Shengli Engineering and Consulting Company Limited Selects Intergraph®SmartPlant® Enterprise Solutions

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shengli Engineering and Consulting Company Limited (SLECC), a registered survey and engineering institute in China, has chosen Intergraph®SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions, including SmartPlant 3D, to execute its design and engineering projects.

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To enhance its competitiveness in the marketplace, SLECC wanted an integrated engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solution that would further increase safety, quality and productivity, as well as accelerate project schedules. SLECC chose Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise suite of solutions because of its proven track record in the industry. SLECC will implement the solutions company-wide for all of its design and engineering projects. SmartPlant Enterprise will be the integrated engineering platform supporting improved design workflows and effective project management to enable SLECC to meet tight schedules and true demands for productivity increase.

SmartPlant Enterprise is an integrated solutions suite that provides full design, construction, materials management and Capital Project Lifecycle Management (cPLM) capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance of large-scale process, power, marine and offshore facilities. SmartPlant 3D effectively enables optimized design, increasing productivity and shortening project schedules. Through the leverage of success-critical project information and knowledge to improve and automate work processes, SmartPlant Enterprise solutions can improve engineering efficiency by up to 30 percent.

"Our drive to continuously improve our service offering and expand our business globally was a major consideration in our choice of Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise," said Mr. Yang Li Peng, Information Management System project director at SLECC. "We recognize that SmartPlant Enterprise is proven, established technology in the marketplace and offers a powerful portfolio of best-in-class applications that will enable us to be more responsive to the dynamics of our market."

Gerhard Sallinger, president of Process, Power & Marine at Intergraph, said, "SLECC's decision to adopt Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise suite of next-generation solutions for its design and engineering projects is another example of how industry leaders more than ever recognize that our solutions enable them to become more productive and competitive. This reinforces Intergraph's leadership in the oil and gas industry in China and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region."

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analysis firm, ranked Intergraph the No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and process engineering tools (PET) provider worldwide according to its PET Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast through 2013.

About SLECC

Shengli Engineering and Consulting Company Limited is located in Dongying City, Shangdong Province, and is a China national Grade-A registered survey and engineering institute. It was founded in 1965 and regarded as a leading company for oilfield water injection and produced water treatment and shallow offshore oilfield surface engineering, as well as a responsible unit of the Technology Centre of Water Injection and Treatment in China's oil industry. SLECC is also a key science and technology research company of SINOPEC, a sub-station of postdoctoral scientific research working stations of Shengli Oilfield and one of the national top hundred survey and engineering institutes in China. For more information, visit www.slecc.com.cn.

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 to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I's U.S. federal and classified business.

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

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