HOUSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 29, 2009 — COADE, Inc. and ASD Global announced today a collaborative initiative to provide an integrated approach to pipe support placement by allowing COADE CAESAR II and ASD Pipe Support Optimizer (ASD PSO) to work together. This product-level integration will allow ASD PSO to automatically place pipe supports into the CAESAR II pipe model for seamless and more efficient analysis.
The capabilities within ASD PSO are designed to automatically locate and select logical pipe supports for a piping design. The output from ASD PSO will greatly benefit both designers and engineers by allowing support information to be automatically passed to CAESAR II for stress analysis and, because of the seamless bi-directional links between CAESAR II and COADE CADWorx Plant, designers can quickly optimize support locations in the design, thereby maintaining the integrity of both the engineering and design.
“ASD is committed to this strategic partnership with COADE as it aligns with our mission to provide our customers the greatest return on their technology investments,” said Manu Chatterjee, CEO of ASD. “Our knowledge-driven design automation tools integrated with COADE’s plant design and stress analysis solutions will streamline our customers’ work processes very effectively, and we are working hard to quickly bring this to market.”
“This announcement shows that COADE continues to deliver on its goal of delivering an integrated design and engineering environment,” said Thomas J. Van Laan, P.E., president and CEO of COADE. “Because 80% of the major firms in our market use COADE engineering products, this collaboration not only gives our users a productivity boost, it has broad benefits for the whole plant design and engineering industry.”
This collaboration will allow designers and engineers, equipped with both COADE CAESAR II and ASD PSO, to streamline their work processes by automating the selection of pipe supports for all major load cases prior to the detailed pipe stress analysis. This initiative brings value during the FEED and detail design stages of a project by reducing the iterative process for support selection and stress analysis. In today’s challenging environment, COADE and ASD are working closely together to deliver greater value and increased productivity to their customers. For information about COADE CAESAR II, visit http://www.coade.com/products/caesarii.
About COADE
COADE, Inc. is a provider of software for multiple plant design and engineering disciplines. COADE's aims are that design and engineering should share relevant information seamlessly, thereby maintaining accuracy and improving efficiency. COADE's product line conforms to those goals and includes: CAESAR II, the world's most widely used pipe stress analysis software; PV Elite for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis; CADWorx Plant Design Suite for intelligent plant design modeling, process schematics and automatic production of plant design deliverables; and TANK for the design and analysis of oil storage tanks. COADE, CAESAR II, CADWorx, PV Elite, CodeCalc and TANK are registered trademarks or trademarks of COADE, Inc. For more information, visit www.coade.com.
About ASD Global
ASD Global has dedicated the past 20 years in transforming advanced and state-of-the art technology into powerful application solutions for the global process, power and offshore plant industry, for the state and federal government and many Fortune 500 commercial enterprises. ASD's solutions have positively impacted customers work process and ability to increase profitability through better use of information and knowledge of their industry into their important decision processes. ASD’s Optimized Plant Design (OPD) product line includes: Optiplant for 3D conceptual FEED models, Pipe Router for an integrated FEED solution, and Pipe Support Optimizer for automated pipe support selection. For more information, visit www.asdglobal.com
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