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PPV Engineering Supports Customer Success in the Food Industry with the help of CADWorx®


Solutions


Dutch engineering service provider ensures the fitting of new storage tanks into an existing facility Identifying Goals


PPV Engineering is a consulting and design office specializing in design and analysis of pressure vessels, piping and steel structures for the oil & gas, food, and chemical industries. For this project, PPV Engineering was contracted by a company in the food industry to fit new product storage tanks into an existing butter-making facility.


Overcoming Challenges Originally, the customer was struggling with how to deal with its leftover product from the facility, as disposing this as waste would have been costly and inefficient. If stored in a hygienic manner, the leftover product from the butter factory could be mixed with other food stuffs to create a new product, enabling significant cost savings. The goal of the project was to be able to reuse surplus product and find a hygienic way for storing both the leftover and new product created from it.


Key challenges included the limited space of the existing facility and the difficulty of determining whether the new tanks would fit. PPV Engineering first investigated the possibility to place the new storage tanks partly outside the facility, through the roof. After careful investigation, it was revealed that the food hygiene standards would not permit the surplus and eventually it was decided to raise the roof of the facility by five meters to create additional space.


Realizing Results


First, PPV Engineering and their customer jointly defined and agreed on the scope of the project. Next, the companies executed research to determine the design of the process, the changes that would need to be made to the building structure, and to determine the capacities of the various storage tanks that would need to be installed to support the new food production process.


Once the business plan was in place and approved by both parties, PPV Engineering started basic engineering. During the process study, PPV


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An example of the new storage tanks, designed in CADWorx Plant Professional.


Engineering and the customer agreed that five new tanks were to be fitted into the existing facility consisting of a product tank with capacity of 30 tons to hold the new product, two raw product tanks each 20 tons, a mixed product tank of 25 tons, and an additives tank of three tons.


CADWorx Plant Professional was used for the basic engineering and the first step was to survey the existing facility to determine space available for the new tanks. Next, a preliminary design for the installation was created. After approving the installation plan, the customer entered into a bid process to identify an equipment and piping contractor. These offers were used to create an estimate for the budget to be allocated to the project.


CADWorx Plant Professional was chosen for the project for several reasons:


• User friendliness and ease of use enabling faster project execution


• The efficiency and automation provided by the complimentary CADWorx P&ID module


• Integration with CAESAR II® stress analysis


Moving Forward


After the final budget estimates are approved, the customer is expected to start construction during 2017. PPV


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• Affordable pricing and flexible license module


Engineering anticipates to be executing similar projects for the other factory sites in the Netherlands in the future.


“CADWorx Plant Professional is an open program and enables easy customization where needed. Especially when it comes to modifications, the software enables tremendous time savings. This is the case particularly when implementing the CADWorx P&ID module and using it together with the plant design,” said Willem Bazuin, owner of PPV Engineering.


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PP&M rebranded to Process, Power & Marine


(Intergraph Corporation) has rebranded to Hexagon PPM in June 2017. Hexagon PPM is focused on delivering end-to-end information technology solutions that drive efficiencies during the design, construction and operation of industrial facilities and large-scale construction projects.


Because of Intergraph’s market-leading position and reputation, Hexagon PPM products will continue to carry the Intergraph brand name. “PPM” is retained as a nod to the key industries of process, power, and marine; however, Hexagon PPM will expand its base to serve industries beyond its traditional core.


About Hexagon PPM Hexagon PPM is the world’s leading provider of enterprise engineering design software and project control solutions. By transforming unstructured information into a smart digital asset, our clients are empowered to visualize, build, and manage structures and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire life cycle.


PPM is part of Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B; hexagon.com), a leading global provider of information technology solutions that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial landscapes.


For more information please contact: erika.ahvenainen@hexagon.com www.hexagonppm.com


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