Air Products' Chemicals Group Standardizes on Jacobus PlantSpace P&ID; Intelligent P&ID Drawings Serve Large Owner/Operator Company.GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1997--Jacobus Technology, a strategic affiliate of Bentley and developer of the PlantSpace(R) family of software for plant design and engineering, today announced that it has recently received a follow-on order of PlantSpace P&ID from the Chemicals Group of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. This order is the first step in standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting on the product at Chemicals Group plants worldwide. A leading provider of chemicals to industrial processing clients, Air Products' Chemicals Group will pilot PlantSpace P&ID at a major U.S. plant, converting over 500 existing process and instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. drawings to intelligent P&IDs. "Our goal is to use P&IDs on a widespread basis for electronic access to all pertinent PERTINENT, evidence. Those facts which tend to prove the allegations of the party offering them, are called pertinent; those which have no such tendency are called impertinent, 8 Toull. n. 22. By pertinent is also meant that which belongs. Willes, 319. plant information," says Larry Killingsworth, manager, Electronic Asset Support Center for Air Products Chemicals Group. "PlantSpace P&ID ensures the accuracy and consistency necessary to fully employ P&IDs in operations and maintenance." "Productivity was a major concern in our decision process," continues Killingsworth. "Since P&IDs are only part of the responsibility of designers at our plant sites, we needed a tool that was intuitively obvious so that we could minimize training and ensure smooth restarts for occasional users." He adds, "We wanted a product that allowed designers to concentrate on P&ID content - not software drafting steps." Air Products commended PlantSpace P&ID capabilities for intelligent data-validity checking and engineering/design consistency. Integration with leading databases, spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
"We found the ease with which we can conform `dumb' P&IDs to intelligent ones represented orders of magnitude savings in time and conversion costs," says Killingsworth. "I'd recommend PlantSpace P&ID over anything else I've seen." Offering intelligent "object" components, PlantSpace P&ID supports the Chemicals Group's requirements for logical review of process and instrumentation schematics. The software also offers extensive reporting capabilities, making it a nice fit for operations and maintenance requirements. The Chemicals Group begins its pilot project this month and anticipates conversion for the 500 drawings to be complete by the end of the year. "The adoption of PlantSpace P&ID by leading owner/operator companies marks a major step for the industry as CAD CAD: see computer-aided design. (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. drawings and designs become effective tools for operations information management," says Robert Keith For other people, see . Robert Keith (February 10, 1896/8 – December 22, 1966) was an actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor. His birth name was Rolland Keith Richey. , executive vice president of sales and marketing at Jacobus. "Through the object-oriented JSpace(TM) architecture of PlantSpace software, Jacobus is achieving its mission of providing engineering software that delivers strong bottom-line business value." About Air Products Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is a multinational company engaged in the production and sale of industrial and specialty gases and selected chemicals and polymers. With sales over $4 billion annually, Air Products operates in 30 countries and exports to approximately 100 others, with over 40 percent of business outside the U.S., primarily in western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Air Products is a true industrial products and services company. It does not make end products, but rather produces processing chemicals, additives, intermediates, and systems for industrial clients that manufacture end products. Gases and related equipment account for about two-thirds of Air Products' revenue. Chemicals produced by the Chemicals Group account for one-third of the company's revenue and include three strategic businesses: polyurethanes polyurethanes (pŏl'ēy  r`əthānz), group of plastics that may be either thermosetting or thermoplastic. Polyurethane can be made into both flexible and rigid foams. and performance chemicals, polymers, and industrial chemicals. Air Products' corporate headquarters are in Allentown, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York . The company can be reached by phone at 610- 481-4911, by fax at 610-481-5900, by e-mail at info@apci.com, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.apci.com . About Jacobus, a Strategic Affiliate of Bentley Jacobus Technology, Inc., provides software products and services to the AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission and plant operations communities, with concentration on the process and power industries. Maker of the PlantSpace line of object-oriented software, based on JSpace(TM) architecture, Jacobus is regarded as the premier life-cycle solutions provider by plant owners/operators and engineering/construction firms worldwide. The company provides applications for computer-aided plant design and engineering, 3D real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. design review, project management, information management, and global engineering on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and corporate intranets/extranets. Jacobus is a strategic affiliate of Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) Inc. Jacobus Technology can be reached -- By telephone at 800/724-8741 or 301/926-0802 -- By FAX at 301/926-2313 -- By email at info@jacobus.com -- On the World Wide Web at http://www.jacobus.com About Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates Bentley Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. Its products are proven at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. engineering applications to Bentley users. Bentley's Strategic Affiliate program involves an intense technical and business collaboration with, as well as corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at http://www.bentley.com . -0- PlantSpace is a registered trademark, and JSpace is a trademark of Jacobus Technology, Inc. MicroStation is a registered trademark and Bentley is a trademark of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Jacobus Technology Inc., Gaithersburg Jackie Cissell, 205/536-2822 or jcissell@hiwaay.net |
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