Computer Line Associates is a software company that operate in areas of production and sale of software for engineering company, system integration, networking,sale and assistance of high-end systems. Computer Line Associates offer to its customers a series of solutions and services that cover advising, training and after sale support.

Computer Line Associates is born from the realization of software for vertical systems, some of these are become de facto standard and today they are commercialized on Italian and European markets. Among these systems the most diffused a is Puma5 software for the management of the bulk piping materials used by the most important EPC companies in the field.

Computer Line Associates is the ideal partner for EPC company, as it offer the solutions with that cover whole the life cycle from the planning to the realization of plant. To discover more go to Puma5 and Cosmo5 pages.

A success story which started in 1990 and is still continuing today

March 1990: In order to satisfy increasing market demands, a feasibility study was carried out and an integrated software system was developed for the management of piping materials in the Home Office and on the Construction Site.
The required features were defined by engineering and construction companies, which at that time were starting to ask for modular and flexible management systems, working on Personal Computers. In January 1991 the first Puma version was released, and it was one of the first piping material management systems available on the market.
The increased availability and performance of personal computers led to the continuous evolution and more widespread use of the system. In the meantime, users were becoming more active; thus contributing, with their requirements, to the implementation of new modules and functions.

February 1994: The first Puma interface module was implemented with the AutoPLANT (Bentley) CAD system, which provided direct exchange between the material management system and the 3D modelling environment. Together with the progressive growth of Puma, new requirements were emerging, such as: increased quality control, integration among 2D-3D CAD systems and client working procedures, design activities carried out in different locations by several sub-contractors and/or partners, and joint ventures with construction companies.

March 1996: To meet the above requirements, the Puma5 project started as a joint venture with Technipetrol S.p.A. (at present Technip Italy S.p.A.) and was completed in April 1998. The new Puma5 has also been integrated with the AutoPLANT CAD system, in a joint venture with AEM S.p.A., giving rise to a global system for piping design and management.
The great flexibility of Puma5 allowed its integration with other CAD systems: during 2000 with PDS (Intergraph) and in 2001 with PDMS (AVEVA).

June 2002: After far-reaching market analysis, GE Power System Oil & Gas (Nuovo Pignone) selected Puma5 as the most convenient system to organise and manage the piping component database to support UG (Unigraphics) CAD, for designing Turbogas and Compressor Systems.

June 2004: Agip, a division of ENI, selected Puma5 as their standard software for the development of piping specifications and the coding of piping bulk materials. The first implementation was performed for AGIP KCO for the Kashagan Field Development project.

June 2006: A new interface was created for PDMS (AVEVA).

Today Puma5 is used widely in more than a hundred engineering companies and has an excellent track record of successfully executed projects. In the last sixteen years Puma5 has been used on more than a thousand projects, ranging from simple skids up to mega projects consisting of ten thousand lines and twenty-five thousand tons of piping materials.