Title: Automatic generation of reports at various stages of plant life cycle

Authors: Aniket Somnath Kavlekar; Arun Tom Mathew

Addresses: Vellore Institute of Technology, Near Katpadi Road Vellore, Tamil Nadu – 632014, India ' Vellore Institute of Technology, Near Katpadi Road Vellore, Tamil Nadu – 632014, India

Abstract: Plant life cycle management involves large scale planning from engineering, procurement and construction companies. One of the parts of planning is evaluating the expense and the material prerequisite before erection stage to evade any onsite changes. In designing practices, after the fulfilment of outlines, reports are needed for determining the progress, analysing the cost, procurement, planned maintenance, documentation and verification of the plant. There is interest to automate these reports based on customer necessity in a proficient, improved and interoperable way. This paper manages the automatic era of report creation for distinctive amounts and expense gauges for a specific building process. This proposed system is developed on Smart3D software. Smart3D empowers to plan plants, ships, structures, by giving data administration capacities to assemble and work them. This paper incorporates extraction of information from database when the product is introduced on the customer framework by use of graphical user interface.

Keywords: reports; EPC firms; engineering procurement construction; report generation; S3D; Smart 3D software; graphical user interfaces; GUI; plant life cycle; life cycle management; report automation; cost analysis; procurement; planned maintenance; documentation; verification; building projects.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2016.079769

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, 2016 Vol.9 No.2, pp.139 - 158

Received: 14 May 2016
Accepted: 06 Aug 2016
Published online: 13 Oct 2016 *

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