Re: [Fwd: Piping MTO Database]

I am interested to get that file to <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=8q3CC8kIzrwmDg2g48rzrSK3Jk3sjMaEhCqdYSpDGiLeuCQ40_bq2NV-Jjv8dTtvpMyC0G8JgA">jijoy@mis.ae</a> Pls sent it

Thanks
Jijoy

• In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, Paul Bowers <pbowers@p...> 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 <sxviswan@y...>
  > To: pbowers@p...
  >
  > 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
  >