YIT Group provides industrial, telecom network and real estate companies with design, construction and maintenance services. YIT Industria Ltd is specialised in power plant piping systems.

Our principal product is the design and installation of main pipelines at power plants, including steam and feed water pipes. We use Cadmatic software in all our design work, explains Harri Lukkala, Design and Engineering Manager at YIT Industria.

YIT Industria is one of the first users of Cadmatic software. The company began using Cadmatic in the design of power plant pipelines as early as the late 1980s. Harri Lukkala has been involved in the work ever since.

"One of Cadmatic's best characteristics is the ease of use. The plant modelling software, in particular, contains plenty of useful properties, such as pipe routing functions. Creating different components and adding them to the plant model is simple, as is the production of high-quality drawings from the 3D model", Lukkala praises.

3D models are also used on-site, in addition to traditional drawings, as they make the installation work and supervision easier. Also, when the designer has access to the 3D model on-site, it is possible to make changes to the design right away. This shortens the installation schedule.

According to Product Manager Sami Koponen of Cadmatic Oy, the Cadmatic software is extremely user-friendly. It is easy to learn and adopt. Normally, the training takes only five to six days. "Cadmatic is based on an open architecture, which means that the customers can modify the applications to better meet their specific demands. This enables them, for instance, to automate certain routine tasks", says Koponen.

"The accessibility of the Internet-based eBrowser is appreciated, and it is widely used at installation sites. Thanks to eBrowser, the design review meetings are now much more illustrative and visually impressive", says Lukkala. The 3D model allows us to virtually walk around in the plant, so it is easier for us to examine the details and discuss them with the end-customer.

Lukkala adds that Cadmatic facilitates the easy modelling, not only of pipeworks, but also of the other power plant structures, including concrete and steel structures. YIT Industria uses Cadmatic to design the pipework supports, as well as to generate system and line specific material lists, isometrics, spools and drawings. Design and engineering of power plant pipelines are the core competence of the company, but other piping systems are designed as well. "The most extraordinary project so far has probably been the design of the exhaust manifolds for a submarine", Lukkala says smiling.