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Smart Materials is a life-cycle material, supply chain, and subcontracting management solution.

The main applications of Smart Materials are:

  • Design, engineering, and construction of processing plants for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and oil industries.

  • Industrial pipeline construction.

  • Power plant construction.

  • Ship design and assembly.

Smart Materials supports materials management for all disciplines, including piping (and pipe supports), instrumentation, and structural steel equipment (such as vessels).

Smart Materials also provides continuous support for all processing stages of project management. This support includes:

  • Pre-project phase of parts and standards specification.

  • Design and financial planning.

  • Definition of material requirements.

  • Procurement and scheduling.

  • Pre-fabrication and installation.

  • Deadline and cost tracking.

Database and Application

Smart Materials consists of a database (tables) and an application (screens and lists).

Users interact with the database through the application screens (or forms). With the use of these screens, the user can present and maintain the data stored in the database.

The database software organizes associated data in tables, consisting of rows and columns. A row consists of several named columns (or fields), which together constitute a data record. A record is a set of data stored in a database table. A column has a fixed data type and name. The content or data of a column is displayed in a field on the screen.

Smart Materials screens display database table contents structured according to the function of the data. Each displayed data record shows a complete or partial row from the associated table. Data from different tables are shown in separate blocks. Blocks are areas within a screen, bordered by a frame. A block usually represents a database table. Changes made in a block on a screen are saved in the corresponding database table.

Smart Materials screens, menus, data fields, command line prompts, toolbars, and key sequences make working in Smart Materials easy for users.

The SQL database language can be used to access database tables from outside the application for the purpose of obtaining information. It should never be used to modify data.

Definitions

Product Group - Corporate standards are defined on the product group level. Data defined in a product group will be available in all projects created based on this product group. Product group data is visible in projects, but the projects cannot change this data.

Project - Project-specific material is defined at the project level. It is common for a project to reference the product group as much as possible and only create project-specific material definitions when the code cannot be included in the corporate standard. Data defined in a project will not be available on the product group level or in any other project.

Discipline – Disciplines are used to separate materials into different project areas like Piping, Electrical, and Structural.