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SOFTWARE

Effortless consistency

through strict digitization

How engineering consolidation
makes plant manufacturers faster

Reinhard Knapp, Head of Global Strategies
Aucotec AG
A nything can be consolidated: fi- in this state the information is only archived, it As THE single source

of truth for all those
nances, political positions, com-
does not usually fit together, let alone go on to
involved, the EB platform
panies, supposedly even mar-
be directly editable.
consolidates its entries
riages. But engineering? That
virtually by itself (©
especially! Consolidating means
“bringing together several parts
to form a whole” or put simply: unifying, streng- The engineering software AUCOTEC AG)
thening or securing. And just as a strong rope is expert Aucotec developed the
created from many individual strands, so too can “cooperation platform
engineering be consolidated by bringing together Engineering Base (EB) in order
the various planning disciplines and tools in plant
construction. Result: one source, one authoring to improve the usability of the
system, significantly reduced interfaces, no wai- numerous collected data
ting times and transmission errors saving a lot of
all that. Especially engineering, procurement and
construction contractors (EPC), faced daily with The diversity cannot be changed, but the usability
an enormous variety of tools and suppliers, know of the data can, however. This is why engineering
how valuable consistent data is. software expert Aucotec developed the coopera-
tion platform Engineering Base (EB). All the different
Consolidating the input information can flow into this platform right from the
start – whether labelling lists, specifications for am-
It starts with EPCs having to juggle different bient pressure, named devices, templates, stan-
sources of information: descriptive texts, e.g. on dards or functional structures – all this data can be
required standards or legal frameworks, capacity created as objects in EB without even having to
specifications, documentation requirements and create a single document. In this way, engineers
much more. The Excel files, PDFs, DOCxs are can build up the desired plant structure right from
then collected as files, in folders, document ma- the start. In this way, they consolidate the diverse
nagement systems or similar – depending on the input strictly digital, and the original documents no
client, highly variable in quality and detail. But longer need to be consulted.

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