Re: [Fwd: Piping MTO Database]

Dear Mr Paul,

Pl, send the file ...

warm regards

shyam

Paul Bowers 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@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=TNb4ByP8SfQK_L66eWEqE3h9h0BqZMg7SUZ9ungp1IxLz4i8e-SOetDrd5sja2vUodGF6os5pEBfUfbq-pUpDMrHiQ">pbowers@pipingdesign.com</a>
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>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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warm regards

Shyam Vispute
Executive [Technical],
Maxpro Department,
United Phosphorus Limited unit-I,
Ankleshwar,[Gujarat.]
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