Mechanical Process Design typically begins with the Process Flow Diagram (PFD) to identify high level equipment, and capture unit operations along your process.
TAD can help you scale up production by developing your PFD, creating equipment specificication sheets, and paving the way for detailed piping & instrument decisions.
The Piping & Instrument Diagram (P&ID) zooms in on each piece of equipment outlined in the PFD, and hones in on specific details of each step of the process.
Along with instrument specification sheets, and a general arrangement (GA) plan of the area, details of the process are filled in to ensure a robust process design.
Once the equipment, instrumentation, and general piping arrangement have been determined, a higher level of detail is captured by modeling the design.
TAD's Design and Engineering teams will iterate on the model to acheive an optimal layout with regard to operator safety & ergonomics, piping stresses (ASME B31.3), and future expansion.
In order to finalize the mechanical process design, isometric (ISO) and orthogonal (ORTHO) piping drawings are created to show the optimal physical routing of pipes iterated on during the modeling phase.
Combining the ISO's with the PFD, P&IDs, and equipment & instrumentation specification sheets gives a construction crew or electrical integration & programming team everything they need to continue with their portion of work for the process.
