SmartPlant Instrumentation (INtools)
How do you manage the volume and complexity of design and engineering for Plant Instrumentation?In most plants, more than half of all assets are instrumentation assets. In addition, instrumentation assets are among the most frequently changed.
SmartPlant Instrumentation - a "single source of truth"SmartPlant Instrumentation (INtools) reduces the effort needed to manage instrumentation assets. This in turn reduces the risk and cost of the overall plant information challenge.
SmartPlant Instrumentation allows you to manage your plant instrumentation by means of a "single source of truth" - reducing the time to get the right information for maintenance jobs.
Because any changes in your instrumentation assets will be correctly reflected in all information deliverables (all your datasheets, diagrams and reports) - fewer decisions will be made using wrong or conflicting information.
Business Benefits
Instrument-related work processes are supported across the plant lifecycle
- Engineering - save up to 30% in engineering hours
- Design - save 5-25% in design changes and optimisation
- Procurement - often the largest capital investment
- Construction - speed commissioning with test packages
- Operations & Maintenance - improve uptime, safety, compliance
Who Could Benefit?
SmartPlant Instrumentation provides strong ROI for both Owner/Operators and Engineering & Procurement Consultants (EPC)s.
For Owner / Operators:
- enforce engineering standards
- rapid maintenance of as-built data
- single source of information for all stakeholders
- exchange data with suppliers and EPCs
- preventive maintenance scheduling
- integrate with business systems like SAP
- schedule and minimise plant shutdowns
- streamline data handover from design to operations to maintenance.
For EPCs:
- design rules and validation
- support faster concurrent engineering
- streamlines procurement
- test package assembly
- web access provides global collaboration
- adds-value to handovers to Owner/Operators.
Product DetailOver the 15 years of its existence, SmartPlant Instrumentation (INtools) has become the instrumentation information management solution of choice for the process and power industries. Now, with a market share of some 75 percent, it is a proven choice for managing your instrumentation assets.
Key Features include:
- Enhanced SmartLoop – Providing true data-driven loop drawing, this feature avoids the need for drafting skills and reduces engineering hours.
- Knowledge base – Ensure work consistency and save retyping and re-engineering. Just use the Default datasheets, Default panel Manager, and Default Cable managers as your "libraries" of standard templates.
- Data migration – Import various data formats with ease. You can migrate your data into a modern engineering tool. Data quality is improved because SmartPlant Instrumentation will not allow inconsistencies or missing data to complete loops.
- Fieldbus – SmartPlant Instrumentation is the only instrumentation solution that can design control systems using Fieldbus technology.
- As-Built Project Management – Enables allocation of certain units or parts of the plant to engineering projects/revamps, while at the same time maintaining the allocated portion in normal operation. At the end of the project, engineering data can be merged seamlessly back into the plant data.
- Reporting - with over 100 ready-made industry standard (ISA) reports - ready for you to use or adapt to your requirements
Intergraph is the world's-leading software technology vendor in the Plant, Process, and Marine industry. Browse to the Intergraph site for more background.
Why Matrix?Matrix provides local implementation, support and training for the Intergraph technology, and are closely backed by Intergraph in Australia and Asia-Pacific. Matrix can also assist with data migration and other project issues for both EPCs and Owner/Operators. Contact us to find out more. Customer SuccessSmartPlant Instrumentation is used by over 100 engineers in Australia and several plants in New Zealand. References are available to discuss their own experiences with SmartPlant Instrumentation. Browse in the Case Studies for examples of local Customer success.
More Information
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