Case Studies

BRIEF

Organization
AMEC

Market
Plant

Location
Manchester, UK

Project Objectives

  • Expand the processing capacity of an existing polymer processing plant
  • All the new items had to fit into existing buildings

Fast Facts

  • Approximately 600 new lines of piping and 60 new pieces of equipment
  • Suite of integrated applications allowed different disciplines to share data seamlessly
  • By modeling the polymer plant expansion in 3D modeling, AMEC reduced design time by 25 percent compared to manual design methods

Bentley Products Used

  • AutoPLANT P&ID
  • AutoPLANT Piping
  • AutoPLANT Equipment
  • AutoPLANT Structural 3D
  • AutoPLANT Isogen PLUS
  • AutoPLANT Instrumentation and Wiring
  • AutoPLANT Explorer and Explorer/ID

Faced with expanding the processing capacity of an existing polymer processing plant, the international engineering and services company AMEC sought a 3D plant modeling application — Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the optimum design solution.

"The software itself was affordable, but we experienced additional cost savings in not having to bring in applications specialists to do the programming," said Tim Rothwell, engineering systems development manager, AMEC.


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