AVEVA World Magazine 2013

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MAGAZINE
2013 | ISSUE 2
North Sea Success

The story of the Gudrun platform
Also featured in this issue:

z EDCs use of AVEVA Bocad for structural steelwork
z DSMEs migration from Tribon to AVEVA Marine
z Two years on: AVEVA Engineering in practice
z UPEC leads the way in Russian power project engineering
z Integrated shipbuilding at Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard
INSIDE
THISEDITION
Corporate News
Welcome
AVEVA infographic 22
AVEVA honoured at two prestigious award ceremonies 35
Focus on your industry 35
AVEVA World Summit 2013 38
Product News
Structural Growth: AVEVA Bocad
Whats new with the Future of Plant Design 20

An overview of AVEVA Engineering in practice 24
Customer News
Cover story: Aibels global operations deliver success
EDC: Daring to be Great 12

DSMEs migration from Tribon to AVEVA Marine 16
Urals Power Engineering Company 28
SEDIN Engineering: Strategic collaboration in China 32
L&T-Chiyoda: Raising ones game 36
MIPAC Instruments of Change 40
Integrated Shipbuilding at Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard 42
Cover photograph:
The Gudrun topsides. Photograph courtesy of Aibel and Statoil.
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AVEVA World Magazine 2013| Issue 2
Convergent evolution
In biology, it is common to encounter completely
unrelated species often on widely separated
continents that have so successfully solved
the same survival challenges as to have become
physically almost indistinguishable. Its called
convergent evolution. A corresponding convergence
is also taking place in the engineering world,
as sectors and disciplines that once considered
themselves unique progressively adopt common
solutions to what are, in essence, common
challenges.
The obvious difference of course is the speed of the convergence, which
is driven as much by the rapid advances in enabling technologies as by
the relentless growth of global demand. AVEVA has played a central role
in this, perhaps most conspicuously in integrating plant design and
construction technologies with those of shipbuilding to support the
booming offshore industry. We continue to drive convergence in other
areas, towards a vision of efficient, seamless engineering in a seamless
AVEVA technology environment.
While last year may have been the

most exciting ever for AVEVA, I think
many of our customers are finding
this year just as exciting. At our early
adopters of AVEVA Everything3D we
find their engineers tremendously
enthusiastic about its new
capabilities...
This issue features some good examples of this. We have made strong
progress in integrating best-in-class structural steel design with plant
and outfitting design, while AVEVA Engineering is rapidly bringing
down barriers between engineering and design disciplines. Traditional
boundaries between asset creation and asset operation are also eroding
as Owner Operators come to appreciate the considerable economic
benefits of sharing information with their EPCs from the earliest
stages of a project. And this is not just one-way pressure; UPEC, one
of our progressive Russian EPC customers, is actively promoting this
collaborative way of working to its Owner Operator clients.
The big breakthroughs we described in the last issue are now being
followed up with consolidation as we bring planned incremental
developments and technology integration to market. So while last year
may have been the most exciting ever for AVEVA, I think many of our
customers are finding this year just as exciting. At our early adopters of
AVEVA Everything3D we find their engineers tremendously enthusiastic
about its new capabilities.
As you turn these pages you will find success after success as we and our
global customers advance together. As they have used AVEVA technology
to grow in efficiency and capability, so AVEVA has continued to grow in
turnover and global presence. Together we are converging on a shared
vision.
Richard Longdon
Chief Executive
AVEVA Group plc
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Aibels global operations

deliver North Sea success
The story of the
Gudrun platform
Magnus Feldt
Editor, AVEVA World Magazine
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The newly built Gudrun platform

has been a very successful and
challenging project for the
Norwegian company, Aibel.
AVEVAs Plant portfolio has
played an important role in this
complex, collaborative project,
executed by Aibels engineering
offices in Haugesund, Oslo and
Singapore, and its fabrication
yards in Haugesund and in Laem
Chabang, Thailand. We visited
Aibel in Haugesund, on the island
of Risy on the west coast of
Norway, only a few days after the
enormous, 10,600 tonne topsides
was moved out of the North Sea
(fabrication) Hall.
The Gudrun topsides. Photograph courtesy of Aibel and Statoil.
This demanding project for Statoil was rapidly approaching its

conclusion. Only testing, finishing work and transfer of systems remained
before the platform was to be towed into position over the Gudrun oil &
gas field in the North Sea in July this year. Production start-up is planned
for the first quarter of 2014. At the recently completed office building, we
met Knut O. Storsveen, Lead Advisor, CAD Systems, and Bengt A. Morken,
Engineering Manager, to learn more about this project.
The oil and gas reservoirs of the Gudrun field are from the Jurassic era
and lie at a depth of 4,2004,700 metres. Creating a suitable production
platform has been a complex and exciting project showing Aibels
ability to work interactively between their engineering offices and their
fabrication sites. The Gudrun platform comprises a fixed processing
platform supported by a steel jacket resting on the seabed. Its topsides
include a facility for preliminary processing of the oil and gas which will
then be sent to the Sleipner A platform and the Krst processing plant,
for further treatment.
Modifications prior to detail design

In spite of the modifications, Aibel convinced Statoil that the platform
would be delivered on time, within budget and with no reduction in the
original high quality. Aibel altered the layout of the platform to reduce
the required amount of structural steel, pipework, cabling and so on. The
structural design was also modified to further optimise weight.
Aibel achieved this impressive design revision by drawing on their
experience from previous engineering work on the Kvitebjrn platform
for Statoil, and with the help of their in-house developed project system,
built on top of AVEVA PDMS.
An experienced user of AVEVA PDMS
Aibel used PDMS throughout this project, from FEED to the completion
of detail design, as it does in all its projects. The structure, equipment,
piping, pipe supports, cable trays and ductwork were all built in the PDMS
model, which was used to generate arrangements, piping isometrics,
material take offs (MTOs), spool drawings, cable tray routings and
ductwork layouts.
FEED and detail design contracts

In 2009, Statoil awarded Aibel the Front-End Engineering and Design
(FEED) contract for the Gudrun topsides development. The scope of work
also included living quarters with 42 cabins, and the jacket interface.
The engineering work encompassed structural and piping design,
specifications and 3D modelling of the topsides in AVEVA PDMS.
Then, in July 2010, Statoil awarded Aibel the contract to build the
topsides for the platform. This involved engineering, procurement, and
construction of the platform deck and processing facility, and mating
with the steel jacket. Aibel won the contract because it had proved to
Statoil that its design concept enabled it to modify the design in order
to reduce the total weight of the topsides. This was critical; it would
otherwise not have been possible in a single lift to mount the topsides
aboard the jacket already placed in the North Sea.
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The major part of the engineering was performed at Aibels engineering

offices in Oslo and Singapore. The Singapore office was opened in 2007
and continues to expand; Aibel plans to employ more than 500 people
there soon. The company also has a small engineering office in Thailand,
to support fabrication work at the yard.
Early start of fabrication
To be able to deliver the platform to Statoil on time, fabrication had
to start well before the detail design was complete. The powerful data
management capabilities of PDMS were a key factor for Aibel in being able
to manage this effectively. Aibels designers were able to ensure that the
design work was completed in the order required by the fabrication plan
and validate the completeness and integrity of the relevant parts of the
design work at each and every stage. Designers completing the remainder
of the design work were always aware of the work that had already been
committed to fabrication, ensuring that their work was carried out
without necessitating rework at the yard.
Construction of the topsides, including the accommodation and
processing facility, started in May 2011 at Aibels facilities in Thailand
and Haugesund. The topsides arrived for final assembly at Haugesund
in November 2012, after a month-long voyage from Thailand. The jacket
was manufactured at Aker Verdal, while Apply Leirvik manufactured the
living quarters and fitted the helicopter deck, which had been fabricated
in China. The entire platform was assembled at Aibels fabrication yard in
Haugesund. In August 2011, the steel jacket was lifted into place on the
Gudrun field by the Saipem 7000 crane ship, the worlds second-largest
crane vessel. This completed the first phase of the extensive installation
work being carried out there.
Work shared dynamically
AVEVA Global, AVEVAs solution for multi-site concurrent working,
enabled Aibel to share work dynamically across four of their design and
fabrication sites, and with Statoil, as the project progressed. This saved
time and cost by enabling continuous working across the different time
zones and by optimum assignment of tasks to the most suitable locations.
Statoil understands the value of the huge amount of information
contained in the PDMS 3D models of its oil & gas facilities.
From left, Bengt A. Morken, Engineering Manager, and Knut O. Storsveen, Lead Advisor,
CAD Systems. Photograph courtesy of Aibel.
To help in organising ongoing maintenance and plant upgrades, Statoil

maintains up-to-date PDMS model data throughout the entire lifecycle of
each asset. It issues detailed requirements to its contractors of what to
include in the models, and how the models should be structured. Aibels
work processes are fully compatible with Statoils own PDMS/Global
implementation.
Review meetings a key component
Design review meetings by video between the engineering and
fabrication teams in Norway, Singapore and Thailand have been a key
component in the success of this project. The 3D PDMS model of the
platform enabled the engineers to perform virtual walk-throughs of the
whole facility, quickly detecting and resolving potential design problems
before the actual fabrication started.
Maintenance and modification projects
Aibel is also a major player in asset maintenance on the Norwegian
Continental Shelf. The companys activities involve a significant number
of platforms and floating production installations, and important
assignments at several onshore installations. Aibel is currently present
on 30 of the 70 platforms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and on
four of the six onshore facilities in Norway.
The town of Haugesund is situated on Karmsund, a strait which used to be strategically important, as ships could pass through it to avoid crossing heavy seas. The coastal waters off
Haugesund used to be a rich source of herring, and the town grew in consequence. In recent decades, the town has been turning towards the petroleum industry, and the herring are
long gone. Haugesund has a coastline on the North Sea, but the island of Karmy and the Rvr archipelago shelter most of the city from the rough waters of the ocean.
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Moving the Gudrun topsides out of the huge Haugesund fabrication hall
has made room for some important modification projects. Fabrication
work for Norske Shells Draugen platform and the Gullfaks C platform for
Statoil is now occupying the hall space. Troll TPC34 is also a major part of
the work in the yard these days. Aibel is carrying out the modifications
using AVEVA Plant.
Draugen started production in 1993 and the platform will undergo
major upgrading to significantly extend its service life. The project
involves adapting the platforms existing structure to provide a new
accommodation module and four new lifeboats.
Renewable energy projects
A promising new business area for Aibel is the wind energy industry.
Aibels first wind platform, DolWin Beta, is taking shape at Drydocks
World in Dubai and has also been designed with AVEVA Plant. DolWin Beta
is a submersible floating platform with a helipad, two lifting cranes and
separate living quarters for 24 people.
The platform is a collaborative project between Aibel and ABB. Aibel
is designing and building the platform, whilst ABB has overall project
responsibility and is supplying cables and the conversion equipment.
Work in Dubai will be complete by mid-December and the platform will
then be shipped to Haugesund for outfitting. In mid 2014, DolWin Beta
will be towed out and placed on the seabed in the DolWin field, a large
wind-farm cluster in the German sector of the North Sea, where it will
receive alternating current from wind farms, and convert it into direct
current before sending it onshore via subsea cables.
Aibel may not be unique in operating globally collaborative workflows,
but it certainly provides an example to others of how effective these can
be in delivering challenging projects to demanding cost and timescale
requirements. Aibels experiences clearly show that augmenting
engineering skill with enabling technology in this way increases the
capabilities and efficiency of all project participants.
About Aibel
Aibel is a leading service company within the oil & gas industry and is
also established in the renewable energy field. The company has close to
6,000 employees in Norway and abroad, engaged onshore and offshore.
With headquarters in Stavanger in Norway, Aibel has eight engineering
offices in Norway, in addition to four international engineering offices
in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Singapore and Thailand. The company
also has two fabrication yards, in Haugesund, Norway and Laem Chabang,
Thailand. Visit www.aibel.com for more information.
3D image of the
Gudrun topsides.
Image courtesy of Aibel.
Top: Aibels first wind platform, DolWin Beta, is taking shape at Drydocks World
in Dubai. Below: An artists impression of the platform in its operating position.
Photograph and illustration courtesy of Aibel.
To be able to deliver
the platform to Statoil on
time, fabrication had to
start well before the detail
design was complete.
The powerful data
management capabilities
of PDMS were a key factor
for Aibel in being able to
manage this effectively...
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Structural Growth
How AVEVAs acquisition of bocad
is delivering new capabilities
A great deal has been achieved in integrating bocad and its products into the AVEVA family.
Here, we take a look at the benefits this is already delivering for our customers.
Background
Most engineering companies use a variety of different applications
for different tasks, but incompatibilities between them often create
discontinuities in what should be a seamless, collaborative workflow.
The acquisition of bocad was an important step in AVEVAs continuing
strategy to remove such obstacles to sharing information. It brings bestin-class, highly automated structural steel detailing within the AVEVA
environment.
The need
In the plant or offshore industries, designers create structural steelwork
along with all the other piping and equipment layout. But it has been
customary to export the data to a specialist contractor who would use
third-party software to complete the detail design and fabricate the
parts. This export takes place early in the programme, because steelwork
must progress to construction in advance of the rest of the project.
From the moment of export, of course, the steelwork design diverged
from the rest of the layout, which continued to evolve, creating the
very real risk of undetectable clashes causing serious problems in
construction. The business case was clear. It was already possible to
exchange data with bocads solution, which was recognised as the
leader in its market and was popular with many AVEVA customers. Closer
integration would avoid the design divergence problem and increase
productivity.
Steve Insley
Product Business Manager, AVEVA
Brian Hughes
Product Strategy Manager, AVEVA
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Working together
The expanded AVEVA team has already created optimised solutions for
specific markets and simplified the product range, making it easier for
customers to acquire, and benefit from, this powerful technology. With
the recent release of two new products, the AVEVA portfolio now includes:
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AVEVA Bocad Steel

AVEVA Bocad Offshore (add on)
AVEVA Bocad Onshore (add on)
AVEVA Bocad Tower
AVEVA Bocad Roof and Wall
Solutions for the plant industries

Here, the core solution is AVEVA Bocad Steel. This provides best-in-class
design automation capabilities in general steel detailing and fabrication.
Integrated with both AVEVA PDMS and the new AVEVA Everything3D
(AVEVA E3D) it enables effective collaboration between the plant layout
designer and the steel detailer, overcoming the diverging designs
problem.
The steel detailer can periodically return the structural steel model into
the PDMS / AVEVA E3D environment where the plant designer can use the
Compare & Update capability to review changes and accept them into the
master project model, or reject them. This makes it easy to keep steelwork
and plant layout in step as the overall design is developed. Status
highlighting can be applied to distinguish areas that have been released
to fabrication from those still subject to change. The business value this
brings in eliminating sources of construction problems is considerable.
The expanded AVEVA team has

already created optimised solutions
for specific markets and simplified
the product range...
The AVEVA Bocad Onshore add-on pack provides further productivityenhancing features for the plant industries, making it quicker and easier
to define structures such as pipe racks and towers. This not only saves
valuable man-hours, it also increases design quality because all the
essential features of a particular element are predefined and parametric,
configuring themselves automatically in accordance with rules (which are
themselves configurable).
and ideal for marine and offshore, too
AVEVA Bocad Steel also integrates with AVEVA Outfitting, offering
similar productivity gains for shipbuilders. To meet the specialist needs of
the offshore industry, which has evolved design principles and practices
not encountered elsewhere, AVEVA Bocad Steel can be augmented
with the AVEVA Bocad Offshore add-on pack. This extends the built-in
catalogue with a range of industry-specific templates that make it easier
and quicker to create features such as complex, compound-angle joints,
mudmats (used on the bottom of platform legs), helidecks and flare
booms. With the oil & gas industry moving into deeper waters, many of
these features will be of value to shipbuilders collaborating on floating
exploration and production facilities.
It brings bestin-class, highly

automated structural
steel detailing
within the AVEVA
environment...
Removing business barriers

AVEVA customers projects rarely exist in isolation, so removing barriers
to related areas of engineering is a valuable business enabler. Bocad
technology has enabled us to offer two more complementary products.
AVEVA Bocad Tower is optimised for the power distribution and similar
industries. It comes with an extensive library of parameterised tower
structures, such as the familiar three- and four-leg pylons or tubular
communications towers. In use, the tower designer has only to define
key dimensions, add necessary elements such as ladders and decks, and
specify the materials to be used, and the application will create fully
detailed fabrication and construction deliverables.
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AVEVA Bocad is efficient for complex design.
Finally, AVEVA Bocad Roof and Wall serves the needs of many of
bocads long-standing customers in the Architecture, Engineering and
Construction (AEC) industry. It will be of particular interest to AVEVA
customers in the power industry, enabling them to execute both plant
and building design in a common 3D environment.
The AVEVA Bocad applications are elements of AVEVA Plant and
AVEVA Marine, enabling structural steelwork to integrate effectively
with all the other disciplines in a seamless, multi-discipline AVEVA 3D
environment.
Specific connection libraries are available, shown here for onshore applications.
The AVEVA Bocad advantage

Like the rest of the AVEVA portfolio, the new AVEVA Bocad applications
integrate 3D model data with 2D deliverables. Any approved change
to the model is immediately reflected and highlighted in the affected
drawings and, indeed, vice versa. Many experienced engineers find it
easier or more convenient to create design changes on a drawing; this
two-way 2D/3D integration enables efficient working in either direction.
But the feature that puts AVEVA Bocad technology demonstrably ahead of
its competition is the completeness of its shop-ready 2D drawing output.
Using other steelwork solutions, manually editing and completing
drawings for issue to fabricators can absorb some 3040% of design
office man-hours, even on simple projects. In the majority of cases, AVEVA
Bocad drawings need no, or very little, extra work. This high level of
drawing automation also reduces the effort in making subsequent design
changes, and further eliminates sources of error.
Detailed general arrangements and fabrication deliverables can be quickly and

easily produced.
Examples of off the shelf macros specifically designed for the offshore industry.
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Importantly, this supports Just In Time fabrication, another element

in Lean Construction. Drawings can be released at the last moment,
incorporating all necessary updates and minimising the risk of a
late change being overlooked between drawing production and steel
manufacture. AVEVA Bocad deliverables are fully detailed for accurate,
least-cost fabrication and construction, while direct output to CNC
cutting, forming and welding machines saves time and ensures accuracy.
With AVEVA Bocad, there are effectively

no limits to design creativity; if you can
model it, AVEVA Bocad will generate all
the high-quality deliverables required to
construct it...
Assured integrity
Structural integrity is not negotiable. It must be verified during
construction and maintained throughout the asset lifecycle. To support
this, the AVEVA Bocad products uniquely treat welds as intelligent
tagged items, not just arbitrary symbols on a drawing. This ensures that
callouts on a drawing exactly represent the welds defined on the model,
eliminating one obvious source of error. Welds can also have attribute
data associated with them, enabling efficient project tasks such as weld
material provisioning and certification tracking. In asset operations,
every weld can be individually referenced in work packs or inspection
procedures and its entire history recorded.
A secure future
In just one year, AVEVA has:
z met customer demand for more fully automated structural detailing
z optimised a range of best-in-class products for the plant, mining,
power distribution, shipbuilding, offshore and construction industries
z provided effective integration between the most advanced solutions
for structural steel, plant and marine outfitting design
z established a clear roadmap for continuing technology development
and integration.
Another example of Continual Progression in action!
Above: AVEVA Bocad Steel provides best-in-class

design automation capabilities in general steel
detailing and fabrication.
Right: AVEVA Bocad

Steel is capable of
producing projects
with extremely
complex model
geometry.
Left: To meet the specialist needs of the offshore

industry, AVEVA Bocad Steel can be augmented
with the AVEVA Bocad Offshore add-on pack.
Image courtesy of Dragados Offshore.
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Daring to
be Great
How AVEVA Bocad technology enabled an
innovative Australian start-up to become
the most capable business in its sector
AVEVA acquired bocad because we could see that its
considerable technological leadership matched and
complemented our own. But even our enthusiasm for it
pales compared with that of EDC Consultants, its leading
exponent in the Australian structural engineering sector.
When we asked EDCs Managing Director, Chris Velovski, if
he would share his experiences of the Bocad technology,
we almost had to hold him down!
Steve Insley
Product Business Manager, AVEVA
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EDC Directors Mark Bajorek and Chris Velovski. Photo courtesy of EDC.
Like many start-ups, the company was formed out of trauma. ABB had
purchased the Allco Steel Corporation, then one of the biggest steel
fabricators on the east coast of Australia, and a number of experienced
engineering and design staff found themselves surplus to requirements.
This proved to be a blessing in disguise; Chris and a colleague, Mark
Bajorek, set up the Enterprise Drafting Company Pty Ltd in 1992 and have
never looked back since.
The team had a lot of high-quality experience behind them, having
worked on some of Australias most prestigious building and plant
projects, so success and growth came quickly. By 2008, the company
had grown far beyond being just a supplier of drafting
services, and renamed itself EDC Consultants Pty Ltd.
A key factor in this growth was the adoption, in 2001, of
BoCAD (as it was then called) software for structural
steel design. Chris Velovski explained, Wed
had some very bad experiences with
general-purpose 3D modelling
systems. They were claimed to be
able to do anything, but we quickly
discovered how drastically they
would fail when pushed. I had had
some experience with an early version
of BoCAD when working with Allco Steel,
and I learned that it had since moved on
from being a rather unwieldy programming
language to being a full visual modeller.
So I made a point of attending a
demonstration advertised in the Australian
Steel Institutes magazine.
For some time, Chris and his team had
been evaluating other structural steel
solutions and they had been disappointed
to find that these still had many of the
shortcomings of the general-purpose
systems. The BoCAD demonstration was
impressive and further investigation indicated that EDC had at last found
a solution that could support their long-term development. BoCAD-3D
was purchased and, after a brief training period, put to work on a live
project.
Above: An isometric view of the buffer bin assembly for the Newcastle Coal
Export Terminal. The facility handles 30Mtpa of coal. Image courtesy of EDC.
Zoran Markovski, BoCAD Coordinator / BIM Coordinator, explained,

This decision changed the course of the company. We increased our
productivity and were able to integrate our project delivery faster than
I would ever have thought possible. The ability to model intuitively in
3D, and to move freely around the model without continually resetting
coordinates was exhilarating!
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A conveyor gallery module,

automatically generated and detailed by
one of EDCs sophisticated Bocad macros.
Image courtesy of EDC.
Two 57m galleries installed at Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Groups shiploading

facility. Bocad software enabled accurate planning of the lifting arrangements for
safe and rapid installation. Photo courtesy of EDC.
Director and Operations Manager Mark Bajorek, added, At that time we

were committed to heading down the true CAD/CAM path, so we needed
software which could accurately reflect the design intent and generate
CNC data for automated production machines, without requiring costly
and error-prone fixes and workarounds. BoCAD clearly met this need.
To illustrate what he meant by smarts, Chris showed us an impressive

model of a conveyor gallery structure, used in the minerals processing
industry. Any designer would feel pleased at having created so complex
a model in a few days but, using Bocad, EDC can create it in just ten
minutes, with all the welds, stiffeners and connections fully defined.
Twelve years on, EDC has achieved some astonishing results with its
BoCAD system. Chris Velovski explained that one important driver was
being able to compete on technical ability against overseas competitors
who could afford to throw huge amounts of low-cost labour at a
project. I tell our clients that we use our smarts, he went on. With the
combination of our imagination and the power of the software we can
overcome any challenge. And I do mean any challenge!
This certainly isnt out-of-the-box functionality, so how do they do it?

Zoran told us that they began using Bocads macro language, COPL,
almost from the outset to streamline and automate a growing range of
design tasks. These macros are quick and easy to create, he explained.
They save time and provide a designer with more options. We can
implement parameterised connections quickly, in multiple locations,
and if a change is needed it will update every instance right across the
model.
Experience and success with COPL macros led EDC to wonder how much
further they could push design automation with Bocad. Zoran became
expert in the use of FFEIN, a deeper-level programming language that
enabled the development of larger and more complex macros, such as
that used to create the gallery model.
With the combination of our imagination

and the power of the software we can overcome
any challenge. And I do mean any challenge!
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Above: An overview of the structure for the massive

Rouse Hill retail development. Image courtesy of EDC.
Left: A buffer bin for

NCIGs shiploading facility,
showing Bocads ability to
handle complex platework structure.
Image courtesy of EDC.
The lower section of the buffer bin being lifted into position. Photo courtesy of EDC.
This shows why we are so committed to the Bocad technology, continued

Chris. Out of the box it is way ahead of any comparable solution; the
automatically generated deliverables, for example, are in a class of their
own. But, for companies like us, who are prepared to invest in developing
more advanced capabilities with its use, Bocad gives us so much
competitive advantage that we would not be the business we are today
without it. No other solution could do this, and the support we have had
from the local Bocad team has been outstanding.
With such deep reliance on the technology, we wondered whether EDC
were concerned at AVEVAs acquisition of bocad. Quite the opposite,
Chris and Mark assured us. Although we dont use AVEVA PDMS
ourselves, we work with companies who do and we know the reputation
AVEVA has in the industry. Closer integration between plant layout and
structural/mechanical design detailing has to happen and AVEVA is
clearly the company who can achieve it. We can see endless possibilities
for EDC as a result of this.
One of EDCs core business values is Dare To Be Great. Having seen the
teams culture and its extraordinary expertise at first hand, we could
think of no better title for this article.
About EDC Consultants Pty Ltd
Based in Newcastle, New South Wales, EDC employs a team of 12
engineers locally and 25 designers in its Newcastle and Sydney offices,
supported by a team of over 200 engineering and design staff in
Bangalore, India. It provides a wide range of design, engineering and
project management services to industries including petrochemicals,
mining, minerals processing and building construction.
Among its more impressive projects have been:
z The Newcastle Coal Export Terminal, NSW. This multi-phase project
was designed collaboratively by a team of designers and included two
conveyor galleries feeding massive buffer bins. The complex bin and
supporting structure design required only 25 days modelling time
and 35 days of document processing to generate over 2,500 fitting
drawings and 1,160 marking plans and assemblies.
z The Rouse Hill town centre redevelopment project, creating 65,000m2
of retail space in a development described by its programme director
as integrating architecture and environmental engineering to a level
never before seen in a retail development in Australia.
z A 20,000m2 manufacturing facility for BlueScope Steel in Western
Sydney.
z The Geelong & Clyde petrochemical processing plant.
For more information, visit www.edcgroup.com.au.
Commencing construction of a refinery module. Bocad technology generated accurate

and fully detailed fabrication deliverables. Photo courtesy of EDC.
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DSMEs migration from

Tribon to AVEVA Marine
Five key reasons for making the move
Janis Choi
Senior Marketing Specialist, AVEVA Korea
Overview of DSMEs shipyards in Geoje Island, South Korea. Photo courtesy of DSME.
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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME), located

at Okpo Bay in South Korea, is one of the worlds most productive
shipbuilders. This famous shipyard has been responsible for the
design and construction of some of the worlds most complex
commercial and naval vessels, as well as offshore structures. DSME
has recently migrated from AVEVAs legacy Tribon shipbuilding system
to the new AVEVA Marine. This article examines why this premier
shipbuilder chose to move to AVEVA Marine for their next generation
of projects, by exploring the five main reasons for its decision.
The Tribon shipbuilding system had justifiably been second to none in

marine 3D solutions since 1974. However, technology is changing fast,
and projects are becoming ever more complex. At the same time, the
depressed marine market is seeking new opportunities, and shipyards
have to become more competitive if they are to be successful. The time
had come for DSME to bid a grateful farewell to Tribon and prepare to
welcome AVEVA Marine, the most innovative 3D design software suite for
the shipbuilding and offshore industries.
AVEVA Marine is helping shipyards around the world maximise
productivity and capability throughout the design and construction
processes, while minimising costs and timescales for various types of
projects. This is particularly true for very large scale and highly complex
new-build projects.
DSME, faced with a range of challenges in recent years, recognised
the need for a new solution to meet the complex requirements of the
market. Specifications were changing frequently and project sizes were
increasing considerably, and there were limits to Tribons ability to meet
these new demands. After a thorough evaluation of various engineering
and design systems, DSME chose AVEVA Marine.
The history of Tribon and DSME goes back to the 1980s. Before AVEVA
acquired Tribon Solutions in 2004, DSME had already implemented
Tribon, and was breaking shipbuilding industry records year on year.
Over the last 25 years, an estimated 1,000 ships were designed and
produced using the Tribon software.
DSME, always a pioneer, was moving on to the next phase in its business
growth and the company now states that the migration to AVEVA Marine
is playing a key role in its ongoing success.
Mr Heung-Won Suh, Director of DSMEs Information Technology Team
identified the five main reasons driving its migration to AVEVA Marine.
Full support from AVEVA
He told us, Adopting new tools is always risky. To minimise the risks,
DSME was clear about the need for close and seamless cooperation with
the software vendors. One of the advantages of AVEVA Marine for us
is that it still incorporates Tribons 40 years of shipbuilding expertise.
Over the last 25 years weve built very strong relationships and this
means that we could be confident AVEVA will support us well after the
implementation of the new tools.
After the first pilot test, Heung-Won Suh continued, we carefully
tested the AVEVA Marine version 12.0 environment and migration
toolkits and, to improve the testing process, DSME worked closely with
the development team at AVEVA. At DSMEs suggestion, functional
testing in a single-user environment was executed before the
application was tested in a multiple-user simulation. After that, we
deployed the testing in a real production environment. Working in this
way allowed us to save man-hours in both the testing and migration
phases of the project.
One of the key factors in the success of our migration was the
commitment of the local AVEVA engineers to solving the software
problems, no matter what the issue. The AVEVA development team were
keen to further improve the quality of AVEVA Marine and provided us
with software updates and new releases.
AVEVA Marine will

be popular in the
engineering world,
particularly with
the offshore
structure industry.
Heung-Won Suh, Director of the Information Technology Team,

DSME. Photo courtesy of DSME.
It was particularly helpful that local engineers were located close to us.
We had regular meetings with AVEVA to review the status of the project
and to exchange information. Migration was a complex process, but
AVEVAs support team worked hard to enable a smooth and effective
implementation process, Mr Suh added.
In addition, the AVEVA Marine Technology Service Centre (MTSC) in Busan,
Korea, completed a collaboration project with us at the end of February
2013. This long-term partnership will beneficially affect not only DSME,
but also other AVEVA Marine users, since we have been continuously
providing realistic feedback to assist with product development. AVEVA and
DSME are both looking forward to further collaboration on future product
development, which will provide considerable improvements for the
shipbuilding and offshore industries.
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An FPSO designed with AVEVA Marine is now in construction. Photo courtesy of DSME.
Data consistency after migration

When implementing AVEVA Marine, Mr Suh went on, we had two
concerns about consistency.
One concern was related to the consistency of legacy data moving
from Tribon to AVEVA Marine. As a long-term user of Tribon, we had an
enormous volume of design data. Moreover, ongoing projects needed to
continue as normal. Since data was changing every day, it had to be kept
consistent at all times. We are pleased that AVEVA Marine facilitates the
collection and continuing management of a consistent set of whole data
that can be used to support all aspects of ongoing projects.
The other concern was about how well in-house systems could be
implemented in the AVEVA Marine environment. While we were using
Tribon, we developed a number of in-house systems: a modelling
program, a drawing program, a Bills of Material (BOM) system and a
visualisation program. The migration of in-house systems began in 2011,
and they are maintained in AVEVA Marine just as they were operating
before.
AVEVA Marine is currently being used for ten offshore projects and we
are also going to adopt it for commercial ships, special ships and other
offshore projects beginning in 2014. To carry out these projects, we
have already trained about 1,500 employees to be expert users of AVEVA
Marine and we aim to train an addition 500 people in 2013. We propose
to build approximately 70 ships and offshore units per year with AVEVA
Marine.
Better performance than Tribon
Certainly, Mr Suh continued, we reported some errors and incidents
with the earlier versions of AVEVA Marine. However, it has been improved
thanks to user feedback, and we recognised that the overall performance
is better than Tribon. In addition, AVEVA Marine is now more robust,
flexible and scalable than Tribon.
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Tribon with its long development history was regarded as very stable,
but AVEVA Marine contains many more useful, up-to-date functions and
modules that are not included in Tribon. Users can feel uncomfortable
when they start to use the new tools, but eventually they find that AVEVA
Marine is faster and more versatile than Tribon.
Thanks to its strong core technology, AVEVA Marine is more suitable
for meeting the technical requirements of our new, complex upcoming
projects. For me, the most significant feature in AVEVA Marine is its
parametric functionality, which provides intelligent graphical design and
effective design quality assurance.
Among AVEVA Marines new features and functions, it allows users
to build template-based libraries, so they dont have to waste time
redesigning every item each time saving time and effort. AVEVA Marine
also includes a sophisticated 3D graphical user interface enabling
quick and intuitive modelling. The ability of various data input/output
functions provides further user-friendly customised features. Designers
can take advantage of Design Review features to check, not only for
clashes, but also for any model parts they may need.
Collaboration benefits
DSME now has a vision for the next 50 years as a global top player in the
Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning
(EPCIC) business. To make this a reality, DSME values the importance
of collaboration with major EPCs, not only locally but globally. AVEVA
PDMS is a leading solution of choice for the worlds power and plant
industries supporting projects of all sizes, from the smallest upgrade to
new-build installations of unlimited complexity, and it offers valuable
collaboration opportunities and an extensive pool of skilled users.
Demonstrated interoperability between AVEVA Marine and PDMS enables
effective collaboration between DSME and other EPCs.
First project with AVEVA Marine

At DSME, AVEVA Marine was initially used to design a fixed platform and FPSO for the P6046 Arkutin-Dagi project. For this project, named
after the location of Arkutun-Dagi field, Sakhalin DSME and WorleyParsons set up a global work share which made possible parallel design
and information sharing in real time between Okpo, Korea and Houston, USA. Thanks to AVEVA Marines integrated engineering and
design approach, WorleyParsons and DSME were able to execute detailed design with AVEVA PDMS. The tighter links between AVEVA Marine
and AVEVA PDMS gave them a wide choice of Engineering & Design tools for each stage of the complex project. Both companies were also
using AVEVA Global for design sharing, as this product allowed them to work together simultaneously on detailed design projects from
multiple sites. It controlled the release of data for production design on a weekly basis to each site. Data was copied from AVEVA Global and
implemented in AVEVA Marine for block allocation and production data input. Production design was carried out with AVEVA Marine.
When our business area was focused only on shipbuilding, we could

manage most projects solely in our shipyards. However, we now recognise
the importance of cooperation and integration between EPCs for offshore
projects. Thats why we chose AVEVA Marine as it enables precisely this
sort of cooperation, said Mr Suh.
New business opportunities
DSME has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in commercial shipbuilding,
but it has also moved into a succession of offshore projects, and is proud
to have become the first company in the worlds shipbuilding industry
to have achieved sales of USD 10 billion in the offshore arena. Indeed,
DSMEs offshore contracts formed 82.5% of total new orders for 2012.
DSME believes that AVEVA Marine will give it a competitive advantage
for the offshore market as AVEVA Marines Outfitting module is derived
from AVEVA PDMS, the leading 3D design software in use in the offshore
industry.
The company recently announced a new order from Statoil, a
multinational energy company, to build a fixed platform, with the option
for an additional platform in the future. It will be installed at the Mariner
oilfield on the UKs North Sea continental shelf.
This platform will have a 31,000 ton scaled topside for oil production
and will yield 31,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It will be designed with
AVEVA Marine and constructed in the Okpo shipyard. Delivery will be at
the end of 2016, said Mr. Suh.
About DSME
Since 1973, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME)
has played a key contractors role in the shipbuilding and offshore
industry. The company has approximately 30,000 employees including its
subsidiaries. Its leading technology, competitive on-time delivery, and
reliable production management systems bring DSME to the top position
worldwide in building various vessels, offshore platforms, drilling rigs,
FPSO/FPUs, submarines and destroyers.
The shipyard, at Okpo Bay, Geoje Island in South Korea, covers an area of
4.3 million square metres, encompassing the worlds largest dock, with a
million-ton capacity. It is optimised for building high-tech motor vessels
using cutting-edge equipment, including a 900-ton Goliath crane.
Please visit www.dsme.co.kr for further information.
AVEVA Marine model of an FPSO. Image courtesy of DSME.
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AVEVA
Everything3D
Whats new
with the
Future of
Plant Design
The end of last year was a very exciting
time for everyone at AVEVA as we
completed the launch of our new plant
design product, AVEVA Everything3D
(AVEVA E3D).
At the 2012 AVEVA World Summit in
Paris, AVEVA E3D took centre stage,
but behind the scenes we were also
introducing our new project to develop
mobile applications for plant design.
It was here that we shared the first
previews of our research prototype,
which allows for the visualisation of
AVEVA E3D models.
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But why are we directing our efforts towards developing mobile

applications? AVEVA recognises the following important industry
changes:
z Mobile applications are being used for business to business
requirements
The consumer market has produced millions of apps but very few
business to business apps; this will change with the advent of
the next generation of tablet using Windows 8.
z Project complexity means more staff are mobile and in
different time zones
The trend is towards more subcontractors and more diverse joint
ventures.
z Decision making must be streamlined
Under these more diverse engineering environments the process
of decision making must not hinder project progress.
z Business processes must adapt to new opportunities
Mobile technologies provide an opportunity to reassess the
current business processes and investigate new options.
z New engineers expect higher levels of availability and
interactivity from their applications
Great user experience, easy-to-use systems and powerful
functionality are all cornerstones of the new wave of mobile
applications.
The feedback from everyone in Paris was very positive and further
consultations with many of our customers soon set us on the right
path to turn this prototype into a real product. Since then our
development team has been working tirelessly to realise the vision
of mobile apps which support the process of plant design. So here
is a sneak preview from behind the scenes to see what has been
happening.
Future of Plant Design
Our new project team has been operational for over six months
and has made excellent progress towards completing the product.
Our close partnership with Microsoft has helped to provide more
insight into the technologies and developments behind Windows
8, which is our chosen platform for application developments at
this stage. Windows 8 provides a robust platform for developing
our new mobile application.
We are focusing this new application on the design leaders and
management team who are not always available in the design
office, but who are key decision makers and active members
of the review and approval teams across the design. We have
concentrated on a number of key areas in order to help them drive
designs forward and streamline the approval process.
Live access
Important feedback from our customers includes the desire to be
able to see and interact with the live design model, not a static
snapshot. Engineers need to see the latest available information
and its current known status. Access to the live information helps
a multi-disciplinary and multi-regional team work off the same
understanding of the design progress.
Visualisation
The ability to visualise and to easily
manipulate the 3D model with zoom,
pan and rotate functions is essential in
highlighting design areas of interest and
seeing them in the context of nearby
objects.
Inspection
In order to make decisions regarding the
validity of designs, the engineer must be
able to assess the design situation. This
means seeing the design in 3D model
space, measuring distances, identifying
potential clashes and querying the
attributes of 3D objects. All of these help
to create a picture of the design for proper
assessment. Notes and comments for the
design must also be easy to append and
share with collaborating parties for quick
problem resolution.
We are focusing this new application on the

design leaders and management team who are not
always available in the design office, but who are
key decision makers and active members of the
review and approval teams across the design...
Approval
The most important part of streamlining
the approval process is enabled by
allowing mobile authorised workers to
approve designs in progress. Being away
from the office need no longer hold up the
process of design approval. Mobile users
should be able to change the status of the
design directly on the design model and
indicate their approval.
User experience (UX)
The availability of a lightweight
application development framework and
gesture technologies through Windows
8 has allowed us to direct our product
design effort to creating a simple and
efficient user interface. The introduction
of gestures for selecting functions and
manipulating the 3D model help to make
the experience very intuitive. Taking
advantage of the new 3D design graphics
within AVEVA E3D makes the operation of
the app very tactile and highly productive
when combined with our new pop-up
AVEVA PowerWheel.
Developments are still under way for the
new product, which will be launched at
the AVEVA World Summit in Boston at the
end of October 2013. For more information
on this exciting new application, simply
sign up to the new alerts from our Future
of Plant Design website:
www.aveva.com/futureofplantdesign.
Right: These images are from a development version of
the software; the final version may differ.
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Global growth global success

Our sustained investment in product development and ever-closer customer support teams
makes AVEVA the key technology partner of the worlds most successful engineering companies
49 Offices
1,400+
employees
30 Countries
R&D
25% in
2012/13
35.5m
2012/13
32.1m
2011/12
28.1m
2010/11
20.9m
2009/10
During the past five years, AVEVA has invested almost

150 million in innovation
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AVEVA serves more than 3,000 customers in the plant and marine industries
Oil & Gas
Power
Marine
Other
Stability and
growth
220.2
195.9
Innovation and
acquisitions
Launch of AVEVA
Everything3D
174.0
148.3
Acquisition of
Global Majic for
simulation
2010
2011
2012
Annual revenue in million
2013
Acquisition of
bocad for steelwork
fabrication
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Two Years On
An overview of AVEVA Engineering in practice
AVEVA Engineering was released in
October 2011, so two years on seems
like a good opportunity to take stock of
its development since then and of its
impact on the engineering industries.
Background
AVEVA Engineerings importance can be summed up in one word: control.
Engineering projects create and manipulate huge amounts of disparate
types of information, through a process of continual change. Historically,
this required the different disciplines to work with many mutually
incompatible applications and any number of home-grown spreadsheet
documents. Chemical Engineering Magazine1 once observed that
...engineers working with stand-alone computer programs spend 5080%
of their time moving and organizing data between programs.
Julien de Beer
Head of Product Business Management,
Engineering & Schematics, AVEVA
That was quite a startling statistic. It implied that many engineers

were only fully productive for one or two days a week; for the rest of the
time they were creating opportunities for errors to creep in, which is
frustrating for the engineers and bad for business.
The road to a common byte Chemical Engineering, Vol. 101, Issue 9
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Even with subsequent technology advances, effort that could be more

productively applied is still absorbed in checking, correcting and
rechecking every individual change across every business process that
consumes it. Inevitably, some errors can remain undetected until the
construction stage, leading to costly rework and project delays.
So AVEVAs strategy has long been clear; bring information under control
by integrating it on a common project database, and provide benchmarkquality functionalities to enable it to be created, changed and shared
under robust control. It is easy to see that, just by eliminating much of
the 5080% of working time spent shuffling information, engineering
productivity can shoot up, reducing costs and timescales. Equally
important, by also eliminating sources of error, less checking effort is
needed and a better quality project can be delivered. AVEVA Engineering
achieves all this.
Show and tell

Many leading EPCs have already embedded AVEVA Engineering
into their engineering and design management processes and
have achieved significant productivity gains as a result. But
companies to whom it is unfamiliar may understandably need
to be convinced of its value in their particular situation. AVEVA
therefore created an interactive Business Value Calculator
(BVC) that enables a prospective user to create a profile of
their current performance in creating the principal types of
engineering deliverable on a representative size of project.
Once this has been done, the BVC calculates the savings likely
to be achieved, in cost and time, based on data compiled from
testing on real-world data and feedback from customers.
Multi-discipline collaboration
AVEVA Engineering enables the management of the status of every
tagged item on a project, from its initial creation as an item on a P&ID,
through its progress through successive changes and levels of maturity.
But rarely, if ever, is a tagged item of interest to only a single discipline; it
is the subject of collaboration between Process, Mechanical, Electrical &
Instrumentation and other disciplines. These various participants work at
different rates through different phases of the project. Each contributes
or updates information concerning the tagged item at different times. It
is essential, not only that the items various attributes remain under the
control of the responsible disciplines, but that every discipline can always
see the items true current status in order to keep their own part of the
overall design up to date.
Your AVEVA Account Manager or local sales team will be
pleased to help you use the BVC to illustrate how AVEVA
Engineering would perform in your particular situation.
AVEVAs strategy has long been clear; bring information

under control by integrating it on a common project database, and
provide benchmark-quality functionalities to enable it to be
created, changed and shared under robust control...
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To enable this, AVEVA Engineering is database-driven. Each tagged item

behaves as a unique data object, with many attributes that describe it
from the perspectives of the various disciplines and the applications
they use. This approach inherently eliminates the problems of sharing
and reconciling information between different applications. The various
discipline-specific views, such as line lists, P&IDs and the 3D model, each
present the relevant attributes of the individual data objects.
This is shown in the example screenshots. According to need, an item may
be viewed as an intelligent object in a P&ID, in the 3D model, or even in
both at once. Selecting it in one view automatically highlights it in the
other views, making it easy to understand both its context and its various
attributes.
This has one obvious benefit: a change to an item is immediately
highlighted in all its views, making it easy for other disciplines to see and
respond to the change. Importantly, however, they do not necessarily
have to reflect the impact of the change immediately. It remains
highlighted but does not prevent the other disciplines from continuing to
work at their own pace and schedule. A 3D-layout designer, for example,
may choose to batch up a number of minor changes that affect existing
layout for later updating after a higher priority task is completed.
Above: Reports can include charts and graphics.
Tools for the job

Database technology is, however, only half the story; it would be of little
value if the tools used to work with the data were inadequate. AVEVA
Engineering therefore provides intuitive and powerful functions that
correspond to the types of tool in common use.
Arguably the most popular engineers tool is Excel; almost every engineer
uses it and a spreadsheet is ideal for working with tabular data such as
line lists. AVEVA Engineerings users immediately find themselves at home
with its Excel-compatible interfaces.
We see the database approach for building

intelligent and managed data as a very
positive point compared with Excel. And
AVEVA Engineering provides this level of
control.
Engineering information is used for a variety of business purposes, so

it is essential to be able to reliably round-trip data to and from other
formats. Users can not only create new data within AVEVA Engineering,
they can also import data from existing spreadsheet documents,
securing the value of a companys accumulated data assets. Information
can be exported in either Excel or pdf formats for use in third-party
applications or for aggregation into reports; and it can also be published
to AVEVA NET for enterprise-wide use.
From the outset, AVEVA Engineering has had a clear roadmap for longterm development to increase its business value. The new release delivers
two important new productivity-enhancing capabilities: Datasheets and
Project Breakdown Structure.
Above: Example report showing completeness of attributes in a line list.
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New capability: Datasheets

At its first release, AVEVA Engineering could generate datasheets based
on the Reporting tool. However, once generated, the data on such
datasheets could not be modified and, being only reports, they could not
be used for data entry.
AVEVA Engineerings equipment data is an

outstanding piece of functionality. Being
able to Compare & Update with AVEVA
Diagrams means there is no need to import
data any more. Equipment data in AVEVA
Engineering is immediately visible from
within AVEVA Diagrams, and is also visible
in AVEVA PDMS, combining a 3D deliverable
with engineering data.
AVEVA Engineering now ships with a built-in range of standard

datasheet templates but, if none of these match a customers particular
requirements, it is easy to import a suitable Excel-format datasheet and
map it to the database fields. An automapping function will handle all
existing fields and can create new fields if desired.
The user benefits are significant. Data entry is exactly like using a
spreadsheet, requiring little, if any, additional training, but it puts
the data directly under database control and makes it available for use
without further definition. A range of standard features are provided,
including radio buttons, check boxes, picture files, calculation fields,
units of measure, units of measure conversions and reference data. Free
text fields enable the addition of comments (normally unmapped fields,
as comments are not usually controlled data). All can be configured easily
and enable powerful control of data.
A particularly powerful feature is the ability to link multiple datasheet
templates to a single equipment item. For example, one can create
datasheets in multiple languages, enabling data to be entered in an
English template but issued in, say, Korean. Or one could use a company
standard template but issue datasheets in API, Norsok or a clients own
standard format.
Powerful and configurable datasheet revision control is provided, while
round-tripping is supported for purposes such as vendor completion, by
selectively locking data fields while leaving others as read/write for the
vendor to populate. Colour highlighting and accept/reject capabilities
enable effective change control. And, as an integrated member of the
AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine portfolios, data handled by AVEVA
Engineering can be readily shared across multiple work sites via AVEVA
Global.
New feature: Product Breakdown Structure
The new release also brings improved ways in which to view and use the
data. Project Breakdown Structure (PBS) enables stored data to be viewed
in a variety of ways based on configurable hierarchies; for example by
system, area, building, level, commissioning system, and so on. Such
configuration of task-optimised views enables different users to navigate
engineering information for their own particular needs in an intuitive
manner.
Navigation and selection of data are determined only by the configuration

of the view itself; they are not affected by the organisation of the
database.
The PBS can be regarded as a sophisticated explorer for easy and
intuitive navigation to any project item through a structure that is
easily recognisable by the end-user. Any PBS node is automatically
populated with new objects as soon as they meet the defined criteria for
that particular node. Together, these features make AVEVA Engineering
particularly valuable for occasional users, who will require no specialist
skills or training to be able to find data efficiently when they need it.
Delivering results
Some of AVEVAs lead customers generously agreed to evaluate AVEVA
Engineerings performance on representative data and contributed
valuable feedback on its ease of use. As a result, when it was released,
it was already proven in the field. Customer response was enthusiastic
and further feedback from its early adopters helped AVEVA to refine
the roadmap for its continuing development to provide the kinds of
functionality described above.
Today, AVEVA Engineering is in use across all of AVEVAs key markets: oil &
gas, chemical, power (thermal and nuclear), marine, biochemical, metals
and mining, water treatment and pulp and paper. Its versatility and ease
of use support a wide variety of use cases. Some customers create all
engineering items within AVEVA Engineering before using the data in
other applications, while others create data in other applications such as
AVEVA P&ID and transfer it into AVEVA Engineering.
Specific uses include:
z creating process and mechanical information for equipment, lines
and components
z engineering system design
z producing data sheets, lists and schedules
z aggregating imported data, for use in AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA
Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) or AVEVA Diagrams
z tag registration
z catalogue management
z tracking of modifications
z controlling P&ID drafting
z piping component supplier evaluation
z piping MTO production.
Compared to other listing tools such as

Excel, a big advantage is that data can
be checked at any time with data already
existing in AVEVA Diagrams or AVEVA
Engineering. Through the Compare &
Update functionality we no longer need to
consolidate many files and sources before
approval.
This has now been addressed, enabling engineering data to be entered

using either the grid view or a datasheet. This is similar to the way that
data can be entered in AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical.
Either method automatically stores data in the database, from where it is
automatically visible in both the grid and the datasheet.
Clearly, AVEVA Engineering is playing an important role in project

engineering, saving time and money through better control of key
information and more efficient business processes.
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Justifying the reputation

How Russian engineering skills and AVEVA technology combine
to make the Urals a leading centre of power project engineering
Russian engineers have a welldeserved reputation for skill and
resourcefulness. Within Russia,
the Urals region, bridging the
European and Asian cultures,
is particularly noted for its
peoples energy and focus.
It is perhaps not surprising
therefore that its capital,
Ekaterinburg, should be home
to the Urals Power Engineering
Company, UPEC, one of the
countrys leaders in the design
and engineering of energy
facilities.
Elena Kolesnikova
Marketing Specialist, AVEVA
What is surprising to those not aware of this regional characteristic is that UPEC rose to its current
pre-eminence in only 11 years. AVEVA technology has played a key role in this achievement, so we
met with Mr Arkadiy A. Egorov, UPECs General Director, to learn more. UPECs history shows that a
professional approach and a clear vision of ones goals can achieve extraordinary results in a very
short period of time, he explained. The companys philosophy has always been one of continual
progression, so in this respect we have very much in common with AVEVA.
Challenges and opportunities
The company was set up with the aim of being the most modern and innovative of its type, so the
need for both advanced technologies and best-practice working methods was obvious. From the
outset, UPEC developed a very successful internal quality management system, which is still in use
today. For Russian design enterprises, the 1990s were tough times, continued Mr Egorov, and
we saw many fundamental changes in the markets and in the challenges and opportunities that
emerged. We could see then that technology would be key to our future, so in 2008 we began our
successful collaboration with AVEVA, with our first seats of AVEVA PDMS.
Pavel V. Glukhovtsev, Head of the IT department at UPEC, takes up the story. Our first PDMS project
was for the production of design documentation for the new compressor station at the 410 MW GRES
Power Plant at Sredneuralskaya. This was a pilot project, during which we upgraded from PDMS 11.6
to 12.0. It involved all project disciplines and was accomplished within eight months.
Olga E. Gerulaytis, Head of the CAD department, added, One of the key requirements that we
needed AVEVA to demonstrate during the pilot project was the ability to connect objects with all
their associated data. For instance, we could associate the P&ID with the 3D model in PDMS and run
fully automatic consistency checks. The system enabled us to eliminate even the slightest risk of
clashes and errors.
A view of the Tom-Usin plants original turbine hall. Photo courtesy of UPEC.
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First steps in creating a new PDMS design in context with the 3D laser scan data.
Image courtesy of UPEC.
Arkadiy A. Egorov, General Director, UPEC.

Photo courtesy of UPEC.
Pavel V. Glukhovtsev, Head of the IT department at UPEC.

Early success
Success followed success. The next project, on a greater scale, was the
expansion of the Surgut-2 power station with a combined-cycle gas
turbine and steam turbine unit. This was particularly challenging, as the
engineering team had to design and analyse a number of alternative
approaches to increasing the plants generating capacity. Once the
best approach had been selected,UPECs specialists developed full
project documentation, both for the main building and for all of the
infrastructure. On completion, this project had increased Surgut-2s
generating capacity to 5,600 MW.
Extending capabilities
As UPEC rapidly became skilled in the use of PDMS, further AVEVA
applications were implemented. AVEVA Review had already been
implemented alongside PDMS, followed in 2010 by AVEVA Diagrams,
AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator and AVEVA Cable Design. AVEVA NET
was added in May 2011, adding advanced Information Management to a
powerful suite of engineering and design tools. Training was provided by
AVEVAs Moscow team, and UPEC today has over 80 trained AVEVA Plant
users.
Progressively adding new PDMS objects. Image courtesy of UPEC.
Olga E. Gerulaytis, Head of the CAD department at UPEC.

With strong demand for plant upgrades, UPEC soon realised that
accurately capturing the as-built state would save significant cost and
time. In December 2011 it adopted AVEVA Laser Model Interface in
preparation for its next project, the Tom-Usin power station, where laser
scanning was used for the first time to survey the main building, and the
scan data was put into PDMS. UPEC immediately became a committed user
of this powerful technology.
AVEVA Plant is being used on a succession of challenging projects. A
complex gas turbine project on the Severo-Labatjuganskoe field was
quickly followed by the Tachom field development. Here, the challenge lay
in positioning a large quantity of racks on very difficult site topography,
a task which was made considerably easier using PDMS. Currently, the
UPEC team are working on projects for the Akademicheskaya Thermal
Power Plant (TPP), the reconstruction of the Nizhnekam TPP with the
introduction of cold gas turbines, and the re-equipping of Blocks 4 and 5
of the Tom-Usin plant.
The final PDMS layout of the new Tom-Usin turbine hall. Image courtesy of UPEC.
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Olga E. Gerulaytis commented, The ability to integrate all engineering and

design data into AVEVA Plant is key to our being able to meet continually
changing project criteria. AVEVA PDMS enables the different disciplines to
work concurrently on the same project model and helps us to transfer data
without any headaches. This eliminates errors and loss of information, and
reduces time to commissioning.
Increasing client value
Mr Egorov described the broader picture of UPECs work. Our designers
face many technical challenges, but we always try to focus on the plant
operators interests. The way in which plant design technology and
methodology affect operating efficiency is not fully appreciated in Russia
at present. Our goal is to help Owner Operators (OOs) understand, not only
that the innovative technologies used increase our project efficiency, but
also how they can increase their own operational efficiency and safety.
PDMS enables us to provide a fully intelligent 3D model and high-quality
deliverables to our customers; unquestionably a great advantage.
However, we want them also to realise that the use of a common platform
for all types of engineering data will enable them to control every stage
of project development, no matter where they are located geographically.
This can be achieved through the use of AVEVA NET, for example. The
advantages are obvious, and we aim to promote the idea that collaborative
use of technology by both OOs and contractor is as essential as the use of
3D.
Mr Glukhovtsev agreed. Efficient information sharing is essential. When
I analysed our own working methods I found that at least 40% of our
work was collaborative. Thats one reason why AVEVA Plant helped us to
achieve such big improvements in project quality, cost and delivery time.
Its obvious to me that similar efficiency improvements could be achieved
through OOs and their contractors working with a common information
resource.
Leadership in many spheres
UPEC sees many opportunities for AVEVA technology to support its
continued development. It is already providing PDMS models to
customers for their lifecycle management needs and has plans for further
improvements to its own business processes through increased design
automation and more closely integrated management processes. Russian
engineering is a competitive industry and UPEC intends to maintain its
leadership by using technology to drive continuous improvement in its
capabilities, speed of delivery, project cost and quality, and added value
for its customers.
As if all its engineering successes were not enough, UPEC is also making
a name for itself in the social sphere, placing great importance on the
personal development of its professionals. In 2007 the company was
represented at the Kremlin Hall to receive the first prize in the Best
Socially Effective Company competition, one of Russias most prestigious
awards in this field. As Mr Egorov put it as we left, Just remember that
these guys are from the Urals!
Engineering drawings for the Tom-Usin power station upgrade.

Drawings courtesy of UPEC.
About the Urals Power Engineering Company

UPEC was founded in 2002, and in 2008 it became a member of JSC
Energostroyinvest-Holding. It employs approximately 1,600 staff in its
12 offices and delivers a wide range of projects for Russias thermal power
generation industry.
Visit www.iceu.ru for more information.
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Strategic collaboration in China

How SEDIN Engineering has put AVEVA
technology at the heart of its long-term
business strategy
AVEVA PDMS models

from the SEDIN-Jinsuo lignite
cleaning project. Courtesy of SEDIN.
SEDIN Engineering Co., Ltd

(SEDIN) is one of Chinas leading
EPCs, with an impressive track
record spanning many important
industry sectors.
In 2008 it became an AVEVA
customer and quickly signed a
strategic cooperation agreement
that puts AVEVAs solutions at the
heart of its long-term business
strategy and strengthens AVEVAs
position as a key technology
provider to the Chinese plant
industries.
Ryana Chen
Marketing Specialist, AVEVA
Since its foundation in 1958, SEDIN has built up an enviable reputation as a technology-driven EPC.
By 2008, increasing demand for its services on ever more challenging projects had begun to reveal
the limitations of its engineering design technology. This prompted a search for a more efficient
and scalable solution that would support its continuing business growth. A trial of AVEVA PDMS
quickly convinced SEDINs engineers and managers of its capabilities and, supported closely by
AVEVA China, the initial deployment was put to use on an alkene coal gasification project for the
Shenning Group. Successful on-time delivery led to SEDIN increasing its AVEVA deployment; in 2011
it extended this again with a further 50 PDMS seats.
From the outset, the relationship between SEDIN and AVEVA has been one of close partnership.
With their deep experience of the application of technology in the engineering industries, AVEVAs
consultants were able to work with SEDINs engineers to develop more efficient workflows and
business processes.
The relationship grows
From that first, successful PDMS trial in 2008, cooperation between SEDIN and AVEVA has continued
to grow. In addition to SEDINs increased deployment of PDMS, it has adopted more AVEVA products,
including AVEVA VPRM, AVEVA Diagrams and AVEVA Global, all of which are now in daily use on
a range of important projects.
Paul Eveleigh, Executive Vice President, AVEVA, commented, Chinas engineering industry
recognises the importance of using the most up-to-date technology to support world-class
business performance. SEDINs strategy is a good example of this in practice. Working with SEDINs
engineers to ensure a successful implementation of our solution, and then helping them develop
more efficient working methods that take advantage of the technology, has been a rewarding
experience for both parties.
A successful relationship like this with such a highly regarded Chinese engineering company also
helps to establish AVEVA as a credible technology partner in this economically important industry.
As a full-service EPC, SEDIN also extends the use of PDMS to the fabrication sites, making the model
available to support efficient construction processes and to help quickly resolve any problems. The
improved workflows developed at SEDIN have been so successful that SEDIN has now teamed up
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AVEVA has provided exemplary support in the maintenance of our PDMS system and
has helped us further develop our layout design and engineering applications to much
greater depth. AVEVAs solutions and services are indeed helping us achieve many
operational goals. This successful collaboration has been invaluable to us and will, I
believe, continue to drive our close partnership with AVEVA to reach even higher levels...
with AVEVA to promote these to the rest of Chinas chemical industry,

pushing for them to be recognised as industry standards.
Moving forward
Helping SEDIN to improve its engineering and design processes also
identified opportunities to support its strategic development with more
advanced Information Management. AVEVA has helped SEDIN to set up
a Digital Engineering Information Handover system with standardised
functionalities. As a result, not only has SEDIN increased efficiency in its
own engineering and design processes, it can now provide innovative,
value-adding engineering services to its customers. SEDIN is currently
working with AVEVA to evaluate the suitability of AVEVA NET as a
foundation for more comprehensive information management processes.
SEDIN continues to promote best-practice business processes to the
Chinese chemical engineering industry, counselling other companies
on how they have enhanced AVEVA Diagrams and VPRM with application
features and rules to meet the standards of Chinas chemical engineering
industry. For its part, AVEVA is able to draw on SEDINs knowledge and
experience in this area to update its own products to make them even
more suitable for Chinas chemical engineering industry.
Mr Yan ShaoWei, Vice General Manager, SEDIN, commented, AVEVA has
provided exemplary support in the maintenance of our PDMS system
and has helped us further develop our layout design and engineering
applications to much greater depth. AVEVAs solutions and services
are indeed helping us achieve many operational goals. This successful
collaboration has been invaluable to us and will, I believe, continue to
drive our close partnership with AVEVA to reach even higher levels.
SEDIN and AVEVA have formalised this strong relationship by signing a
strategic cooperation agreement. SEDIN will use AVEVA solutions in all of
its projects.
The SEDIN office building. Courtesy of SEDIN.
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About SEDIN
Originally Chinas Second Design Institute of Chemical Industry, SEDIN
Engineering Co., Ltd was founded in 1958 and affiliated to the former
Ministry of Chemical Industry. It became a member of the state-run
China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation (CNCEC) in
1988 after a national reorganisation. SEDIN is today one of Chinas
leading EPCs, with extensive expertise in the coal-to-liquid, coal-togas, coal-chemical, organic and inorganic chemicals, pharmaceutical
and agricultural chemicals, environmental protection, and geological
surveying industries.
PDMS projects at SEDIN

Alkene coal gasification facility for the
Shenning Group
In this, SEDINs first PDMS project and Chinas largest coal gasification
plant, PDMS was used for the entire project, with such success that
SEDIN decided to standardise its operations on PDMS.
A 10,000 tons per annum aniline project

for the Tianji Company, at Chengjiachuan,
Shanxi province
This revamp project added more products to the clients product range,
supporting its growth and increasing its capabilities. The project
complied with national industry standards. PDMS enabled quick and
efficient 3D modelling and detailed design of the piping and layout
arrangement. Clash and integrity checking ensured a high quality
design with minimal rework, while the use of AVEVA Global enabled the
geographically distributed design team to work together effectively on
the plant model.
The plant has an annual production of 180,000 tons of nitrobenzene
and 130,000 tons of aniline, and represents an investment of around
CNY 522M (USD 85M).
A demonstration lignite cleaning project at

Jinsuo, Yunnan province
This plant has an annual output of 500,000 tons of methanol, 186,250
tons of gasoline, 24,130 tons of LPG and 147,000 tons of LNG. The
project benefitted from PDMS enabling SEDINs designers in different
disciplines to work concurrently to develop the complete digital model.
Multiple design checks across the entire design eliminated errors and
enabled high quality construction.
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AVEVA PDMS models from the SEDIN-Tianji

aniline project. Courtesy of SEDIN.
AVEVA honoured at two prestigious award ceremonies

AVEVA has been honoured at two UK award ceremonies. The company
was named Business of the Year, 2013 at the Cambridge News Business
Excellence awards, which took place on 21 March 2013 at Kings
College, Cambridge. Chosen from a list of prestigious Cambridgeshire
companies, the award recognises an organisation which has led the
way in 2012 in terms of growth, diversification or consolidation.
AVEVA was also awarded the London Loves Excellence, Technology and
Telecoms award. Winners had to demonstrate significant growth or
expansion, with judges recognising, among other things, an outstanding
increase in sales, profit, headcount or geographical expansion, and
sustained financial performance. The judges were unanimous in choosing
AVEVA as their winner. They praised AVEVA for achieving significant
growth as it approaches the 200 million turnover mark, and for its
successful diversification and internationalism.
AVEVAs Mat Truche-Gordon, Executive Vice-President, Business Strategy and

Marketing and Peter Brunning, Product Manager, with John Simpson CBE (centre),
World Affairs Editor at BBC News and Business Excellence Awards host.
Focus
These two awards are a real testament to how the AVEVA team made 2012
a great year, said Richard Longdon, CEO, AVEVA. 2012 marked our 45th
anniversary. We are growing rapidly and we have just released some of
the most exciting technology in the companys history. This accolade is
a direct reflection of our commitment to significant and sustained R&D
investment, commercial achievement and a solid growth strategy. We
currently employ 1,400 staff around the world, with approximately 400 in
the UK, making us a truly global company.
Our customers are in the process plant, power and marine industries
and rely on our software to create and operate the worlds most complex
engineering assets. We continually strengthen our product portfolio
through both in-house development and the acquisition and integration
of industry-leading technologies. Its wonderful that the dedicated
efforts of our AVEVA colleagues have been recognised by the judges.
Sophie Hobson, Editor of LondonLovesBusiness.com, Steve Tongish, VP of Marketing,

AVEVA, Adrian Rann, Chairman of James Cowper and Katie Derham, Awards Co-host.
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AVEVA PDMS model of one of the Gas Field

Development Plants in the Middle East.
Images courtesy of LTC.
Raising ones game

How AVEVA Plant has
enabled LTC to handle
much more complex
and advanced projects
First major project with AVEVA PDMS

L&T-Chiyoda (LTC) had built up an enviable reputation as an EPC specialising in fast-track smalland medium-size projects for challenging applications such as offshore platforms. In 2011, an
opportunity to execute a USD 150m gas treatment plant project for Petroleum Development Oman
LLC (PDO), as part of the Lekhwair Gas Field Development Project, led to the start of a successful
association with AVEVA.
Neha Gianchand
Marketing Manager, AVEVA India
Adding PDMS to LTCs existing suite of engineering and design solutions proved straightforward.
User training was provided at LTCs offices, and modelling of the new design began less than a
month later. Two years on, and LTC has over 80 engineers and designers trained and working with
AVEVA software.
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The client had mandated the use of AVEVA PDMS for this prestigious 3 million cubic metres/
day gas production facility. Mr. Kishorkumar Shah, LTCs IT Head, explained, This was a major
breakthrough for LTC. It was the biggest project we had handled and was strategically important
for us. There is considerable growth potential in the regions natural gas industry, but it is a very
competitive market for EPCs, so we needed to demonstrate our ability to deliver large, complex
projects efficiently.
Reaping the benefits

LTCs Piping Head, Mr. Nitish Chaube, responded saying Once we had adopted PDMS, we quickly
realised the opportunities that other AVEVA Plant programs could offer us. Perhaps the biggest
business opportunity has been created by our adding AVEVA Global, which enables us to
collaborate efficiently on multi-site projects. We are currently using it on two projects, the Saih
Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 for PDO and one for the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC).
The team at our Vadodara office work seamlessly with the teams at PDO and GS Engineering and
Construction Company (GS E&C), in Korea.
Mr Chaube, went on to describe the productivity benefits that LTC had gained from its AVEVA
deployment. The high-quality visualisation of the plant during the detailed engineering stage
results in high efficiency and accuracy in engineering which, in turn, leads to ease of construction.
This general benefit underpins improved working methods and new capabilities provided by the use
of AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports, AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface and AVEVA Laser
Model Interface.
With AVEVA,
we can do
more, in less
time and to a
higher quality
standard...
Using Multi-Discipline Supports, LTC customises and models project-specific supports with a
significant degree of detail in the 3D model. Fully detailed piping support drawings can be produced
much more quickly than by using a conventional CAD drawing utility. Mr Chaube estimated that this
saves around 3540% of the man-hours originally required.
Similarly, using AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface has resulted in significant savings in effort
which would have been spent on remodelling vendors equipment. For the PDO project, LTC is
importing models of compressors and accessories designed by their vendor (GE) in Pro/ENGINEER,
using the AP203 format. Together with PDMSs powerful model editor, this makes equipment
positioning and the associated pipe routing work quick and efficient.
On the same project, Mr Chaube explained that they were expecting a requirement to work with
as-built data captured by laser scanning, something which he is well placed to meet by the use of
AVEVA Laser Model Interface, which enables 3D scan data to be referenced directly within PDMS.
Mr. Kishorkumar Shah, LTCs IT Head.

Photo courtesy of LTC.
Bigger, better, faster projects

Though every project is unique, LTC has been able to benefit from increased design reuse. Many
components can be reused either as-is or with only slight modification, saving considerable
modelling time. Models can be stored as library items, progressively growing LTCs assets of proven
designs and increasing its design efficiency.
Mr Chaubes team has also been quick to take advantage of PDMSs PML programming language to
automate or streamline routine tasks, such as:
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customised schedule report generation

fetching additional information on isometrics, for fabrication and erection
warning of inconsistent design while extracting isometrics
customisation of project-specific pipe supports
customisation of project-specific forms.
PDMS also delivers value right through to construction. LTC routinely makes the PDMS model
available to the team on the construction site, greatly assisting the avoidance or resolution of
problems at this critical stage.
A bright future
LTC is in no doubt about the opportunities that its AVEVA Plant deployment offers for its business
growth. Demonstrated success on the PDO project followed similar high performance on two Indian
projects: a process/living-quarters platform for Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited and a
modular cellar skid for Cairn India, on the Raageshwari, Bhagyam and Aishwariya oil fields.
Mr Chaube commented, We are already working on a follow-up project for PDO and four units for
ERC. The ERC project is our largest international direct order to date. We would not have been able
to tender for it without our proven ability to work on collaborative projects. With important add-ons
like AVEVA Global and Laser Model Interface, it enables us to punch well above our weight on far
bigger and more complex projects. With AVEVA, we can do more, in less time and to a higher quality
standard, he concluded.
LTCs Piping Head, Mr. Nitish Chaube.

Photo courtesy of LTC.
About L&T-Chiyoda Ltd

L&T-Chiyoda Ltd is an engineering consultancy
organisation formed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd,
a leading Indian EPC company, and Chiyoda
Corporation, a Japanese engineering company
with five decades of experience in hydrocarbon
and related fields.
LTC is a versatile company, specialising in
engineering for fast-track EPC projects in
oil & gas, LNG and LPG, petroleum refining,
petrochemicals, chemicals, fertilisers and
similar process industries.
Visit www.lntchiyoda.com to find out more.
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30 October to 1 November, 2013 | Westin Copley Place | Boston, Massachusetts, USA

About the Summit
The Summit is AVEVAs premier annual event, providing a unique
opportunity to learn about new developments at AVEVA and to share
experiences with the worlds leading EPCs, Owner Operators and
Shipbuilders.
Join us in Boston
The Summit programme is designed to address the business and strategic
issues that are important to senior management and decision makers. You
will hear from an impressive list of customer speakers who will share their
insights on industry challenges and their experiences with AVEVA solutions.
We start the Summit with a Welcome Reception on 30 October at the
Westin Copley Place Hotel, located in the heart of Bostons scenic Back Bay
district. The reception allows you to mingle with your industry colleagues
and our technology partners in the exhibition space. Our Gala Dinner on
31 October features a night at the Museum of Science one of the worlds
largest and most fascinating science centres. The Summit registration fee
includes all scheduled sessions, meals, entertainment and access to postevent Summit materials.
Streamlined Agendas
This years Summit has three focused agendas, designed to meet the
different interests of our delegates. Maximise your Summit experience
by selecting the agenda that offers the greatest benefit to your business.
Rest assured that you are also free to move between agendas, selecting
individual sessions that are of particular interest. All three agendas contain
a mix of both AVEVA and customer speakers.
Agenda for Owner Operators
This agenda focuses on the key risk reduction and ROI challenges faced in
the CAPEX and OPEX phases of the global Oil & Gas, Process Plant, Power
and Mining industries projects.
Agenda for EPCs
This agenda explores how these companies can improve the efficiency of
major capital projects from FEED through to handover while improving their
competiveness in an increasingly complex market.
Agenda for Shipbuilders
This agenda delivers insights and strategies for creating a more integrated
and competitive shipyard for both vessel and offshore projects.
The Summit is AVEVAs premier annual event,

providing a unique opportunity to learn
about new developments at AVEVA and to
share experiences with the worlds leading
EPCs, Owner Operators and Shipbuilders...
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The Summit Agenda

Day 1 Wednesday 30 October, 2013
Day 3 Friday 1 November, 2013

The evergreen
asset
Asset capture,
revamp and
operations
Welcome Reception
Day 2 Thursday 31 October, 2013

Setting the stage
Sharing new perspectives
Team working
in the yard
The advance
of integrated
shipbuilding
Lunch and Sponsor Exhibition
The AVEVA launchpad

Introduction of new products and technologies
The evergreen
asset
(continued)
Lunch and Sponsor Exhibition

Adding value to
your asset
Exploiting the
digital plant for
greater ROI
Team working
across the project
Plant design,
construction
and material
management
Adding value to your projects

Integrating information for greater
productivity
Working smarter
Building relationships in structural
steel
A view into the future

New opportunities in technology and collaboration
To find out more about the Summit agenda and view

the latest version, please visit www.avevaworld.com
Owner Operator
Agenda
Gala Dinner Museum of Science
EPC
Agenda
Shipbuilder
Agenda
Featured Customer Speakers

The AVEVA World Summit always includes an impressive list of customer speakers who are willing to share their business and technology
expertise. The 2013 Summit is no exception. Customers speaking this year include:
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BHEL-Piping Centre
Boustead Naval
Chevron
DSME
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Man Diesel & Turbo

Petrobras
PPL Shipyards
Siemens
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Be sure to check the Summit website for the latest list of confirmed customer speakers.
Find out more and register online at:
www.avevaworld.com
See you in Boston!
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MIPAC Instruments of Change

How AVEVA Instrumentation supports an agile,
dynamic Instrumentation & Control systems company
Change invariably creates opportunities. When, in
1997, Australias Mount Isa Mines company (MIM)
decided to close down its process control group, the
staff and contractors seized the opportunity to strike
out as an independent company, MIPAC. Combining
30 years experience with the can-do approach of a
start-up business, MIPACs original nine-man team
quickly established a worldwide customer base and
has now grown to over 50 skilled engineers.
Instrumentation & Control is a specialised discipline that requires

specialised tools. MIPAC recognised the advantage of plant design
software to maximise efficiencies but they wanted more than just an outof-the-box solution. Available options were not adequate for their needs,
and the technical support to make them so was not available, so the
MIPAC team set about creating their own solution. The result proved very
effective and was a key factor in the companys success, but that success
came at a price. Continuing development and maintenance absorbed
valuable effort by one individual, increasing overheads and leaving the
company vulnerable. MIPAC began looking for a replacement solution
which would be better able to support their long-term goals.
Kelvin Davis
Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA
By 2011, MIPACs engineers had encountered AVEVA Instrumentation,

which was being used by some of their clients. They were impressed, not
only with its performance, but also with reports of the technical support
available. These impressions were confirmed when MIPAC was involved in
a clients implementation of AVEVA Instrumentation and in developing
project templates for it. Jon Burton, MIPACs Engineering Manager,
explained, We were very impressed with the AVEVA teams willingness
to respond to suggestions and to configure the standard product to
MIPACs engineers take advantage of AVEVA Instrumentations close integration with Microsoft Excel.
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meet particular project needs. As members of our design team gained

experience with the product, I quickly came to appreciate the competitive
advantages that AVEVA Instrumentation could offer MIPAC in both
productivity and credibility.
Having decided to replace their in-house system with AVEVA
Instrumentation, MIPAC cautiously minimised business risk by deploying
it initially on just one project, an innovative gold production facility in
Armenia. Implementation proved straightforward. User training was
provided by the local AVEVA team, who also helped MIPACs designers to
create templates and populate the database. A senior MIPAC draughtsman
helped to create AutoCAD drawing templates in the correct project
format.
Covering motor control as well as instrumentation, this first live project
proved very successful, with the first design completion milestone being
reached within five months, ahead of schedule. It was also well within
budget, having required a small team of only two engineers.
Such rapid success on a technically pioneering project really convinced
us of the advantages of AVEVA Instrumentation, commented Jon. It gave
us the confidence to deploy it across all our projects and retire our old
home-grown system, with no regrets.
Jon went on to describe some of the benefits that MIPAC had gained. The
biggest of these was the ability to deliver high-quality instrumentation
design, to the companys standards, with around only half the number
of engineers. The design cost savings alone are considerable, he
explained, but other savings arise from the reduction in checking
effort. The database-driven approach eliminates duplication and a lot
of human errors. Weve also removed a great deal of double-handling
of information; for example, we can export I/O allocation lists in Excel

format for direct import into Distributed Control Systems (DCS).
Unexpected benefits were also found. For example, procurement tracking
reports can be created from the system, eliminating more doublehandling between designers and buyers. This led MIPAC to identify
still more ways to use the AVEVA Instrumentation database to support
procurement or project planning tasks.
We asked Jon Burton whether the new capabilities had changed MIPACs
methods of working with its customers. Not yet, he replied. At present,
we concentrate on design and commissioning on new-build projects, for
which our clients require documentation deliverables. Although we can
offer the ability to deliver database content directly, this has not yet been
required. But Im sure it will come; AVEVA Instrumentation would be ideal
for operators to maintain their plants with.
What we have certainly found is that winning new business is easier.
We can tender more competitively and our high-quality deliverables and
on-schedule completion are helping to secure more repeat business and
client recommendations. AVEVA Instrumentation is a key platform for our
specialist services.
About MIPAC
Based in Brisbane, MIPAC is a privately owned provider of businesscritical process control, instrumentation and electrical engineering
solutions for the plant and mining industries. It has an impressive track
record in projects around the world in the minerals and metals, oil &
gas, food and beverage and pulp & paper sectors. Sustained success has
brought awards and industry recognition and, in 2012, the company
opened an office in Vancouver. To find out more visit www.mipac.com.au.
We were very impressed with

the AVEVA teams willingness to
respond to suggestions and to
configure the standard product to
meet particular project needs. As
members of our design team gained
experience with the product, I
quickly came to appreciate the
competitive advantages that
AVEVA Instrumentation could offer
MIPAC in both productivity and
credibility...
Jon Burton, MIPACs Engineering Manager.
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Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard implements AVEVAs Integrated

Shipbuilding solution for improved project management
Located on the Neva River near St Petersburg, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a medium-sized shipyard employing
around 1,100 people, is one of the most efficient shipbuilders in Russia. The shipyard builds naval and
commercial vessels, including missile boats, mine hunters, patrol ships, passenger vessels and work vessels up
to 100 metres long and 800 tons in weight.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is regarded as a technological pacesetter in the
Russian shipbuilding industry, continuously applying new shipbuilding
technologies and utilising new construction materials. When electric
welding was introduced to shipbuilding in the 1930s, the shipyard was
one of the first in the world to make use of this technology; in the 1960s,
it was among the worlds first to build fibreglass (glass-reinforced plastic,
GRP) minesweepers. The shipyard was founded in 1912 and has built more
than 500 naval and commercial ships and vessels in 43 different designs
for the Russian Navy and foreign clients.
When we visited the shipyard in March this year, they were building a
composite passenger catamaran designed with AVEVA Marine. The
company had recently announced their latest order, the construction
of six pusher-tugs for the Moscow-based company, P. Transco, to be
delivered in April/May 2014. These tugs will be built with the use of AVEVA
Marine.
Magnus Feldt
Editor, AVEVA World Magazine
We met Mr V. Seredokho, the Director General, who explained the changes

the shipyard is carrying out to further increase productivity to meet the
new challenges they are facing.
He told us, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard has unique knowledge in how
to build ships in different materials such as aluminium, fibreglass,
composite, ordinary and low-magnetic steel. The company also provides
engineering services for the plant industry. Our engineering department
has recently completed the design and fabrication of the steel
structures for a huge fluid gas terminal plant for the gas processing and
petrochemicals company, SIBUR.
He continued, The AVEVA Marine solution was implemented in 2008,
when the shipyard carried out an extensive investment programme in
order to further increase our production capacity and boost productivity
by implementing the latest technologies in shipbuilding. We undertook
a comprehensive reconstruction of the main workshop facilities for
machining, chemical and galvanic processes, outfitting and GRP.
Our fabrication process is now an up-to-date, workstation-oriented,
workshop production line with modern panel-line and assembly-line
equipment.
I, and many of the engineers in our organisation, have had a long and
positive experience with the Tribon shipbuilding system when we were
with other shipbuilding companies. The decision to select AVEVA Marine
as the engineering solution at our shipyard was an obvious choice as
this solution fully supported the design and production processes in the
shipyard for the complete structural steel and outfitting disciplines.
We found AVEVAs acquisition of Tribon Solutions very positive, he
continued. We regard the AVEVA Marine solution as an important longterm commitment from AVEVA to the further development of shipbuilding
technology, with input from other important industries such as offshore,
oil & gas and energy, leading to an improved outfitting solution for
shipbuilding.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation,
USC, with 60 leading marine engineering offices. Several of the
engineering offices also use the AVEVA Marine solution, and we receive
many 3D ship designs in AVEVA Marine from them. With AVEVA Marine we
can now easily improve these designs to satisfy our shipyards fabrication
standards. Cooperation with the engineering offices in USC has become
much easier since we now have a common language.
Above: Mr V. Seredokho, Director General, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.
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We have extended the use of the 3D model to the fabrication area. The
model is made available for review by the fabrication engineers and
workers. This gives us a prompt understanding of how the pipes and
equipment are placed.
And the assembly work has also become much

easier thanks to access to the model. Our aim
is to develop a fully automated shipyard, with a
minimum of paperwork, and where more people in
the organisation will have access to the model. For
example, the full, integrated model should also be
available to the project management team.
Early this year, in order to improve the shipyards
project management process and take the next
step towards a fully integrated shipbuilding
strategy, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard purchased
the AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management
applications, AVEVA Planning, AVEVA Material
and AVEVA Production, thus optimising project
control, logistics, materials management, resource
and production planning. With this integrated
shipbuilding approach, the shipyards design and
engineering processes will be fully integrated with
downstream engineering processes such as the
supply chain, production and planning. Planners,
engineers and designers in all disciplines and all
departments will now be able to work simultaneously
on a single ship model database, to plan, create,
develop, manage and exploit engineering and design
data in the most productive and risk-free way.
We want to be in full control of each individual
project and we want to know how efficiently we are
using our resources at the shipyard. We constantly
analyse new shipbuilding technologies and the latest
materials for building new types of ships. We are
currently building a new slipway so that we will be
able to add offshore supply vessels to our portfolio
in the near future, V. Seredokho concluded.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard has a rich history with a
wealth of experience. One key to its past success
has been its ability to adapt to changing technology
by deploying the latest software and industry best
practice. Over the years it has evolved from using
independent software applications to deploying a
complete Integrated Shipbuilding strategy, helping
to secure its success for the future.
About Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is part of the United
Shipbuilding Corporation, USC. USC is an open jointstock company in Russia, uniting shipbuilding, repair
and maintenance subsidiaries. The state owns 100%
of the shares. USC also has a 50% stake in Arctech
Helsinki Shipyard, a joint venture with STX Finland
Cruise Oy.
USC includes 60 leading Russian marine engineering,
shipyard, and ship-repair enterprises, bringing
together more than 70% of the domestic
shipbuilding industry. In total, the members of the
USC businesses and organisations employ about
74,000 people.
All images courtesy of

Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.
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