Case Study: Richard Design Services saves 100,000 engineering hours with Hexagon solutions

Richard Design Services Saves 100,000 Engineering Hours with Hexagon Solutions

Richard Design Services, a full-service engineering company, faced a significant challenge in meeting the aggressive 12-month engineering schedule for a large renewable diesel facility. The project required designing an immense amount of piping and equipment, and the firm needed a solution to complete the work without the estimated 300,000 work-hours it would typically take with other programs. They turned to vendor Hexagon and its integrated design and analysis tools to overcome this challenge.

By implementing Hexagon's CADWorx Plant Professional and CAESAR II software, the company achieved a completely integrated approach to design and stress analysis. This solution enabled Richard Design Services to automatically generate over 6,500 isometric drawings and complete the engineering in only 200,000 hours, saving an estimated 100,000 hours. The vendor's technology was crucial in cutting the time to project completion by one third and preventing any schedule slips on the $360 million project.

Richard Design Services

Michael Tran

Design Coordinator