Re: [Fwd: Piping MTO Database]

From: <Ten>
Date: Sun Dec 11 2005 - 03:47:00 EST

Dear Paul,

Hi! Kindly send one copy of the piping MTO database to me too.

Thank you.

Regards,

Ten Wai Keong
Toyo Malaysia

> Paul Bowers <pbowers@pipingdesign.com> wrote:
> Sajit re-sent me the file, so if anyone is
> interested in looking at it,
> let me know.
>
> Paul
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Piping MTO Database
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:53:55 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Sajit Viswan
> To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=2o9IRAL5-Kb39tKN7sxFxDIDopMOknQLxEEDABr3ofMzQImt13C4aGmN9COPLplgbRqs02tUsi_hce4rS2k">pbowers@pipingdesign.com</a>
>
> Paul,
> I wonder if you have had a look at the piping MTO
> database that I
> sent you? Please do when you have the time.
> This is a system that I had done to use with the
> Shell MESC and the
> newer SAP material numbering. It can enter MTO, line
> wise and Isometric
> wise. Assemblies can also be entered. Which is
> exploded to its
> components. Report Summaries can be made line wise
> and Isometric wise.
> The isometric wise MTO can be exported to excel for
> placing on a manual
> CAD isometric.
> I would like you to post this on the
> Pipingdesign.com as a
> downloadable. The internal logics are simple enough
> for someone with an
> understanding of a relational database. They can use
> it as a freeware
> and develop or modify it further to put additional
> features.
> I am currently using the Intergraph Marian material
> management
> system. This one is based on the lines of the SAP
> system. It does
> material descriptions on a rule based method, Piping
> classes, material
> requistions, construction fabrication spooling, NDE
> tracking inventory
> management etc. It is also for the material take off
> and management for
> other disciplines.
> This probably must be the reason that data is
> contained in about 1000
> or more tables. So much so that the system is so
> complicated that the
> bugs and the other fixes that need to be done,
> Intergraph is reluctant
> to take up. There are various silly restrictions
> such as the number of
> characters that one enter for the description of an
> item.
> In real terms if the task of doing the MTO and the
> material
> requisition and others were done manually. it is a
> simple enough to
> understand. Not so much complicated logics as this
> system would make it
> appear.
>
> Sajit Viswan
> Sr. Piping Engineer
> Technip Paris
>
>
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