Piping Design Workbench

Live Demo

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

Section Meeting 15.05.2013EDMS 1286168

Overview

• CATIA contains “Groups” of dedicated commands and interfaces called “Workbenches”

• One of the workbenches dedicated to use for designing of Pipe arrangements is called “Piping Design Workbench”

• At CERN the workbench is accessible only with dedicated CATIA setting in the launcher called “Equipment Systems”

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

Overview

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

The basic features

• Routing and editing a run

• Placing pipe on the run

• Placing piping parts on the run

• Automatic part placement

• Placing insulation

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

Watch the demo:

The developed/implemented features

• Adapting and simplification of functionality

• New piping parts catalogue structure

• Multi representation of piping parts

• Product structure template

• SmarTeam integration

• Piping Design Workbench methodologies V3

– EDMS 1158335

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

Conclusion

• Highly specialized and rigid workbench

• Very handy for restricted use cases

• Collection of user needs and feedback collection exceeded 60% of implementation time mainly because of user fluctuation at CERN and non-availability of users to test

• Setup fully according the needs of EN/CV-DOW

• The external specialist invited to confirm the setup was overwhelmed by the complexity

Michal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS

Current state and future development

• Piping Design Workbench setup

– In production

– Methodology document approved and released

– Product Structure template released

– User feed back positive

• HVAC Design Workbench setup

– In development and

– User needs collection state at 50%

• Equipment Arrangement Workbench setup

– Not yet startedMichal Mlynarcik GS/ASE-EPS