LAS VEGAS, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies from
Australia, Europe and Asia received the top prizes in the annual
Golden Valve and Platinum Pipe Awards customer competitions
sponsored by Intergraph®. The awards were presented here during
Hexagon 2012, the annual user conference for Intergraph's Process,
Power & Marine division and Hexagon AB's other businesses.
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The Golden Valve Awards Competition annually recognizes the most
innovative and well-executed uses of software supported by
Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. The competition is open to
all SmartPlant® Enterprise and SmartMarine® Enterprise engineering
design software users and the subject matter must relate to the
process, power, offshore or shipbuilding industries.
WorleyParsons Ltd. (ASX: WOR) received "Best of Show" in the
12th annual Intergraph Golden Valve Awards Competition for the
company's intricately detailed view of a process facility produced
using SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Review,
SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant Instrumentation and SmartPlant
Foundation. WorleyParsons' winning entry was submitted by
Rhys Ryan in the Discipline-specific
category. With headquarters in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, WorleyParsons is a
provider of professional services to the resources and energy
sectors and process industries.
The Platinum Pipe Awards Competition annually recognizes the
most innovative automation ideas for SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine
3D (collectively known as Smart 3D), or SmartPlant P&ID,
SmartPlant Electrical and SmartPlant Instrumentation (referred to
as SmartPlant Engineering & Schematics).
Spain's Empresarios Agrupados
and Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd. of Korea (KOSPI: SHI) earned
first prize in the third annual Platinum Pipe Awards Competition in
the Engineering & Schematics and 3D categories,
respectively.
Empresarios Agrupados, a diversified international
architect-engineering organization with headquarters in
Madrid, Spain, claimed first place
in the 2D Engineering & Schematics category. Its winning
entry featured a numbers of automations on SmartPlant P&ID,
creating a customized system in compliance with all the
requirements needed to be used in projects, either standalone or
integrated with SmartPlant Foundation, SmartPlant 3D and SmartPlant
Instrumentation. The entry was submitted by Juan Garcia Rendon.
Second place in Engineering & Schematics was presented to
Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Company Limited (China) and third place to SNERDI I&C Group
(China).
Samsung Heavy Industries, a SmartMarine 3D user since 2004,
claimed first prize for the third year in a row with its win in the
3D Design category. Its winning entry, submitted by ByungCheon,
Min, used SmartMarine 3D to develop a lifting lug modeling and
consistency check program.
Second place in 3D Design was presented to Empresarios
Agrupados, while Chinergy Co., Ltd. (China) and Grenland Group (Norway) tied for third place.
The 2012 Golden Valve and Platinum Pipe competitions attracted
more than 100 entries.
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph
Process, Power & Marine president, said, "The Golden Valve and
Platinum Pipe competitions received numerous inspiring entries from
users of Intergraph's industry leading, next-generation solutions.
Our knowledge-based and rules-driven technologies for
improving safety, quality and productivity give customers around
the world in the process, power, offshore and marine industries the
competitive advantages they need."
The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked
Intergraph the No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and
process engineering tools (PET) provider worldwide according to its
"PET Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast through
2015."
Other 2012 Golden Valve winners are:
Judges' Choice: Offshore
- Guan Xiaolong/SLECC – EIDD Department (China)
Judges' Choice: Power
- Kuzmin Evgeny/Bureau ESG (Russia)
Category: Discipline-specific
- 1st Place – Sirong Pan,
Xu Zhang, Haibo Zheng, Junnan Li, and Zhaoying Lv/Chinergy
Co. Ltd. (China)
- 2nd Place – Guan Xiaolong/SLECC Ltd. (China)
- 3rd Place – Sinclair Knight Merz
(Chile)
- Honorable mention – Alex
Sandoval/Promon Engenharia (Brazil); Andre
Barrozo/PROGEN (Brazil)
Category: Rendering and Ray Traces
- 1st Place – Andre Barrozo/PROGEN
(Brazil)
- 2nd Place – Kathy Tam/AMEC
(Canada)
- 3rd Place – Fernanda de Oliveira
Matioli/Genpro Engenharia S.A. (Brazil)
Category: Visually Complex
- 1st Place – Martin T. Ammann Jr.
(USA)
- 2nd Place – Luis Gago, 3D
Section/TIPIEL S.A. (Colombia)
- 3rd Place – ECM Engineering Team/ECM S.A. Projetos Industriais
(Brazil)
- Honorable mention – Wu
Wei/ECEPDI (China)
Category: Animation
- 1st Place – Zhang Lin/SNERDI
(China)
- Honorable mention – Norbert
Hecht/The Linde Group (Germany)
To view this year's Golden Valve winning entries, please visit
www.intergraph.com/ppm/customers/awards/goldenvalve/2012.
To view this year's Platinum Pipe winning entries, please visit
www.intergraph.com/ppm/customers/awards/platinumpipe/2012.
All place winners are eligible to receive a monetary award for
their efforts and also will have their work displayed on
Intergraph's Web site and in the division's Insight
magazine. Golden Valve winners will be featured on the 2013
Intergraph Process, Power & Marine calendar.
About Intergraph
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 an independent subsidiary
for SG&I's U.S. federal and classified business.
Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB (Nordic
exchange: HEXA B). For more information, visit www.intergraph.com
and www.hexagon.com.
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