Digital tech is supercharging CISDI’s life-cycle services

——— Delivering optimum design, construction and ops management to global customers

CISDI has long been committed to improving its digital applications for its engineering design, project management and delivery systems.

Massive efforts have been made to advance the digital transformation of the entire company.

CISDI has integrated its vast domain knowledge with the latest advances in digital tech. Its digital applications, for project life-cycle design, construction and delivery, meet the highest international standards.

✧       Digital design enables schedule and quality controls

CISDI began its delivery of three-dimensional collaborative design for overseas projects with the implementation of blast furnace 2 at Brazil’s Gerdau Acominas in 2005.

In the two decades since, huge progress has been made in building up a complete digital design system for overseas projects, with CISDI’s advanced software and tailor-made platforms meeting all international standards.

In its design and supply of TATA Steel Kalinganagar’s blast furnace 2 in India, the team worked to multiple international standards - ISO, ASME and DIN.

A 3D digital-forward design methodology was adopted throughout, fulfilling deliverables of smart piping, instrument diagrams and piping isometric drawings.

CISDI’s engineers co-acquired an input and export and output online on the 3D collaborative design platform. Any adjustment or correction required was addressed by all relevant design specialties at the earliest possible point.

This digital design process means missing, erroneous or interfering items which can arise from unsmooth or sluggish communications are reduced or prevented and design schedules and quality can be better-controlled.

In addition, the platform collects real-time specialty models to check for the potential collisions and interferences which can occur in a real project, thus preventing design problems from causing issues at a construction site.

At a design review meeting in India, CISDI’s demonstration of its digital solutions for blast furnace 2 enabled TATA to intuitively understand the high-definition model

When implementing an overseas rebuild project, CISDI applies laser scanning to restore original equipment for their modelling.

This restoration modelling combines with building information modelling (BIM) to solve issues such as incomplete drawings, clashes and previous design inconsistencies. These methods result in a more precise and efficient rebuild design.

A screenshot of restoration modelling for a hot strip rolling line rebuild

✧       Digital management enhancing construction efficiency

CISDI Delivery has been created for continuing digital and data values, right from design modelling to construction.

Data and design models are seamlessly connected into the platform, where lightweight online browsing and digital applications are actualised.

For convenience, a quick response code can be scanned on the platform to read the models, call attention to drawing revision numbers and execute model and panorama interactions.

It makes the reading of all drawing layers easier and removes the risk of an obsolete drawing being referred to during construction work.

CISDI Delivery enables all parties involved in a project to remotely update their knowledge of the situation onsite.

CISDI’s digital model is currently playing a vital role in ensuring the construction quality of the civil foundation, steel structures, pipeline and bridge and support facilities at Jindal Steel Odisha Ltd in India, where CISDI is building two 5,499 cubic metre volume blast furnaces.

JSOL and its construction partners share a thorough understanding of the design purposes, the layout, equipment and pipeline arrangements.

All parties are able to comment on the models and support JSOL on decision-making for constructional schemes, costs and schedules. Model-based clarification meetings give participants a view as accurate as if they are physically in the workshop.

CISDI’s 3D model is playing an important part in onsite construction meetings and activities at JSOL’s blast furnace plant

✧       Digital delivery for more efficient ops management

The CISDI Delivery platform exports digital deliverables by integrating a project’s static data from design to procurement and construction.

Fusing dynamic data from the project’s ops management also creates a digital deliverables’ ops management platform and a digital twin-based application scenario.

In 2018, the CISDI team providing consulting and engineering services for a pulverised coal injection system at an Australian steelworks created a digital model based information organisation platform. CISDI’s model, documentation and data was delivered by digital integration. The customer implemented data query and data analysis and application for the PCI’s ops management. As a result, the project was carried out with a high degree of efficiency.

Screenshots of CISDI’s digital platform for an Australian pulverised coal injection system project