SCA Packaging Obbola AB originally adopted Cadmatic software in 2001 as their plant-wide design and engineering system. At that time all existing process diagrams were converted to Cadmatic diagrams. For the last five years all adjustment and repair work has been designed with Cadmatic and as a result the 3D model of the plant has been refined step by step. Currently a new boiler system is being designed with construction work due to begin shortly.

Early last year the Obbola plant was among the first to adopt Cadmatic version 5. The coDesigner module included in this latest version enables concurrent and distributed project design between various project partners.

The master database is located at the Obbola plant grounds and consulting offices are given access to a database replica, which is synchronized with the master database.

"There are several consulting and engineering offices in Sweden participating in the design and engineering of SCA projects. Everyone of them has been very satisfied with the distributed and concurrent design functionality which the coDesigner module enables", says Jim Nyroos of Cadmatic Oy.

SCA also has an eBrowser site license and eBrowser is installed on all the workstations at the plant. This means that all the employees have access to the 3D model, from which they can seek information when needed. "Employees can for example locate a certain valve and get access to all the information available about that valve", clarifies Nyroos.

In the future SCA's Cadmatic 3D model will be linked with their SAP system, which will allow users access to equipment information in the plant maintenance database.