Intergraph SmartPlant Fusion

Intergraph has released SmartPlant Fusion to specifically addressthe challenges faced by plant operators and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in accessing, organising and managing unstructured legacy engineering information of an operating plant.

Concurrent engineering projects, turnarounds, equipment changes and even plant acquisitions flood operators with information in multiple formats, often distributed around the organisation, potentially duplicated and inaccessible to support critical decisions.

SmartPlant Fusion ‘crawls’ through all these information formats and locations, automatically reads and extracts meaningful content and assembles a highly organised plant record that can be simply navigated via an intuitive photo-realistic web portal. This ‘as-is’ repository can be purged of duplicates, thus highlighting the true master information. Inconsistent tag naming and numbering, often the result of different engineering projects, can be ‘aliased’ and harmonised.

SmartPlant Fusion captures high definition surveying (HDS) - combined laser scan point clouds and digital photography - and integrates it with the as-is documentation to present a digital and physical record of the plant. This can be used for maintenance and safety planning, remote engineering design using integrated point cloud and 3D, as well as operating configuration capture where the true as-built state of the plant is required.