COADE announced today that the May 2009 issue of Chemical & Engineering Progress magazine featured an article on CADWorx P&ID, a primer on flow diagrams that describes the distinctions between a basic block flow diagram and the process flow diagram (PFD) which is the precursor of the P&ID, an acronym for process and instrumentation diagram and piping and instrumentation diagram, a useful tool that, with the modern technology provided by CADWorx P&ID, has become even more valuable and vital to the plant designer and engineer.
The article describes how, with CADWorx P&ID, these are longer passive drawings that hold information that only skilled CAD operators can access but intelligent tools that play a valuable and vital role in the design process. This value is in part because P&IDs are the best way to accurately document the operation of the process and also because they are a health and safety document required under government regulations.
Information on COADE and its products can be found at www.coade.com. A copy of the article can be found at http://coade.typepad.com/coadeinsider/2009/06/cep-article-piping-and-instrument-diagrams.html.
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.
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