CISDI reports more giant leaps forward in its groundbreaking critical digital tech for engineering design, project management, delivery and ops management.

A higher standard of digital, efficient and refined project life-cycle management has been achieved, which optimises the customer’s experience and create significant savings.

✧        Digital design enhances precision and efficiency

CISDI has invented an advanced, digital design capability system for its engineering projects.

The system’s tech and platform bring about a new digital collaboration method, which is launched at the project’s basic design stage - earlier than the digitalisation process employed in conventional methods, which begins at the detail design (documentation) stage.

CISDI’s advanced process features three digital collaborations in basic design, the detail design’s scheme and its documentation.

A strong example is CISDI’s recent work to design and create a (3,500mm specification) plate rolling line for Shaanxi Hanzhong Steel. Applying three digital collaborations markedly increased the line’s design quality and efficiency. Delivery of design drawings was completed a month less than the timespan a conventional, one design collaboration method would have required.

A series of digital design software was developed for the designing of blast furnace shell and meltshop building. The parameterised and smart software has raised the design efficiency by at least 50 per cent on conventional methods which require manual calculation, modelling and drawing delivery.

CISDI’s new design capability system covers the entire design process, from bidding design to process calculation, data provision, model building, simulation analysis, drawing issuance and forming the bill of materials.

Innovative technologies - such as oblique photography and laser scanning - are used to create a model of the existing plant, equipment and facilities. When integrated with the building information modelling, a new method for achieving efficient, digital rebuild designs is developed.

Over 40 digital engineering standards have been released by CISDI. Under their instruction, all designs are digitalised to a higher visualisation and deliverable level, reducing problems which can occur in the conventional design process.

A screenshot of CISDI’s digital design combining laser scanning and BIM tech

A screenshot for CISDI’s digital design demonstrates how it incorporates oblique photography and BIM tech

✧        Digital project management – CISDI Qingcheng connects all process data transmission channels

CISDI Qingcheng is an application platform for integrated, refined project management.

It connects data transmission channels from a project’s design process through to procurement and construction.

Data from the design model is seamlessly taken into the platform. It bridges the conventional gap between design drawing collectives and constructional work packages (which are defined in a project’s work breakdown structure).

Based on construction company practice, it collects constructional quantities in a timely, effective and accurate manner. These quantities are used by the platform for cost-checking and payments. It organically unifies controls for schedules and costs.

Qingcheng has performed successfully on dozens of projects, including Fujian Sanming Steel’s blast furnace ironmaking, Shaanxi Hanzhong Steel’s plate rolling line and Sichuan Dazhou Steel’s meltshop.

CISDI Qingcheng clients have been unanimous in their approval. Their comments state the system’s implementation led to easier and more accurate interpretation (reading) of drawings and helped involved parties to remotely monitor construction progress.

Qingcheng enables QR code scanning to read a model drawing and check drawing revisions

A screenshot of Qingcheng’s refined constructional management model and data

✧        Digital delivery and ops management implements Digital Twin

CISDI Qingcheng integrates a project’s static data, from its design through to procurement and construction via a model, achieving a digital delivery.

In addition, Qingcheng collects dynamic project data from its ops management and builds an ops management platform and a Digital Twin application scenario, based on digital deliverables.

Digital ops management relies on a data-based mapping relationship between the digital model and the physical world regarding equipment’s spatial movement and its status perception.

The production tempo and state are simultaneously displayed on the platform, enabling an early warning system for tracked abnormalities and real-time onsite operation monitoring.

In conventional systems, searching production data for ops management and ineffective manual inspection can be a long and difficult task. The digital platform increases equipment ops management efficiency and quality.

Qingcheng’s application at Guangdong Shaogang’s blast furnace 7 project has resulted in a standout example of refined, visualised control for the ops management status of over 2,700 pieces of cooling water pipes.

CISDI Qingcheng is also helping to create a Digital Twin-based plate rolling line at Shaanxi Hanzhong Steel. A dynamic interaction between the digital model and the physical workshop will enable each slab to be positioned and traced.

Another Digital Twin production line is being implemented at Henan Zhoukou Steel’s wide plate mill, in a bid to create a three-dimensional, visualised ops management platform and a demo line with remote control of equipment operation, security monitoring and energy pipeline network.

A screenshot showing the digital ops management of the cooling water system at Shaogang blast furnace 7

A Digital Twin Factory applied at Hanzhong Steel’s plate rolling line