SoundPLANmanda is used by health and safety professionals, industrial hygienists, and acoustic engineers across virtually every industry where machinery noise creates a risk of hearing damage. Regulatory requirements for occupational noise management exist in every country in Asia and the Middle East, and SoundPLANmanda provides the tools to meet them systematically.
Machine halls, assembly lines, stamping and pressing operations, and automated manufacturing cells all generate high noise levels. SoundPLANmanda maps the noise landscape across an entire production facility, identifies hearing protection zones, and allows safety teams to model the effect of acoustic enclosures or isolation mounts before installation.
Refineries, petrochemical processing plants, compressor stations, LNG terminals, and offshore platforms present complex, multi-source noise environments. SoundPLANmanda handles the scale and complexity of these facilities, supporting noise assessments for routine operations, turnaround planning, and permit compliance.
Gas turbines, steam turbines, boiler houses, cooling towers, and auxiliary equipment in thermal, gas, hydro, and combined-cycle power plants require careful noise management both internally (worker safety) and externally (community impact). SoundPLANmanda handles the internal occupational assessment, while SoundPLANnoise handles the community noise study.
Crushing, grinding, conveying, and blasting operations in surface and underground mining generate severe noise. SoundPLANmanda maps exposure across the mine site and processing plant, supporting hearing conservation programmes required by mining safety regulators.
SoundPLANmanda scales from small facilities (a single-machine workshop or laboratory) to very large, complex sites (multi-building petrochemical refineries with hundreds of noise sources). For large sites, the facility model may be built in sections and combined — each section representing a production area, building, or process unit — allowing the assessment team to manage complexity systematically. SoundPLAN Asia can advise on the best modeling approach for your facility size and type.
SoundPLANmanda is most powerful when used together with targeted field measurements. Sound power level measurements of individual machines provide accurate source data for the model. The model then propagates this measured data throughout the facility, producing maps and exposure values that would be impossible to obtain from measurement alone. This hybrid approach is fully compliant with ISO 9612 task-based assessment methodology and produces the most comprehensive and defensible results.
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