more transparent, especiallyin the literal sense· changes are significantly quicker to implement · the tool reliably manage very large amounts of data· the planning effort for new facilities has dropped significantly


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Secondary Pipe SupportAssistant for creating and editing secondary pipesupport. Can be used for the construction ofsteal beam support for pipe lines, duct lines andcable trays.

CAESAR II InterfaceDifferent markets works with different stress-testtools.

Beside ROHR2 wie provide with CADISON® R11a second stress-test tool.

Many improvements and extentions for PID-Designer for VisioImproved DWG export function in PID-Designer forVisio: getting better results when exporting a “Visiodrawing” to AutoCAD DWG file format.

Improved Symbol Editor: better handling of drawingborders and title blocks, improvements in manyfunctions.

Inch supportCADISON® 3D-Designer nowsupports environments withimperial units (inch support).User can now plan and design,but also store objects withincatalogs in inch.

Edit function for Vessels created by Vessel AssistantVessels which have been created by Vessel Assistantcould now be edited afterwards with the same.

Timesheet for Project-ManagementLink CADISON® with Microsoft Project for definingproject plan. Tasks and Resources will be handledinside CADISON®, but could be synchronized withMicrosoft Project for Project Managers withoutCADISON® Know-how.

Timesheet visualize the current project state inCADISON®.


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Dynamic Properties in CADISON®

object modelYou can define dynamic properties inthe CADISON® object model.Depending on specific object-criteria’s, other objects will be shownor hidden.

Enhanced PDF ExporterThe quality of PDF filescreated by CADISON® PDFexporter has been improved.For example, PDF’s createdout of CADISON® can nowcontain real and searchabletext objects but also layerinformation (switch on/off inPDF-view).

Many improvements for Isogen InterfaceMany enhancements have been done for theCADISON® Isogen Interface. Especially the handlingof bended pipes and outlets have been improved.

Windows XP-Support: Windows XP is back again. CADISON®

R11 now supports Windows XP.

Improved 2D-ExtractionThe 2D-Extraction now supports the representation ofhidden lines in the 2D output.

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No more reason to refuse update to CADISON® R11!

Enhanced search function in MATPIPE and SelectorThe search functions in MATPIPE and Selector hasbeen improved. All inputs from customers found theway into the software.

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CADISON® Hotline starts in India

The new CADISON® Hotline Team for India is operating fromthe Neilsoft Office in Bangalore and is directly connected tothe ITandFactory-Headquarter in Bad Soden, Germany.

The Hotline Team is working since 3 years with CADISON®. The team has got a 10-day hotline training in Germany, whichfinished with an examination. They acquired the neededhotline knowledge and established the hotline workflowtogether with the Head of Customer Services, Boris Mebarek.

They will follow the same rules, share the centralized supportdatabase in Germany and also work with virtual machines tosimulate customer�environments.

The CADISON® Hotline India has been started on 15September with support of some Indian customers. Theofficial announcement will be the Diwali-Day at 26 October2011. Full operation will start 01 January 2012 – includingworldwide additional support.

DWG-Exporter for Visio

With R11 you’ll get some additional improvements overthe R10.1 with the exporter itself:· Better transmission with letterings· Consideration of spline-geometrics – e.g. flexible tubes· Consideration of grid pattern· Many improvements and enhancements within the new symbol-editor· Order of the labeling now adjustable· Font and size are now customizable· Text-screens are now presentable as symbol

· Dialogbox for dessignation of objects · Extended for editing free text as label· New “Save as” dialog for saving a duplicate· Enhancement in the positioning and presenting of revision-tables

CADISON® Hotline Team India:Srinivas.S (Neilsoft), Gangadhar Gupta (Neilsoft), Michael Brückner – Director and Head of Team (ITandFactory)


Recently, a new platform has been created, and isavailable to all prospects interested in CADISON®

under the address www.CADISON-Online.com Till the end of this year the portal will be also availablein English and Russian.

You can now familiarize yourself with the advantagesof CADISON® at your own workplace free from stressand study the screencasts and explanatory texts. �

ITandFactory as a Solution Provider has suitably pre-defined the work steps of the “Integrated DigitalWorkflow” for you. Now you can either enjoy thepresentation of all single operations like basic flowchart, lists + suppliers, layout planning, pipelineplanning etc. completely and one after the other, oryou can pick out individual work steps selectively fromthe survey.

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CADISON® Online –

Integrated Digital Plant Model in the Web 2.0

Of course, you will also get individual work stepsexplained in detail specifically for the scope of dutiesof Engineering Consultant, Engineering ProcurementConstruction (EPC) and Owner & Operator (OO).

Example for Owner & Operator is shown below:

�If you decide on one work step – resource planning inthis case:

… you will find on the left side the “Job Definition” aswell as the “Advantages & Potentials.”

Press the “Play-Button” and watch your selected workstep.

The “navigation-arrows” in the upper range helps tonavigate to the next or previous step of workflow.

We hope you’ll enjoy the “Integrated Digital Plant Model with CADISON® in the Web 2.0”

www.CADISON-Online.com

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brought together and realized in anend-to-end workflow covering allprocess steps. The different disciplinescan only be smoothly integratedproviding all information flows into ashared database and all involvedalways have access to the latestengineering data in the project withoutfirst having to initiate complexsynchronization mechanisms.

In modern design systems, a highlyflexible data model serves as a basis forthis redundancy-free engineeringworkflow. Only this can ensureintegration from tender costing, P&IDgeneration through 3D design toinstrumentation. The process issupported by a parametricallystructured pipe class and master datamanagement module.

With the parametrically basedmaster data system, project pipeclasses must be simply defined basedon the standard pipe classes and thenused accordingly. The use ofparametrics facilitates for the engineerthe generation and management ofcomponent catalogues that are used as

Flexible data model

supports integrated 3D designAlmost all plant engineering projects today face the not-so-easy challenge of integrating the different sub-disciplinesin one overall process - this starts with the first idea for a rough-cut plant workflow during the sales process and leadsthrough detailing in the process flow diagram, costing, 3D layout and pipeline design to the hand-over of the as-builtdocumentation and scheduling of service and maintenance intervals. Modern integrated 3D design tools can helpmaster this challenge.

In ever shorter development cycles,complex projects must be realized withfewer and fewer resources. At the sametime the cost and effort involved indocumentation and the qualityrequirements for the documents to beultimately handed over are increasingenormously while project times aredecreasing.

The greatest difficulties are in thecommunication between those involvedin the project and in overcoming theboundaries of the respective designstep. Most design solutions do haveoptions for synchronization ofinformation between the differentdisciplines, but really integrated andalways up-to-date data management isgenerally not realized. Lists and reports,for instance, are still manually compiledand the project manager still has toactively source the latest information,only hoping to have all projectinformation up to date by the time hetalks to the client.

In the model of an integratedengineering solution, all sub-disciplinesin the plant engineering process are

a basis for 3D design but also formaterials management. With a link toERP systems, data such as standardand third-party orders, inventory reser -vations, transfers as individual orcollective items materials with/withoutmaterial number and materials in thematerial master can be automaticallysynchronized between the ERP andengineering systems.

Project engineers often don't workgraphically. In a sort of “black-box”process, plant design concepts mustbe generated and configured fast andefficiently. Depending on requirements,different views and structures displayedin one window (KKS, media, piping,fittings and equipment) are necessaryfor the engineer's work. To be able tostore and use relevant projectinformation securely and in a structuredmanner, the integration of projectmanagement and documentmanagement functions is essential. Itmust be possible to generate up-to-datereports such as BOMs or motor listsfrom the list management.

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repository, and accordingly they areinstantly and consistently synchronized.The objects from the flow diagram canbe dragged and dropped into the 3Dmodel. An integrated logic analyzerchecks the processing status. From the3D model, isometrics for assembly andproduction can be derived in line withcustomer-specific requirements.

In P&ID, information for instrumenta -tion such as hook-ups, measuringpoints and other details can be edited.

In instrumentation, inaddition the genera tionof typicals, de tailedcable route planningand the generation oflogic diagrams as wellas the planning ofswitch cabinets areenabled.

The plantengineering designerrightly expects aneasy-to-operate andlogically structuredgraphic tool that

supports him with design aids. Tosatisfy today's market requirements,everything must be fast and simple. It isespecially difficult to realize plantdesign in the scheduled time frameswithout technical aids. For this reason,the designer needs simple aidssupported by the design tool, such asan autorouter function for simplepipeline planning or a tank and nozzlewizard for P&ID design. The functionsinclude pipeline planning and automaticpositioning of elements as well asautorouting simple moving of fittings inthe pipeline, full access to project data –thanks to a direct connection to theengineering database, synchronizationbetween 3D design, P&ID Designer andproject data, tank and nozzle wizardsfor easy design automatic generation ofisometrics.

Besides the 3D pipeline design andlayout design, easy integration ofcomplex structural steel and/or buildingconcepts in the design must also besupported.

Conclusion

Only with the integration of allphases of plant design in one workflow,there is an end-to-end design processfrom block diagram through P&ID, 3Ddesign and ordering enabled. Thismassively reduces change costs andavoids potential sources of error.

Only consistent data managementand structured storage of all informationin one central database can guaranteethis. Interfaces to other IT infrastructuresuch as ERP, financial accounting,document management must be easilyand efficiently possible.

Only with one common database forall engineering information, risks can beminimized and projects can designedmore efficiently and effectively.

An integrated rights and role

concept ensures that each employeegets the information he needs for hiswork within the project. Fully integratedengineering solutions realize end-to-end and redundancy-free graphicdesign from block diagrams throughprocess flow diagrams to 3D pipelineplanning and the generation ofisometrics.

The process flow diagram and 3Ddesign access share the same data

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The almost 60 participants of theCADISON® Praxis-Workshop on 31March in the Mercure Hotel FrankfurtAirport almost unanimously agreed, thattime spent for this participation was agood investment: 88% evaluated theWorkshop 2011 as “good” or even “verygood”. Each third participant is suretoday that he will participate in theWorkshop 2012, and more than 50%take their participation at least intoconsideration.

This is not surprising since the maintopic of this day was the opendiscussion with our CADISON® experts,but also the exchange of experienceswith other users. In short: The everydayproject work of users.

The online survey conducted amongparticipants prior to the workshopformed an essential part of this year’sagenda.

Even new developments of CADISON®

R10.1, such as the new extended safetyconcept, the new interfaces relating toInventor and CAESAR II and theimproved MATPIPE catalogue werepresented.

Using the example of one continuousprogram, all project phases from pre -paration of proposal up to maintenancewere run through in CADISON® withpractical demonstration of the highervalue of “Integrated Digital Plant Model”.This event opened the eyes of manyusers for totally new aspects of workingwith CADISON®.

In the afternoon the participants had toselect between two different practice-based lectures from the subject areas ofBasic and Detail Engineering.

The want list (“must have”) compiled bythe participants had been of specificinterest for the CADISON® developmentstaff under the aspect of the coming


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CADISON® Best Practice – “Praxis-Workshop 2011”

A Successful Story with Perspective

“Reduce your Design Process Time”

Seminar in Pune for Equipment Manufacturers35 companies from Pune followed the invitation to share theexperience of our CADISON®-customers and the topic fordiscussion was “how to reduce design process time” andhighlight the benefits with the Integrated Digital Plant Modelof CADISON® to reduce design process time!Most often detail-equipment planning is done in Autodesk’sInventor. The CADISON® Inventor-Interface allows the re-useof the Inventor-models in CADISON® 3D, while doing anintelligent and mostly automatic data-import. Only the neededdata for pipe-constructions are forwarded to CADISON®.While importing, additionally required process-data will berequested. Three CADISON® projects were reviewed and thecustomers gave an insight into their projects.

IJT Pune Mr. Harish Bansod from IJT Pune presented 2 projects: a“Sugar Plant” with the capacity of 24.000 TCD and a “BoilerProject”. They are currently using a combination of SolidWorks and MATPIPE. The most valuable benefits are:· Saving time on

· Isometric drawings· 2D drawings while they are created from 3D· preparing Bill Of Material (BOM) – done automaticallywithin minutes

· Error prevention· through 3D clash-detection. There is no surprise at localsite while assembling; no material wasting· while “moving” 2D-objects from P&ID to 3D with drag anddrop

CADISON® at Alfa Laval Support ServicesAlfa Laval (ALSI) as a long term user – represented by Mr.Shrikant Nayak – talked about CADISON® MATPIPE as theirmaterial management tool for standard equipment. Their major advantages are:· execution of big projects without errors· data could be used effectively for furtherstress analysis· pipe routing done quickly – changes canbe done easily· complete automation of projectmanagementAll the attendees were very impressed on thecontinuous integrated approach ofCADISON® and the customer-commentswere both informative and encouraging! In-depth discussions at the “come together”closed the meeting for our prospects and us!

release CADISON® R11.0. The numberof nominations was as follows:· MATPIPE extensions· 2D extraction· Further development of ISOGEN· Insulation of pipe bends and tees· 2D Layout presentations

We noted the following concrete wishesfor Practice Workshop 2012:

More exchange of information betweenusers: Who adopts which principles andwhy?

In addition to that, more workshops con -ducted in parallel are desired. May bethis aspect can be implemented betterin the two-day CADISON® InternationalConference to be held in October thanin a workshop lasting only one day.

Conclusion: We understand the high rate ofaffirmation between participants withregard to the wide range of programand even with regard to duration ofworkshops and/or break time forpersonal exchange of opinions asencouraging for maintaining the generalconcept of practical workshops.

See you in 2012!


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Media- and Mass-Balances > Basic Flow-Diagram > Tender Planning > Process Flow-Diagram > Equipment List > Prelimary Lay-out > Specifications and Suppliers > Instrumentation > Ressource Management > Calculation > Revision-Management > Project-Analysis >Process-Calculation > Pipe-Specification > P&I Diagram > Specification for Inquiry > Structural/Statics > Layout Planning > Installation Plan-ning > Equipment Planning > Structural and Piping Design > General Arrangement Drawings > Piping Design > Piperack Layout > ElectricalDesign > Report Extraction (BOM) > Materials Management > Maintenance and Operations > Post Costing Analysis and Documentation

CADISON® – Integrated Digital Plant Model

ITandFactory is one of the largest providers of complete solutions in the field of processengineering. Being a joint venture of the companies Neilsoft Ltd. (India) and TRIPLANAG (Germany) – both companies known as reputed engineering undertakings – weunderstand ourselves as solution provider supplying our customers with solution andprocess-oriented IT tools plus associated concepts. Higher efficiency in plant planning, integration of plant construction and intelligent plantdocumentation with high-efficiency IT tools are in the focus of our CAE solutionCADISON®. The growing international orientation of our organization creates synergeticeffects with the cross-linked and global way of thinking of our customers. It is our targetto ensure a maximum benefit for the customer through utilization of latest technologies.Our customers may profit from a maximum return-on-investment.

Information and possibilities to purchase: ITandFactory GmbH · Auf der Krautweide 32 · 65812 Bad Soden · GermanyPhone: +49 6196 6092-310 · Fax: +49 6196 6092-202 [email protected] · www.cadison.com

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“We save 90 % of time against pure AutoCAD”Franz Sattler, Managing Director TMSTurbomaschinenservice GmbH

“We have systematically stored a lot of pipe-classes inCADISON® MATPIPE – this saves us about 30 % of ourplanning-time!”Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Ehrhardt, Partner at Staber

“Compiling a first offer with CADISON® for a 3 to 4Million Euro project requires about 20 hours – beforeCADISON® we had need double the time!”Andreas Hiegelsberger, LTH Dresden

“Our MATPIPE-catalogues are well filled, this saves us30 to 50 % of our planning-time!”Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Lotter, Project Manager, ERSys GmbH


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