General Electric Oil & Gas - Nuovo Pignone (GENP) in Florence, Italy is a leading supplier of compressors and turbines to the oil and gas industry. Each compressor and turbine is delivered with a large number of custom options. Using conventional methods, the generation of P&IDs and schematic documents for the associated electric, control, cooling, hydraulic, and other auxiliary systems can take up to six weeks for each proposal and delivery.
Using Bentley's Design++ platform GENP created "Super Drawings" for each drawing type that automatically configure themselves to match customer-selected options. This reduced the turnaround time for complete drawing sets from weeks to minutes with the following obvious benefits:
Faster delivery of proposal and delivery documents provides a decisive edge at the point of sale.
- Consistent error-free drawings reduces warranty charges significantly.
- Automation provides significant relief to scarce engineering resources from time consuming repetitive sales support effort.
- Improved speed and quality increase customer satisfaction.
GE Oil and Gas named this application the "P&ID Configurator."