Invensys joins Intergraph SmartPlant Alliance

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has joined Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance, integrating its software with Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions to enable automated project execution and improve the transfer of data from engineering, procurement and construction companies (EPCs) to plant owner operators.

“Aligning with SmartPlant Enterprise will help IPS meet our objective of changing how control system engineering is approached,” said Neil Holden, IPS vice president of global processes and systems. “By compressing design and build schedules to make critical data available whenever it is needed, we can help improve our clients overall manufacturing, installation, construction, commission and training operations.”

As a SmartPlant Alliance technology member, IPS has developed complementary interfaces between Intergraph’s SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant P&ID, and SmartPlant Foundation with IPS’ industrial automation solutions.

Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise is an integrated suite of solutions for EPCs and owner operators to design, construct, safely operate and maintain a plant throughout its entire life cycle. The interfaced solutions, says IPS, will enable all parties to work with a common engineering solution to better manage plant information for enhanced plant safety and efficiency.