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Meeting the challenges of plant design The MEDUSA4® Plant Design System (MPDS4) is a suite of powerful, multi-user plant engineering applications, which combine the speed and precision of interactive 3D CAD with extraordinary information management capabilities. MPDS4 allows design teams to build extremely large assemblies with ease.

MPDS4 provides the complete solution for complex projects involving the design and management of equipment, and the layout of piping, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as the supporting structural steelwork. It addresses today’s need for efficiency, productivity and cost control in the competitive installation design arena. MPDS4 is an industry-proven solution, delivering significant productivity gains to plant designers in the mechanical machinery, power, process and marine industries.

PIPING DESIGN Comprehensive professional 3D piping software with a very rich feature set, including intelligent auto routing and dynamic route editing. Optional P&ID and ISOGENTM integration. MECHANICAL HANDLING Materials handling equipment and design software. From conveyor belts to cranes to fork lift trucks, installation designers can easily select, lay out, configure, visualise and add intelligence to process machinery in their plant.

ENGINEERING REVIEW Software for 3D plant or factory visualisation and realistic design reviews within the MPDS4 environment. Generate movie-like walk-throughs of your installation, complete with eye movement controls.

3D REVIEW Tool E-mail very compact versions of your plant models to clients or managers who use this external tool to conduct plant walk-throughs or inspect designs in detail.

Integration “It’s just the click of a button and a file is created – a parts list that you can open in Excel, and take straight into the procurement system. So you can track any one item, with its own special code, from the model to the drawing and throughout the procurement process, until it is delivered to the site.”

Paul Munns, Senior CAD Engineer, Christ Kennicott Water Technology Ltd

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STEEL DESIGN 3D steel design software for dynamically and intelligently constructing steel frames for buildings and equipment supports.

DUCTING DESIGN 3D HVAC design software with powerful routing tools for ducts and supporting components.

ELECTRICAL DESIGN 3D electrical routing software for routing electrical and control systems throughout your plant, ship or factory.

P&ID A complete solution for creating intelligent process and instrumentation diagrams; data extraction, and creating and cross-checking the 3D world.

HANGERS & SUPPORTS A professional solution for accurately modelling 3D supports between pipes and steelwork in your installation.

3D COMPONENT DESIGNER A tool for creating custom parametric 3D catalog components from 3D elements. Components can be animated, and are extremely configurable.

Competitive Advantage “No other plant design product can meet our demands like MPDS4. Its reliability, flexibility, speed, ease of use, compatibility with third party systems, and ability to deliver data for our downstream QA and financial control processes is a huge benefit to our business.”

Mike Lyon, Project Director, Christ Kennicott Water Technology Ltd

MPDS4 Design Applications MPDS4 provides an extensive range of integrated modules covering all the major plant design and factory planning disciplines. Comprehensive add-on applications address such areas as mechanical handling, piping, steel design, HVAC (ducting) and electrical design.

You benefit from a rich feature set, including the ability to conduct real-time walk-throughs, giving customers an overview of an entire installation. You can animate your 3D components to illustrate the functions performed by certain equipment, and add intelligence to interconnected components to automatically route conveyor systems, for example. It is quick and easy to automatically create detailed documentation for downstream processes, from manufacturing instructions to installation guides.

Advanced Information Management MPDS4 provides complete control over the total project, regardless of its size or the number of designers working on it. The single, integrated database can handle massive amounts of data: Most system vendors talking about large-scale assemblies mean a few hundred or thousand components; CAD Schroer’s customers are using MPDS4 on design projects consisting of hundreds of thousands of individual components.

Stepping into the Breach Turnkey installation designers who work with 2D drawings, which are ideal for quick and easy industrial layouts, often miss the ability to visualise their designs or detect clashes in 3D space. They find that 3D modelling systems, perfect for creating individual machinery designs in great detail, are not intended for easily producing large 3D layouts of complete installations. So although 3D really brings ideas to life for

clients, the expertise, time and cost required means that it is rarely deployed in the pre-sales stage, when time is of the essence, and work is non-chargeable.

MPDS4 steps into this breach by allowing designers the freedom and ease to quickly generate 3D installations from 2D layouts, or work directly in the 3D plant environment.

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Flexible and Efficient Data Architecture MPDS4‘s multi-user relational database allows entire design teams to work on large assemblies simultaneously. Its flexible structure allows users to assign a great deal of additional information, such as component cost, weight, or delivery timescales. The system’s open architecture means companies can integrate their engineering data with corporate process flows, including back office systems.

Pre-Sales Configuration While most initial layout for project quotations is done in 2D, often by others, many project engineers long for 3D visualisations that bring designs to life for customers, helping to win bids. Yet large-scale 3D work can be very time-consuming, especially at the iterative stage, where much is thrown away before arriving at a workable solution. Or visualisation is only achieved with tools that don’t deliver CAD content.

The skill is to use minimum resources while achieving maximum effect and accuracy.

MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT works with your existing CAD and catalogue data and allows you to switch the design environment seamlessly from layout drawings to 3D visualisations, offering time-saving automation.

The fastest way from large industrial layouts to 3D visualisations MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT is a whole new concept for interaction between the world of industrial layouts and the world of services and space management, giving installation designers and suppliers a rapid, flexible design environment for the entire design process, from tender to concept to build order – fully integrated with their existing 3D strategy.

FACTORY LAYOUT offers the ideal solution by combining drafting power tools with the advanced capabilities of a plant design system, all integrated with your 3D environment. It offers the optimum solution for each step of the design process, and the ability to use 3D simply and effectively early in the tender stage. This means you don’t have to leave spatial detail to post-contract design, or spend an immense amount of time and effort prior to gaining an order.

Creating the Initial Layout Import DXF/DWG drawings, or even scanned paper-based designs, using raster backdrop to create a layout drawing. The system’s power tools make it quick, easy and intuitive to add symbols and geometry to reflect current ideas.

Floors and Ground Add floor height texts at any point on the drawing to show the various spot heights across a site or building.

Modelling the Architecture FACTORY LAYOUT takes the tedium out of a lot of architectural modelling. Simply add a Z attribute to selected line geometry and the 3D solid model is automatically generated when switching to 3D. Insert intelligent architectural components, such as doors and windows, with detailed control over their behaviour.

Auto Update Any changes made to the drawing are automatically reflected in the 3D world, and vice versa.

Productivity ”The exceptional degree of productivity we have been able to achieve with MEDUSA lends us a truly competitive edge… in the field of design automation, MEDUSA is simply outstanding.“

Heinz Büchen, CAD System Manager, Atlas Copco Energas GmbH

Innovation “CAD Schroer’s software is a key project enabler, and … has put us in a strong position for further growth in a buoyant market place. We have benefited immensely from CAD Schroer’s dedication to product innovation, and the unremitting personal commitment of its team of technical consultants.”

Richard Schilliger, responsible for PLM strategy, Burckhardt Compression

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Pre-Sales Configuration While most initial layout for project quotations is done in 2D, often by others, many project engineers long for 3D visualisations that bring designs to life for customers, helping to win bids. Yet large-scale 3D work can be very time-consuming, especially at the iterative stage, where much is thrown away before arriving at a workable solution. Or visualisation is only achieved with tools that don’t deliver CAD content.

The skill is to use minimum resources while achieving maximum effect and accuracy.

MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT works with your existing CAD and catalogue data and allows you to switch the design environment seamlessly from layout drawings to 3D visualisations, offering time-saving automation.

The fastest way from large industrial layouts to 3D visualisations MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT is a whole new concept for interaction between the world of industrial layouts and the world of services and space management, giving installation designers and suppliers a rapid, flexible design environment for the entire design process, from tender to concept to build order – fully integrated with their existing 3D strategy.

FACTORY LAYOUT offers the ideal solution by combining drafting power tools with the advanced capabilities of a plant design system, all integrated with your 3D environment. It offers the optimum solution for each step of the design process, and the ability to use 3D simply and effectively early in the tender stage. This means you don’t have to leave spatial detail to post-contract design, or spend an immense amount of time and effort prior to gaining an order.

Creating the Initial Layout Import DXF/DWG drawings, or even scanned paper-based designs, using raster backdrop to create a layout drawing. The system’s power tools make it quick, easy and intuitive to add symbols and geometry to reflect current ideas.

Floors and Ground Add floor height texts at any point on the drawing to show the various spot heights across a site or building.

Modelling the Architecture FACTORY LAYOUT takes the tedium out of a lot of architectural modelling. Simply add a Z attribute to selected line geometry and the 3D solid model is automatically generated when switching to 3D. Insert intelligent architectural components, such as doors and windows, with detailed control over their behaviour.

Auto Update Any changes made to the drawing are automatically reflected in the 3D world, and vice versa.

Productivity ”The exceptional degree of productivity we have been able to achieve with MEDUSA lends us a truly competitive edge… in the field of design automation, MEDUSA is simply outstanding.“

Heinz Büchen, CAD System Manager, Atlas Copco Energas GmbH

Innovation “CAD Schroer’s software is a key project enabler, and … has put us in a strong position for further growth in a buoyant market place. We have benefited immensely from CAD Schroer’s dedication to product innovation, and the unremitting personal commitment of its team of technical consultants.”

Richard Schilliger, responsible for PLM strategy, Burckhardt Compression

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Competitive Advantage “No other plant design product can meet our demands like MPDS4. Its reliability, flexibility, speed, ease of use, compatibility with third party systems, and ability to deliver data for our downstream QA and financial control processes is a huge benefit to our business.”

Mike Lyon, Project Director, Christ Kennicott Water Technology Ltd

MPDS4 Design Applications MPDS4 provides an extensive range of integrated modules covering all the major plant design and factory planning disciplines. Comprehensive add-on applications address such areas as mechanical handling, piping, steel design, HVAC (ducting) and electrical design.

You benefit from a rich feature set, including the ability to conduct real-time walk-throughs, giving customers an overview of an entire installation. You can animate your 3D components to illustrate the functions performed by certain equipment, and add intelligence to interconnected components to automatically route conveyor systems, for example. It is quick and easy to automatically create detailed documentation for downstream processes, from manufacturing instructions to installation guides.

Advanced Information Management MPDS4 provides complete control over the total project, regardless of its size or the number of designers working on it. The single, integrated database can handle massive amounts of data: Most system vendors talking about large-scale assemblies mean a few hundred or thousand components; CAD Schroer’s customers are using MPDS4 on design projects consisting of hundreds of thousands of individual components.

Stepping into the Breach Turnkey installation designers who work with 2D drawings, which are ideal for quick and easy industrial layouts, often miss the ability to visualise their designs or detect clashes in 3D space. They find that 3D modelling systems, perfect for creating individual machinery designs in great detail, are not intended for easily producing large 3D layouts of complete installations. So although 3D really brings ideas to life for

clients, the expertise, time and cost required means that it is rarely deployed in the pre-sales stage, when time is of the essence, and work is non-chargeable.

MPDS4 steps into this breach by allowing designers the freedom and ease to quickly generate 3D installations from 2D layouts, or work directly in the 3D plant environment.

www.cad-schroer.com

Flexible and Efficient Data Architecture MPDS4‘s multi-user relational database allows entire design teams to work on large assemblies simultaneously. Its flexible structure allows users to assign a great deal of additional information, such as component cost, weight, or delivery timescales. The system’s open architecture means companies can integrate their engineering data with corporate process flows, including back office systems.

Meeting the challenges of plant design The MEDUSA4® Plant Design System (MPDS4) is a suite of powerful, multi-user plant engineering applications, which combine the speed and precision of interactive 3D CAD with extraordinary information management capabilities. MPDS4 allows design teams to build extremely large assemblies with ease.

MPDS4 provides the complete solution for complex projects involving the design and management of equipment, and the layout of piping, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as the supporting structural steelwork. It addresses today’s need for efficiency, productivity and cost control in the competitive installation design arena. MPDS4 is an industry-proven solution, delivering significant productivity gains to plant designers in the mechanical machinery, power, process and marine industries.

PIPING DESIGN Comprehensive professional 3D piping software with a very rich feature set, including intelligent auto routing and dynamic route editing. Optional P&ID and ISOGENTM integration. MECHANICAL HANDLING Materials handling equipment and design software. From conveyor belts to cranes to fork lift trucks, installation designers can easily select, lay out, configure, visualise and add intelligence to process machinery in their plant.

ENGINEERING REVIEW Software for 3D plant or factory visualisation and realistic design reviews within the MPDS4 environment. Generate movie-like walk-throughs of your installation, complete with eye movement controls.

3D REVIEW Tool E-mail very compact versions of your plant models to clients or managers who use this external tool to conduct plant walk-throughs or inspect designs in detail.

Integration “It’s just the click of a button and a file is created – a parts list that you can open in Excel, and take straight into the procurement system. So you can track any one item, with its own special code, from the model to the drawing and throughout the procurement process, until it is delivered to the site.”

Paul Munns, Senior CAD Engineer, Christ Kennicott Water Technology Ltd

www.cad-schroer.com

STEEL DESIGN 3D steel design software for dynamically and intelligently constructing steel frames for buildings and equipment supports.

DUCTING DESIGN 3D HVAC design software with powerful routing tools for ducts and supporting components.

ELECTRICAL DESIGN 3D electrical routing software for routing electrical and control systems throughout your plant, ship or factory.

P&ID A complete solution for creating intelligent process and instrumentation diagrams; data extraction, and creating and cross-checking the 3D world.

HANGERS & SUPPORTS A professional solution for accurately modelling 3D supports between pipes and steelwork in your installation.

3D COMPONENT DESIGNER A tool for creating custom parametric 3D catalog components from 3D elements. Components can be animated, and are extremely configurable.

CAD Schroer UK Ltd 39 Newnham Road Cambridge, CB3 9EY Tel. +44 1223 460 408 E-Mail: info@cad-schroer.com www.cad-schroer.com © CAD Schroer GmbH 07/2010 Technical modifications reserved. All rights reserved. All brands or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

www.cad-schroer.com