AVEVA Engage Launched for Capital Projects, Operating Assets

DUBAI, UAE, Oct 22, 2015 - AVEVA announced AVEVA Engage, a unique collaborative decision-support solution for capital projects and operating assets. It combines the power of instant access to a Digital Asset’s full contextually-integrated information with an impressively simple and entirely intuitive touch-driven interface, all visualized and navigable in a striking Ultra-High Definition (UHD) whole-model view. Part of AVEVA’s ‘Future of Decision Support’ program, AVEVA Engage is bringing a new dimension to decision support for better, faster decisions across the life cycle.

AVEVA is committed to extending the ways in which its customers can access and interact with their Digital Assets, the information core of every project or operating asset. Entirely touch driven, and capable of running on the largest format touch screens, AVEVA Engage seamlessly combines powerful whole-model visualization with immediate contextually-filtered access to validated, relevant documents and information. By putting the right information directly at the fingertips of decision makers, precisely when and where they need it, AVEVA customers can design, review, plan and execute work safely and efficiently.

‘AVEVA Engage redefines what is possible in engineering’, said Dave Wheeldon, CTO, AVEVA. ‘Delivering quality information through a highly intuitive interface, AVEVA Engage gives users immediate access to the wealth of resources within their Digital Asset. Simple and dynamic, its unrivaled touch user experience is both visually breathtaking and amazingly insightful when combined with the huge UHD touch-screen devices available today. Presenting information that resides in a Digital Asset in its full context is invaluable to EPCs and OOs. Early adoption of this technology has clearly demonstrated just how game-changing AVEVA Engage can be to our customers’ business.’

Mr Wheeldon continued, ‘Over the past six months, ten companies have enrolled on the Early Access Program (EAP) across the oil & gas, power and mining sectors, taking a voyage with us to realize the full potential of our technology and to redefine the Future of Decision Support.’

Robert Samudio, Global Design/Drafting Manager, Shell New Orleans, who has worked with AVEVA on the development of AVEVA Engage, added, ‘We have worked with AVEVA for over 25 years in close partnership, creating outstanding and essential technologies, such as AVEVA Engage, that have driven our industry. With AVEVA we have pioneered touch-screen technology and the ability to use 3D models with other disciplines across global locations. We can use AVEVA Engage for collaboration, decision-making and safety. It will help us to deliver multi-billion dollar projects, setting industry benchmarks for quality, cost and speed. More importantly, it will change the way we work, our processes, our tools, our collaboration and the promise on how we deliver our projects. Our relationship with AVEVA is the best in the industry.’

‘AVEVA Engage reaffirms AVEVA’s position as a leader in the market by delivering innovation that solves real-world problems for our customers,’ added Richard Longdon, CEO, AVEVA. ‘The feedback we’ve received from our customers has been absolutely amazing. From the moment they step up to a large touch screen and begin engaging with the application, they instantly understand the benefits of AVEVA Engage. They are constantly suggesting new areas of their business that could benefit from this decision-support approach. Our mission is to create technology that is constantly pushing the boundaries of what our customers can achieve and AVEVA Engage is a fantastic example of what we can do by working together. With AVEVA Engage we are helping customers to truly realize their digital asset.’

For more information, visit www.aveva.com/futureofdecisionsupport.

AVEVA to Launch E3D 2.1 at World Summit in Dubai on Oct 20-22

CAMBRIDGE, UK, Jul 24, 2015 - AVEVA announced that version 2.1 of its innovative 3D design software, AVEVA Everthing3D, has been extremely well received in early adopter trials. Leading names have been involved in the initial trials with an overwhelmingly positive response. Building on the success of AVEVA E3D 1.1 this next generation of plant design software introduces an enhanced user interface which is driving down learning curves whilst increasing efficiency. Unique laser scanning capabilities will deliver huge benefits, especially in brownfield projects, and significant changes to the structural and supports modules to maximize performance.

‘We’ve made a number of major enhancements to AVEVA E3D after working closely with our customers’, said Dave Wheeldon, CTO, AVEVA. ‘The market has demonstrated a real appetite for more powerful and advanced plant design software, and our customers have made it clear that AVEVA E3D is delivering a game-changing solution. I heard some fantastic comments about our latest version of AVEVA E3D at a recent reference group with a key customer including: “Brilliant”, “Step-Change”, “Value-Added”, and “We love it!”. This kind of enthusiasm is a great validation for AVEVA E3D 2.1.’ 

 

AVEVA E3D 2.1 is currently being trialed by selected customers around the world. It will be launched at the AVEVA World Summit in Dubai on October 20-22, 2015. Learn more about the AVEVA World Summit at www.avevaworld.com.

About AVEVA

For almost 50 years, AVEVA software has enabled the creation of some of the world’s most complex power and process plants, vessels and offshore facilities. AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach ensures there is always an accurate digital representation of each physical asset. This allows engineering contractors, owner operators and ship builders to work more safely, more efficiently and with less risk throughout the life cycle of their projects and operations. AVEVA is the proud winner of the Frost and Sullivan 2015 Global Engineering Information Management Solutions Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award. For more information, visit www.aveva.com.

AVEVA Opens Office in Norway for Owner Operators

STAVANGER, Norway, Jun 13, 2015 - AVEVA announced that it is opening a new Centre of Excellence for Operations Integrity Management Solutions for Owner Operators (OOs) in the oil & gas, process plant and power industries. The new facility, based in Stavanger, offers global OOs and Duty Holder EPCs software solutions to create and maintain their Digital Assets. The Digital Asset approach is helping these customers to manage complex facilities to save on cost while delivering a safer and more efficient operating asset. Additionally the new office enables greater customer engagement by being able to offer an expanded training curriculum and larger training facilities to meet increasing customer demand.

‘The facility in Stavanger enables AVEVA to develop and deliver solutions and services that deliver very rapid ROI to our OO customers’, said Derek Middlemas, Managing Director – Digital Asset Projects, AVEVA. ‘The Centre of Excellence for Operations Integrity Management Solutions provides solutions that are tightly integrated into the way our customers do business and a higher degree of configuration services to help our clients build, manage and maintain their Digital Assets. We are able to help our customers to effectively manage their business and access timely and accurate project and asset information. Our technology and industry expertise brings tremendous value to these customers through the efficient support of operational processes and execution of in-plant engineering projects.’

AVEVA’s technology and global sales network is extremely well positioned to help OOs meet their safety, production and uptime targets. With asset life cycles often greater than 25 years a well-established and maintained Digital Asset is as important to OPEX activities as it is to CAPEX. AVEVA provides the tools to monitor, track and control all aspects of their maintenance, repair and operate (MRO) activities and intelligently interface asset information into discipline specific applications.

The new office address is:
The Golf Tower,
Kanalsletta 2,
4033 Stavanger,
Norway.

There will be a welcome day held in August. To register your interest to attend please email sepideh.majidzadeh@aveva.com.

About AVEVA 

For over 45 years, AVEVA software has enabled the creation of some of the world’s most complex power and process plants, vessels and offshore facilities. AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach ensures there is always an accurate digital representation of each physical asset. This allows engineering contractors, owner operators and ship builders to work more safely, more efficiently and with less risk throughout the life cycle of their projects and operations. For further information, visit www.aveva.com.

Meptagon Israel Standardizes on Intergraph CADWorx

HUNTSVILLE, AL, USA, Apr 3, 2015 - Meptagon Israel has recently switched from a competitor’s software to the Intergraph CADWorx Plant Design Suite to support its functions of design, fabrication and construction of projects in the high-purity clean-rooms industry. Rooted in the semiconductor, food and pharmaceutical sectors, Meptagon provides complete EPCM solutions and will now employ Intergraph CADWorx for a mega-project worth $6 billion for a major semiconductor company in Israel.

Meptagon’s decision validates that CADWorx is becoming the preferred solution for clean-room engineering, design, fabrication and construction worldwide, and serves the company’s need for managing incredibly large and complex projects in a very expensive environment, with the fastest possible output of deliverables.

“We are very pleased with our decision – we are already able to exceed customer expectations when it comes to deliverables due to CADWorx. The acquisition of the CADWorx piping design toolset enables us to implement BIM methodology and tools, offering our clients true design-build services maintaining Meptagon's leadership position in the market,” said Eyal Leshem, engineering manager for Meptagon.

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “This is an excellent step forward for the Intergraph CADWorx Plant Design Suite in the BIM market. We are both proud and confident that this solution will support Meptagon in efficiently delivering the utmost quality to its clients, especially in such mega-projects as those currently underway.”

Intergraph’s CADWorx & analysis solutions allow design and engineering to share relevant information seamlessly, thereby maintaining accuracy and improving efficiency. These include CADWorx Plant Design Suite, for AutoCAD-based intelligent plant design modeling, process schematics and automatic production of plant design deliverables; CADWorx DraftPro, a free solution for intelligent 2D design and layout; CAESAR II, the world's most widely used pipe stress analysis software; PV Elite, for vessel and exchanger design and analysis; TANK, for the design and analysis of oil storage tanks; GT STRUDL, one of the most trusted, adaptable and fully-integrated structural analysis solutions in the world; and Visual Vessel Design, a comprehensive pressure vessel, shell and tube exchanger, and boiler design and analysis software with a strong emphasis on European codes and standards.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering solutions for plant design (process, power and marine), according to its “Engineering Design Tools for Plants and Infrastructure Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2018.”

About Meptagon

Meptagon Ltd. is a global leader in the management and construction of mechanical, electrical and process systems for production facilities in the process and high-tech industries. Meptagon was founded in the early ’60s as an instrument and control service provider for various market segments. Over the years, the company went through several changes. In 1993, the company became public and was traded in the Israeli Stock Market, then was acquired by a global organization and in 2007 became a private company, once again owned by the Harari family – its original founders. For more information, visit www.meptagon.com.

About Intergraph

Intergraph helps the world work smarter. The company’s software and solutions improve the lives of millions of people through better facilities, safer communities and more reliable operations.

Intergraph Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise engineering software enabling smarter design and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) is the leader in smart solutions for emergency response, utilities, transportation and other global challenges.

Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B; hexagon.com), a leading global provider of information technologies that drive quality and productivity improvements across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.

PROCAD to Unveil SPOOLCAD V2016 at PFI Conference, Las Vegas

CALGARY, AL, CANADA, Mar 14, 2015 - PROCAD to unveil its SPOOLCAD V2016 at the PFI conference. The hour-long demonstration and Q&A will take place on Friday, April 10th at 9:00 am at the Four Seasons Hotel - Las Vegas.

Throughout the development stages, PROCAD consulted many pipe fabricators in a collaborative effort to ensure SPOOLCAD answered their drafting and data-management needs. 

About PROCAD

For the past 25 years, PROCAD Software has been supporting the piping design and fabrication industries with innovative software solutions. EPCs, owner-operators and energy companies involved in the design and construction of plant facilities have used and continue to rely on PROCAD piping design software. For more information about PROCAD, visit www.procad.com.

Eversendai Selects AVEVA Marine for Offshore Projects

DUBAI, UAE, Jan 27, 2015 - AVEVA announced that Eversendai Offshore, a brand new customer, has made a significant investment in AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solutions through its deployment of AVEVA Marine. The agreement includes the full suite of AVEVA Marine engineering and design applications that will be used on a series of new marine and offshore projects, including topsides, platforms and ships. Rapid installation and minimal training requirements have allowed Eversendai Offshore to immediately begin using AVEVA Marine on major new contracts. The software was up and running in a matter of days with minimum disruption to engineering and business processes.

‘AVEVA Marine was the most talked about solution during our research of the market,’ said Suresh Ramadoss, Head of Engineering, Eversendai Offshore. ‘It is the best suited for marine and offshore projects and integrates with AVEVA’s PDMS software which is a massive bonus for Eversendai Offshore and our clients. It is also Citrix Ready which gives us the flexibility to work on the same project across any of our offices. We have already seen how by working with AVEVA’s suite of integrated applications, we can minimise errors, save project time and reduce cost. This improves our return on investment and gives us a fantastic competitive advantage.’

Mr. Ramadoss continued, ‘One other major advantage is the automatic and accurate extraction of NC data directly from AVEVA software to the profile and plate cutting machines. This feature is extremely useful for new companies like ours since we can ensure that there are no errors in the NC code and it removes the need for 3rd party interface software.’

‘Maintaining data integrity is a huge issue for customers such as Eversendai as it can have a massive impact on project schedules and cost’, said Louis Khoury, Senior Vice President - Operations MEA, AVEVA. ‘AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solution achieves optimized project efficiency by aligning applications across multiple disciplines. This results in higher quality deliverables and better schedule adherence, benefiting both Eversendai and its customers.’

Eversendai will operate AVEVA’s software across a number of offices in the Middle East and Asia.
 

About AVEVA Marine

AVEVA Marine is a set of integrated applications created specifically for the unique processes in the engineering and design of ships and offshore structures, design management, and the generation of accurate production information. Its powerful object-centric technologies make it the most productive engineering and design software available for the marine and offshore industries. AVEVA Marine Outfitting, AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA E3D are all completely interoperable – and can be used on the same project data at the same time. For more information, visit www.aveva.com/marine.

About AVEVA

For over 45 years, AVEVA software has enabled the creation of some of the world’s most complex power and process plants, vessels and offshore facilities. AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach ensures there is always an accurate digital representation of each physical asset. This allows engineering contractors, owner operators and ship builders to work safer, more efficiently and with less risk throughout the life cycle of their projects and operations. For further information, visit www.aveva.com/ednotes.

Wison Selects AVEVA Marine for Offshore Projects

SHANGHAI, China, Nov 18, 2014 - AVEVA today announced that Wison Offshore & Marine, a global EPC firm, has selected AVEVA Marine software for the engineering, design and construction of its offshore Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) projects. The decision to choose AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solution over their existing software supplier’s solution, was driven by the need for optimal productivity and efficiency across its major projects.

Mr. An Wenxin, Senior Vice President of Wison Offshore & Marine explained how deploying the solution was key to meeting the increasingly complex needs of their global clients: ‘AVEVA Marine is helping us to streamline workflows and better harness our existing technology to meet our demanding project schedules. Increasingly, our operations cross continents and have tight deadlines. Having a tightly integrated engineering and design solution that is tailor-made for global marine and offshore fabrication affords us leaner operations and enables us to future-proof our business in the face of an ever evolving business landscape.’

‘AVEVA Marine empowers our customers to make decisions faster,’ explained Paul Eveleigh, Executive Vice president, Asia Pacific, AVEVA. ‘We are delighted that Wison have recognised both the immediate and long-term efficiencies that can be achieved across their operations, by switching to AVEVA. With its enhanced collaboration and advanced Compare and Update capabilities, AVEVA Marine eliminates errors early in the design process, resulting in high-quality projects in which costly fabrication and construction rework is avoided.’

 

About AVEVA Marine

AVEVA Marine is a set of integrated applications created specifically for the unique processes in the engineering and design of ships and offshore structures, design management, and the generation of accurate production information. Its powerful object-centric technologies make it the most productive engineering and design software available for the marine and offshore industries. For more information, visit www.aveva.com/marine.

Dassault Launches Industry Solution Experiences for Mining

LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, Nov 13, 2014 - Dassault Systems (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced at its annual 3DEXPERIENCE Forum NAM two new natural resources industry solution experiences for mining, “Lean Mine Construction” and “Perfect Mine and Plant.” Based on Dassault Systems’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, these industry solution experiences drive transformational change in mining by helping companies develop and run more efficient mines with unprecedented decision-making agility.

The mining industry has faced severe business challenges for over a decade. Fragile economic recoveries and changing mining commodity demand have negatively impacted productivity, while operating costs have increased. In addition, operations have suffered from inefficient interaction between core planning, engineering, plant production and geology teams. The result is pressure on profit margins, making many mining operations unprofitable and/or forcing them to close.

Dassault Systems’ new industry solution experiences introduce greater agility into business planning, design and production to spark long-needed change. With “Lean Mine Construction”, the applications and knowledge required to help ensure that mine sites are completed on time and on budget, are all available on one platform. “Lean Mine Construction” unites mining companies with their contractors and partners in an immersive collaborative environment for site infrastructure and processing plant design, project planning, procurement, and construction management. Mine sites can deliver optimal production and efficiency from the moment they are commissioned.

With “Perfect Mine and Plant”, all levels of a mining organization collaborate to make the company more agile in response to operational performance variation, emerging business opportunities and changing market conditions. Executives, planners, and mine managers use data from across the mining value chain, along with decision making applications, to optimize long-term plans, align financial objectives and ensure that all levels of the organization are synchronized, for greater strategic control.

“Producing the raw materials essential for economic development and our modern lives is becoming ever more complex. Success for the mining industry comes from two sources of competitive advantage – increased productivity through a stable operating model facilitated by technology and the implementation of disruptive technologies that can change the game. Companies will need both to succeed,” said Tony O’Neill, Group Director, Technical and Sustainability, Anglo American. “By using 3D modeling of concepts and providing the ability to rapidly and dynamically test ideas in a more expansive way, Dassault Systems’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform plays a key role in addressing some of the mining industry’s business performance challenges.”

“The mining industry is at a tipping point in its history as companies seek to return greater profits while doing so more sustainably,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Industry and Marketing, Dassault Systems. “Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its industry solution experiences are bringing a new level of innovation to mining and will help deliver the technological step changes companies need to deliver on their objectives.”

Key Capabilities and Benefits -

Lean Mine Construction:

• Ensures better mining operational productivity through 4D simulation and modeling to identify the right site infrastructure layout and plant processing capacity before construction begins;
• Lowers costs and reduces errors by enabling design of modularized infrastructure and plant components, which can be tested and assembled in a virtual world before fabrication is approved;
• Supports rapid adjustments to engineering designs when requirements change, and facilitates just-in-time delivery of components to site and further lowers costs through integration of design engineering, project scheduling, and procurement;

Perfect Mine and Plant:

• Reduces variability through optimized scheduling and operational control;
• Delivers on the promise of big data to improve productivity, efficiency, and cost control across mining organizations;
• Provides management with the data needed to achieve predictable production output and meet production targets;
• Breaks down the silos between mining and processing functions and provides the simulation and validation capabilities required to allow innovative ideas to be explored and proven before they are implemented.

For more information about “Lean Mine Construction” and “Perfect Mine and Plant” industry solution experiences, visit http://www.3ds.com/industries/natural-resources. 

About Dassault Systems 

Dassault Systems , the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systems’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 190,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

Atkins Selects AVEVA E3D, Laser Modeller

PERTH, Australia, Apr 9, 2014 - Atkins, one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, has chosen AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) and AVEVA Laser Modeller software to support Lean Construction processes. Atkins has already executed many successful projects on AVEVA PDMS and is keen to increase its delivery standards with AVEVA E3D. Key capabilities that persuaded Atkins to migrate to AVEVA E3D were its 'BubbleView' laser scan imagery and the tight integration of AVEVA Laser Modeller, which enables laser scans to be readily converted into intelligent, as-built 3D design models.

Seamless integration of Laser scan data in the AVEVA Everything 3D BubbleView

'We've had a long and productive relationship with AVEVA and are excited to deploy even more advanced AVEVA technology on some of our high-profile projects,' said Nick Wells, Operations Director, Atkins. 'The ability to have laser scan data directly integrated into the AVEVA E3D design environment is very impressive. This enables our designers to immediately understand and work with accurate data, minimizing rework in the design office, the fabrication yard and the construction site. The BubbleView technology provides an accurate and photo-realistic view of the laser scans; integrated in the 3D design environment, this will help our designers to understand exactly how new design fits with the currently installed or fabricated plant.'

'Atkins is a great example of how a major Engineering and Design Consultancy can adopt the principles of Engineering and Design for Lean Construction across its client portfolio,' said Hanno Tam, Vice President SEA & Australasia, AVEVA. 'Laser scan data that is available across the entire project lifecycle can dramatically reduce discrepancies between designers, contractors and fabricators by enabling them to quickly and correctly respond to changing circumstances. Engineers can position new designs and run clash checks against the existing plant. This will, in turn, minimize rework, drive quality and directly benefit the returns realized across the project.'

About AVEVA Everything3D

AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) is AVEVA's top-of-the-range, multi-discipline, 3D plant design solution. It combines the latest 3D graphics and user interface technologies with state-of-the- art data management to deliver the most comprehensive, productive and tightly integrated 3D plant design solution available. To know more, visit http://futureofplantdesign.aveva.com/.

About AVEVA Laser Modeller

AVEVA Laser Modeller software is hardware-neutral, accepting data from all leading laser scanning systems. Unique in the laser scanning market, it removes the need to produce interim ‘dumb’ geometric models. To know more about AVEVA Laser Modeller, click here.

For more information about AVEVA, visit http://www.aveva.com.

About Atkins

Atkins is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 17,400 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Our people’s breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask why has allowed us to plan, design and enable some of the world’s most complex and time critical projects. For more information, visit www.atkinsglobal.com.

*14th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2013) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013).