Intergraph Systems Southern Africa has announced the sale of SmartPlant Foundation engineering lifecycle information and workflow management software and related services to the Murray & Roberts group. SmartPlant Foundation will form the central engineering data hub for Murray & Roberts projects.

Carin Malan, knowledge manager, Murray & Roberts, said, "Murray & Roberts sought an implementation to supplant our existing engineering information management system. SmartPlant Foundation, as evidenced by its successful track record, met our needs for a flexible and expandable system."

Pat Thomson, Process, Power & Offshore divisional manager, Intergraph Systems Southern Africa, said, "The Murray & Roberts implementation of SmartPlant Foundation is positioned to play a key role in the company's continuing drive for innovative solutions based on 'systems thinking' and creation of an integration-capable knowledge repository."

SmartPlant Foundation manages the lifecycle information asset

SmartPlant Foundation manages the availability, integrity and accuracy of engineering information. It builds an electronic library about a plant and its configuration - structure, tags, assets and documents. It encompasses a plant's initial design and ongoing operating upgrades and modifications, defining and driving electronic work processes, tracking changes and managing engineering revisions. Open, independent data storage and access manages data from both Intergraph and third party authoring applications and protects and increases the value of engineering information, regardless of the IT infrastructure in place.

SmartPlant Foundation creates and manages the plant information asset for strategic business advantage

SmartPlant Foundation also includes The Engineering Framework (TEF) technology, the enterprise-wide engineering integration architecture. Bundled exclusively with SmartPlant Foundation, TEF enables the flow and exchange of engineering information as it moves among design, operations and maintenance applications and provides change management, version control and global information access.

About Murray & Roberts

Murray & Roberts ( www.murrob.com) is a group of engineering, design and construction companies serving primarily the mining and metals, building and infrastructure manufacturing and steel industries in South Africa and more than 50 countries around the world. With a history spanning 100 years, Murray & Roberts is headquartered in Johannesburg and employs more than 15 000 people in South and southern Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom.

About Intergraph Process, Power & Offshore

Intergraph Process, Power & Offshore enables customers to create, capture and manage plant information as a strategic asset by providing integrated life cycle software for the engineering, design, construction and operation of process and power plants as well as offshore oil and gas facilities. Core brands include the SmartPlant and PDS (plant design system) suites, the SmartPlant Foundation lifecycle engineering information management and MARIAN materials, procurement and supply chain management solutions. Backed by a quarter century of industry experience, Intergraph Process, Power & Offshore is an acknowledged global leader in the plant creation market. A division of Intergraph Corporation, Process, Power & Offshore is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama USA, employs more than 700 people and does business in more than 60 countries.

For more information contact Pat Thomson, Intergraph Systems Southern Africa, 011 313 1222, pthomson@intergraph.co.za