Chemical Industry (Specialty Chemicals)

Cognis GmbH
(Today: BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH)
Owner Operator

Customer benefits:
 F
aster working flow

 M
 inimized failures

 E
nhanced functionalities

 I
ntegrated and consistent
documentation
 I
mproved cost-value ratio

Used software:
 C
OMOS Basic

 C
OMOS FEED

 C
OMOS P&ID
In the year 2006 the chemical company Andreas Becker,
 C
OMOS EI&C
Cognis decided to replace the engineering Head of Tools and Standards at Cognis:
tool of plant design and the used docu-
„Integration was a real challenge. At the
mentation system by the innovative soft-
outset we often found ourselves thinking
ware solution COMOS in their location
in terms of drawings rather than objects
Düsseldorf-Holthausen. To date, 135,000
when structuring data. Many of the mem-
drawings, 600 P&IDs, 10,000 E&IC loops,
bers of our project team had to internalize
and 3,000 circuit diagrams have been in-
object-oriented structuring first. After this
tegrated into the plant management sys-
initial period, however, things really start-
tem. The uniform data structure and ob-
ed to speed up and within just a few
ject-oriented software are providing the
months more than 130,000 documents
ideal basis for efficient plant manage-
had been re-archived.“
ment.

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