Software Announcement March 9, 1999 CATIA/CADAM AEC Plant and Shipbuilding Solutions Version 4 Release 2.1 — Enhancements Support Intelligent Virtual Plant Data Modeling Overview • CATIA/CADAM APS Tooling Structures Design Configuration At a Glance The product portfolio of (5626-PTD) brings together the CATIA/CADAM AEC Plant and key applications needed to design New and enhanced products and Shipbuilding Solutions Version 4 has and analyze the structural configurations in Release 2.1 add been enhanced with a new frameworks used in new function to CATIA/AEC Plant generation of products that supports manufacturing and tooling. and Shipbuilding Solutions for intelligent virtual plant data handling engineering data based • CATIA/CADAM APS Digital modeling for design, procurement, on intelligent plant data modeling: Manufacturing Plant Configuration and construction, to operations and (5626-PMD) functionality has been • maintenance of process and power CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor expanded to include the — plants. Release 2.1 introduces two Design facilitates preliminary CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor new products, two new and detail design phase of Design Product (5626-ACD). configurations, ten enhanced conveyor systems products and one enriched Also announced today is the • CATIA/CADAM AEC STEP configuration. availability of CATIA Version 5 — AP227 Interface product — Next Generation Scalable ensures full STEP compliance What′s New Applications. This new software of the CATIA/CADAM Plant • CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor complements the CATIA Version 4 Applications Design product (5626-ACD), an product line, which continues to be • enhanced. For related information CATIA/CADAM APS Conveyor end-to-end process, improves — on CATIA Version 5, refer to Design Configuration productivity by eliminating provides the essential manual steps and by allowing the Software Announcement 299-060, ′ dated March 9, 1999. applications and full conveyor conveyor s design to be layout and related equipment integrated into the overall digital modeling design of the plant in which it will Key Prerequisites be used. • CATIA/CADAM APS Tooling Version 4, Release 2.1 runs on • Structure Design CATIA/CADAM AEC STEP AP227 selected system levels of: Configuration — groups key Interface product (5626-ST2) is applications needed to design • the first of a STEP-complaint AIX and analyze the structural family of products that allows • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX • frameworks used in CATIA to exchange process plant Silicon Graphics IRIX manufacturing and tooling information in the format as • Sun Microsystems Solaris defined by the AP227 application • CATIA/CADAM APS Digital protocol. Manufacturing Plant — • Planned Availability Date Configuration now includes CATIA/CADAM APS Conveyor CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor Design Configuration (5626-PCD) March 12, 1999 Design Product provides all the essential applications needed for full conveyor layout and related EXTRA! EXTRA! . equipment modeling. Subscribe to IBM iSource, your electronic source for customized IBM information! Go to our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/isource or send an e-mail to [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 299-063 “intelligent” 3D arrangement. The arrangement includes Description the conveyor type, all the attributes, connectivity, and relationships to other objects in the 3D models. The CATIA/CADAM AEC Plant and Shipbuilding Solutions product comes complete with a full suite of editing tools (CATIA/CADAM Plant) provides “process centric” for managing the layout as well as an automatic function solutions. An object-oriented plant model that will have to create the conveyor layout as a track in the Fitting a fundamental effect on the way engineering and design Simulation (5626-FIT) product. data is used throughout the life cycle of the plant, from design, procurement and construction, to operations and End-user tools allow incorporation of customer-specific maintenance. calculations, such as chain-pull calculations, cost estimation, and carrier counts. For owners and operatiors of process and power plants, this means bringing new products to market faster, Customers seeking to design the internal functions of achieving consistent, high-quality production at the lowest conveyor equipment should also look at the CATIA cost while meeting regulatory requirements. Equipment and Systems Engineering Solutions and the CATIA Mechanical Design Solutions. For engineering and construction firms, it means capitalizing on key know-how to win projects that are CATIA/CADAM AEC STEP AP227 Interface Product delivered on time, within cost, and to the highest quality (5626-ST2) while returning a profit. • Allows for the exchange of data using the standard For shipbuilders, it means end-to-end design and neutral file format called “STEP”. Within this standard, manufacturing of the hull, decks, piece parts and support the STEP AP227 Interface product allows exchange of systems like structural, piping, equipment, HVAC and spatial information of a process plant as defined in the electrical raceways. Thus shipbuilders and their AP227 Application protocol. supporting crafts and suppliers now have a common • Consists of two utilities: integrated base for design, configuration management, manufacturing, commissioning, and − CATST2 (CATIA to STEP) operations/maintenance. − ST2CAT (STEP to CATIA) New Products With these utilities, the user can perform the following tasks: CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor Design (5626-ACD) − Create a STEP physical file from a CATIA model − Create a CATIA model from a STEP physical file • Facilitates both the preliminary design and detail design phases of conveyor systems. In preliminary • Supports a subset of the Conformance Class 2 design, automatic bills of materials and costs described in the DIS version of AP227 document. For generated by the Conveyor Design product allow each unit of functionality (UoF) included in this accurate estimates of the project. During detail Conformance Class, the support is the following: design, Conveyor Design′s advanced modeling capabilities help ensure an error free design and − Piping_system_functional_characterization: accurate construction drawings. support of piping line • Integrates with the plant modeling applications of the − Plant_item_characterization: support of HVAC, CATIA/CADAM AEC Plant Solutions (CATIA/CADAM Structure, Equipment and piping components Plant). It is ideally suited to the model representations − Piping_component_characterization: full support; (both geometric and specification) of conveyors found connector: full support; connection: full support in manufacturing plants, shipbuilding facilities, and except connection definition; shape: full support materials handling facilities. Examples of such except interference; csg_and_b_rep_geometry: conveyors include power and free, belt conveyors, and support limited to piping primitives and Boolean roller conveyors. results • Integrates with the QUeueing Event Simulation Tool (QUEST) product offered by Deneb Robotics, a New Configurations Dassault Systemes company, to allow detailed throughput simulation of the conveyor system after it CATIA/CADAM APS Conveyor Design Configuration has been modeled in CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor (5626-PCD) Design. This capability integrates company work processes, thus eliminating the need for the manual • Provides the essential applications needed for full tracing that is currently done between the conveyor conveyor layout and related equipment modeling. detail design and conveyor event simulation and Designers can quickly route conveyors, define and timing phases. place support equipment like motors, chain turn-arounds, track switches and model production • Provides a complete set of tools for creating equipment adjacent to the conveyor like robots or parametric conveyor component shapes and for material transferee machines. managing these shapes in libraries. Comprehensive attribute data is associated with the conveyor • Provides all the tools necessary to go from 2D and 3D components to allow their full specification within the conceptual layout, process design ending with detailed context of the overall conveyor design. This data may design. An interface to the QUEST discrete event also be contain information required for the QUEST simulator available from Deneb is also provided. simulation. CATIA/CADAM APS Tooling Structures Design Rapid initial layout of conveyor systems can be performed Configuration (5626-PTD) by importing the original AutoCAD or MicroStation • Brings together the key applications needed to design layouts via the DXF import facility. Once imported, tools and analyze the structural frameworks used in within the CATIA/CADAM AEC Conveyor Design product manufacturing and tooling. Engineers involved in will “follow” the layout and convert it into an 299-063 -2- designing, detailing and fabricating equipment • Provides management of Penetration Requests in platforms, fixtures, jigs, test cell frames, equipment design models. mounts or racks, maintenance and access ways, or • materials portioning frames will find this configuration Provides Mirror Transformation (copy/move) of particularly useful. 3D modeling and structural DuctWork elements. analysis applications