Plant and Mechanical Engineering

As they strive to increase efficiency, most successful plant manufacturers specialize in specific industries, niches and technologies where they can rely on their experience and proven solutions. This is an ideal scenario for implementing modular design – and for the Advanced Typical Manager in Engineering Base.

This allows planning to be carried out using pre-tested standard modules and greatly simplifies the work of development engineers in production plant construction. With the additional benefit of user-friendly option and variant management, the Typical Manager enables shorter project turnaround times and superior plant quality.

Changes in a typical only need to be entered once, as the ‘single source of truth’ principle means that up-to-date plant data is universally available at all times. In practice, this means fewer typicals, fewer errors and higher quality.

Planning in three dimensions is important for making optimum use of space. No matter whether it's a production hall, a conveyor system or a control cabinet, the physical path of piping, cable trays or wires needs to be precisely calculated and documented. The transfer to 3D systems is often carried out manually in practice.  However, AUCOTEC and UNITEC have developed a platform that links planning in Engineering Base with all commonly used 3D models, regardless of the manufacturer and without any errors.

This provides bidirectional exchange between all systems and reduces the need for manual reworking. Components defined in Engineering Base are transferred to the 3D representation, while all 3D objects can continue to be used in Engineering Base. This complete data consistency massively increases the efficiency and quality of plant construction.