MPDS4™ Plant Design and Factory Layout

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Meeting the challenges of plant design

Among others, MPDS4 offers modules for piping, ducting, steel and electrical design

MPDS4 is a suite of powerful, multi-user plant engineering applications, which combine the speed and precision of interactive 3D CAD with extraordinary information management capabilities. MPDS4 allows design teams to build extremely large assemblies with ease.

MPDS4 provides the complete solution for complex projects involving the design and management of equipment, and the layout of piping, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as the supporting structural steelwork. It addresses today’s need for efficiency, productivity and cost control in the competitive installation design arena. MPDS4 is an industry-proven solution, delivering significant productivity gains to plant designers in the mechanical machinery, power, process and marine industries.

MPDS4 takes inputs from 2D schematics, 2D layouts and equipment lists to produce a 3D engineering information database. Outputs include Bills of Material (BOM), intelligent 2D drawings, pipe isometrics (ISOGEN required) and 3D walkthroughs.

Advanced Information Management
MPDS4 provides complete control over the total project, regardless of its size or the number of designers working on it. The single, integrated database can handle massive amounts of data: Most system vendors talking about large-scale assemblies mean a few hundred or thousand components; CAD Schroer’s customers are using MPDS on design projects consisting of hundreds of thousands of individual components.



Features and Benefits

	Multi-user relational database for speed, accuracy and improved communication: Many users can safely edit, run reports on, and check a design simultaneously Produce accurate BOM at any time Efficiently manage plant information after design is complete Central archive for plant operations and maintenance
	Very large-scale assembly of equipment models for power, speed and flexibility: Import 3D models and choose detail level - no need to re-model equipment using primitives
	Version management and change control for efficiency and design integrity: Multiple users can work in the same space at the same time, and also perform ‘what if’ studies Upon approval by a project manager, modifications are incorporated into the database and reflected throughout all other stages of the project
	Integrated design validation for early problem detection and error reduction: Static and dynamic interference checking Design rule checking
	Drawing and equipment management for quality assurance: Use tools for reporting the status of a model or sheet, and status changes of any instances since the last time a model was generated Set up automatic change notifications Restrict the loading or creation/saving of equipment model and related files to certain directories
	Identification of missing information or components Import, validate and compare tables of external data with design database
	Quick and accurate drawing production through superb 2D connection: Produce quality MEDUSA4 drawings from any selection of you design, and annotate as required
	Auto selection and checking with 2D schematics: Enter information only once Draw P&IDs with MEDUSA, using the information to help build the 3D plant; run consistency checks at any time
	Complete suite of design applications tailored to your needs (see below)
	Extremely customisable and expandable: Open systems architecture and powerful programming language Adapt to niche requirements Add system components only as your business requires
	Multiple hardware platforms (see below)
	Supports your flexible systems strategy
	Smooth and efficient exchange of design information throughout your organisation and its stakeholders

MPDS4 DESIGN APPLICATIONS
The MPDS4 product suite provides a comprehensive set of high value add-on modules, summarised below, and detailed on a separate datasheet.

MPDS4 MECHANICAL HANDLING™ NEW

	Intelligent selection, placement and connection of mechanical handling components which can be physically interconnected to form part of an industrial process

MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT™

	Build complete 3D plants, factories, process lines or installations directly from a 2D layout, with 2D symbols representing existing 3D model files. Other 3D structures can be created ad hoc within FACTORY LAYOUT. Work in the 2D or 3D environment.

MPDS4 ELECTRICAL DESIGN™

	A powerful discipline for building networks of cable ladders, trays & trunking, power distribution bus bars and routing cables

MPDS4 PIPING DESIGN™

	A complete professional industrial piping solution with a rich feature set

MPDS4 STEEL DESIGN™

	Construct steel frames for buildings and equipment support with catalogs for steel, plates, stairs and ladders

MPDS4 DUCTING DESIGN™

	Route multi-section HVAC directly within your plant

MPDS4 HANGERS & SUPPORTS DESIGN™

	Accurately model pipe supports

MPDS4 P&ID™ and Auto Selection

	Complete solution for creating process and instrumentation diagrams; data extraction and use of data to create and cross-check the 3D world

MPDS4 3D COMPONENT DESIGNER™

	A tool for creating custom 3D component drawing routines from 3D elements, applying catalog-stored tables of parameters. Components can be animated, and are extremely configurable.

MPDS4 ENGINEERING REVIEW™

	Powerful functionality for realistic design reviews within the MPDS4 environment, visually presenting all of your plant project data. Generate movie-like walkthroughs of your installation for pre-sales concept presentations, internal communication, or full project engineering reviews.

MPDS4 REVIEW™ NEW

	An external tool that allows users (customers/suppliers/Board members) to easily interact with compact versions of your MEDUSA4 3D or MPDS4 models, conducting plant and scenery walk-throughs or inspecting designs in detail.

Platforms Supported

	Windows® XP Professional (SP 2 and 3), Vista Business (SP 1 and 2) and 7 Professional
	Sun® SPARC Solaris 9 and 10 with CDE
	Linux on request