This in turn leads to lengthy design times, poor overall design quality and inevitably, downstream construction problems and delays.įor example, with many P&ID drafting packages the resulting P&IDs often contain simple graphics with little or no detailed information about the actual components to be used. This leads to the duplication of design data input at each stage, and therefore many opportunities for human error to creep in. When the above tasks are undertaken using traditional drafting methods, or even with specialised, but separate, unintegrated software packages, this results in poor re-use of information between the design stages. These drawings detail each pipe spool ready for manufacture and assembly. Lastly, piping isometric drawings are generated for the pipework. This is followed by the creation of a pipework layout that shows the position of the process equipment and the interconnected pipework, steelwork and other necessary components. Process plant design begins with the creation of a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) to define the overall process.
Many manual steps when designing pipework Cambridge, UK and Pittsford, NY – 25 April 2019: The design of process plant and pipework requires the creation of P&IDs, the design of process equipment and pipe systems, and the production of the associated piping isometric drawings.
