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M A G A Z I N E

2012

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ISSUE 1

Also featured in this issue:

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Enterprise Asset Management at Salamander Energy

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The Health & Safety information gap

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New horizons with the LFM software acquisition

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Rolls-Royce migrates to AVEVA Marine

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New features for AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine

Keeping Ahead

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IN

SIDE

THIS EDITION

Corporate News

Welcome 3 AVEVA World Summit Review 2011 8 The Health & Safety Information Gap 20 AVEVA’s Academic Programme 36 New customers 42

Product News

AVEVA scans new horizons with LFM acquisition 22 AVEVA’s 12.1 product releases bring more capabilities 24 Achieving integration with AVEVA Engineering 25 New AVEVA Marine products enhance capabilities 38 AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller adds new interface 40

Customer News

Cover Story: Petrofac – keeping ahead with AVEVA Plant 4 Enterprise Asset Management at Salamander Energy 6 ÅF Group powers the world 11 SETAL expands the Brazilian oil & gas industry 14 Houston Offshore Engineering maximises results 18 OMEGA Concept – managing critical environments 26 Rolls-Royce migrates to AVEVA Marine from Tribon M3 29 SBM Schiedam extends use of AVEVA products globally 32

Cover photograph:

The Kauther Gas plant in north Oman was designed and built by Petrofac for Petroleum Development Oman using AVEVA Plant. The project involved the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and initial operation of a 20 million standard cubic metres processing facility. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac.

Statements and opinions expressed in AVEVA World Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of AVEVA. Brands and product names mentioned may be trademarks and/or protected by copyrights of their respective owners. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without permission in writing from AVEVA. All stated facts are believed correct at time of going to press. AVEVA believes the information in this publication is correct as of its publication date. As part of continued product development, such information is subject to change without prior notice and is related to the current software release. AVEVA is not responsible for any inadvertent errors. All product names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders.

Copyright 2012 AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved.

Editor – Magnus Feldt, Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

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Exciting new

technologies

I never fail to be impressed by how much seems to

happen between successive issues of this magazine.

Even when we have been working solidly on a new

product for many months, I still have a ‘wow!’

reaction when I read about it here. This issue is no

exception and I hope you, too, will think ‘wow!’

when you read about the exciting new technologies

we’ve introduced for both the plant and the marine

industries.

In the last issue we examined the significance of integrating engineering and design data. Here, we follow this up with a review of the recently released AVEVA Engineering product. Together with a number of enabling features we’ve added to our core technology, this important new product ushers in a new level of efficient collaboration across the different project disciplines. Data integration is central to our Integrated Engineering and Design roadmap, so you can expect to read more on this topic in future issues.

AVEVA Engineering is applicable to both the plant and marine industries – it’s all about integration, remember – but we have also released three powerful new applications just for shipbuilders. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited will be AVEVA Design Reuse, which enables AVEVA Marine users to reuse previous designs, whether of individual hull blocks or entire vessels. It’s easy to visualise the huge gains in design productivity that this will unlock.

There are even more gains to be made from the powerful information management technologies in the AVEVA Enterprise suite. The publicly visible face of asset management – and a valuable barometer of its effectiveness – is operational safety, so we recently commissioned independent research into the current state and usability of safety information in the oil & gas industry. The findings confirmed our own experience, but proved so illuminating that we felt they should be made widely available. You can read an overview of the research in this issue but, if you’re a plant operations professional, I recommend that you download the full report from the AVEVA website (www.aveva.com/

publications). If you recognise your own organisation in some of the

problems described, I would recommend that you speak to one of our Enterprise Asset Management specialists! (See www.aveva.com/offices

for local AVEVA office details.)

Lastly, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the record number of new customers who have joined the ‘AVEVA family’ this year. Considering the global economic uncertainty that still persists, this bears out my confidence in the resilience of the engineering industries and in their recognition of the measurable advantages that AVEVA technology provides. I’m sure that we will soon also welcome some of these new customers to the pages of AVEVA World Magazine. Often, many of the most impressive success stories remain under wraps for reasons of client confidentiality, which makes it all the more pleasing when such world-class businesses as Rolls-Royce and Petrofac are willing to share their experiences, as they have done in this issue.

To all our customers, old and new, I wish you every success during 2012.

Richard Longdon Chief Executive AVEVA Group plc

‘I would like to extend a warm

welcome to the record number of

new customers who have joined

the ‘AVEVA family’ this year.

Considering the global economic

uncertainty that still persists,

this bears out my confidence in

the resilience of the engineering

industries and in their recognition

of the measurable advantages that

AVEVA technology provides...’

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How AVEVA Plant supports one of the Middle East’s most successful oil & gas companies

Petrofac is not only one of AVEVA’s

longest-standing customers in

the Middle East – as a FTSE 100

listed company it is also one of

the region’s most successful oil &

gas engineering businesses. We

recently met Stephen Major, vice

president, engineering and took

the opportunity to find out how

AVEVA technology has contributed

to the company’s success.

Naji Atallah

Regional Manager Middle East, AVEVA

Kelvin Davis

Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA

Keeping Ahead

History

Petrofac first adopted AVEVA PDMS in 2000, together with AVEVA Review, at its Sharjah operational centre, principally in response to a customer requirement. This first deployment proved successful and it was later rolled out across its other design centres. PDMS was followed, two years later, by AVEVA VPRM. More recently, AVEVA Clash Manager and AVEVA P&ID were added. Today, the AVEVA deployment supports the piping, civil, electrical and instrumentation, telecommunications and process disciplines on a wide variety of projects, including processing plants, oil pumping and gas compression stations, and pipelines.

AVEVA in use

To a large extent, the oil & gas industry is almost a seamless PDMS environment, so it came as no great surprise to learn that Petrofac frequently delivers its work as native PDMS models, even to the extent of delivering models and AVEVA Review files direct to the field engineering team, as well as to the customer.

Major explained, ‘Our customers usually want an updated as-built version of the PDMS model from which they can generate their own deliverables to support their longer-term asset management task. Petrofac’s expertise in PDMS helps to meet these customer expectations.’ Together, PDMS and AVEVA P&ID form a good platform for Petrofac’s projects. Major explained that the AVEVA deployment has enabled the company to develop a number of customisations and in-house applications helping them progressively to integrate with various business processes. ‘We appreciate the openness and ease of configuring and extending the AVEVA system, especially as we have been able to do so with some help from the excellent AVEVA support team in Dubai. We now have a better flow of data between PDMS, our own applications and various third-party solutions, which goes a long way towards maintaining our competitive strength in a demanding market.’

The Kauther Gas plant in north Oman was designed and built by Petrofac for Petroleum Development Oman using AVEVA Plant. The project involved the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and initial operation of a 20 million standard cubic metres processing facility. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac.

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Advantage with AVEVA

The EPC work process holds the biggest challenge of delivering correct material on time. By configuring AVEVA P&ID software to suit Petrofac’s EPC work processes, the company is able to generate Material Take Offs (MTOs) for most piping components from P&ID, such as valves, flanges, spectacle blinds, tees, reducers and gaskets, ahead of the completion of 3D modelling.

Another challenge in Petrofac has been that of change management of heat tracing design, and especially its handling at the vendor interface. With the help of the PDMS Extract DB tool, the heat tracing design process was synchronised to handle changes in piping isometrics. The graphical interface and the data handling features of PDMS enabled Petrofac to improve on the heat tracing design work process.

Looking ahead

Petrofac is currently evaluating other AVEVA products to extend its capabilities. It recently completed a pilot project with AVEVA NET and is evaluating the results with a view to implementing it. The company has also piloted AVEVA Cable Design and plans to deploy this on a project. ‘However,’ Major explained, ‘as with any software deployment, there are challenges; but we are able to resolve these to a large extent with support from the AVEVA team, through the software enhancements requested by us.’

About Petrofac

Petrofac is a leading international provider of facilities solutions to the oil & gas production and processing industry, with a diverse customer portfolio including many of the world’s leading integrated, independent and national oil & gas companies.

The group delivers services through two divisions: Engineering, Construction, Operations & Maintenance (ECOM – comprising Onshore Engineering & Construction, Offshore Projects & Operations and Engineering & Consulting Services) and Integrated Energy Services (IES). Through these divisions Petrofac designs and builds oil & gas facilities; operates, maintains and manages facilities and trains personnel; enhances production; and, where it can leverage its service capability, develops and co-invests in upstream and infrastructure projects. Petrofac’s range of services meets its customers’ needs across the full lifecycle of oil & gas assets.

With more than 15,000 employees, Petrofac operates out of six strategically located operational centres, in Aberdeen, Sharjah, Woking, Chennai, Mumbai and Abu Dhabi, and a further 21 offices worldwide. The predominant focus of Petrofac’s business is on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), the Middle East and Africa, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Asia Pacific region. Visit www.petrofac.com for more information.

AVEVA PDMS model of a plant recently constructed by Petrofac. Images courtesy of Petrofac.

‘The AVEVA deployment

has enabled the company

to develop a number of

customisations and

in-house applications helping

them progressively to

integrate with various

business processes...’

Stephen Major, Vice President, Engineering, Petrofac. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac.

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Salamander Energy selects AVEVA

for Enterprise Asset Management

Salamander Energy has selected an

AVEVA Enterprise Asset Management

solution to improve operational

effectiveness across its assets in

Indonesia and Thailand.

Established in 2005, Salamander Energy is a fast-growing Asian oil & gas exploration and production company with over 300 employees, and offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Production in 2011 is expected to average between 18,000 and 19,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from fields in Thailand and Indonesia.

Recognising the importance of best practice in its asset management, Salamander started to investigate suitable Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions. After a thorough evaluation, the company selected AVEVA WorkMate and, in 2010, deployed it across all its operations for procurement, maintenance and materials management.

‘AVEVA WorkMate was a strategic decision for Salamander,’ explained Guus Harting, Regional Operations Director of Salamander Energy. ‘It is helping us to create a highly efficient environment with straightforward multi-site operations and management,’ he continued. ‘Our initial WorkMate deployment is already reducing costs and improving productivity right across the business.’

Why AVEVA WorkMate?

AVEVA WorkMate is a powerful EAM solution for all types of process plant. It comprises integrated modules for procurement, materials management and maintenance. Together, these support all aspects of plant management, including Management of Change, inspection and preventive maintenance programmes, Work Order and Work Permit management, logistics and so on.

Equally important, a WorkMate deployment is extremely flexible and configurable, and integrates readily with other popular enterprise solutions such as SAP, Documentum or Primavera. This combination of power and flexibility makes it easy to deploy WorkMate in a progressive manner to meet the needs of any size of plant operating company. WorkMate’s Procurement module is particularly versatile, supporting not only the needs of full enterprise-level procurement, but also those of the occasional buyer of low-value items. Its Materials Management module provides comprehensive inventory and logistics management from receipt to consumption of all types of materials and equipment, even rental items. Finally, the Maintenance module is a management tool for maximising asset performance by optimising maintenance programmes and their execution for minimum cost and down time. It supports continual improvement strategies by maintaining detailed histories, and it can interface with specialist systems for Reliability-Centred Maintenance.

The Salamander deployment

Salamander had begun the search for an EAM solution early, recognising that it would be important for the company’s long-term success. A member of the management team had had experience with WorkMate in a Canadian company and had been impressed with both the technology and the performance of AVEVA’s EAM team in Norway (formerly ADB Systemer AS) in delivering and supporting the solution. The first discussion between Salamander and the EAM team took place in 2009.

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Over the following few months, a formal proposal process was carried out and a number of systems from other vendors were evaluated. The result was a decision in early 2010 to implement WorkMate on Salamander’s first operational assets. The implementation went according to plan and the system was immediately put into operation.

In Indonesia, WorkMate was implemented at Salamander’s office in Jakarta for managing procurement, materials and maintenance of the offshore Kambuna wellhead, and for the existing and the planned new facility at the Glagah-Kambuna TAC onshore base and gas plant. In Thailand, WorkMate was implemented at Salamander’s Bangkok office for procurement and materials management of the Sattahip onshore base, supporting the Bualuang wellhead. After first implementation, Salamander conducted a review of the system’s performance and their future business requirements. Realising that WorkMate had much greater capabilities than they were initially using, Salamander decided to standardise on WorkMate for maintenance, procurement and materials management of all their assets. This initiated a second phase of implementation of WorkMate on the other operational assets, which was successfully completed in September 2011.

The future

During the second implementation project, many other opportunities were identified for additional WorkMate modules to further improve Salamander’s business processes in areas such as integration with project management and financial systems, supplier management and so on. These opportunities are now being addressed as ongoing projects, with the support of the AVEVA EAM team.

The relationship between the two companies has proved highly successful and Salamander has now identified opportunities for widening its AVEVA deployment to cover the engineering and design disciplines and information management. We look forward to learning more about Salamander’s growing success with AVEVA technologies.

About Salamander Energy Salamander Energy is an Asia focused, independent, FTSE 250, upstream oil & gas exploration and production company.

Salamander has a balanced portfolio of production, development and exploration assets with interests located in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Lao PDR. For more information about Salamander Energy, visit

www.salamander-energy.com.

Guus Harting, Regional Operations Director of Salamander Energy. Photograph courtesy of Salamander Energy.

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AVEVA World

Summit

Review 2011

The 2011 AVEVA World Summits

were held in three locations

around the globe. They began in

early October in Copenhagen for

delegates from Europe, the Middle

East and Africa (EMEA), moved

on to Rio de Janeiro for North and

South America, and concluded in

Singapore for our Asian Pacific

customers and partners. Just like

the 2010 Summits, these proved

to be very successful events, with

over 800 customer, partner and

AVEVA delegates attending the

three Summits.

The agenda of the three Summits was a mix of AVEVA, customer and keynote presentations. At all Summits we were able to achieve our objective of having at least 50% of the presentation content provided by customers. This is a very important goal for AVEVA since it speaks to the underlying philosophy of these events. Designed for mid- and senior-level managers, the Summits attract those people who make important business and operational decisions within their organisations. By highlighting the direct experiences of our customers through the presentation of their own case studies, we seek to share best practice and lessons learned across the Plant and Marine industries. The customer presentations are extremely popular with the delegates because they provide new ideas and perspectives and, with the open networking sessions, delegates can speak with the presenters directly and explore their experiences in more depth. This interaction has been successful with delegates representing the same industry and with those from entirely different businesses.

Since AVEVA first combined the Plant and Marine events in the 2010 Summits, this cross-pollination of industry experience has added a unique dimension. While the Summits did split into separate Plant and Marine tracks for part of the second day’s agenda, it was not uncommon for Plant and Marine delegates to attend sessions outside their own industry. The open sharing of information and best practice is what the Summits are all about.

Three different cultures

While the Summit agenda was similar at all three venues, the customer speakers were regional and the atmosphere of each Summit was very different. This will come as no surprise, since the venues and the culture of the delegates attending were radically different. In many ways, these cultural differences were reflected in the keynote speakers who presented at the three different venues. Delivering in EMEA

In Copenhagen the keynote presenter was Rear Admiral Chris Parry, CBE, whose insightful presentation provided a geopolitical view of a complex and interconnected world. He shared his views on changing political and religious landscapes, environmental constraints and shifting populations. It was a hard-hitting and very informative session that gave delegates a great deal to discuss and the opportunity to reflect on how these global issues affect their local businesses. Chris’s keynote set a constructive tone for the entire conference.

The EMEA region being one of AVEVA’s most developed markets, many of the delegates have attended events in the past, so there is already a strong network of colleagues and business partners. The Copenhagen Summit reflected this maturity with a businesslike atmosphere and very detailed customer project presentations using technology and services from AVEVA’s Plant, Marine and Enterprise portfolios. Presentations were given by Statoil – Norway, SPG Engineering – Romania, AMEC – UK, Andritz – Finland, SEFT – Turkey, Omega Concept – France and RusGaz Engineering – Russia.

Steve Tongish

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Exploring the Americas Our keynote speaker in Rio de Janeiro was Amyr Klink, a Brazilian explorer and sailor who enthralled the audience with the exploits of his Antarctic circumnavigation, his Pole to Pole voyage and his transatlantic crossing in a specially designed rowing boat. Amyr’s session was an excellent reflection of the energy and challenge of the rapidly growing Brazilian and Latin American markets. He instilled a real excitement among the delegates which was maintained throughout the two-day conference.

AVEVA’s position in the fast-growing Latin American market is very strong, and we are quoted by the ARC Advisory Group as the leading design and engineering software provider in the region. This Summit captured the sense of opportunity that exists across Latin America. Moving quickly and exploring new business and design strategies, customers presented some fascinating case studies about how they are deploying the full range of AVEVA’s offering, from our mainstream Integrated Engineering and Design applications to advanced AVEVA NET solutions. The Rio Summit had a particularly busy agenda with an impressive list of customer speakers from Petrobras, Bechtel, GHENOVA Ingeniería, Minera Milpo, GENPRO Engenharia, Projectus, Chemtech, Massia Ingeniería, SETAL, Techint and Promon.

Creativity in Asia Pacific

In Singapore, the keynote speaker was Swedish-born creativity specialist Fredrik Haren. He captured the audience’s attention with his very special insight into the creative process and how everyone can engage in creative thinking. Through Fredrik’s professional experience with large multinational companies and his own personal stories, delegates were challenged to look at old problems in a new way by unleashing the creativity inside us all. With delegates attending from across the Asia Pacific region, meeting complex challenges using creative solutions emerged as a key theme throughout the Singapore Summit.

‘The customer presentations are extremely popular with the delegates

because they provide new ideas and perspectives and, with the open

networking sessions, delegates can speak with the presenters

directly and explore their experiences in more depth...’

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AVEVA’s own roots in Asia run deep, with customer relationships that can be measured, not just in years, but in decades. The Singapore Summit brought together a greater mix of Plant and Marine customers than the other two events. Some of the

world’s leading shipyards were in attendance and the delegates benefitted from presentations by Hyundai Heavy Industry, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and CSBC Corporation. Not to be outdone, the Plant industry presentations also included some major industry players, including Technip, AMEC, PT Pertamina Hulu Energi, SBM Offshore, SK Engineering & Construction, and Desein.

The AVEVA vision

AVEVA’s vision and experience were presented by our executive and senior management team, starting with Richard Longdon, CEO, and including Dave Wheeldon, CTO and Derek Middlemas, COO. Our presentations focused on AVEVA’s mission to deliver information-centric solutions for Owner Operators, EPCs and shipyards, based on object-centric systems embedded within a Digital Information Hub. The AVEVA presentations also included updates on our AVEVA Plant, AVEVA Marine and AVEVA Enterprise product portfolios, and a high-level view of AVEVA’s future development roadmap.

Information about AVEVA World Summits

More information about the AVEVA World Summits can be found at www.avevaworld.com. Delegates to the 2011 AVEVA World Summits can access past presentations by logging in to the Summit website for the event they attended.

AVEVA World Summit 2012

In the same way that AVEVA has been evolving our technology over the past

four decades, we are also constantly improving our customer events, and the

Summits are no exception. Starting in 2012, there will be a major change

to the Summit programme. Rather than three regional Summits, we will

be holding a single, large, global Summit. Prompted by keen interest

from our customers, this format change will allow delegates from

all over the world to share experience and best practice in one

location. And the venue for this exciting new event will be

Paris, France.

Keep an eye on the AVEVA World website for

more information. We will be announcing

more details later in the year. A fresh new

format and an exciting location – we

look forward to seeing you at the

AVEVA World Summit in Paris.

‘AVEVA’s own roots in Asia run deep, with customer relationships that

can be measured, not just in years, but in decades. The Singapore

Summit brought together a greater mix of Plant and Marine customers

than the other two events...’

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The ÅF Group is an international consulting company,

with expertise drawn from more than a century of

experience. Working within a number of sectors,

including paper, chemical, energy, petrochemical

and pharmaceuticals, the company has a wide

and varied international customer base and has

participated in multinational projects all over

the world. They specialise in technical design and

consulting services ranging from single-discipline

engineering projects to complete turnkey projects

including construction, commissioning, start-up

and operational support.

At their head office in Stockholm we met Per Högberg, CAD Coordinator, and Peter Wickman, Project Engineer, Engineering Division, in order to find out about the use of AVEVA Plant solutions at ÅF. They explained that ÅF has been using AVEVA Plant solutions, including AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global, for more than ten years as their engineering tool for energy projects worldwide. Today, PDMS is their standard choice for 3D plant engineering in large- and medium-sized design projects.

ÅF has made major cost and time savings using PDMS for 3D design since it was first deployed in 2000. PDMS makes it possible for them to handle geographically distributed work, enabling concurrent working between different design disciplines, generating clash-free designs, and providing the ability to manage large quantities of data. PDMS is used right from the start

of a project, including conceptual, basic and detailed design. This starts with the creation of the first layout of a plant, then continues through all design stages including the piping, equipment, electrical and ducting disciplines. All kinds of fabrication and construction drawings, such as piping isometrics and arrangement drawings, together with Material Take Offs (MTOs) for all disciplines, are generated directly from the PDMS model.

PDMS is being used by ÅF’s engineering teams in Spain, Finland, the Czech Republic and Sweden. In many of these projects, engineers from several of ÅF’s offices work together, in addition to sharing work with third-party companies. AVEVA Global, AVEVA’s solution for multi-site concurrent working, enables ÅF’s offices to work concurrently on the same model allowing ÅF to share work dynamically across their engineering sites. In this way, they can make the fullest use of ÅF’s design expertise and engineering knowledge wherever it exists and whenever it is needed, giving their customers the best results in terms of both cost and quality.

ÅF Group powers the world

AVEVA Plant helps to secure a safe and environmentally friendly energy supply

Magnus Feldt

Editor, AVEVA World Magazine

From left, Per Högberg, CAD Coordinator, and Peter Wickman, Project Engineer,

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Environmentally sustainable energy projects

ÅF has extensive expertise in all types of power generation: renewable, thermal, nuclear and hydro, and in combined heat and power (CHP), as well as in transmission and distribution. The company is currently performing projects in around 30 countries, and is involved in a variety of sustainable energy projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and strengthen efforts to secure a safe and environmentally friendly energy supply.

One particularly interesting current project using AVEVA Plant is the new biofuel-fired plant for Bomhus Energi in Gävle, Sweden. ÅF has been appointed lead technical consultant for the investment in a new block heat power plant on the Korsnäs industrial site in Gävle, next to the company’s pulp and paper mill. This ÅF assignment is a multi-disciplinary engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM) project, covering all areas of technology relating to the investment, including project management, conceptual design, basic design, detailed design, fabrication and start-up.

The investment comprises a 150 MW biofuel-fired plant including the designated fuel system and a 90 MW steam turbine. The plant will be in operation in early 2013, supplying steam and electrical power for the pulp and paper mill, and district heating to more than 5,000 households. PDMS is being used at the fabrication site, too. With the help of AVEVA Global, the engineers in Norrköping and Karlstad and those at the fabrication site are all working on the same plant model. Initially, there was no digital model of the brownfield pulp and paper mill.

To avoid clashes, existing buildings and pipe racks close to the new power plant were laser scanned and converted into the new 3D PDMS plant model. The new boiler was designed by Metso in Finland, who also delivered a 3D PDMS model of the boiler, which was easily imported into the plant model.

ÅF expands in central Europe

In line with its long-term corporate strategy, ÅF continues to expand in central Europe, especially in the Czech Republic. AF-Engineering was established in 2004. In 2010, ÅF acquired the energy consulting company, Meacont and, in October 2011, the consulting company, CityPlan. ÅF now has more than 200 employees in the Czech Republic, with main offices in Prague, Plzen and Brno.

Michal Kovarik, AF-Engineering’s Managing Director, explained to us that, for several years, they have been using AVEVA Plant solutions in a great variety of greenfield and brownfield projects for the energy, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. PDMS has been used in some well-known projects, such as the Olkiluoto 5 nuclear power plant in Finland, where AF-Engineering created part of an auxiliary building for Areva.

AF-Engineering also had complete responsibility for the design of the machinery building for the retrofit of the 30-year-old brown-coal power plant in Tusimice in the Czech Republic. Here, AF-Engineering created the complete basic and detailed design, and produced the assembly and as-built documentation.

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For the new-build chemical plant in Rizhao, China, AF-Engineering acted as a subcontractor to Eka Engineering in Sweden. AVEVA Global was successfully used in this multi-site project, enabling the engineering offices in the different countries to work concurrently on the same plant model.

Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant – a turnkey project for ÅF Fortum’s new CHP waste-to-power plant in Klaipeda, Lithuania, fuelled by municipal and industrial waste and biomass, will produce approximately 60 MW of district heating and 20 MW of electricity. The plant will start operating at full capacity by the first quarter of 2013.

ÅF’s services in this huge EPCM project include feasibility studies, pre-engineering, detailed design work, purchase of all equipment, project and site management, and finally commissioning and supervision. ÅF-Consult Oy in Finland has overall charge of the implementation of the whole project.

In this project, AF-Engineering is responsible for the detailed design work, and for creating the complete 3D PDMS model including structural, piping with all equipment, cable trays and HVAC facilities. The turbine and the waste and biofuel boiler were delivered as 3D models and were easily imported into the plant model. Fabrication information, such as pipe layout drawings, material lists and reports and isometric drawings, is automatically extracted from the 3D model.

Integrated engineering and design is a must for the future

The process of optimising work procedures is continuous, in answer to the demands of ÅF’s customers for shorter delivery schedules and competitive prices with no loss of quality. To further improve engineering efficiency and quality, ÅF is now considering ways of integrating still more different disciplines. They strongly believe in extending the integrated solution in areas including the process, electrical, instrumentation and mechanical disciplines. As a result, ÅF is currently extremely interested in taking a close look at AVEVA’s newly released products supporting integrated engineering and design.

About ÅF

ÅF’s work focuses on energy and the environment, investments in infrastructure and projects for industry. ÅF consists of four divisions: Energy, Industry, Infrastructure and Technology. The company, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has approximately 4,500

employees worldwide, in over 20 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The ÅF group has its origin in Sweden’s first industrial association, founded in Malmö in 1895 to look after the interests of the owners of steam generators and other pressure vessels. In 1964, this association was named Ångpanneföreningen – ÅF.

Visit www.afconsult.com for more information.

AVEVA PDMS model of Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant in Lithuania. Image courtesy of AF-Engineering. AVEVA PDMS model of Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant in Lithuania. Image courtesy of AF-Engineering.

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AVEVA Plant + AVEVA NET = Success!

AVEVA technology is helping

SETAL to

expand the Brazilian oil & gas industry

Karla Moises

Marketing Communications, AVEVA

Kelvin Davis

Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA

The rapid expansion of Brazil’s oil & gas industry

owes much to the power of AVEVA technology in the

execution of complex, large-scale industrial design

and construction projects. One of the leading EPCs

in this region is SETAL (SOG – Óleo e Gás S/A), an

award-winning Brazilian company employing over

3,000 people in support of ongoing EPC contracts.

SETAL provides project management, detailed

engineering, procurement and construction services

to the country’s oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical

and energy industries.

SETAL has considerable experience in conventional 3D engineering, is both a national and international reference in this field and is a recent convert to AVEVA technology. We spoke to Mr Newton Libanio Ferreira, Process Engineering Manager at SETAL, to find out how this had changed their business.

SETAL had realised that they needed to move from conventional

engineering and batch-wise workflows to a more advanced 3D design and information management solution in order to achieve the higher levels of efficiency, project complexity and delivery performance demanded by this fast-growing industry. Mr Ferreira explained that one of their objectives was to achieve more concurrent working and a smooth flow of information throughout the lifecycle of a project. Another aim was to integrate information across all users, linking engineering with construction to save time and reduce rework.

AVEVA Plant fulfilled SETAL’s technical requirements for completely integrating engineering and design. Implementation began in early 2010 with the deployment of AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Instrumentation, AVEVA Cable Design, AVEVA Diagrams, AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator, AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports, AVEVA Global and AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface.

Offsite expansion project at REPAR, consuming 12,800 tonnes of piping, 65,250 m3 of concrete and 9,374 units of piles, at Paraná Refinery in Araucária, state of Paraná.

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Support and training were provided throughout this critical start-up period by AVEVA’s Rio de Janeiro office.

The new tools were quickly put to work on an internal integrated engineering pilot project, named the AVATAR project. This proved so successful that the use of AVEVA Plant was quickly expanded across the entire engineering and design team. It is now used right from the start of a project, creating the initial plant layout, and then for all aspects of the detailed layout and design of the project, involving the piping, equipment, electrical and instrumentation disciplines.

‘We used the pilot project to integrate AVEVA Plant across all disciplines,’ explained Mr Ferreira. ‘PDMS enables our designers to work in a highly concurrent way and generate completely clash-free designs. This saves considerable time and money by avoiding costly modifications at the construction site.’

AVEVA Global further expands this concurrent working facility to SETAL’s other engineering offices and partners, enabling them to work efficiently on the same 3D plant model. ‘We can monitor all of our information online and measure how dramatically this global engineering framework has improved our project operations. It has substantially optimised our working methods,’ concluded Mr Ferreira.

Integrating the process

But SETAL went further than simply upgrading their engineering and design systems. Recognising the importance of managing the

entire project workflow, they also implemented AVEVA NET, a move which has brought them the benefits of Integrated Project Execution. Mr Rodrigo Sasso, Project Automation Manager at SETAL, described how their previous, batch-wise processes required a great deal of planning resources and still resulted in design changes not being handled efficiently, giving rise to costly and disruptive rework during construction. ‘AVEVA NET has changed all that,’ he explained. ‘It forms a management layer that integrates not only the engineering and design functions but also the project planning and management functions. Now we can be much more proactive in our work, forecasting more effectively, and having abandoned the traditional batch-wise approach for a better controlled, progressive way of working. Changes are communicated immediately, so information is always up to date. It has dramatically reduced rework.’

Mr Sasso went on to describe how impressed SETAL was with the openness of AVEVA NET and the ease of interfacing with their planning tool, Primavera, and their other business systems. Mr Mauricio Godoy, CEO at SETAL, was equally impressed. ‘The traditional approach demanded intensive manpower, had a poor information flow and made scope modifications difficult, with data being dispersed across several files,’ he said. ‘Nowadays, all our engineering, actions and decisions are focused on the best contribution to the EPC results. With both AVEVA Plant and AVEVA NET, we can respond better to this demanding and competitive market, and can efficiently reuse already available design information.’

Mauricio Godoy, CEO at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Rodrigo Sasso, Project Automation Manager at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Newton Libanio Ferreira, Process Engineering Manager at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Gas processing and transfer terminal at TECAB Cabiúnas Terminal, part of Plangas project, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

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An interesting feature of the SETAL deployment is a custom module called the ‘Construction Sequence Planner’. This enables a user to select, within the 3D model, a set of elements to form a group, and then to use this group to create a construction work package within Primavera – thus allowing a 4D simulation. This custom feature not only greatly assists SETAL’s project planning processes, it also demonstrates the versatility and extensibility of AVEVA NET’s open architecture.

At the time of the interview, SETAL was still engaged on their first live project using AVEVA NET, the REPAR refinery in Araucaria, so it was too early to quantify the full extent of the savings achieved. ‘But we have saved a lot of man-hours across the project,’ explained Mr Sasso. ‘It has eliminated a great deal of manual planning and forecasting. So much is now automatic and instantaneous that it is making all of our business processes more efficient. In fact, we have been approached by other EPCs from the sector to know more details of our system,’ he concluded. Ongoing projects with AVEVA Plant

SETAL has used AVEVA Plant on several projects, including the construction of a coke unit (including seven auxiliary units and related interconnections) for the REVAP refinery in São José dos Campos, and the extensive Petrobras Plangás project. This important project – the Gas Production Anticipation Plan – has the strategic goal of supplying natural gas to south-east Brazil to meet its huge and increasing demand. AVEVA Plant is also being used on a number of other refinery projects, including:

z Gasoline and coke offsite units and nine auxiliary units for the REPAR refinery in Araucaria

z The construction of two hydrodesulphurisation units for gasoline production, plus two auxiliary units for the REPLAN refinery in Paulinia.

And the future?

Greatly encouraged by the immediate and extensive benefits that their AVEVA deployment has delivered, SETAL already has plans for using it to further improve its working methods. Design reuse is high on their priority list. Every project is unique, but many components are identical, or at least similar enough to allow their 3D models to be reused often with only minor modifications. SETAL has also recognised the potential savings in fabrication and construction that can be achieved through increasing the level of detail in the 3D model, particularly through more extensive use of AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports to include all support details in the model.

‘We have saved a lot of man-hours

across the project. It has eliminated

a great deal of manual planning

and forecasting. So much is now

automatic and instantaneous that

it is making all of our business

processes more efficient. In fact, we

have been approached by other EPCs

from the sector to know more details

of our system...’

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Joined up

thinking

The creation and management of digital assets demands

a million decisions, big and small. Complex plant and

marine environments combine engineering design,

planning, construction, operation and maintenance.

Success requires global collaboration to join up the

detail and give you the big picture.

Long-term relationships mean that AVEVA is trusted to continually

deliver new technology and services. AVEVA customers gain strategic

business value across the entire lifecycle of their projects and assets,

improving information quality and reducing operational risk, while

saving time and cost.

With a global sales and service network in more than 40 countries,

AVEVA is a leader in engineering design and information management

solutions for the plant, power and marine industries.

Choosing AVEVA will be one of the best decisions you ever make.

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‘We are taking advantage of AVEVA’s solutions

to help us deliver major projects on time while

maximizing platform facility space utilization for

our clients,’ explained Joey Lopez, Manager of

Design for Houston Offshore Engineering (HOE).

From start-up to industry leader

Lopez’s firm has risen in a few short years to become one of the premier designers of deepwater floating offshore oil & gas facilities. Founded in January 2005 by a core group of design veterans who had worked together for 20 years as a team at other outfits, the Houston-based company provides expert engineering services to support offshore oil & gas developments.

Its projects range from conceptual studies which help maximize value early in field development, to full detailed design and construction support of tension-leg platforms (TLPs), SPARs, semi-submersibles, offloading buoys and floating production, storage and off-loading vessels (FPSOs). Clients include major and independent oil & gas companies, drilling contractors, engineering contractors, fabricators, and transport and installation contractors.

The company has established a solid reputation in the industry for its ‘customer-comes-first’ way of thinking and Lopez credits part of the company’s success to its use of AVEVA PDMS, a flagship application within the AVEVA Plant portfolio.

AVEVA PDMS provides a good return on investment

‘Having the capability to perform a project in PDMS is a huge benefit,’ Lopez said, adding that the industry is dictating the use of PDMS because it is easier to make changes and modifications using the software. ‘For a small company to devote a healthy dollar amount for any design tool, it has to be confident that the return will be good,’ Lopez explained. ‘By implementing the PDMS software we have seen a steady increase in efficiency. The man-hour savings are starting to be realized, especially in the early phases of projects when there are restarts in design ideas.’ Lopez said that an even bigger benefit is the time saved in bringing a project online. Schedules are being ‘squeezed’ in detailed design but, through the use of PDMS, HOE’s designers and engineers are still able to meet shortened deadlines.

He added that using PDMS leads to more rapid engineering production for HOE’s customers, an even more powerful way to gauge the benefit of PDMS, and a great selling point for the firm. ‘The quantitative measure of success is in the oil produced,’ he continued. ‘Man-hours saved can’t compare to the dollars that can be made in a single day of drilling when delivered on schedule without project delay.’

Offshore work requires creativity

One of the ways Lopez said that PDMS helps HOE, is by ensuring the company meets stringent requirements for weight and space constraints found on a floating production facility. ‘Space is at a premium offshore. Building a 3D model early in the project allows all disciplines to develop strategies to take advantage of ways to maximize its use,’ Lopez emphasized. ‘In addition, weight management is also critical on a floating facility. PDMS reports accurate data, keeping weight down and optimizing space utilization.’

Offshore design firm delivers projects

on time with maximized results,

producing revenue for Owner Operators

‘The quantitative measure of success is in the oil produced.

Man-hours saved can’t compare to the dollars that can be made in a single

day of drilling when delivered on schedule without project delay...’

Mark McKee

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The weight and space constraints have meant HOE has to be creative in its use of PDMS; the company appreciates the accuracy the software delivers, which Lopez believes gives HOE a competitive advantage in the market. ‘Our emphasis is that every discipline must provide as accurate information into the 3D model as possible,’ Lopez said.

‘For example, hull forms are difficult for the structural discipline,’ he continued. ‘We have efficiently met the challenge of the structural model by developing in-house tool sets that allow the user to work in an environment in which he is most comfortable; be it PDMS or the proprietary middleware we have developed. The marine systems disciplines benefit vastly from the early development of a structural hull model. The edge we have by creating in-house toolsets means we do not have to compete for PDMS users in a market-driven resource shortage. We develop from within.’

How has PDMS helped HOE in building these toolsets? Lopez said AVEVA’s technical support and training have been key. ‘PDMS software is user-friendly, allowing our developers to set up toolsets that make HOE unique and competitive,’ he explained.

First project sets stage for uniqueness

That uniqueness started with HOE’s very first project. Lopez said that, while everyone was both nervous and excited, the core group of first employees was also confident their years of experience in the industry would soon pay off.

‘We started the company with zero back-log, optimistic that the good client relationships we had built over the years by performing quality designs elsewhere would develop into a project,’ he recalled. ‘It took three months, but our first job came in – a major U.S. independent wanted to study a tension-leg platform solution for a Gulf of Mexico deepwater site and it chose us to perform this study. The fact that they wanted to study all areas including hull, mooring, and risers worked out beautifully because it put all of us to work immediately.’

What got HOE interested in PDMS? Lopez said the company had always been interested in providing a 3D solution for its clients. ‘As a start-up company we had to prove to customers that we could put a design team together that was capable of providing a full, detailed design effort,’ he said. ‘We concentrated on putting together team members who were unbiased (meaning we would put the customer’s needs first) on how to deliver a project in PDMS. Then we trained (in-house) on project execution using 3D software. We then sent them to AVEVA for basic training.’

What separates HOE from its competition?

Lopez said it is the company’s independent viewpoint, something that has been a cornerstone for everyone since its founding. ‘We felt that the industry was primed for a group that specialized in the deepwater floater area. It needed a design house that had an independent view – one that was not linked to any proprietary design and not tied to a fabrication yard that used their designers for pull-through work.

‘What differentiates us from others is that we bring an independent view to our customers’ projects. We strive to put together a solution that is best for the project, unhindered by what type of floater it needs to be,’ Lopez said.

How HOE uses AVEVA PDMS today

Currently, HOE has 14 employees using PDMS at its offices in the West Houston Energy Corridor. Lopez said the software has been very easy for new users to pick up because of the developed toolsets. HOE also pairs new users with more experienced ones to speed the learning process.

HOE uses PDMS for presentation work, to develop animations, and for detailed design. ‘We also model and deliver 2D drawings for piping, electrical, instrumentation, primary structural steel, and outfitting steel for all major projects in-house,’ he explained.

AVEVA PDMS proves to be a problem solver

PDMS has helped the company overcome several challenges that otherwise might have been difficult without the software, Lopez said. ‘In a topside structural project that was a design/build situation (meaning the design overlapped into the fabrication schedule) we would not have been able to provide the number of drawings required to meet the deliverable schedule without the PDMS model. Being able to design up until the last few days from the deliverable date, and still create hundreds of 2D drawings that accurately represented the latest design proved crucial to the project,’ he said.

What does the future hold?

With an independent, customer-first view and a strong set of software tools at its disposal, what does Lopez see in the future for HOE? ‘We want to enhance the capabilities to provide efficient and accurate designs. We will do this by growing the group with the most capable designers. In five years, we expect be able to work on multiple detailed design projects simultaneously, while still being able to provide early engineering stages for our customers,’ he said.

So where do AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine fit into HOE’s plans? Lopez said the company is examining adding new AVEVA software in the coming months to give it additional competitive advantages. ‘We will look at AVEVA Marine in 2012. We need to be sure we are handling the structural hull design in the most efficient way,’ he said.

Lopez added that HOE will continue to partner with AVEVA to enhance its business in the coming years. ‘AVEVA will help us grow our capabilities by expanding the use of its software in-house, training our people, and helping us develop better design tools so we can stay competitive in an ever-changing market.’

For more information about Houston Offshore Engineering, visit

www.houston-offshore.com.

Joey Lopez, Manager of Design for Houston Offshore Engineering.

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The research was launched at an event on 1 September at RGU. Hosted by Jeremy Cresswell, editor of the Press and Journal’s ENERGY supplement and honorary Professor at RGU’s Aberdeen Business School, the evening commenced with a presentation of the report’s findings by Professor Rita Marcella. An audience of over 90 industry professionals observed a panel discussion. The members of the panel included Malcolm Webb, Chief Executive of Oil & Gas UK, Brian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, KCA DEUTAG, Robin Davies, Vice President of Integration and Business Improvement, Subsea7, John Pearson, Managing Director of AMEC Natural Resources Europe and West Africa, and AVEVA’s H&S expert, Global Principal Consultant, Clive Wilby.

Early in 2011, AVEVA commissioned an independent

research project from Robert Gordon University

(RGU). The project was conducted by Professor Rita

Marcella, Dean of RGU’s Aberdeen Business School,

and Tracy Pirie, Research Assistant. The objective

was to better understand the Health & Safety

(H&S) issues that our customers and our industry

struggle with on a daily basis. The report would

also provide a detailed and authoritative picture of

how organisations manage H&S information, and

how current practices affect both day-to-day plant

operation and the handling of emergencies.

The

Health & Safety

Information Gap

Through an online questionnaire, RGU’s research gathered information from H&S managers, senior managers and engineers in the global oil & gas industry. Respondents’ business types included operating companies, contractors, service companies and suppliers. In addition, confidential in-depth Critical Incident case studies covered four representative businesses, interviewing key individuals who could comment

authoritatively on the information aspects of dealing with the incidents. The report, entitled ‘The Health & Safety Information Gap’, indicates that information systems are fragmented and inconsistent. Over 30% of industry professionals surveyed had never had training in accessing safety information, while 40% did not know how to search for it. Respondents were also working on a mixture of corporate, local and external information systems.

Kate Magill

Communications Manager, AVEVA

John Pearson, Managing Director, AMEC Natural Resources Europe and West Africa gives his Point of View on the research findings

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Whereas internal channels such as Intranets and team meetings did offer access, respondents found that they often had to search the Internet for relevant information. Approximately half of respondents identified the need for better information systems and around a quarter believed that information was not being shared within the company environment. On the whole, there was a strong demand for a shared integrated system to enable better access to all appropriate information. This was supported by respondents’ comments such as those below.

z ‘The problem is, there’s too much information.’

z ‘I don’t think the information systems that we’re talking about are very user friendly.’

z ‘It was fragmented information and it was inconsistent.’ In short, there is a major information gap in plant operations that impacts directly on Health & Safety.

In response to the report, AVEVA has written a Point of View paper, identifying the three main areas where the greatest deficiencies can be found. These are:

z fragmentation of information

z failure to capture and exploit the value of standards

z poor accessibility to data.

The research will benefit customers by providing further input into AVEVA’s strategy for Operational Integrity Management. Disconnected processes and ‘silos’ of information can create many problems that can increase operational risk. AVEVA can demonstrate to industry professionals just how powerful today’s information management solutions can be in addressing these problems. AVEVA’s information-centric solutions have been helping our customers create precisely the sort of ‘information repository’ strategy that was cited as a key requirement by a number of the survey respondents.

Steve Tongish, VP Marketing, AVEVA, concludes, ‘Improving information management plays a key role in meeting Health & Safety requirements for the oil & gas industry. We have been very impressed with the professional research produced by RGU and we are pleased that AVEVA has been able to contribute to this important industry debate.’

The full report is available for download at www.aveva.com/hs-research, together with AVEVA’s Point of View paper.

‘Improving information

management plays a key

role in meeting Health &

Safety requirements for

the oil & gas industry...’

Professor Rita Marcella, Dean of Aberdeen Business School presents the report findings

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AVEVA scans new horizons

with

LFM software acquisition

Following the acquisition, AVEVA has established a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for 3D data capture in Manchester. The CoE, led by Gary Farrow and Graham Dalton (formerly the two directors of the software company) will remain focused on continuing to develop the LFM software suite, as well as taking full business and product development responsibility for all of AVEVA’s 3D data capture software.

The acquisition will come as no surprise to many, as the two companies have worked closely together for a number of years. AVEVA has been a long-term partner of Z+F and the software team based in Manchester since before 2005. This ongoing partnership has yielded numerous innovations and industry firsts, such as AVEVA Laser Model Interface (LMI) and AVEVA Laser Modeller (LMR).

‘We are delighted to be part of AVEVA,’ says Gary Farrow. ‘LFM is already an established solution worldwide but now, as part of AVEVA, we can make it the industry standard. Part of LFM’s success and appeal is its openness. Over the years we have worked hard to make LFM neutral and open to all, which is a principle we share with AVEVA. Our aim is for LFM to be compatible with any laser scan data format or hardware, and to interface with any 3D design system and CAD package, not just PDMS. Since the acquisition we have extended the openness of LFM, and we plan to announce more integrations soon.’

Since acquiring the LFM business, AVEVA has entered into new partnerships with most of the leading laser scanner vendors. ‘We have received a warm reaction to this acquisition from many laser hardware companies and we are very happy to be entering into new partnerships with them,’ says Paul Cooper (VP Strategic Alliances).

AVEVA IntelliLaser

AVEVA’s aim, now that LFM is part of the product family, is to accelerate the growth of the core LFM product suite, reaffirming it as the solution of choice for handling and managing scan data from process, power and marine applications. Moreover, AVEVA plans to continue building solutions on this platform to offer its customers greater benefits and efficiencies.

LFM will remain relevant throughout the laser scan data lifecycle, from initial processing through to registration, modelling, working with data in target CAD/design packages and finally using the data on the Internet.

There are two main use cases for laser scan data in the process and marine industries. Firstly, the use of the raw laser scan data to act as an accurate as-built reference in revamp projects. Secondly, to provide a highly productive solution allowing the creation of intelligent models of an operating plant.

On the 3rd of October 2011,

AVEVA announced the

acquisition of the software

arm of Z+F, bringing the LFM

software suite to AVEVA.

LFM is the market-leading

product suite for managing

laser data in the process and

marine industries.

Les Elby

VP Business Strategy, AVEVA

LFM is a powerful 3D laser scanning software package which allows users to import 3D data from most 3D laser scanning formats, and export to PDMS as well as to other 3D plant design systems and CAD platforms. LFM, which was launched in 1998, was one of the first 3D laser scanning software packages in the market. Since its trailblazing debut, it has become the number one package for the process, plant and marine industries. Graham Dalton has led the technical direction of the company, enabling a cycle of continuous development which means that LFM is now one of the most innovative and efficient 3D laser scanning packages available. Many AVEVA customers are already long-time users of LFM, and are loyal and enthusiastic about the product, not only because the solution meets their needs, but also because of the exceptional level of support which they receive.

LFM 3D laser scanning software provides a complete solution from registration of laser scan data to as-built modelling. It provides tools for brownfield projects and assists management for owner operators. Service providers use LFM on a daily basis to process and deliver their projects. The time- and cost-savings and quality improvements afforded by LFM surpass those traditionally associated with 3D laser scanning. LFM 3D laser scanning software is ‘hardware neutral’ and accepts data from numerous 3D laser scanners. LFM is also CAD vendor neutral. AVEVA maintains close relationships with all the leading CAD vendors, allowing the customer to benefit from a seamless interface between LFM and a large number of CAD products.

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AVEVA IntelliLaser and LMR are the first products that build on the strength of LFM, with IntelliLaser allowing users to automatically hotspot laser bubble-views so, once integrated into an asset management toolset such as AVEVA NET, users can effortlessly navigate a plant by clicking and interacting from the comfort of their own desks. This saves time on site for engineers, reducing cost and risk, and improving project efficiency. AVEVA Laser Modeller

While the use of 3D design software such as PDMS in engineering design is now commonplace, plant owners and operators are starting to see the value of owning a model in operations for project revamps, upgrades, operator training and orientation. Traditional data capture methods have proved uneconomical, slowing the adoption of 3D in brownfield facilities. AVEVA Laser Modeller eclipses more conventional and time-consuming processes through the use of semi-automated catalogue-based modelling methodology. This allows users to quickly create a fully intelligent 3D model of their asset at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. ‘The reaction from customers and service companies has been amazing,’ says Ricky Padhiar (Product Manager). ‘People immediately recognise the value that LMR brings, and are blown away by how quickly they can turn laser data into a meaningful, intelligent model. Whereas, in the past, their budgets would have restricted them to a dumb geometric model, with LMR they can create an intelligent 3D model in less time. This represents an enormous cost saving and brings new efficiencies to ongoing plant operations. We were overwhelmed with offers by customers wanting to be part of the beta program we ran during 2011, and we are now working on significant new projects with LMR for 2012.’

The future for LFM Software

The outlook at the new 3D Data Capture CoE in Manchester is very positive, with Graham Dalton and his team leading the company’s technical direction to offer AVEVA customers even further efficiencies and savings with laser data. ‘Before the acquisition we had a lot of activity in the pipeline, which we were looking forward to talking about during 2012. Since the acquisition, these possibilities have ballooned, which makes for challenging yet exciting times,’ says Graham.

For more information on LFM, visit the AVEVA website or

www.lfm-software.com.

AVEVA’s history with the LFM team

2005

Jointly developed AVEVA Laser Model Interface (LMI).

2006

Became a certified development partner.

2009

The two companies announced an even closer technical partnership with the intention to jointly develop new product lines.

2010

Jointly developed and released AVEVA IntelliLaser at SPAR Europe.

2011

Released the jointly developed AVEVA Laser Modeller at SPAR Houston.

3D laser scanning

3D laser scanning is technology that can digitally

capture an environment (such as a process plant)

or the shape of physical objects, using a beam of

laser light.

3D laser scanners measure fine detail and capture

free-form shapes in order to quickly generate

highly accurate ‘point clouds’ of data. They can

capture up to one million points per second.

The data captured allows a physical object’s exact

size and shape to be determined, and is of such

a high quality that it can be used to produce a

detailed and accurate digital 3D model.

The intuitive and productive AVEVA Laser Modeller; a BubbleView showing as-built intelligent PDMS objects.

The AVEVA Revamp solution; extremely high resolution laser scan data being brought into PDMS by LFM Server/LMI, showing automatically detected exact clashes.

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