Intergraph PP&M thrives

There are a lot more than six sides to Hexagon AB, the Swedish holding company that last year added Intergraph to its portfolio. Hexagon’s network of nearly 50 subsidiaries focus on measurement and design of objects as small as microchips and as large as power plants...

Shining the light on LIDAR

Laser scanning is hot. Process plant design software vendors such as AVEVA, Bentley Systems and Intergraph have long had partner programs to integrate LIDAR models into their design and operations workflows; Autodesk is now actively promoting it — and last month...

GIS in a 3D explosion

There’s a lot going on in the GIS space but for those of you who don’t follow it, here’s a quick refresher. GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems; this technology is also often known as “geospatial”. GIS’ analytical tools enable uses to associate data and...