AVEVA releases major enhancements to its AVEVA Plant solutions

AVEVA today released an extensive set of valuable enhancements and additions to its industry-leading AVEVA Plant solutions. Delivered to customers together with the latest releases of the 12 series products, these new and improved features provide a range of user benefits which increase productivity in many areas of plant engineering and design.

Among the more noteworthy enhancements are:

AVEVA PDMS:

* A new Status Control feature, providing powerful and flexible design status reporting and management. This delivers benefits both at the project management level and to the practising designer, who will be able to monitor the maturity of the design as it evolves. It enables the flexible selection of appropriate items to be monitored (for example: individual tagged items, catalogue components and so on) and appropriate status levels for each (for example: not started, 50% complete, clash-free, approved for construction, issued and so on.) Status Control can be tightly integrated withfull status management of project data and documents in AVEVA NET.

* Improved piping design and fabrication features, providing more options for the piping designer and enabling more production-friendly pipe configurations ,which minimise construction costs.

AVEVA Review:

* AVEVA Review now includes the ability to position and render both streamable and non-streamable models in the same view. AVEVA's advanced model streaming technology - as used in AVEVA ReviewShare and AVEVA NET - enables much bigger and more complex designs to be easily reviewed.

* In addition to rendering objects created in AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Marine, imported third-party models in STEP, IGES, ZGL or SAT format may be automatically converted for streaming. Complementing Review's ability to handle laser scans of ‘as-built' design, this provides valuable extra functionality when integrating suppliers' equipment models.

* Using Review's unique database connection capability, reserved and obstruction volumes can now be transferred from AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting and rendered as translucent colours for ease of understanding during design reviews.

In addition, a range of useful day-to-day productivity enhancements are provided for AVEVA Diagrams, AVEVA ISOMET and AVEVA P&ID. As part of AVEVA's policy of continual progression, AVEVA P&ID Manager is being replaced by AVEVA Schematic Model Manager, which will progressively provide a broader range of capabilities across different schematics-based disciplines.

Commenting on this new release, Bruce Douglas, AVEVA Vice President, Product and Marketing Strategy, said:
‘These latest releases give us an opportunity to deliver a number of important upgrades to AVEVA Plant. Many of these new features have come about as a result of requests and suggestions made by our customers, illustrating the close cooperation that exists between us. AVEVA Plant has achieved new levels of technology integration will help AVEVA users be more efficient, more profitable and more successful in meeting today's tough trading conditions.'

The latest upgrades are available for immediate installation into AVEVA Plant (12 series products) deployments.