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Based on the requirements of major international EPC companies, its features allow piping design and management activities to be performed in a fully integrated environment and through easy-to-use modules, yielding high quality results. Puma5's main functions are:

• Elaboration and management of piping classes
• Definition and optimisation of Fluid Lists and line lists
• Materials accounting and issue of MTOs
• Requisitions and support to procurement activities
• Calculation of welding quantities
• Calculation of construction and erection weights
• Calculation of surfaces and materials for painting and insulation
• Automated mechanical verification of pipe thicknesses and intersections
• Integration with the 3D CAD systems used worldwide
• Integration with the major ERP systems

The system runs in Microsoft Windows and is fully integrated with MS Office, thus permitting immediate import/export to and from Word and Excel. It is available in both Client-Server and Web-enabled versions, which allow the centralised project database to be simultaneously accessed by Clients, Contractors and Sub-Contractors, Partners, Construction sites, etc...

Positioning in the EPC

This diagram represents the best positioning of Puma5 in typical EPC workflow. As this can't be always achieved, Puma5 can be still used to solve the particular problems. From this diagram you can also see that PUMA5 fits nicely in existing IT infrastructure because naturally integrate with ERP systems.This avoids confusion, the risk of duplicating data, and preserves investments in the existing ERP.