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eSeminars:
 Integrated Analysis and Design of Industrial Steel Structures using STAAD.pro 2007
 Integrated Structural and Pipe Stress Design
Benefits of the Integration beween AutoPIPE and STAAD:
 Faster Design (Hours not weeks)
 Less Assumptions with more Accurate, Realistic Engineered Design
 Safer Structure, Piping and Equipment
 Potential Cost Savings on Pipe Supports and Steelwork
 Early design decisions by Engineers, Designers & Contractors using ProjectWise Navigator XM
Why integrate AutoPIPE and STAAD.pro?
EPC # 1 - "The biggest problem here is that a single process structure may have hundreds or thousands of piping isometric drawings associated with it, resulting in a vast amount of paper and manual evaluation. This is very inefficient and time consuming.”
EPC # 2 – “There are some significant disconnects between the pipe stress folks and the structural folks. As far as conveying information from pipe stress to Structural, we typically provide the preliminary structural steel drawings to pipe stress for them to mark up loads on it. This is extremely inefficient. Also, piping should try to get as much structural steel put onto the steel drawings so that detailing, fabrication and erection can be done in a single pass”
EPC # 3 – "We have some serious frustrations in the way piping designers do their work, interfacing with structural and mechanical. I know the current process is disjointed, but it is all our tools provide us.”
EPC # 4 - "We have standard loadings that take care of the major stuff. The thing that is a killer is the special case stuff. The thermal loads and piping movements, spring supports, anchor points etc. These types of things have special details, as well as high loads. In addition, a structural engineer can’t guess where these things are going to be or what they will look like. This has to come from the Piping Engineer and we have to sort through drawings. Most of the time this info gets to structural at best just before you issue the drawings. Sometimes it is after the first fabrication release has been sent out and you have to revise the drawings."
Solution: Go from fragmented, disjointed engineering workflow to integrated workflow
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