PRODUCTIVITY STUDY: Autodesk today announced the availability of the AutoCAD P&ID Productivity Study, conducted by the UK research firm, Cambashi Limited, to demonstrate the benefits of using AutoCAD® P&ID software to AutoCAD® software users working in process plant design and engineering.  The study tested Autodesk’s hypotheses that AutoCAD P&ID software offers significant productivity advantages over standard AutoCAD for work on piping and instrumentation diagrams, and that because AutoCAD P&ID’s interface is familiar to designers and engineers using AutoCAD, it requires minimal training for a rapid transition to increased piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) productivity.

While the advantages of adopting an intelligent P&ID system extend throughout the life cycle of a process plant, the study focused on testing a variety of real-world P&ID tasks, including those involving the manipulation of graphics, the data-driven creation and updating of graphics, and data management.

Study participants included representative groups of users of AutoCAD and AutoCAD P&ID software from around the world.  Results from the study include:

On graphical tasks, users of both AutoCAD and AutoCAD P&ID software performed well.  The absence of a significant difference in drawing productivity indicates a quick and easy transition to AutoCAD P&ID for AutoCAD users.  On data-driven graphical tasks, the core of P&ID work, participants using AutoCAD P&ID on average achieved a 50 percent increase in productivity over those participants using AutoCAD.  Overall P&ID productivity was 42 percent higher on average for participants using AutoCAD P&ID over participants using AutoCAD.

The dramatic results of the study conclude that for those who do P&ID work, AutoCAD P&ID software offers significant productivity advantages over standard AutoCAD software, and will help users be more productive and efficient.

WHEN:

The productivity study is available for free download as of September xx, 2008.

MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.autodesk.com/pid/productivity_study.pdf

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