Power plant design digital thread
Power plant design and configuration
Industrialize your engineering design processes using a modular and repeatable approach to power plant design. Establish a fully digitalized engineering definition of your products, processes, plants and infrastructure to power business outcomes, sustainability and innovation.
Accelerate your power plant design processes
Synchronize your design processes, making use of multidiscipline design and reuse capabilities to engineer better designs faster. Take advantage of advanced design automation to rapidly engineer custom solutions. Ensure ongoing contractual and regulatory compliance using an integrated, systems-driven approach.
Innovate power plant design and development
Leading energy companies are already on the path to design excellence, achieving measurable results by using our next-generation design solutions.
Reduction in engineering development cycle time
Learn how customers are reducing engineering development time of process equipment by 60% while increasing profits by up to 10%. (EIGSA)
Increase in component reuse and design efficiency
Increase the reuse of power plant component configurations by up to 40% and reduce engineering design time by more than 10%. (Ansaldo Energia)
Reduction in lead time
Automate design processes to increase bid accuracy and reduce engineering lead time. (Babcock & Wilcox)
Industrialize for continuous improvements
Our solutions enable the development of standardized, yet customizable, designs with improved productivity, performance and sustainability. Here are three key paths to take to achieve this:
Synchronize design processes to engineer better designs, faster:
- Use multi-CAD authoring for designing products, processes, plants and infrastructure
- Bring multiple engineering domains and disciplines into an integrated, collaborative environment
- Manage multiple design configurations, options and variants that can be reused across projects
- Integrate with advanced engineering simulation to optimize designs for improved cost, performance, safety and sustainability
- Explore generative design and the use of new and innovative materials
Automate design rules and processes to rapidly engineer custom solutions:
- Accelerate design for engineer-to-order solutions
- Produce accurate designs with the same speed and precision as standardized products
- Minimize the need for unique up-front engineering
- Eliminate costly errors and omissions
- Free up specialist resources for innovative work and projects
Keep pace with continuously changing customer needs and regulatory requirements:
- Capture, validate and circulate requirements across your engineering design domains, disciplines and processes
- Connect requirements to engineering design processes across the value chain
- Remain continually compliant while understanding short- and long-term change impacts
- Classify and reuse whole sub-systems on future projects and work programs
- Build a comprehensive blueprint of your entire lifecycle management architecture to start and stay integrated
Embrace the race towards modular construction
Take advantage of breakthroughs enabling you to industrialize construction or risk being left behind. According to McKinsey & Company: The next normal in construction, construction companies face an unparalleled time of disruption and opportunities to dramatically improve profits and performance:
Construction leaders expecting industry disruption
Shorter timelines from a product-based design approach
Annual profit pool for disruptive construction methods
FMC Technologies
Integrating seven global sites enables world-class product development
Company:FMC Technologies
Industry:Energy & utilities
Location:Houston, United States
Siemens Software:NX, Teamcenter
The most important benefit of Teamcenter is that it allowed us to go global. With the ability to re-use product data from the different design centers, we are executing more projects without a corresponding increase in personnel."
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Take the lead in today's demanding and complex capital asset design environment. Adopt digital technologies critical for the shift towards a product-based engineering design approach.
Solutions for power plant systems-driven design
Bill of materials management
Mechanical design software
Simulation software
Product configuration management
Requirements management
Product lifecycle management
Frequently asked questions
When designing a power plant, you’re often constrained by a complex and fragmented approach to engineering design and grid configuration. You also face pressure to continually keep pace with changing customer needs and regulatory requirements. Further challenges arise from poor engineering collaboration, software interoperability and a limited degree of engineering design reuse and repeatability. Combined, all of these factors can create major sources of value loss throughout the construction supply chain.
Fortunately, there are new energy design software solutions that can help you overcome power plant design challenges. These tools give your engineering teams the ability to:
- Synchronize your design processes, making use of multidiscipline design and reuse to engineer better designs faster
- Use advanced design automation to rapidly engineer custom solutions
- Ensure on-going contractual and regulatory compliance with an integrated, systems approach
For power plant design, our software and solutions include:
Yes, our power plant design software establishes a highly collaborative, multi-CAD environment for managing, sharing and visualizing design data authored in a variety of engineering tools (Siemens + 3rd party). Our solutions include integrated workflow capabilities for automating business processes, as well as document management, change management and much more.
The three challenges engineers overcome with a power plant design software are:
- A complex and fragmented approach to engineering design
- The need to continually keep pace with changing customer needs and regulatory requirements
- Poor collaboration, interoperability and a limited degree of engineering design reuse and repeatability
Watch
Video | Industrialize your design processes
Video | Automate engineer-to-order processes for competitive capital asset designs
Video | Connect requirements across the asset lifecycle with systems-driven design
Listen
Podcast | Visualization and the digital twin for AEC and BIM
Podcast | How to simplify the BIM design review in construction projects
Podcast | What is modular construction?
Read
Infographic | The future of capital asset design is here
Ebook | Industrialize engineering design processes
Executive brief | Design innovative and cost-effective capital assets