The Pro-Designer family of software currently includes SuperPro Designer and EnviroPro Designer. By acquiring any member of our Pro-Designer series, you are joining a large group of engineers and scientists from companies like Abgenix, ADM, Ajinomoto (Japan), Allergan, Avecia (UK), Aventis (France, Canada, and USA), AWE (UK), Baxter BioScience, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Biotechna (Lithuania), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cabot Corporation, Cangene (Canada), CDI, Centocor, Colgate Palmolive, CRAB (Italy), CRB Consulting Engineers, CuraGen, Development Center for Biotechnology (Taiwan), Dow Chemical, Diosynth, DSM Pharmaceuticals, Du Pont, Fluor, Frito-Lay, Genencor, GlaxoSmithKline, Hershey Foods, Hoffmann-La Roche, ICOS Pharmaceuticals, Idec Pharmaceuticals, IFF, Intel, Jacobs Engineering, Kraft Foods, Kvaerner Process, Lockwood Greene, Lonza Biologics, Lucent, Merck, M+W Zander Facility Engineering (Germany), Novo Nordisk (Denmark), Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Purdue Pharma, Regeneron, Scherring-Plough, Schweizerhall, Serono (Switzerland), Shreya Life Sciences (India), Sony (Japan), Sumsung (Korea), U.S. DOA, DOD, DOE, Wacker-Chemie (Germany), Wyeth Pharma, etc (just to name a few) in the U.S. and abroad who already are employing our technology to design new plants or improve existing processes from the manufacturing as well as from the environmental point of view.
Our Pro-Designer set of software tools is today’s best option for any chemical, biochemical or environmental engineer and scientist in R&D, process engineering or manufacturing. Whether you are a member of a biochemical, pharmaceutical, chemical, or food company or whether you are employed by an environmental consulting firm or a waste treatment disposal plant, you can benefit from making this tool part of your every day computing options. We are certain that once you get acquainted with this software, it will become the most valuable tool in your team’s toolbox. Its use will enhance the productivity and communication efficacy of all members in your group as well between your group and other parts of your organization (process flowsheeting, detailed equipment design, construction, etc.).
All of our Pro-Designer software tools feature a unique balance between flexibility, ease of use and computational power. Any of the Pro-Designer software can be readily used by a computer novice who is not very familiar with simulation and costing. You will find all of our Pro-Designer software is based on the same user-friendly interface making it easy to migrate from one product to another as your needs may change in the future. All visual references to objects (procedures, streams, flowsheet, etc.) make use of context menus. So when you need a command for an object, just move over it and right-click. You will be presented with a list of commands that you can apply to that object. And in case you stumble across a question, help is one keystroke away. Hitting F1 will get you into a sophisticated hypertext-based help system, featuring the already familiar MS-Windows Help interface. The system allows you to search for topics related to keywords, jump from one help topic to another, and so on.
While we have made every effort to make all of our products’ learning curve as smooth and short as possible, at the same time, we have equipped our software with several features that will satisfy even the simulation veteran when it comes to preliminary simulation and evaluation of process alternatives:
● adjusting several key parameters affecting the performance of each operation,
● completely customizing the economic evaluation process,
● decomposing your entire process into branches and sections,
● inspecting Gantt charts for operations and equipment occupation times,
● viewing utilization of resources (like raw materials, utilities, labor) in time for single or multiple overlapping batches,
● viewing inventory levels for critical resources (raw materials and utilities),
● evaluating the trade-off between scheduling alternatives and costing,
● pinpointing throughput bottlenecks of your process,
● employing advanced debottlenecking techniques (such as staggered equipment operation) to improve annual throughput,
just to name a few of many issues that can be explored. And including your results into reports created by your word processor is just a couple of mouse clicks away. Using the latest OLE technology, you can simply copy all or parts of your flowsheet (what you wish to highlight in a report) and simply paste it into your favorite Windows word processor to produce your report. Need to display the operations Gantt chart or the steam consumption chart? Just copy and paste it. For users who need to do more with the results of Pro-Designer, we have included the option of exporting the results of all reports (including the Gantt chart’s and equipment utilization chart’s scheduling data) in a spreadsheet-compatible format so that they can be opened and manipulated by spreadsheet programs like MS-Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.