CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 August 2007
Product News
AVEVA Announces New, Unique Open P&ID Approach With AVEVA Plant
AVEVA announced that its new open P&ID approach with AVEVA Plant provides features for consolidation of all Piping & Instrumentation Drawings (P&IDs).
AVEVA Plant's new open approach to P&IDs is based on the creation of a common schematic model to represent the complete logic of systems in a project. This is an extension of the proven AVEVA database technology for storing plant models.
P&IDs for a plant project are often created in a wide variety of different tools and this is becoming more and more the case as projects are split between different engineering companies. As a result, developing a consistent set of P&IDs for a complete project as the design evolves is a complex task for designers. Approval of the latest versions of P&IDs and highlighting of inconsistencies takes considerable time and, if not carried out correctly, can lead to major design rework.
The AVEVA Schematic Model can store P&ID's from various intelligent P&ID applications in an ISO15926 compatible format. As it runs on the AVEVA technology platform it has access to all the database and functional capability of the environment. This gives benefits such as a fully functional multi user database with the potential for use in globally distributed projects and the tracking of changes during design development.
Bruce Douglas, Vice President Industry Solutions at AVEVA said "Our approach is to provide the maximum choice in the selection of engineering authoring tools. The open approach means that P&ID data can be uploaded to the AVEVA Schematic Model from any P&ID system that can deliver P&ID data in the ISO 15926 format. Currently supported P&ID formats are: AVEVA VPE P&ID; AVEVA P&ID Designer; Smartplant P&ID. AVEVA P&ID Designer, jointly developed with Autodesk, is based on AutoCAD P&ID".
AVEVA's P&ID approach is targeted at the provision of a completely flexible modular solution, ranging from a departmental, sheet-based, optimised drafting tool with no database, to an enterprise-level solution encompassing event-driven, managed synchronisation between drafting and database. The packaging gives customers the flexibility to mix and match modules to suit their business requirements.
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