[COLOR=#6f6f6f]Press Release March 27th 2006[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#6f6f6f]27 March 2006
AVEVA Ships New Laser Model Interface
Software Provides Direct Link Between AVEVA's PDMS and Four Major 3D Scanning Solution Providers
SPAR2006 - Houston, TX - AVEVA Group plc (LSE:AVV) today announced that it is shipping its Laser Model Interface (LMI), a software solution that provides a direct link between AVEVA's VANTAGE Plant Design Management System (PDMS) and four of the major 3D laser scanning systems being utilized to capture as-built data for retrofit and brownfield engineering projects.
The new product, which is available as a separately licensed module of PDMS 11.6 SP2, is now being launched following a year's collaboration with the market leading laser modeling vendors - BitWyse, Leica Geosystems HDS, Quantapoint, and Z+F. LMI has been built into the heart of PDMS. This enables engineers to design fully intelligent plant directly with respect to Point Cloud Data (PCD) as if they were in a dedicated PDMS application. This also means that existing PDMS capabilities like Clash Manager and PDMS Global can be seamlessly invoked. In particular, any clashes between points in the PCD and 3D engineering components in PDMS can not only be identified interactively, they can also be managed and approved explicitly in the Clash Manager module.
Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA, said: "After a year of collaboration with our partners we are delighted that we can now see the fruits of our labour. The Laser Model Interface will enable EPCs and Owner/Operators to bring 'existing conditions' data directly into PDMS, allowing faster, more efficient repairs, and reducing plant downtime. Our customers tell us that the time and cost savings achieved using 3D modelling and laser scanning together can amount to up to 10% of the capital expenditure of the whole retrofit project. We have seen the fastest adoption of the technology in the offshore oil and gas, and nuclear power industries, but expect that this technology will rapidly become an indispensable part of most revamp projects."
Commented Colin Fairweather, Engineering Systems Manager for AMEC and a user of AVEVA's LMI product: "AVEVA's Laser Modelling Interface has given AMEC a key first-mover advantage in the market and we've already seen the benefits of its deployment on a number of projects. It has delivered a quantum leap in overall productivity and significantly improved design processes, quality, and safety."
About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group reported, for the year ended March 2005, a growth in turnover of 51% over 2004. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.
The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1500 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.
The Group's clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders and engineering contractors such as 3M, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, BASF, China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, Daewoo Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Dalian New Shipbuilding, Du Pont, Electricité de France, Framatome ANP, Halliburton, Hanjin Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kvaerner, Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, North-West Electric Power Design Institute, Petrobras, Petronas Carigali, Samsung Engineering, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Shell, Sinopec Engineering Incorporation, STX Shipbuilding and Uhde.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 500 staff worldwide with offices in England, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, Canada and the USA.
About VANTAGE
VANTAGE, the collective name for AVEVA's four-family plant lifecycle product suite, offers proven, integrated and versatile solutions for engineering IT. Well known for its Plant Design Management System (PDMS), it also addresses data management, project management, engineering design, visualisation, third party software integration, procurement and connecting the business enterprise on a common foundation. VANTAGE represents AVEVA's commitment to harnessing the best of technology to answer the needs of good engineering and offers the engineering world's most advanced globally-distributed project work solution. VANTAGE is developed upon a proven and evolving technology that has been deployed on major global projects for over 25 years.
For further information, please contact:
Derek Middlemas
AVEVA
Tel +44 (0)1223 556655
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Becky Stevens
AVEVA
Tel +1 713 444 6860
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I know...I know, some of you super-users out there have already seen this program, and some of you have had the opportunity to use it. We are going to see a demo of it later this month and I was wondering if any of you are going to post some info about it for me. I don't know what to expect, Mike Reiker is coming out to install and set-up the program on our Cyra Machine, I hope it's good enough to impress the powers-that-be to convince them that it is something we could use. I'd like to see more brown-field upgrades moved over into the PDMS Realm, hey, maybe that could be another PDMSforum, thats what we need, another one, and we'll call it www.pdmsrealm.com, I don't think that name is used, i'll have to check!!!
The plans of the diligent lead to profit, as surely as haste leads to poverty
Sorry guys, this is not spam though, as PDMSForum is a non profit website as is created to do exsacually what PDMS World is for, to help PDMS users. :) I feel this is benifical to all, and if anything we need more websites like PDMS World and PDMSForum which are dedicated to PDMS issues.
Admin - If you feel I should remove this post I will. :o
