THE BENEFITS of checkSTRESS are many

• Save piping designers and piping engineers from unneeded design review meetings
• Save your engineer's time because checkSTRESS produces a pipe stress model ready for detailed analysis
• Avoid errors introduced into the pipe stress model due to hand-coding
• Pre-qualify lines (before engineer gets the models)
• Identify poor piping layouts quickly
• Identify piping layouts that are NOT compliant with Piping Codes
• Seismic qualification (C&S Nuclear version)
• Eliminate needless and inactive Pipe Supports

THE PROBLEM IS..

Pipe stress engineers are usually handed "stiff" piping layouts from piping designers who route pipes based on constraints due to:

• Space
• Flow
• Process
• Construction
• Operation and
• Repairability

But these designs or layouts usually do not accommodate pipe stress needs or flexibility. So now, the piping engineer, when she gets such a layout from the designer, gets to deal with:

1. Inflexible, stiff piping layouts
2. Inadequately supported lines
3. Too many pipe supports
4. Inactive pipe supports (which ones are really needed?)
5. Piping code noncompliance

THE PROBLEM IS..

1. Multiple design review meetings with the designers'“ Back and forth, and rework
2. And, of course, the subtle one: Errors introduced due to hand-coding of the stress models, not to mention a waste of engineers time