In the plant engineering business, due to the fast changing
market situations as prevailing nowadays, it is very much
required to shorten the lead-time as well as to minimize the
total installed cost of the plant, more and more, regardless of
the massive information relating to the various phases of the
project to be processed. On the otherhand, a a clear trend of
decrease in the availability of experienced engineers in the
plant engineering field is seen and hence it is forecasted that
in future it will be very difficult to execute the required work
volume of engineering to the satisfactory Quality levels within
the limited lead time of the project.

We, ARGONAUT, in the above circumstances, expect the
power of computer with the latest developments in the
graphics can be applied as the tool to manage the massive
information with limited human resources. In order to use the
computer in the data handling specific to plant engineering
works, necessary application Software need to be developed
incorporating all the engineering know-how. We have already
started receiving orders for the development of Software for
specialized engineering applications from our clients since 2000.
Our quality of service in this area is largely founded on our
established experiences in various engineering through the
execution of many projects as well as our human resource data
base for the recruitment of excellent talents through our ASEE
ARGONAUT (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED, CHENNAI office.

In the 3D Modeling of Industrial Plants, our developed software
is enabling the various users to get access of the latest
information since all the engineering data of the whole plant is
input into the model. Also the verification of the effect of a design
change can be easily done by the dynamic simulation which allows
to detect any interference as well as the walk-through of the
entire plant for ascertaining the safety and ease of operation and maintenance.

We have also developed the various software for linking the
AUTOCAD, PDMS and the 3D Modeling Package through the
extensive use of Visual Basic for Applications. We believe that such
links are essential to achieve more versatile use of the 3D modeling software. It will also be useful to make use of the huge engineering information held by many companies in the traditional Autocad 2D
piping so that 3D model can be built in the shortest time and by
making the necessary amendments in the old projects' 3D models
to suit the new project requirements.