{"id":5758,"date":"2020-08-17T13:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:49:47","slug":"collaboration-for-equipment-facility-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/collaboration-for-equipment-facility-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration for equipment & facility designers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Equipment & facility designers need collaboration<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

If “context is everything”, what is contextual design for equipment & facility designers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Interaction Design Foundation “Contextual design is a reflection of the idea that no design exists in a vacuum. That one technology or perhaps system will interact in a much larger context<\/em>“. This is a guiding principle in design no matter the industry, however, this is especially true when you look at the 25 to 50-year life of an industrial plant or facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facility design information is often created and managed by domain-specific teams. These teams, and the information they produce, are frequently siloed from the equipment designers who are tasked with increasing production capacity through modernizations & retrofits of existing systems\/equipment. And, as time marches on, the owner\/operator continues to build a view of their plant or facility devoid of the facility information that could be used to lower infrastructure costs and reduce startup time for new production equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, many organizations have a rich view of the “field or floor” – the systems and equipment contained in the facility – but haven’t connected that data to the building infrastructure information to fully enable teams to design in context<\/strong>. With Capital Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM), you’re able to do just that by consolidating and unifying various forms of information into an enterprise collaboration platform in the form of a “digital twin”. This capability allows you to manage released data from popular tools such as Autodesk Revit<\/strong> & Bentley MicroStation<\/strong> and connect it to other forms of CAD data such as the equipment designs produced in Siemens NX, Siemens NX Line Designer or<\/strong> Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to learn more about CALM? Read additional CALM blogs<\/a>, or watch our most recent video<\/a> about collaboration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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