Automate repetitive planning work from CAD data to shop-ready work packages and schedules.
Pipe planners often spend hours turning engineering/CAD design and spool drawings into production-ready work. When spools need to be split, welds added, bends changed to elbows, or revisions checked, the planning workload grows quickly.
Much of this work is still handled through manual drawing review, data entry, paper notes, Excel tracking, and repeated coordination with the shop floor. Planners must also prepare cut lists, nesting, CNC/bending programs, work packages, labor estimates, and schedules while balancing workload across stations and available capacity.
PipeCloud reads key data from PDF spool drawings, PCF files, and other engineering/CAD outputs, then automatically creates much of the planning output needed for production: work packages, cut lists, CNC bending programs, production schedules, and shop-floor tasks. Planners can review, adjust, sequence, and manage exceptions instead of rebuilding the same information manually.
When revisions, rework, or production changes occur, PipeCloud gives planners visibility into the affected work, current status, and next steps. Updated revision information can be communicated to the shop floor immediately, helping teams stop or hold affected work before outdated instructions create rework.
PipeCloud capacity calendar shows work tasks allocated to different resources in a calendar view.
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In PipeCloud, a project is where the rules for a job live: which work phases its spools go through, how long each component takes, which material catalogue applies and who can see it. Set it up once, and every spool imported into it is estimated and planned the same way.
Every customer and every designer names materials differently. PipeCloud’s material catalogues keep your own structured catalogue next to each customer’s codes, so imported spools get the right material, picking lists are right, and heat numbers trace back correctly.
A spool drawing is rarely final when it reaches the workshop. PipeCloud lets the office add notes, stamps, weld numbers and bending data directly onto the PDF, and the annotated version is what fitters and welders open from their bundle.
When a revision is coming, the most expensive spool is the one someone keeps working on. PipeCloud’s stop work blocks the affected spools across every phase and work queue, records the reason, and releases them in one step when the new revision arrives.
PipeCloud’s cutting bundles calculate how every pipe piece in the bundle fits onto stock tubes and stored remnants, show the cut plan as a visual bar for each tube, and turn useful leftovers into remnant tubes for the next job.
Shop floor problems get solved faster when they are reported where they happen. PipeCloud tickets are raised from the bundle or drawing in use, linked to the exact spools and components, and routed to the right person automatically.
PipeCloud customers using AVEVA E3D Design can now export pipe spool PCF files straight into PipeCloud with a script built together with AVEVA’s engineering team. One batch import generates the full digital spool structure, machinery programs, work orders and weld maps, cutting work-planning effort by up to 80% for one customer.
Finnish MES specialist PipeCloud has welcomed Dutch engineering contractor Wolfard & Wessels Werktuigbouw as its newest client. The Hoogezand-based firm will deploy PipeCloud’s platform to digitise its pipe prefabrication workflows, cut manual data entry, and gain real-time visibility from engineering handover through to spool delivery.
PipeCloud has been selected by Helsinki Shipyard to modernize pipe prefabrication with a digital platform. The partnership strengthens Helsinki’s shipbuilding capabilities as production scales under Davie ownership, combining heritage expertise with real-time visibility, advanced planning, and improved efficiency for future icebreaker and specialized vessel projects.