Engineering experts convene at industry-leading conferences to discuss safety, quality, interoperability and productivity
 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 17, 2012 – Intergraph®, the leading global provider of engineering software, opened its annual Intergraph 2012 Southeast Asia users’ conference last week in Jakarta, Indonesia. This industry-leading conference continues today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bringing the country’s top process, power and marine companies together for two days of informative sessions and networking among industry leaders. Intergraph 2012 Southeast Asia wraps up in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at the end of the week. These events are sponsored by Intergraph’s Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) division, which for 30 years has provided local resources to support engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies and owner operators executing projects and operating facilities in the Southeast Asia region.

Intergraph 2012 Southeast Asia features keynote sessions by Riekie Swanepoel of Eskom Holdings, as well as Patrick Holcomb, executive vice president of global business development for Intergraph PP&M, and Franz Kufner, senior vice president of Intergraph PP&M Asia-Pacific. The conferences also feature customer presentations by process, power and marine industry representatives from major organisations, such as Technip, WorleyParsons, Vietsovpetro, Petrovietnam Marine Shipyard, Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical and others. Intergraph 2012 Southeast Asia gives our engineering customers a unique opportunity to learn about the latest industry developments and leverage best practices from other companies.

“Southeast Asia continues to be an important region for Intergraph, with the economy expected to benefit further from strong demand for energy and resources,” said Franz Kufner, Intergraph PP&M senior vice president for Asia-Pacific. “We are committed to meeting our customers’ needs, and we just expanded our local presence in Kuala Lumpur last month to support growth in oil and gas projects in Malaysia and the region. Intergraph 2012 Southeast Asia provides the opportunity to show our customers how our industry-leading solutions can help them enhance safety, improve quality, enable interoperability, boost productivity, reduce timelines and ensure data accuracy across the facility life cycle.”

Intergraph’s SmartPlant® and SmartMarine® Enterprises offer a powerful portfolio of industry-leading, best-in-class design and data management solutions, enabling companies in the process, power, offshore and marine industries to capture integrated engineering knowledge at the enterprise level for the competitive advantage needed in today’s and tomorrow’s market. The integrated suites of SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise solutions enable proven productivity gains, improving engineering efficiency and design productivity by up to 30 percent. Intergraph solutions are endorsed and used by the world’s industry leaders.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analysis firm, ranks Intergraph as the global leading supplier of process engineering tools, engineering design tools and engineering design 3D software, according to its “PET Market Analysis and Forecast through 2015.”

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About Intergraph
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal business.

Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB (Nordic exchange: HEXA B). For more information, visit www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.com.