By integrating FluidFlow, CoMo-IE cut project time by 80%, reducing modeling from four days to just one while improving accuracy and efficiency.

Company Profile:
CoMo Industrial Engineering is a leading force in the design of piping, pressure vessels, storage tanks, and other relevant constructions. Its engineers focus mainly on piping flexibility analysis, strength calculations for vessels, storage tanks, civil constructions, and transient flow analysis.
https://como-ie.com/

Projects Overview:
CoMo-IE needed a software package capable of calculating both pressure and temperature within piping systems when designing pressure vessels, storage tanks, and other relevant systems. When they installed the FluidFlow package, they were able to learn its complete functionalities within one day and quickly began designing their incompressible flow systems. Previously, this had been a labor-intensive and time-consuming process.

FluidFlow also helped CoMo-IE design steam systems, which was a major issue with other software packages that failed to provide the relevant required information.

Challenges

CoMo-IE previously used Excel and other software packages to complete the calculations when designing large-scale systems. This process was time-consuming, error-prone, extremely inefficient and prevented the ability to model the interaction of connected piping components.

FluidFlow & CoMo-IE

To optimize more efficiently, CoMo-IE sought for an alternative software package with multi-functional capabilities of:

• Calculate pressure and temperature in piping systems
• Suggest optimal pipe sizes and avoid miscalculations
• Reduce time spent on manual data entry and modeling

CoMo-IE wanted to save time and capital costs in their piping design by using a software that allowed them to focus on system analysis and optimization rather than manual Excel calculations. FluidFlow proved to be the complete software package that met their needs.

The FluidFlow support team provided CoMo-IE engineers with the necessary materials to master the software within just one day, offering additional support for any functionality-related questions. CoMo-IE quickly adapted to FluidFlow and immediately recognized its advantages over Excel and previous methods. By consolidating their workflow into one powerful platform, CoMo-IE achieved an 80% reduction in project time, streamlining system design and optimization.

FluidFlow helped CoMo-IE:

• Increase efficiency due to faster modeling.
• Obtain results with higher accuracy, eliminating errors caused by manual calculations.
• Focus on analysis and optimization.
• Save time with projects modeled in one day instead of the previous four-day timeframe.

CoMo-Industrial Engineering has measured an 80% time saving when using FluidFlow, allowing us to spend more time optimizing piping systems instead of modeling in Excel and other software.

Corné Moerbeek
Process Engineer

Impact

By using FluidFlow, CoMo-IE eliminated inefficiencies such as extensive manual data entry in Excel and reliance on outdated software. It allowed them to perform precise pressure and temperature calculations while enhancing collaboration, leading to better analysis and decision-making. FluidFlow also addressed previous challenges in steam system design, as well as other incompressible flow systems.

As a result, CoMo-IE engineers were fully trained within one day and achieved an 80% reduction in project time, leading to significant cost savings.

With increased efficiency, they can now handle large-scale projects more effectively and optimize piping systems for better overall performance.