A Real-Time Visualization System For Large Scale Urban Environments

by Bill Jepson and Scott Friedman

Using its own unique computer simulation system and methodologies the UCLA Urban Simulation Team (the Team, or the UST) is creating a real-time virtual model of the entire Los Angeles Basin.

Design Power Advances Intelligent Front-End Engineering Technology

by Daratech Research Staff

PlantWise, Design Power's software suite for the process industry, helps create optimal plant layouts with equipment, structures and automatically routed pipelines. It also generates accurate material takeoffs and identifies costs at the beginning of projects, avoiding costly last-minute revisions.

Automation Resistance in Plant Design and Construction

by Joel Orr

Simulation is almost unknown among plant design and construction firms. The technology is there to do it, but the cultural and methodological infrastructure is wanting.

AECVision with Peter Littleton

by David Clendenen

Cadcentre is positioning itself as a full-service engineering IT service provider, offering consulting services to help its clients integrate their existing enterprise IT systems with Cadcentre's open-standard solutions. AECVision recently interviewed Peter Littleton, the President of Cadcentre, to find out more about this important transition.

Product Lifecycle Management IT

by Francisco Domingo

Owners are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits offered by PLM for Operations and Maintenance systems, and seek long-term solutions to problems that currently plague their Legacy systems with obsolescence and data incompatibility.

Digital Document Archiving

By David Wilson

Capturing a back file of drawings or documents goes well beyond the process of scanning them into a compressed digital raster image. Storing them as intelligent records on fast and reliable electronic media is a goal that can save valuable time and resources for your company.

SmartPlant Review

by David Clendenen

Last December, Intergraph's Process & Building Solutions division released SmartPlant Review 4.2, a comprehensive visualization tool designed to allow users to interactively review large and complex 3D models.

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