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Baker Hughes (formerly General Electric Oil & Gas)
Configurator creates P&IDs automatically to match product options
Baker Hughes - Nuovo Pignone in Florence, Italy is a leading supplier of compressors and turbines to the oil and gas industry. Each compressor and turbine is delivered with a large number of custom options. Using conventional methods, the generation of P&IDs and schematic documents for the associated electric, control, cooling, hydraulic, and other auxiliary systems can take up to six weeks for each proposal and delivery.
Using Design Power Design++® platform Baker Hughes created "Super Drawings" for each drawing type that automatically configure themselves to match customer-selected options. This reduced the turnaround time for complete drawing sets from weeks to minutes with the following obvious benefits:
- Faster delivery of proposal and delivery documents provides a decisive edge at the point of sale.
- Consistent error-free drawings reduces warranty charges significantly.
- Automation provides significant relief to scarce engineering resources from time consuming repetitive sales support effort.
- Improved speed and quality increase customer satisfaction.
Baker Hughes named this application the "P&ID Configurator."
"The biggest value is that we really are addressing the 'cost of failure' with the Design++ based P&ID Configurator. With it we're realizing savings in hours, cost of sales, and most importantly: the high quality and consistency reduces our warranty exposure."
-Stefano Meucci, Engineering Manager
"We tried with limited success to create the P&ID Configurator with other tools. Design++ made it easy, it has no limits. Anything I can conceive of, and express, can be incorporated in the system."
-Sandro Migliorini, System Design Engineer
