esign Power Success:Fluor Daniel, Inc.

This Fluor Daniel 3D plant model was created in record time by automaticallyrouting pipes. It was used to optimize the layout jointly with the client

Fluor Daniel, Inc., one of the world's largest engineering& construction firms, contracted Design Power, Inc. tore-engineer significant parts of its front-end engineeringand design process for plant design.

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Re-engineering the Work Process with OptimEyesSM

Plant Design In Half the Time OptimEyesSM

In the early 90's, Fluor Daniel, Inc. Front end engineering and designrealized that to stay competitive it had precedes the plant investmentto continually improve engineering decision. The design engineeringproductivity. A program that called for proposal is based on it. At this stagea 50% reduction in overall plant plant concepts and design principlesdesign execution time was initiated. are decided upon and the investmentEarly in this program Fluor Daniel cost is estimated. During the front enddetermined that the technology and design phase 80% of the total projectmethods developedby Design Power costs are committed.could make this goal attainable. Therefore, Fluor Daniel comissionedRetaining Knowledge Assets Design Power to create a solution thatAt a conference in Amsterdam significantly helps in finding theBertrand van Ee, General Manager, "optimal" plant layout. TheFluor Daniel's Haarlem office, argued implemented solution greatlystrongly: "By relying heavily on improves the speed of conceptualoutsourcing, the developed countries P |ant modeling and the accuracy ofare on a course of collective suicide." tne cost estimate for a plant. All this inThis is a principal reason why Fluor a fraction of the time required forDaniel invests in knowledge and traditional execution methods. Fluorknowledge retention. Lower-cost labor Daniel integrated the solution with itsin developing countries may be other work processes and branded itattractive in the short term, but the OptimEyesSM. The name highlightsknowledge transfer that takes place in its optimization and visualizationthe out-sourcing process quickly qualities,renders the transferor obsolete. The Global Endorsmentsretention of knowledge-intensive work „We have 35 |jcenses jn Ruoris paramount. This is where Design Danje| offices wor|d.wide and we usedPower's technologycomes in.lt it

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Frank Schultz, HeinzBrehm and Brian Weirare responsible for deploying andsupporting the OptimEyesSM initiative in Fluor Daniel's offices world wide. Thecorporate committment to this initiative was akey ingredient to its success.

to be the option which at first sightwould not have been selectedwithoutOptimEyesSM ." Bert Kesseler, DesignSupervisor, Harlem, the Netherlands."We really stretched the system. Wedelivered the model in seven weekswith all the take-offs, and we probablyreduced the manhours by about twothirds to produce the front endestimate." Jerry Key, PipingDepartment Manager, Houston.

"It was absolutely a most successfulproject and it led to a win in thedesign competition for this client. Weproduced a number of layout optionsin a very short time and quicklyproduced the material take-offs fromthe optimized plot." Mike Gibson,Piping Department Manager,Camberly, UK.

"We had two weeks of time for ourpresentation which gave us only oneweek modeling time. OptimEyesSM

was a total success. Based on ourefforts, we were awarded a significantFEED package." Heinz Brehm,OptimEyesSM Global Support, Irvine.

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