Business areas

Engineering and Consulting

Highly specialized engineering and consulting to design, assess and optimize industrial facilities and assets, ensuring their integrity, availability and performance throughout their entire life cycle.

An industrial asset has to be designed well, operate without failures and last as long as intended. When any of that fails, the cost shows up on site or in operation.

Plant owners who need engineering or an independent technical assessment; engineering firms and EPC contractors who need capacity in specific disciplines; manufacturers who have to justify a design against a code or to a client; and insurers and funds who need to quantify a technical risk.

Industrial plant ownersEngineering firms and EPC contractorsEquipment manufacturersEnergy, chemicals and petrochemicalsInsurers and funds

Services

Engineering and consulting services

CADE covers the life cycle of an industrial asset with four service lines: the engineering that defines it, the simulation that sizes it, the assessment of its integrity in operation and the project management that builds it.

Engineering

Whatever is not resolved in engineering shows up later on site or in operation, at greater cost and with longer lead times. CADE carries out conceptual, basic and detailed engineering across all disciplines and handles permitting, from a single piece of equipment to a complete plant.

Simulation

Flows, dynamic loads, fatigue or complex geometries cannot always be solved with code formulas. CADE models them using finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics to size with the real margin, without oversizing.

Integrity

An asset in operation accumulates damage from corrosion, fatigue or creep, and the question is how long it can continue to operate safely. CADE assesses its integrity and remaining life and investigates the root cause of failures.

Integrity assessment
Remaining life
Root cause analysis (RCA)
Forensic engineering
Inspection and quality

Project services

Delays and cost overruns in an industrial project usually originate in the coordination between engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction. CADE manages and supervises the project through all its phases, from engineering to operation.

Project management
Engineering and design
Procurement and fabrication
Construction and erection
Commissioning and start-up
Operation and maintenance
HSE and quality

Proprietary technology

Digital twins

A digital twin combines the simulation model of a piece of equipment with its operating data to track its condition in real time, anticipate failures and estimate its remaining life. CADE applies it to critical equipment with SimulTWIN, its real-time simulation platform.