case study: chiyoda corporation, japan · chiyoda corporation (chiyoda), headquartered in yokohama,...
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ACHIEVING SUCCESS WITH SMARTPLANT® INSTRUMENTATIONChiyoda standardizes on Intergraph® instrumentation solution to support global collaboration and ensure seamless project execution
IDENTIFYING GOALSChiyoda Corporation (Chiyoda), headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, is a world-
leading engineering company with wide-ranging business interests in such fields as
energy, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, environmental technology,
social infrastructure, and industrial facilities. Chiyoda has a strong global presence
with about 7,000 employees, and its main engineering offices are located in Japan,
India, the Philippines, Singapore, and Qatar. Since its founding in 1948, Chiyoda has
built several plants and has global project experience in 46 countries worldwide.
As an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for large-scale
and mega-projects around the world, it is important for Chiyoda's global project
teams to collaborate effectively, regardless of geographical location. The Japanese
EPC wanted to improve its efficiency in the management of instrumentation data,
and decided it needed a more sophisticated system instead of relying on the use of
Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets.
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES•Enhance global collaboration among Chiyoda's worldwide engineering teams
•Reduce errors and improve consistency of data
•Increase efficiency and productivity
REALIZING RESULTSChiyoda is a longtime Intergraph® customer and is already familiar with Intergraph
technology. It decided to standardize on SmartPlant® Instrumentation as the solution
provides a single source of plant instrumentation data, which is aligned with Chiyoda's
virtual single-office strategy.
Hiroyuki Mogami, manager of the control systems engineering department at
Chiyoda, said, "We have been using SmartPlant Instrumentation as our instrument
engineering master database for over 15 years. The Intergraph solution is used for
almost all of Chiyoda's projects."
SmartPlant Instrumentation is the world's No. 1 instrumentation solution with proven
performance in the global marketplace, used by more than 20,000 professionals
around the world. SmartPlant Instrumentation provides a single source of plant
CASE STUDY: CHIYODA CORPORATION, JAPAN
FACTS AT A GLANCECompany: Chiyoda Corporation
Website: www.chiyoda-corp.com
Description: Since its founding in 1948, Chiyoda Corporation has successfully built several plants and executed many projects in 46 countries around the world in very diverse fields, including energy, petroleum and natural gas, chemical and petrochemical, pharmaceuticals, environmental conservation, and general industries. Chiyoda is a front-runner in energy-related technology, and its purpose is to contribute to the society through engineering for sustainable progress by promoting balance and harmony between industrial progress and the global environment.
Employees: 7,000
Revenue: Over US$3 billion (for 2011)
Industry: Process
Country: Japan
PRODUCTS USED•SmartPlant® Instrumentation
•SmartPlant P&ID
•SmartPlant 3D
•SmartPlant Materials
KEY BENEFITS•Enhanced global collaboration to
improve efficiency and effectiveness of project teams
•Increased accuracy and consistency of engineering data
•Improved integrity of information from automated quality checks
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial
software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses
and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s
industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make
processes and infrastructure better, safer, and smarter. The company's
software and services empower customers to build and operate more
efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical
infrastructure and millions of people around the world.
Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine
(PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph
PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design,
construction, operation, and data management of plants, ships, and
offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered
solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security,
defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry,
and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government
Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation for
the SG&I U.S. federal business.
Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nordic exchange: HEXA B; www.hexagon.
com), a leading global provider of design, measurement, and visualization
technologies that enable customers to design, measure, and position
objects, and process and present data.
For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.
ABOUT INTERGRAPH
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instrumentation data and includes interfaces with most
complementary solutions – such as most automation vendors –
for easy access and data consistency, delivering increased safety,
quality, efficiency, and productivity.
As wiring design is very complex, it was not possible for
Chiyoda to set up a master database when it was using Excel
spreadsheets previously. Using SmartPlant Instrumentation,
the Japanese EPC is now able to establish a master database,
which can be accessed by its engineering teams worldwide. This
single database ensures Chiyoda's project teams are accessing
and sharing accurate, consistent information, thereby improving
the efficiency of the global engineering team. The company's
engineers are able to perform virtual construction of a wiring
model in the SmartPlant Instrumentation system, with all drawings
generated from the model as views. This wiring model can then
be shared with teams located all over the world that are involved
with instrument engineering.
By leveraging a single database, Chiyoda is able to ensure the
integrity and quality of its engineering data. It can easily perform
quality and consistency checks, running reports directly in
SmartPlant Instrumentation. This is a much more effective and
efficient method, compared to having to go through the data
manually in spreadsheets, which is highly prone to mistakes.
SmartPlant Instrumentation can also be integrated with other
Intergraph solutions, such as SmartPlant P&ID. Instrumentation
data can be extracted from the piping and instrumentation
diagram (P&ID), which can then be compared with the data in
SmartPlant Instrumentation using the database functionality. This
is particularly useful during the front-end engineering design stage
as Chiyoda is able to focus on identifying and ensuring high-quality
instrumentation data from the P&IDs, and the instrument index
can be issued immediately after the P&IDs are issued.
MOVING FORWARDChiyoda is developing a training kit on SmartPlant Instrumentation
for its engineers. The company believes that learning from
experience is far more effective, so it is including snapshots of
engineering steps from actual projects in its training kit. Trainees
can begin simulations from any of the saved snapshots in the
training kit to learn about project workflows.
As Chiyoda is committed to innovation, it is constantly updating its
workflows to improve its competencies. The Japanese EPC also
plans to continuously enhance its implementation of SmartPlant
Instrumentation to improve automation and maximize the benefits
of the Intergraph system.