AVEVA releases major enhancements to its AVEVA Marine solutions for shipbuilders

AVEVA today released an extensive set of valuable enhancements and additions to its industry-leading AVEVA Marine solutions for shipbuilders. These new and improved features provide increased productivity in many areas of vessel design and production, and include the latest release of AVEVA Marine (12 series), which provides a range of minor product improvements.

Several of these enhancements are also shared with AVEVA Plant; the new features in AVEVA Outfitting reflect those in AVEVA PDMS for example. This illustrates the way in which AVEVA is achieving ever closer integration between these two families of powerful engineering IT solutions. Increasing integration enables more efficient collaborative working and the creation of complex vessels within a common design environment.

Among the more noteworthy enhancements are:

AVEVA Outfitting:

* Improved piping design and fabrication features, providing more options for the piping designer and enabling more production-friendly (ie cheaper to fabricate) pipe configurations.

* 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 with full status management of project data and documents in AVEVA NET.

AVEVA Hull Structural Design:

* Improved creation and use of Reference Surface Objects. This enables better-quality design by making design changes easier. This will be of particular interest in naval projects, where specification and design changes tend to be more frequent and extensive than in commercial shipbuilding. The new ability to import and export Reference Surface Objects via XML increases interoperability with third-party analysis applications.

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 Initial Design, AVEVA Hull Detailed Design and AVEVA Diagrams. 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 these new releases, Bruce Douglas, AVEVA Vice President, Product and Marketing Strategy, said:
‘These important enhancements to AVEVA Marine deliver on our commitment to continually increase the capabilities, quality, and business value of our technology.

‘AVEVA Marine has now achieved new levels of capability and technology integration. These new features will help shipbuilders to be more efficient, more profitable and more successful in meeting today's tough trading conditions.'

These enhancements are available for immediate installation into AVEVA Marine (12 series products) deployments.