Industries

Overview and Challenges

Many large companies develop applications for both internal and external use in order to address industrial process control, data management, and engineering schematic drawing.

Tom Sawyer Software Solutions

Schematic Design

The ability to create clear schematics is vital in the engineering design industry. Engineers must be able to represent complex systems and procedures in an understandable fashion in order to determine the most effective ways to build products and systems. Our technology provides the features necessary to make diagrams easy to read while representing the complexity and interdependence inherent in engineering designs.

Industrial Process Configurations

Companies often need to configure equipment and systems (e.g., hydraulic, electrical, pipes, instrumentation, etc.) within an industrial plant or on a factory floor. By using a graphical system, users can create and apply schematic designs using icons of familiar plant components, such as pipes and valves, rather than using standard graphic elements such as lines and circles.

Users and teams are far more productive when they work with familiar concepts and can tap the power of component-based modeling for online checks and balances. Our products provide a diagramming and graph layout foundation for systems used in facilities design, process and instrumentation (P&ID), electrical, airflow and lighting applications.

An orthogonal graph drawing taken from the domain of robotics design shows how hyper edges (edges between more than two nodes) can be rendered and laid out.

For example, typical P&ID drawings represent the connectivity, topology, and hierarchy of the process systems. As P&ID evolves towards creating intelligent process piping schematics, sophisticated diagramming and graph layout is essential. Tom Sawyer's products offer excellent solutions to these challenges.

Another area where diagrammatic interfaces are crucial is in batch process modeling. Production in the batch industries is primarily based on the execution of recipes. Recipes are defined based on the plant's information and control requirements and from a process model. The model defines the plant's equipment and processing capabilities along with a structure for addressing the information requirements of the plant. The model also establishes the rules by which the plant's equipment and control systems are reconfigured to produce batches. The recipe for the batch defines the equipment and control configuration, as well as the formula needed to produce a batch. Tom Sawyer's visualization solutions provide the diagrammatic interfaces necessary to expedite these complex processes and increase engineering efficiency.