Outfitting Design Database

The Outfitting Design databases contain all information needed to create a full-scale three-dimensional representation of the plantship.

Each user is normally allowed to modify the Design databases which relate to the user's function in the plant design team, and will often have permission to look at other Design databases so that their work is compatible with that of other designers.

Typical design functions, each of which may use a different Outfitting Design database, include:

• Equipment design (process vessels, storage vessels, pumps, heat exchangers).

• Pipework design (the interconnecting pipes between the various equipment items).

• Structural design (the columns, beams, walls, stairways which support and give access to the operational equipment and pipework).

• Hangers and Supports (specialized pipe support structures).

The compositions of the principal types of Outfitting Design element are described in the Elements in the Design Database.