AF, a leading Swedish consulting engineering firm, recently designed a $230 million coating line for Modo Paper AB, meeting a tight schedule with only seven piping designers. At a cost of $230 million, the new BM1 coating line in M-real’s Husum is one of Sweden’s biggest industrial investments last year and one of AF’s largest individual projects in recent years.The project was a battle against the clock; pproduction had to start quickly to produce a return on this major investment.The plant contained a considerable amount of piping, and using traditional 2D methods would have made it difficult to meet the tight deadline.The key to the project’s success was the use of 3D methods,which dramatically reduced the time needed to create isometric drawings and implement design changes.

"Without Bentley AutoPLANT, we would have found it very difficult to get all the pipe installation drawings ready in time before start of assembly," said Björn Westlund, site manager, AF-IPK industrial investments.