FLSmidth, an engineering supplier to the global cement and minerals industries, has selected Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise to design cement and mineral processing facilities.
The multi-year agreement, signed in Denmark, comprises a suite of solutions, including SmartPlant 3D Materials Handling Edition, SmartPlant Foundation and SmartPlant P&ID.
FLSmidth vice president Per Mejnert Kristensen says he expects to improve process control and increase efficiency – by better integrating workflows and engineering disciplines, while also standardising project phases from proposal to handover.
"Being an organisation with employees worldwide, we need a solution that supports global and concurrent work processes," says Kristensen.
"Aligning our work processes on a global scale enables us to work as one company, offering our customers the FLSmidth expertise from one source. Intergraph has made this possible," he adds.
Meanwhile FLSmidth general manager Michael Nielsen comments: "Together with strong design features such as clash detection and simulation of construction and erection, Intergraph's solution can handle large design measures, which is crucial when working with cement plant scales."