Interoperability a Key Enhancement of AVEVA Marine

    CAMBRIDGE, England, July 2 /CNW/ - AVEVA (LSE:AVV) announced today that
it has made further enhancements to its AVEVA Marine portfolio.
    With a main focus on interoperability, this new release of the AVEVA
Marine portfolio now offers AVEVA's marine customers extended possibilities
for data exchange between various sources.
    AVEVA Marine users will now be able to integrate P&IDs and schematic
diagrams coming from various systems, including the AVEVA P&ID solution.
    This brings a real benefit to customers as they are now free to select
their P&ID system from various sources and even to integrate P&IDs from other
authoring systems into a complete model of their project.
    AVEVA Marine now also offers a completely new Mechanical Equipment
Interface product using the Step AP203 format. This allows AVEVA Marine users
to easily import mechanical equipments from various sources - generally
generic or mechanical CAD systems - and utilize them in the model as any
Outfitting component. Equipment models, like main engines, compressors or
pumps can now be directly supplied by the manufacturer and placed with great
accuracy in the 3D model, thus reducing the risk of errors.
    Finally, more interoperability between Plant and Marine Outfitting can be
achieved as data in both databases is now made fully exchangeable. This will
allow customers using AVEVA's solutions both in the plant and the marine
sectors to share their models in a much easier way. As an example, FPSO
designers and builders will now be able to share the same data model for the
Outfitting part of the vessel and the top-side. This leads to reduced design
time and better consistency between top-side and floating platform design.
    Bruce Douglas, Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at AVEVA
said:
    "AVEVA Marine is an integrated solution for shipbuilders, ship designers
and ship operators. It allows engineers and designers on multiple sites to
concurrently create, control and manage change to engineering, design and
production data as a project is developed, in the most productive and
risk-free way."
    Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA said:
    "Earlier this year, we announced the introduction of AVEVA
Instrumentation and AVEVA Diagrams to the plant and marine portfolios. These
products, plus the latest enhancements, have further strengthened the AVEVA
Integrated Design and Engineering offer both to our ship operators and
shipyards clients.
    "For ship operators we have an Operations Information Integrity solution
that delivers real cost savings. And for ship builders and ship design agents,
our Integrated Project Execution solution saves time and money during the
project."
    For more information on AVEVA Marine see the website at
http://www.aveva.com/marine

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For further information: Alison Patey, Marketing Communications Manager,
AVEVA, Tel: +44-1223-556653, alison.patey@aveva.com