CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 September 2007
Product News
Next Generation of Productivity in Plant Design Available With the Launch of AVEVA PDMS 12
AVEVA announced the launch of AVEVA PDMS 12.
AVEVA PDMS 12, part of the AVEVA Plant portfolio, is the latest generation of the leading plant design tool. This release fully supports the Microsoft .NET user interface with highly interactive 3D graphical editing functions for fast initial design and swift intelligent modifications. This makes it easier to learn, faster to use - and a lot more productive.
"AVEVA PDMS has for a long time been acknowledged as the most powerful plant design system in the market. With AVEVA's unique, proven, object-based and global engineering technologies our clients have had unrivalled flexibility in the execution of complex global process plant projects," said Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA.
"With the release of AVEVA PDMS 12, we really do take this technology platform to new heights of productivity, not just for the end users and designers but across the whole project, offering further fabrication and construction savings by extending the scope and ability to control, manage and share project information globally."
Some of the exciting new key features in AVEVA PDMS 12 include:
Extensive enhancements to the advanced engineering applications for designing equipment, piping, ducting, structural steel, and supports.
• The new access platforms, stairs and ladders application that allows the parametric design and easy modification of complex access configurations, and provides accurate material and weight reports.
• The new catalogue and specification management application that is easy to use and reduces the effort required to create and modify catalogue and specification items, reducing the need for specialist skills in this area.
• A new Cable Design product that allows cables and cableways to be routed inside the PDMS model.
• An area which has been particularly enhanced is the use of design rule technology. Piping engineers will have a rule-based automatic pipe routing & quality checking feature as standard, and all disciplines will benefit from the new object associations which have been introduced into the plant model. These allow key relationships to be defined and continuously monitored as the design progresses and changes. The technology is used to good effect in a new hole management application to assist the vital inter-discipline control & coordination.
• AVEVA PDMS has extensive customisation and configuration capabilities, utilising Microsoft .NET, and these too have been greatly enhanced to enable customers to further optimise and tailor functionality in line with their work processes and standards.
• A new and innovative approach to P&ID integration is also pioneered with the introduction of AVEVA PDMS 12. P&IDs from multiple authoring tools can be consolidated into a single schematic model of the plant which can then be used to build and compare with the 3D plant model. The schematic model is a new open environment that brings P&ID and 3D data together for the first time on a globally-deployable shared technology platform. The schematic model data is fully managed within the AVEVA PDMS 12 environment and new AVEVA P&ID Manager and AVEVA P&ID Integrator products are being introduced to work with this as part of AVEVA's open P&ID strategy.
All these features lead to even more accurate, complete and clash free designs with AVEVA PDMS 12, thereby ensuring reduced project costs. According to Dave Wheeldon, Group Product Development Director, "AVEVA PDMS 12 delivers major innovations to our customers, ranging from improved productivity for individual designers through to increased overall project savings that result from significant improvements in data management and control.
"These innovations have been introduced to AVEVA PDMS to be fully upwards compatible with earlier versions so customers can take immediate advantage of the new capabilities. The principle of 'continual progression' is at the heart of AVEVA's product development strategy".
For more information see the AVEVA PDMS 12 launch site at http://www.aveva.com/pdms .
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