AVEVA World Magazine 2011(2)

MAGAZINE 2011 | ISSUE 2

Supporting Growth

AVEVA NET delivers in Latin America

Also featured in this issue: z Technip takes wind farms offshore with AVEVA Marine z Portable power for Latin America from Waller Marine z A decade of AVEVA MARS at IHC Merwede z The rise and rise of integrated engineering and design z Seamless information asset handover at Origin Energy

INSIDE THIS EDITION Corporate News Welcome

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Product News The rise and rise of Integrated Engineering and Design

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Brownfield asset capture - at light speed! 26

Customer News Cover Story: Promon Engenharia invests in AVEVA NET

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Origin Energy, the Otway Gas Project and AVEVA NET 12 Waller Marine Inc. designs Venezuelan power barges 14 Technip takes wind farms offshore 18 Solar power plant design with Flagsol 20 SIT expands use of plant design technology 24 BG Petrodyne supports Middle East brownfield projects 28 NLI Engineering delivers large FPSO topside projects 30 A decade of AVEVA MARS at IHC Merwede 36

Cover photograph: A delayed coking unit for the REPAR Petrobras refinery at the city of Araucária, in the state of Paraná in Brazil. Photograph courtesy of Promon Engenharia. 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 2011 AVEVA Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Editor – Magnus Feldt Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

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Reshaping the world’s energy supplies There is a song that tells us that money makes the world go around, but what really matters is energy, the foundation of everyday life. And it’s maintaining the world’s energy supply in the face of relentlessly increasing demand, the drying up of easy oil, and serious environmental concerns that provides engineering’s biggest challenges. As you will read in this issue, however, these challenges are being met, by our customers and through AVEVA’s continued development of new and more powerful enabling technologies. There are those who predict a global economic collapse ‘when the oil runs out’, but this is to denigrate the considerable ingenuity of the scientists and engineers who work in the energy industries. Certainly, oil & gas are becoming harder to extract, but there are still huge reserves to be tapped. Engineering is advancing our capabilities to reach them while, at the same time, helping us to become much smarter in our consumption of precious resources. This magazine regularly presents examples of AVEVA customers delivering ever more advanced oil & gas projects. But the world is rightly looking towards other sources of energy and the longterm future will see a more balanced mix.

‘Engineering is a barometer of global trends and, because so much of the world’s engineering relies on AVEVA technology, to see the encouragingly healthy state of this barometer you need look no further than AVEVA’s sustained growth and the customer successes described in this magazine...’

Our customer success stories already reflect this trend, with impressive developments in a variety of renewable energy projects and continued advances in the nuclear industry. It is easy to overlook the fact that these new energy sources are enabled by the use of technologies which have been, to a large extent, developed and proven in the oil & gas industry. In this as in other ways, the fossil-fuel industries have catalysed industrial development and raised engineering capabilities so that we can confidently tackle innovative new energy projects and progressively reduce our dependence on a single source. Good illustrations of this are provided in this issue, where we look at recent customer achievements in the renewables sector. Because such energy sources are of low intensity, in order to make them economically viable it is vital to minimise the capital and lifecycle costs of their exploitation. It is no coincidence that many of the most advanced renewables projects are being created using AVEVA technology, where its industry-leading productivity helps to achieve low cost and rapid delivery. It is therefore particularly pleasing to read of Technip’s notable achievements in wind energy projects, which combine their offshore oil platform expertise with the power of AVEVA Marine. On the subject of energy, world attention has been focused on the impact of the recent Japanese tsunami on the Fukushima nuclear power plants, and on the wider implications for the nuclear industry. AVEVA has had a long and close relationship with this industry and I would like to publicly acknowledge the support which our colleagues in Japan have provided to customers during this difficult time. Despite such setbacks, nuclear energy will continue to play an increasing role and AVEVA remains committed to supporting its nuclear customers as they tackle the new technical and regulatory requirements which will no doubt soon emerge. Engineering is a barometer of global trends and, because so much of the world’s engineering relies on AVEVA technology, to see the encouragingly healthy state of this barometer you need look no further than AVEVA’s sustained growth and the customer successes described in this magazine. That’s what makes AVEVA World Magazine such an authoritative source, as well as a really inspiring read!

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Promon Engenharia invests in AVEVA NET for Latin American growth Promon Engenharia selected AVEVA NET as its information management solution after running a comprehensive three-month benchmark programme which compared AVEVA NET with competing systems. AVEVA completed the programme in just one month, outperforming the competition on technology and time of implementation.

A delayed coking unit for the REPAR Petrobras refinery at the city of Araucária, in the state of Paraná in Brazil. Photograph courtesy of Promon Engenharia.

Promon Engenharia belongs to the Promon Group in Brazil. The core business of Promon Engenharia is the design, integration and implementation of complete infrastructure solutions (EPC and turnkey contracts) for key economic sectors such as power, oil & gas, mining and metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, process industries, infrastructure, and logistics and transportation.

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Rogerio Pinto, Systems Manager at Promon Engenharia explains, ‘We implemented AVEVA NET to change the way project information was managed and accessed across all our operations. Many of our clients have clear requirements as to which engineering tools should be used for their projects, and we use engineering solutions from many vendors, including AVEVA, Intergraph, Bentley and Siemens.’ A complex engineering environment ‘Our engineering environment is usually very complex,’ continues Rogerio Pinto. ‘Each separate engineering tool was communicating individually with the procurement, financial, construction and management systems. There were several disadvantages with this architecture. A large number of interfaces had to be developed and maintained for each separate project, and this created both multiple points of failure and significant ongoing cost.’

Only one source of information Rogerio Pinto explains, ‘The next step for Promon Engenharia was to create an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment with only one source of information, with a unique database for the complete engineering information, receiving data from all engineering applications.’ Promon’s main requirements were to find a solution which enhanced the workflow between different engineering disciplines, and which would comply with their clients’ requirements regarding engineering systems. Their enterprise systems would have to be integrated in the solution, which would have to be aligned with the most up-to-date technology in the market and fit in with Promon’s IT development plans.

‘AVEVA NET outperformed the tests. It provided very flexible integration with the different tools that we used...’

A delayed coking unit for the REPAR Petrobras refinery at the city of Araucária, in the state of Paraná in Brazil. Photograph courtesy of Promon Engenharia.

Rogerio Pinto goes on, ‘In 2007, Promon Engenharia started to investigate available EDW solutions. We arranged three site visits, to companies in Canada, the USA and Scotland, to see their solutions, and we developed a proof of concept, using a general EDW solution. In the 2008 global economic crisis, we cut back on our search efforts.’ Comprehensive benchmark program When the economy started to recover in 2009, Promon resumed the evaluation process and performed a three-month, comprehensive benchmark programme based on three EDW scenarios that are relevant to their main clients. In all cases AVEVA NET was tested against other competing systems to determine which information management solution performed best in each scenario. z In the first scenario, which applied to refinery projects for Petrobras, AVEVA PDMS was the tool evaluated for 3D modelling together with Siemens engineering tools.

z In the second scenario, which applied to offshore projects for Petrobras and two mining projects for VALE, all the engineering tools were from Intergraph. z In the third and final scenario, there was a mix of engineering tools from AVEVA and Intergraph. ‘The result,’ says Rogerio Pinto, ‘was that AVEVA NET outperformed the tests. It provided very flexible integration with the different tools that we used in the three scenarios.’ Before implementing AVEVA NET in 2010, Promon Engenharia defined an important document, its ‘Applications Integration Map’. The purpose of this document was to define the interfaces between the different engineering tools needed, to clarify which interface was already working, and which interfaces should be developed or acquired.

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A delayed coking unit for the REPAR Petrobras refinery at the city of Araucária, in the state of Paraná in Brazil. Photograph courtesy of Promon Engenharia.

First project with AVEVA NET The new COMPERJ refinery project for Petrobras is the first project in which Promon has employed AVEVA NET, and the company quickly realised further benefits from the use of the application. These included the ease with which they could now share engineering information with the procurement, construction, enterprise data and document systems, the ability to allocate materials to projects, and the integration of AVEVA NET with Promon’s planning tools, Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and ERP systems. Several daily reports were developed and used by a number of professionals to consolidate information from all disciplines and integrated systems. This approach ensures a high level of information quality and reduces rework on site. Many control reports which were distributed weekly to the project team are now published on AVEVA NET as a unique information source. The COMPERJ project is using AVEVA NET in three different offices, with the scope shared between Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Since the beginning of this year, Promon Engenharia has been using AVEVA NET on a new offshore project for Petrobras. Using a totally different system environment from that in previous projects, this also includes integration with PDS from Intergraph.

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Rogerio Pinto concludes, ‘Promon has a complex scenario in which we use software from different vendors; with AVEVA NET, we are now more quickly able to integrate all of these applications. Having accurate and rapid access to information, we are reducing our overall engineering manhours. AVEVA NET offers business benefits through the ability to define and maintain information integrity in an EPC environment.’ About Promon The Brazilian company Promon Engenharia, established in 1960, is part of the Promon Group. This group also includes PromonLogicalis, Promon Novos Negócios and Trópico (a joint venture with CPqD and Cisco). The Promon Group employs more than 1,600 people, and 100% of its shares are owned by its employees. The Promon Engenharia portfolio comprises an extensive array of projects, including oil refineries, petrochemical plants, maritime terminals, hydroelectric, thermal and nuclear power plants, power transmission systems, steel mills, processing and mining plants, automotive and aeronautical manufacturing plants, commercial buildings, and large transportation projects such as subway and road systems. For further details, see www.promon.com.br.

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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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The rise and rise of Integrated Engineering and Design Plant projects involve huge amounts of data, across all the plant disciplines. This data evolves during a lengthy workflow that requires the participation of many parties. To succeed, AVEVA’s customers need nothing less than excellent tools for generating, coordinating and managing this complex data flow. The benefits of the 3D technology used in this process are now very widely appreciated. The ability to comprehensively visualise and model complex engineering builds, and to understand the impact of design changes, both in the design and construction phase, and in the operational phase, is a strong value proposition. But what about the applications that sit outside the 3D process? How important is it that they are integrated effectively into the very complicated overall ‘mix’?

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AVEVA supports true integration. This is not the optional use of a complex foundation layer to provide limited communication between disparate design and engineering applications. Instead, with AVEVA, integration is fully inbuilt; the Engineer and Design products are all powered by the same resources. Integrated Engineering and Design: its benefits The AVEVA approach is founded on the belief that true integration needs engineering and design applications that work together and can share and reference data online during the design process itself, both between themselves and with other products and in-house systems. This additional value proposition, which AVEVA calls ‘Integrated Engineering and Design’, is critical to the solutions’ ability to address real-world needs. For instance, the designer who is developing a schematic may also need information at his fingertips from outside his immediate discipline, such as the 3D model, piping specifications, and so forth, with clear distinction between issued and work-in-progress status. If all of this information is contained in separate silos and cannot easily be shared, it takes a great deal of work to make use of it, and duplication of both effort and the data itself will inevitably occur. Likewise, if immature information is used inappropriately, error will surely result.

AVEVA Engineering is unique in the market for a number of reasons, and benefits engineers in many ways, just a few of which are explored below: z It meets the specific needs of multi-discipline engineers, because it is a purpose-designed, out-of-the-box authoring tool. The market has historically relied on disconnected spreadsheets and/or bespoke software developments to try and meet this need. z It enables projects to be completed in as short a time as possible - concurrent and parallel working enables rapid design, even across global locations. On-demand, user-controlled consistency, and compare/update checking, help to shrink project schedules further, while ensuring that a fully consistent design is achieved. z It enables schedule and cost savings, and quality improvements, because of inbuilt integration, which, unlike many competitor systems, is not dependent on manual transfer of data between applications (e.g. schematics and engineering). Partners with different implementations can work effectively together, even across geographical boundaries, without trying to manage information in disconnected spreadsheets or having to implement expensive bespoke solutions at remote locations. z It works with what customers have already got, including standard office applications like Excel, enabling rapid deployment into even the most diverse IT environment. z It makes set-up easier and quicker because it shares administration, configuration, data management and customisation functions with AVEVA PDMS.

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A significant resource in the engineer’s armoury will be the new AVEVA Engineering product, which enables engineers across multi-discipline teams to concurrently create and maintain the definition of tagged engineering objects and their attributes, and to work via line and equipment lists, etc.

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In Sound and Image

AVEVA has produced a new video to explain its Integrated Engineering and Design approach. The video shows how the approach is broken down into three product categories, Engineer, Design, and Manage: z Engineer: These products create schematics, diagrams, datasheets, engineering lists and indexes z Design: These products create 3D models for detailed design and produce all associated deliverables z Manage: These products enable global work share, clash management and design review The video acknowledges AVEVA’s historical core specialism of 3D design technology, as embodied in solutions like PDMS. But it also shows how Integrated Engineering and Design delivers significant benefit to the many other activities that are involved in the design and construction of process plants. To see the video, visit: aveva.com/videos

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Process/Systems Engineering

Instrumentation Engineering

AVEVA Diagrams and AVEVA P&ID are intelligent diagramming systems for P&IDs and similar deliverables. AVEVA Diagrams provides power and convenience through online working to the AVEVA model database. AVEVA P&ID enables users to work through an AutoCAD user interface to create data which can then be loaded into the AVEVA model database.

AVEVA Instrumentation generated enormous interest when it was released to the market in 2009, becoming one of the fastest selling products in our history. Perhaps this is no surprise, since research that we carried out among a group of international instrumentation and control engineers indicated that the solution was capable of delivering savings of over 30% on typical instrumentation project costs.

In both cases the output is not only the creation of the diagrams themselves, but an intelligent, fully connected schematic model, which can be exploited downstream. These are some of the many benefits that engineers experience as a result: z Ease of use – Both AVEVA Diagrams and AVEVA P&ID are proven to be quick and easy to learn and deploy, reducing design man-hours and project lead-times. z Simplified design liaison – Diagram information is readily available to 3D designers, reducing the man-hours spent in liaison for detailed design and later design modifications. z Project wide reporting – Comprehensive, user-friendly reports can be automatically generated across the complete project. z Improved quality and reduced rework – The complete set of diagrams can be checked for completeness and consistency across the entire project.

AVEVA Instrumentation is a solution for creating and maintaining instrumentation and control engineering data as a project is developed, and synchronising it with the engineering data that is common to other disciplines. Instrumentation also provides a wide range of flexible automated outputs and reports. Since its launch, Instrumentation has undergone a number of improvements, driven by input collected from our User Reference Groups. These include the introduction of automated fieldbus segment diagrams and flexible tagging rule enhancements. Other new benefits in development include E&I Extracts – a feature that enables elements and objects in the design to be split up and divided between different groups of engineers, and then seamlessly integrated back into the overall project. This is particularly useful for scenario planning and for subcontracting the allocation of work. A new Business Value Calculator for instrumentation is now available. This is a desktop application that enables users to calculate the savings that they can achieve by using AVEVA Instrumentation, versus existing practices. You can request a copy of the BVC from the AVEVA website.

AVEVA Electrical: datasheet templates are created through a simple Excel application, which maps fields directly into the database. This enables templates to be easily copied and change-managed between projects.

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Electrical Engineering AVEVA Electrical, the latest addition to the Integrated Engineering and Design range, builds on the success of AVEVA Instrumentation, and uses many of the same technical innovations to deliver a companion solution for creating and maintaining electrical equipment and cabling data. Electrical rather neatly uses the same database as Instrumentation, enabling data to be shared seamlessly between the two solutions. Additionally, refinements like Compare and Update enable the data to be referenced and used with the 3D, Engineering and Schematic models, in keeping with the Integrated Engineering and Design philosophy. For the engineer, this means that information is consistently available and accessible. Here are just a few examples of the benefits, similar to those in Instrumentation, which this brings to the engineer’s activities: z Intelligent single-line diagrams – Single-line diagrams are a direct and intuitive way of conveying the absolute fundamentals of a very complex design picture, but in many electrical design systems these diagrams are actually just dumb drawings with no connection into the actual design database. In AVEVA Electrical, the diagram is automatically written in real time to the design database and replicated in the hierarchy structures that the engineers and designers use to navigate the database. The line diagram becomes both an effective and a reliable source of information in its own right. z Cable routing – In many engineering applications, cable routing activities exist in a vacuum, completely unlinked to the 3D plant model. This means that the engineer is often unaware of specific environmental factors that should significantly influence cable routing decisions, such as the potential presence of gases, or exceptionally high or low temperatures, or the proximity of components that are sensitive to segregation and de-rating factors. In AVEVA Electrical, by contrast, tight integration between the cabling application and the plant’s digital model means that all available cable routes can be instantly returned to the user, and cables running on the route can be inspected at any chosen location. Where manual redirection is necessary, this is made very straightforward, and potential impacts of the redirection can be clearly flagged for further analysis.

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z AVEVA Engineering – NEW z AVEVA Electrical – NEW z AVEVA Diagrams z AVEVA Instrumentation z AVEVA P&ID

z Change management – The complete, automatic, and fully auditable change management capability within AVEVA Electrical enables the designers and engineers carrying out the work to track and bill all change activity that has been caused by out-of-scope requests on the part of the client. z Powerful datasheets – The datasheet is often an engineer’s best friend, but they can be very difficult to produce and use. Incredibly, reproducing the content of one datasheet template for multiple items remains a manual process in most systems. AVEVA Electrical, like AVEVA Instrumentation, enables datasheet templates to be created through a simple office application like Excel, which maps fields directly into the database and enables templates to be easily copied from one project to another, with full change tracking and highlighting, so that the datasheet will always deliver an up-to-date story. z E&I Extracts – Effective management of workload, and the quality of the work produced, are dear to every engineer’s heart. AVEVA Electrical’s E&I Extracts tool enables elements and objects in the design to be split up and divided between different groups of engineers, and then seamlessly integrated back into the overall project. In this way, project complexity can be proactively matched to engineers’ workload and experience levels, and discrete parts of the design can be prototyped and tested, without endangering the quality and viability of the final design decision.

Conclusion AVEVA’s position is therefore clear: to bring true value to customers, each application must have, within it, the ability to integrate with other applications, including AVEVA’s own 3D design solutions (such as PDMS). This ability must be inbuilt – part of the very DNA of the technology – and it must serve the customer’s needs, not the vendor’s. Equally, however, integration with other vendors’ solutions must also be assured, and this is provided through the AVEVA Digital Information Hub. Openness has always been at the heart of AVEVA’s technology strategy, and, in this approach, integration isn’t an option – it is a given.

A new business paper, A Shocking Waste of Money: Eight Reasons Why Electrical Design Costs More Than It Should sets out AVEVA’s vision for an effective electrical engineering design solution. It is available to download from AVEVA’s website: aveva.com/ whitepapers

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Origin Energy, the Otway Gas Project and AVEVA NET – seamless handover of information assets With almost 4,000 employees, Origin Energy is one of the leading providers of energy to more than three million homes and businesses throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Origin is one of the top 20 listed companies on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) involved in gas & oil exploration and production, power generation and energy retailing.

In late 2009, Origin acquired the Otway Gas Project from Woodside Energy. Handover required a vast number of Woodside documents to be transferred to Origin’s systems, within a tight timeframe and with minimal interruption to operations. It was imperative for Origin to avoid any interference with the operation of the project, as this would create a safety risk and the danger of incurring a substantial cost. Origin recognised that transferring all the data via hard copy and hard disk was impractical. Such a procedure would be laborious and could result in irrelevant or inaccurate data being imported into Origin’s systems. The workload involved in manually moving all hard files to the new location was also a major financial concern. Proven effectiveness at Woodside In considering their options, Origin concluded that, as Woodside was already using AVEVA technology, AVEVA NET would be ideal for this transfer. AVEVA was able to demonstrate to Origin how, in a matter of seconds, using project document control procedures, the system could be used to access vital data, such as information relating to materials and purchasing. Initial assessments highlighted the importance of transferring the data accurately and completely. As with any transition of this scale, there were a number of inherent risks for which AVEVA had to make necessary provision. The most significant risk identified was the possibility of misplacing sensitive or critical information in the data transfer, thus hindering the proper operation of the gas projects.

‘Through the use of AVEVA NET, we completed the transition within a short timeframe, allowing staff quick access to crucial project information across the Otway Gas Project...’

The Otway Gas Project, Victoria. Photograph courtesy of Origin Energy.

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Origin Energy production station. Photograph courtesy of Origin Energy.

From left, Damian Hajda, Account Manager AVEVA, and Heath Roberts, Document Management and Control Team Leader at Origin Energy. Photograph courtesy of Origin Energy.

Also, due to the volume of documents being transferred, there were concerns that long periods of system outage would reduce staff productivity. AVEVA was confident that its AVEVA NET technology would provide the access point for the information to be properly handled. Origin identified more than 50 Woodside systems, amounting to more than 100,000 individual documents to be integrated into Origin’s new systems, which needed to be transferred swiftly and accurately without hindrance to operations. With such a large volume of information, AVEVA NET was an essential instrument in cross-referencing these documents and linking data files together to ensure information could be easily organised and accessed from its new location. This was achieved by the inheritance of the developed metadata standards that had been created for the asset. Rapidly effective deployment From beginning implementation in April 2010, AVEVA NET was operational within three weeks. With Woodside and Origin both using AVEVA NET technology, Woodside’s systems were moved quickly and accurately, with minimal interference for Origin staff.

Origin staff can access data sheets providing ordered, indexed information on the materials used in the Otway project, and can update documents easily and efficiently, instantly identifying any missing or duplicated information on the system. AVEVA has delivered for Origin a framework that can be used for the rest of the transition, allowing Origin staff to manage offshore projects simply and accurately. Success now and in the future Heath Roberts, Document Management and Control Team Leader at Origin, said, ‘Through the use of AVEVA NET, we completed the transition within a short timeframe, allowing staff quick access to crucial project information across the Otway Gas Project. ‘With these technologies, we were able to retain the quality of the documentation we received from Woodside’s systems, without needing to change our internal practices or how we deliver our projects.’ Origin is now assessing the possibility of rolling out AVEVA NET technology across its operations and further developing its relationship with AVEVA.

Origin was now able to experience the benefits of using AVEVA NET, with easy access to the data structures of the entire plant’s operations enabling safe and effective operation.





LPG cylinders. Photograph courtesy of Origin Energy.

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Waller Marine Inc. uses AVEVA PDMS to design Venezuelan power barges Houston’s Waller Marine, Inc. (WMI) faced a tough challenge: Design, build and deliver two 171 MW floating power barges to a customer in Venezuela… in just 180 days.

From idea to reality The result? The Margarita I and the Josefa Rufina I floating power plants set sail for Venezuela on schedule in August 2010 from Ingleside, TX. Only six short months earlier, both were mere ideas. How did WMI complete the fast-track project in such a tight window?

Such a project required not only focus, speed and know-how, but a tool that would enable WMI to maximize its 36 years of naval architectural expertise on a very tight deadline with no margin for error. The firm turned to AVEVA in early 2010, purchased four PDMS licenses and rolled up its collective sleeves with little time to spare.

‘The project schedule would have been impossible to achieve without tireless dedication and a shared vision of success by all involved,’ said Stephen J. McKillop, WMI’s Vice President of Engineering.

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‘We chose to team our in-house engineering staff to work hand-in-hand with a highly motivated and talented shipyard whereby the barge hull, equipment foundations and piping systems were being engineered, constructed and installed almost simultaneously,’ McKillop explained, adding it was a strategy which could have been a recipe for mistakes, reworks and delays, were it not for the real time communication and strict scheduling of the various activities.

The power barges Margarita I and Josefa Rufina I under construction at the Signal International fabrication yard in Orange, TX. Each barge is capable of producing 171 MW using GE Frame 7FA turbines.

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McKillop said the final piece of the construction puzzle was to install the power plant and electrical switchyard. ‘(It) was completed by highly qualified turbine and electrical technicians specifically contracted by WMI for their dedication and “can do” attitude,’ he said. ‘PDMS was a vital tool in allowing accurate installation and fit-up in our balance of plant-toturbine piping interfaces.’ Providing needed electricity The Margarita I and the Josefa Rufina I sport deck areas about the size of a football field and each weighs 6,700 short tons apiece. Their stack towers soar 100 feet above the decks. Boasting identical GE 7FA simplecycle, dual-fuel turbine generators, the barges can each generate 171.4 MW of electricity for transfer to the Venezuelan grid. The turbines can run on natural gas or number 2 fuel oil. The barges will be moored in a shallow, man-made basin protected from the Caribbean Sea, near the Planta Termoeléctrica de Tacoa – an overtaxed 1940s-era power plant on the coast northwest of Caracas that cannot operate at anywhere near 100 percent capacity due to age. Venezuela’s nearby hydroelectric plants have been unable to take up the slack with additional power due to a shortage of rainfall in the region, which has led to lower than normal reservoir levels needed to power the hydro turbines. As a result, Caracas and the surrounding areas have been experiencing frequent power ‘brownouts.’ Once online in mid 2011, the Margarita I and the Josefa Rufina I should alleviate at least some of the electricity shortages in the Venezuelan capital.

‘The client asked us if we could deliver it in six months and we did it. This has never been done before. No one thought we could do it. But we came through in the 180 days. I think we surprised the customer...’ Idea dates back to the ‘30s Power barges such as the Margarita I and the Josefa Rufina I are not a new concept. Indeed, as far back as 1931, Popular Mechanics magazine profiled the Jacona, a freighter that was being converted to a ‘mobile seagoing power plant’ that could go wherever electricity was needed. Development took off during World War II when barges delivered power to troops in the field and to bombed-out cities, such as Nagasaki, Japan. After World War II, construction slowed. However, over the past two decades, power barges have enjoyed a resurgence as an effective way to supply electricity to developing countries. Their short construction cycles, ease in deployment and competitive costs versus land-based plants have made them an attractive alternative. Today, more than 60 power barges are in use around the world, according to Power Magazine, including a few in the United States.

Photo courtesy of Waller Marine Inc.

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The Margarita I and Josefa Rufina I onsite in a protected cove northwest of Caracas, Venezuela, ready for final installations and hookup to the power grid. Photo courtesy of Waller Marine Inc.

What sets the Margarita I and the Josefa Rufina I apart from other such ventures is that these will not only be the largest of their kind in terms of size and capacity, according to WMI, but they were also successfully built in such a short turnaround time. Fast-track construction WMI concentrated on design at its Houston offices and contracted with Signal International, Inc. for fabrication in its Orange, TX, shipyard. Faced with an extremely tight window, barge construction began even before design work had been completed. The first steel plates were put together in March 2010. Fabrication continued thereafter 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At times, work was so fast-paced that construction workers were being handed design documents that were sometimes only hours old. ‘The client asked us if we could deliver it in six months and we did it,’ said Hugh O. Haggerty, WMI’s Marine System Specialist. ‘This has never been done before. No one thought we could do it. But we came through in the 180 days. I think we surprised the customer.’ Marrying two engineering fields ‘The key thing to remember about this project is that it wasn’t just a power plant,’ Haggerty explained, ‘It was a power plant on a barge.’ While diesel engines have long been installed on ships for power generation, putting an industrial-sized dual-fuel turbine on a barge posed a few additional design challenges. GE Frame 7FA turbines, for instance, have strict limitations and tolerance for any longitudinal distortion along their shafts during operation. The design includes a reinforced concrete plinth that keeps the barge at zero deflection under all operating conditions.

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Special considerations were also needed for hull and foundation loading, stress and vibration. The main deck of each barge, for example, is built to support 5,000 psf. A plinth-barge interface, including a patented system of spring boxes and hydraulic supports, provides a way to control and dampen vibration from turbine operation. To accomplish this, WMI not only drew upon its naval architecture experience, but also on a knowledge of the power industry as well. ‘The design of a floating power plant marries the engineering protocols of the Marine and Power Generating industries,’ WMI explains in its promotional materials on floating power plants. ‘However, with modern structural marine engineering and construction capabilities, coupled with an understanding of power generation concepts,’ the company continues, ‘the two industries can be fully integrated to perform their intended functions while afloat.’ The firm has a more than 20-year history of success with power barges, dating back to the late 1980s when it inspected the 1940s-vintage Impedence, first used by the US Army in the Philippines and the barge that eventually led to the reintroduction of power barges in the late 1990s. PDMS’ role A team of two WMI engineers used AVEVA PDMS to design the intricate piping for each power barge and the software greatly aided the project, according to the company. ‘The piping went very well,’ Haggerty said. ‘The PDMS program was invaluable. Two guys were able to crank it out quite rapidly. We couldn’t have done the project as fast as we did without PDMS.’

What benefits did WMI see from its use of PDMS? ‘We learned a lot. As this was our first time using PDMS, the efficiencies were mainly in the construction phase,’ McKillop said. ‘But in the future, I can see the benefits (of using PDMS) in the engineering.’ Off to Venezuela After fabrication was completed, tugs towed the twin barges down the Texas coast to Ingleside where a heavy lift vessel picked them up for final transport to Venezuela. Once there, workers began hooking the barges to the power grid for a planned startup in early 2011. While the barges now rest in their basin near Tacoa, the delivery may signify only the first phase of an even larger project. Waller reports their Venezuelan client is examining adding a third simple-cycle power barge along with a much larger 260 MW combined-cycle unit that would utilize heat from the other barges to power a steam turbine.

Tugboats tow one of the power barges through the Caribbean Sea on the last leg of its voyage to Venezuela. Photo courtesy of Waller Marine Inc.

What’s next? ‘We’re busy,’ McKillop said. ‘Anything that floats we work on.’ McKillop said WMI is presently developing its ‘Gas to Wire Concept,’ in which a floating LNG process and power chain is installed in developing countries, allowing field or stranded gas (which oftentimes would be flared) to be liquefied, transported by barge, regassified and utilized as economical power plant fuel. ‘I feel that the presentation qualities, accuracy and efficiencies of PDMS will most certainly be useful in bringing to reality this latest addition to our business model,’ he said.

‘We learned a lot. As this was our first time using PDMS, the efficiencies were mainly in the construction phase. But in the future, I can see the benefits (of using PDMS) in the engineering...’

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Technip takes wind farms offshore With ever-increasing demand, wind energy technology is rapidly becoming an important source of clean, renewable energy. The wind farms of the future will be so large that they will have to be situated offshore, so the offshore wind power market is expected to grow dramatically. There are plans to install thousands of turbines in offshore wind farms over the coming years, and these projects are now extending into deeper waters. Magnus Feldt Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

Since it has been in operation, the technical performance of the turbine has been first class, providing confidence for the planned expansion of the Pori Tahkoluoto sea area into a wind farm producing more than 100 MW. Photograph courtesy of Technip.

Spar hulls built by Technip. Image courtesy of Technip.

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The Hywind concept The Hywind project, in operation since 2009, was the first renewable wind energy project for Technip in Finland. This concept for producing power at sea was developed by Statoil in Norway, and the Hywind floating wind turbine is the first large-scale turbine to be supported by an underwater floating structure similar to those used by offshore oil rigs. The substructure is placed 100 metres beneath the sea’s surface, and is anchored to the seabed by a mooring spread.

Technip was awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract for the Hywind turbine’s steel substructure. The Group carried out the detail design and fabrication of the substructure and was responsible for the installation work offshore. The turbine itself was manufactured by Siemens.

In June 2009, the 2.3 MW Hywind facility was towed to its location about 12 kilometres south-east of Karmøy in the North Sea, in a water depth of about 220 metres, where it began operation. In order to thoroughly test the innovative technology, the turbine is undergoing a two-year programme to evaluate its resistance to the strong wind and waves of this harsh ocean environment. Implementing AVEVA Marine In 1986 Technip began to use the Steerbear Hull system, an early predecessor of Tribon and AVEVA Marine, for structural engineering and migrated to Tribon Hull in 1995. For outfitting disciplines, various systems have been used, including AVEVA PDMS. In 2009, the Group upgraded to AVEVA Marine. As experienced users of both Tribon Hull and PDMS, Technip’s engineers found the structural and outfitting features in AVEVA Marine immediately familiar, and were able to start design work in earnest after only a few days’ training. The Group also uses AVEVA MARS for materials and resource planning.

Left and right: AVEVA Marine models of the gravity-based wind turbine foundation. Centre: The gravity-based foundation for Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbine was installed in July 2010 on the west coast of Pori in the Sea of Bothnia. All images courtesy of Technip.

Eero Lehtonen, Section Manager, Naval Architecture & Structural Analysis.

Miika Koskinen, 3D Coordinator and Tuomo Vuonokari, Structural Engineer.

First gravity-based foundation project uses AVEVA Marine The Finnish energy company Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy awarded Technip the engineering contract for the world’s first gravity-based wind turbine foundation project for heavy ice conditions, in the Pori Tahkoluoto sea area. The scope of the contract consisted of basic and detail engineering, fabrication, installation, offshore works and the installation of the Siemens 2.3MW wind turbine. This was the first project on which Technip used AVEVA Marine. The scope of engineering work covered the structural and outfitting design. The fabrication information such as hull workshop drawings, plate nesting data, steel outfitting drawings and piping drawings was extracted from the 3D model. The engineering schedule was extremely challenging; engineering work started in June 2009 with fabrication planned for January 2010. Despite the demanding schedule, the Group achieved all the delivery times and installation was completed on schedule in July 2010. Since it has been in operation, the technical performance of the turbine has been first class, providing confidence for the planned expansion of the Pori Tahkoluoto sea area into a wind farm producing more than 100 MW.

Technip’s construction yard in Pori, Finland. Photograph courtesy of Technip.

Benefits gained By using one integrated system for both the structural and outfitting design work, Technip saved hours of engineering time, thanks to greater flexibility between the engineering and fabrication disciplines. The use of AVEVA Marine for this project allowed the engineers to work in parallel, sharing the most up-to-date design information in one common 3D model. A powerful application within AVEVA Marine, AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports made it possible to fully model all support details in the design. Efficiently achieving such a high level of detail resulted in completely clashfree designs, saving both time and money by avoiding costly late modifications to the design. Technip intends to use AVEVA Marine for their future spar hulls and other offshore products.

About Technip in Finland Established in 1972 under the name RaumaRepola Oy, Mäntyluoto Works, Technip’s operating center in Finland (Technip Offshore Finland) now has over 30 years of experience in project execution and employs around 700 people. The company has delivered 22 drilling rigs, 2 multi-purpose service vessels, 1 pipe layer, modules for 9 production platforms, 10 hulls and mooring systems for spar production platforms, and several drilling rig upgrades. Technip Offshore Finland is part of the Technip Group, a world leader in engineering, project management and technology, serving the energy industry for more than fifty years. The Technip Group counts 23,000 people. Visit www.technip.com for more information.

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Investing for the future

Flagsol uses AVEVA engineering tools for solar power plant design Every year, the sun transmits over a billion terawatt-hours of energy to the earth, yet only a small fraction of this is used as a source of energy. Solar thermal power plants are a future-oriented solution to this waste. The AVEVA Plant solution guides the designers of these power plants through the detailed planning steps up to commissioning.

A futuristic landscape in the middle of the desert in Andalucía – a giant array of shiny silver mirrors with seemingly endless tube systems glistens in the shimmering air. In fact, when it comes to energy generation, the future is already here, in the province of Granada. The three Andasol power plants are the first parabolic trough power plants in Europe and, in terms of collector surface, they constitute the world’s largest solar power plant. Flagsol, a subsidiary of the Solar Millennium Group, has its headquarters in Cologne, Germany. The company is, among other things, responsible for the engineering of the solar array, the core element of the power plant. This consists of many parallel rows of solar collectors, arranged in a north/south direction, tracking the solar curve from east to west.

The Andasol parabolic trough power plants, located in the province of Granada in southern Spain, will generate an output of 50MW each, supporting 600,000 people. The Andasol 1 and Andasol 2 plants have begun operating and Andasol 3 is currently under construction. Photograph courtesy of Solar Millennium AG / Paul Langrock.

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Ever since 2007, Flagsol has been using AVEVA PDMS, a 3D design system, to dimension and design the solar array. Before that, the solar experts relied on a CAD tool, which was close to the limit of its capabilities. Daniel Müllenborn, responsible for CAD usage at Flagsol, explains, ‘We required software which was capable of handling large volumes of data and which could be used for international projects.’ For over 30 years PDMS has proved its worth, handling both small-scale change projects and the new-build construction of large industrial plants. It offers vital features such as error correction, revision management and change control. ‘We first tested the software here in Cologne and later received training courses at AVEVA,’ Daniel Müllenborn says, describing the decision-making process. After these test runs, Flagsol decided to commit to PDMS. Productive use of the software started soon afterwards – in fact, Andasol 3, the third parabolic trough power plant, was designed using PDMS. ‘There is always a learning curve,’ Daniel Müllenborn remembers with regard to the startup phase – but he is keen to emphasise that the company had no regrets about this change. Quick results despite a complex project During the course of the project, the team increasingly explored the full functionality of PDMS. Today, the tool is mostly used for tubing system planning, as well as steel and concrete construction.

Background: solar thermal power plants ‘Solar thermal power plant’ is a collective term covering various types of technology, all of them based on solar radiation being transformed into heat to generate electric energy. The thermal energy produced in this way reaches temperatures well in excess of 100°C and is usually released to a steam circuit. Just as in conventional power plants, the steam is used in a turbine to generate electricity.

A parabolic trough solar collector unit is 12 metres long and weighs around 2.5 tons. More than 7000 collectors are installed at the Andasol 3 plant. Photograph courtesy of Solar Millennium AG / Paul Langrock.

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While the designers work on their assigned tasks in special modules, the overall design is always visible to them. PDMS takes the results of the designers’ work to set up a comprehensive plant database which can be used to automatically generate all layout and detail drawings, BOMs (MTO data) and isometrics. Based on pipe catalogues and technical specifications in the piping module, a detailed model of all piping systems can be produced. The piping model can then be used to generate assembly drawings, isometrics and BOMs. A key advantage is the ability to manage all phases of pipeline planning and integrate them into PDMS, from the rough routing of lines at project start, to basic and detailed designs and the specification of pipeline elements for manufacturing. At Andasol, a total of 1,300 pipelines were designed, measuring in all between 40 and 50 kilometres, together with supports and cabling with a total length of 30 kilometres. Thanks to shared component data and the reuse of design data in new projects, the processing effort is greatly reduced and design times are shortened. ‘We have a high degree of repetition, for instance, several hundred pipelines which are generally identical but are located in different places. PDMS generates the BOMs for us, thus saving a lot of work,’ says Daniel Müllenborn. Altogether, the Andasol 3 project comprised several thousands of pipeline components that had to be planned, managed and documented. Pipe supports can be planned using PDMS Piping and AVEVA MultiDiscipline Supports. AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface enables the efficient transfer of piping design to third-party stress analysis software. What is more, PDMS provides special functions for the basic and detailed design of steel and concrete constructions. For instance, the Beams and Columns function defines and maintains a fully connected nodal network of structural sections, including all joint and fitting details. Simple regular structures are created in one single step. The nodal network is coupled with the ability to define loads in the model. Finally, slabs of any shape, floors, ceilings and matching fittings can be defined and managed.

A consistent approach PDMS has no limits in terms of project size or complexity. ‘PDMS is very attractive to us, as all the data is in one single location, a large common database,’ Daniel Müllenborn explains. Various interfaces are provided for analysis systems, design systems and third-party design applications. Many data exchange formats are supported, including DXF, DGN, SDNF and CSV. In the light of international project work, the standard interface, STEP, is becoming increasingly important. All drawings are generated directly from the PDMS database. Labels and dimension labels in the drawings are also generated straight from the database, to ensure that the documents match the design. When regenerating drawings, the latest design changes are automatically taken into consideration. Thanks to the automatic highlighting function, any modifications to earlier design versions are easily identified. Daniel Müllenborn is particularly impressed with the reliability of PDMS. He says, ‘It is obvious that someone thought it through before they started programming.’ Unusually, the system uses its own programming language, which offers a clear benefit in day-to-day operations. ‘Every action suggested by PDMS is highly transparent and comprehensible,’ states Daniel Müllenborn. He goes on to mention another benefit, ‘The software can therefore be very easily customised to suit my requirements, so we enjoy maximum flexibility.’ Safe cable routing Since spring 2010, Flagsol has been using the Cable Design tool, which was only developed recently. Its use offers significant benefits. Where cable routings used to be designed manually based on drawings, the optimal routing is now suggested by Cable Design. The software takes into account the ambient conditions and the type of cable, for example, power or signal cable. A positive additional benefit is that, where the cable lengths required were previously estimated and therefore generously dimensioned, today, just the right length can be identified right from the start. This leads to a significant reduction in waste.

AVEVA PDMS model of the Andasol 3 plant. Image courtesy of Flagsol GmbH.

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Perspective Flagsol, now using several PDMS licences, is very pleased with the solution from AVEVA. ‘The good thing about PDMS is that AVEVA is truly committed to safeguarding their customers’ investment. If new elements are required, they will be provided in new modules,’ adds Daniel Müllenborn. An example is the Stairs and Ladders module used to design platforms, stairs, staircases, ladders and similar elements. The modules feature a modern user interface, yet integrate seamlessly with PDMS.

‘The good thing about PDMS is that AVEVA is truly committed to safeguarding their customers’ investment. If new elements are required, they will be provided in new modules...’

Right now, construction work on Andasol 3 is going ahead at full speed, and 2011 will see the commissioning of the third parabolic trough power plant in Spain. Meanwhile, planning for the next major project has already started. The planned solar thermal power plant in Extremadura, Spain, due to start operating in 2013, will be about the same size as Andasol. Once again, Flagsol will be relying on PDMS.

Flagsol GmbH supplies the technology, and is a general contractor, for parabolic trough power plants. Solar Millennium AG (74.9%) and Ferrostaal AG (25.1%) have pooled their competencies in this joint venture in order to develop and build these large solar power plants. In Spain, Solar Millennium has developed Europe’s first parabolic trough power plants, working in cooperation with partners. Parabolic trough power plants use the only technology for utilising solar energy in large power plants to have been commercially proven over many years; these plants have been commercially successful in California since 1985. The core element is the solar array with its reflectors.



It consists of parabolic mirrors made from extremely transparent silver-coated glass. These concentrate the incident sunlight by a factor of 80 onto an absorber tube located in the collector’s focal line. In the absorber tube, temperature-resistant synthetic oil is circulated as a heat-carrying medium in a closed circuit. After being heated to up to 400°C, the oil is routed to heat exchangers in a centrally located power generating unit. The downstream process is the same as for the steam circuit in conventional power plants: the steam generated in the heat exchanger drives a steam turbine with a current generator. The three Andasol power plants in southern Spain deliver 50MW of power each. Together they supply up to 600,000 people with ecofriendly electricity obtained from the sun.

Photograph courtesy of Solar Millennium AG / Paul Langrock.

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expands use of plant design technology

Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB (SIT) designs and delivers power units ranging from individual steam and gas turbines up to and including complete turnkey power plants for the production of electricity, steam and heat. SIT specialises in industrial-sized units, typically powered by steam turbines from 60–250 MW, and gas turbines from 15–50 MW.

First implementation of AVEVA PDMS in Sweden At SIT’s head office we met Björn Malm, Manager, Layout Department, Håkan Arvidsson, PDMS Administrator, Layout Department, and Olof Ekelund, PLR System, CAD IT Department. They explained that PDMS has been in use at Finspång since the late 1980s and that it was, in fact, the first implementation of PDMS in Sweden. They told us, ‘We recognise AVEVA as a solid company which, for many years, has delivered reliable engineering tools which directly support our engineering disciplines. AVEVA has also provided very good product support and service, helping us to integrate and optimise our environment.’

SIT is a long-established AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global user. When we visited them, they had recently extended their use of AVEVA Plant products by implementing AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator and AVEVA Schematic Model Manager. They did this so that they could integrate their existing Comos P&ID with the PDMS 3D model, to further enhance their engineering performance.

SIT now uses PDMS for the detail engineering of combined heat and power (CHP) plants and all associated and ancillary systems to the gas and steam turbines. Fabrication of the plant is often managed by a local contractor. Besides the fabrication information, SIT also delivers the 3D PDMS model of the plant to the fabrication site. More than 65 engineers at their office are experienced users of PDMS, which is currently being used for one cogeneration plant project in Bulgaria, one in Nigeria, and three in Belarus. 10–15 projects are in progress with PDMS for steam turbine plants, and about 40 for gas turbine plants.

SIT, with more than 2,600 employees, is head-quartered in Finspång, Sweden, which is often described as the cradle of Swedish industry. There were ironworks there as early as 1496, and the manufacture of cannon started in the 1600s. During the 1700s and 1800s, Finspång became one of the biggest cannon makers in the world. A steam turbine company was established there in 1913, and it was this company which, in 2003, became Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB. SIT is now part of the Siemens Energy Oil & Gas segment, which also uses PDMS at multiple locations in Germany and in the Czech Republic. Siemens Energy is a leading supplier of a wide range of products, solutions and services for power generation, transmission and distribution worldwide.

Magnus Feldt Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

From left, Olof Ekelund, Björn Malm and Håkan Arvidsson.

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Turnkey plants One example of a turnkey CHP plant designed using PDMS is the Rya CHP plant for Göteborg Energi in Gothenburg, Sweden, which now produces around 30% of the city’s electric power and district heating. At this plant, three 45 MW industrial gas turbines are each connected to a supplementary-fired heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). These three boilers feed a 137 MW steam turbine, and two district heating condensers, connected after the steam turbine exhaust, supply hot water to the city’s district heating system. SIT designed and delivered the whole plant, including manufacturing the turbines in SIT’s workshops in Finspång.

AVEVA PDMS model of the Rya CHP plant. Image courtesy of SIT.

‘To be able to check the sequence, connectivity, tag and attribute data between the P&ID and the 3D model will raise the quality of the design at all stages of our projects...’ The Rya CHP plant for Göteborg Energi. SIT delivered and designed the whole plant. Photograph courtesy of SIT.

SIT is expanding World population is growing, and more people are moving to the cities. This results in increasing energy use and an unprecedented growth in the global demand for energy. Thanks to a very high level of activity and several new projects, SIT continues to expand and will be hiring a significant number of new staff over the next three years. Increased use of AVEVA Global When subcontractors are engaged in a project, AVEVA Global, a solution for multi-site concurrent working, has enabled SIT’s engineers to successfully share the 3D model and the design information with the engineers at the subcontractors’ sites. SIT expects the use of AVEVA Global to increase for future projects involving more subcontractors. Big savings expected from PDMS 12 and the AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface The detailed designs of the specialist equipment used in a power plant, (e.g. the turbines), are typically carried out using a mechanical CAD system. However, 3D representations of this equipment, including the spatial geometry and connection points, also need to be available in PDMS for the teams carrying out the layout and detail design of the plant. In the past, re-creating these equipment designs inside PDMS has

involved a lot of extra work. The new AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface will allow these Mechanical CAD models to be directly imported, and SIT will soon be upgrading to PDMS 12 to allow them to make use of the new interface. AVEVA technology integrates Comos P&ID and PDMS SIT’s recent implementation of AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator and AVEVA Schematic Model Manager means that they can integrate Comos P&ID with the PDMS 3D model. After a lengthy evaluation process, SIT selected the AVEVA solution as the best technical offering available for their work process. They were particularly impressed with the topology and connectivity checking available with this solution. Björn Malm, Håkan Arvidsson and Olof Ekelun told us, ‘To be able to check the sequence, connectivity, tag and attribute data between the P&ID and the 3D model will raise the quality of the design at all stages of our projects. This will lead to fewer design iterations and fewer late changes, reducing rework and cost, and shortening schedules.’ The complete solution is now fully configured and ready for first production use on a new cogeneration plant project starting in September 2011. AVEVA World Magazine 2011| Issue 2

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Brownfield asset capture

– at light speed! A very wise commentator once wrote that the biggest revenue loss in all plants around the world is human error. This, he said, was not because operators or maintainers make mistakes, but, instead, because they do not have the information to hand to make the right decisions. Such absence of information presents a huge problem in process plant environments. The whole plant lifecycle, from design, to brownfield activity, to shutdown, turns on the availability, exchange and update of all kinds of data and information. Yet many brownfield plants, particularly older ones, are still using non-integrated forms of information. These may be electronic, or simply paper. The barriers to ‘converting’ to an integrated, digital data set, where the right information is always available in electronic form, are high. The process is slow and costly.

An equipment nozzle, showing the intelligent 3D modelling that has been produced directly from the laser scan data.

Paul Spring VP Product Business Management, AVEVA

‘In one facility, failure to capture and model a one-inch pipe run, and understand the dependencies on it, ultimately led to an incident that resulted in eight days’ loss of operations, worth approximately $50m...’

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Examining the risks Yet if you don’t have this fully ‘digital plant’, the accessibility of all your data – 2D and 3D, documents, enterprise, and many more – suffers immensely. In any brownfield environment, there is significant divergence between the as-designed and the as-built plant. If this divergence is tracked, recorded and understood, it presents no danger, but if it is allowed to continue undetected and unexplored, it generates great potential risk. Operational costs increase as operators battle with inaccurate, out of date, or simply unavailable data and records. There is also an increased probability of an incident that could lead to excursions outside of the plant’s operational perimeter, and create the potential for injury and fatalities, to both operator and the public. Regrettably, history has given us some powerful examples of this. In one facility, failure to capture and model a one-inch pipe run, and understand the dependencies on it, ultimately led to an incident that resulted in eight days’ loss of operations, worth approximately $50m. The reality is that the teams involved in this incident probably did have access to at least some of the information in digital, rather than paper, form. But the real problem was the absence of any integrated digital data structure that could tie all this information together, across the many different applications and databases in which it was stored, and across all the different teams for which it had relevance. In the digital plant, integration is a must-have.

AVEVA is revolutionising how laser scanning data is transformed into intelligent, as-built 3D modelling, by removing the slow and expensive intermediate geometry stage.

As-built information – the challenges The key challenge for the brownfield operator is that building up a comprehensive set of as-built information, particularly for older facilities where there is little or nothing in the way of an existing electronic record of the plant, has involved sending personnel on-site to carry out slow, hazardous and expensive manual surveys. More recently, the use of laser modelling has provided a more economical and comprehensive solution to the problem. Scanning hardware is positioned at strategic points in the site that is being surveyed and rapidly ‘scans’ the environment using a laser beam, to produce a photorealistic representation. However, laser scanning has not been without its limitations. The resultant laser scans tend to be used only once, and then they are disposed of. They could deliver far more value and be used as the basis of many different activities, but this requires integrating the laser data with an existing 3D plant model. Unfortunately, if there is no 3D model available, building one has typically been an expensive and lengthy undertaking. Essentially, the laser data has to go through two very labour-intensive processes, after it has been captured. Firstly, it has to be converted into intermediate geometry. Secondly, it has to be converted from geometry into the 3D model. Using these conventional techniques, it has been estimated that each hour of scanning time can require as much as 20 hours of back-office processing.

AVEVA Laser Modeller and AVEVA IntelliLaser The answer appears simple: get rid of the intermediate geometry stage. In other words, take the laser scan data, and convert it straight into a 3D model. This is exactly what AVEVA has now achieved with AVEVA Laser Modeller. This product links laser scan data with 3D component catalogues, enabling the creation, from scratch, of an intelligent and validated 3D model. The 3D model accurately reflects the as-built facility, but the manual intervention (and associated cost) is reduced to a fraction of what was previously required. AVEVA also enables laser scan data to be used to create a rapid asset management tool, via AVEVA IntelliLaser. This product ties together laser scan data, the intelligent 3D model, and all the associated data and documents, creating a common digital infrastructure for all as-built information and deliverables. For example, by clicking on a pump that has been captured by laser scanning, and then converted directly into an element within a 3D model, the IntelliLaser user can access every single piece of digital or scanned information relating to that pump – whatever format it is in, and wherever it is stored. All this benefit flows from the ability to link laser scan data and 3D model data together effectively – and cheaply. The journey to brownfield 3D has been a slow one for many in the industry. Our message to these communities now is this: you’ll get there a lot quicker on a laser beam.

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BG Petrodyne supports brownfield projects in the Middle East AVEVA Plant increases the efficiency of revamp and modification projects Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, BG Petrodyne Oil & Gas Contracting LLC provides engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to the oil & gas industry in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. BG Petrodyne is an important player in the market segment for revamp or modification projects for the upstream and downstream oil & gas industry. Its services cover all major engineering disciplines including civil, structural, piping, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, process control and automation. The company has over 70 employees, including 15 engineers and 35 field engineers. Magnus Feldt Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

‘To be able to take on more advanced and complex revamp projects, we realised that we had to move from 2D to a 3D design solution,’ explained Managing Director, Saqr Binghalib. ‘Using a 2D system, we often found limitations in clash detection, and that the system did not provide essential information for fabrication and construction.’ He continued, ‘In 2009, after a thorough evaluation, we selected the AVEVA Plant solution. One important factor in our decision was that data produced with AVEVA Plant is upward compatible with new releases. With one of the alternative systems, we discovered that it was not possible to use a plant model from an earlier version.’ Immediate ROI with AVEVA Instrumentation ‘AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA P&ID and the new AVEVA Instrumentation were implemented in 2009, with very good support and training provided by AVEVA’s Dubai office,’ Saqr Binghalib continued. ‘Our engineers found the applications very easy to use. In fact, the AVEVA Instrumentation application proved so intuitive that we started to use it for real work even before the training had started! Six engineers are already trained on PDMS, and we plan to train more people soon.’

Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates and the country’s second largest city, is where BG Petrodyne Oil & Gas Contracting LLC is headquartered.

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‘The AVEVA Instrumentation application proved so intuitive that we started to use it for real work even before the training had started! Six engineers are already trained on PDMS, and we plan to train more people soon...’

BG Petrodyne’s first use of AVEVA Plant was on a revamp project for an onshore oil operating company in Abu Dhabi, where it was used for 3D modelling, importing point cloud data, clash detection and creating fabrication isometrics. The company is currently using AVEVA Plant on one onshore and one offshore project. Reaping the benefits ‘After only a few projects with AVEVA Plant, we have been able to shorten the schedule time,’ explained Saqr Binghalib. ‘Perhaps most important are the abilities to generate clash-free designs and to automatically generate fabrication information, piping isometrics, lists and reports, instrument and spool drawings, and Material Take Offs (MTOs).’

‘For plant revamps,’ he concluded, ‘we intend to use laser scanning technology more extensively to survey as-built facilities and then to use the resulting point cloud models in PDMS for easy clash detection with the new design.’ About BG Petrodyne BG Petrodyne is part of the Binghalib Group of companies, which started operations in the UAE in 1981, with a vision of filling the technological vacuum in the Gulf. The group currently employs 350 people and is in the forefront of the region’s oil, gas, power, water and process industries. Visit www.binghalibonline.com for more information about the Binghalib Group and BG Petrodyne.

BG Petrodyne found that another valuable benefit is that the system enables concurrent working between different design disciplines. Compared to the company’s previous 2D system, design changes which were once very time consuming can now be made quickly and easily. ‘We aim to have a very high level of detail in the PDMS model, supporting smooth fabrication and installation processes, as well as making it easy for our clients to visualise the project,’ continued Saqr Binghalib.

Saqr Binghalib, Managing Director, BG Petrodyne.

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NLI Engineering delivers over 20 large FPSO topside projects NLI Engineering, a Norwegian industrial company, is involved in a number of breakthrough projects in the increasingly demanding oil & gas industry sector. The company is currently using AVEVA Plant as the engineering tool on several oil & gas projects. Two particularly interesting examples of these ongoing projects are a water treatment plant on the Goliat FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading), and the reconstruction of Sevan Voyageur.

Magnus Feldt Industry Marketing Manager AVEVA

NLI Engineering is part of the NLI Group, a Norwegian industrial group of companies with extensive experience of projects and developments within the oil & gas and industrial sectors. The group delivers complete solutions including engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning in the oil & gas and onshore industries. When we visited NLI Engineering in Vear, 100km south-west of Oslo, we found the company extremely busy. NLI Engineering has grown rapidly, from 5 staff to over 90 during the last 5 years. As a result of a very high level of activity and several new projects, the company continues to expand. AVEVA PDMS used right from the start of a project ‘NLI Engineering is a market leader in engineering services for FPSO and platform topside design,’ explains Jonas Fjeld Christensen, CAD Administrator, NLI Engineering. ‘We have two engineering offices in Norway, and one in China. Many of our engineers have experience in shipbuilding and construction supervision in Norway and abroad, so we have unique fabrication expertise in all disciplines, and at all levels, at five fabrication sites in Norway and one in Poland. ‘With support and training provided from AVEVA’s Oslo office, applications from the AVEVA Plant portfolio, including AVEVA PDMS, were implemented in April 2008. We started to use PDMS because of a specific demand from our customers in the oil & gas industry in Norway.’

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Sevan Voyageur anchored in Nymo at the Eydehavn yard in Norway.

NLI Engineering uses PDMS throughout its projects, from first layout studies to the completion of detailed design. The equipment, piping and ductwork are all built in the PDMS model, from which all types of fabrication information are automatically generated, including piping isometrics, general arrangement drawings, weight reports, material take-offs, bills of materials, pipe support drawings, cable tray routings and ductwork layouts. Tekla Structures is used for the structural design, which is imported into the PDMS model via NLI Engineering’s in-house developed interface. Engineering and fabrication work closely together ‘Engineers from the fabrication site visit the engineering office during the design phase for regular design review meetings,’ Jonas Fjeld Christensen continues. ‘These cross-discipline reviews enable us to detect potential design problems early on, before fabrication starts. Staff from the engineering office frequently visit the fabrication site during the construction phase. The PDMS 3D model is made available to the production engineers at the fabrication site, to support the building of the modules. First projects with PDMS NLI Engineering’s first use of PDMS was for the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) of the generic topside process plant on the world’s first Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) production vessel. The scope of the work included structural and piping design, and specifications and modelling of the PDMS 3D model of the topside.

Photograph courtesy of NLI Engineering.

The FLNG vessel will process two million tons a year. This project, which is targeted for start-up in mid-2014, will liquefy gas from the onshore Elk and Antelope gas fields in Papua New Guinea. The vessel will be built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. ‘This project was soon followed by projects for the Goliat FPSO and the BP Valhall platform,’ explains Jonas Fjeld Christensen. ‘PDMS was used for the FEED design of the FPSO platform. Then, in late 2009, M-I EPCON AS awarded us the contract for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation work for a water treatment module for the BP Valhall platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The engineering work was performed with PDMS, and the water treatment module was delivered and installed on the platform in July 2010.’ Another interesting early project in which NLI Engineering used PDMS was with Alstom Norway AS, in the development of cutting-edge CO2 capture technology for gas-fired power plants. The project included subcontract work on Alstom’s demonstration plant for CO2 capture at The European CO2 Technology Centre, Mongstad. Statoil is in charge of this expansion, and NLI Engineering has provided the pipelines for the plant, the opening of which is planned for November 2011. The plant will be using Alstom’s carbonate technology, chilled ammonia, to capture CO2 from fumes produced by the heating plant at Mongstad and from a processing plant (a cracker) at the nearby Mongstad refinery. It will be the largest demonstration plant of its kind, able to process fumes from both a gas-fired plant and a refinery.

Jonas Fjeld Christensen, CAD Administrator, NLI Engineering.

Support for all engineering disciplines ‘One of the first impressions we had of PDMS was the impressive amount of information about the project that could be stored in the 3D model,’ explains Jonas Fjeld Christensen. ‘And the easy access you have to all the objects and their attributes. This was different from the earlier engineering systems we had used. Our experience of PDMS has been that it is very suitable for projects in the oil & gas and process industries, as it supports all our engineering disciplines.’

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Goliat FPSO water treatment plant project NLI Engineering’s first project with PDMS 12, which was implemented in January this year, is the ongoing detail engineering project for the water treatment plant on the Goliat FPSO platform. They believe that it is thanks to the successful implementation and delivery of their previous project, (an EPCON CFU skid for the BP Valhall platform), that M-I EPCON awarded them this contract for the complete detail engineering of two skids, in February this year. The project is already well under way. The FPSO chosen for the Goliat field is a fully-winterised, Sevan 1000 cylindrical floater FPSO design, capable of handling the harsh demands at the Goliat field in the Barents Sea. The Goliat FPSO will have a daily production capacity of 110,000 barrels of oil and 4 million cubic metres of gas per day, as well as a storage capacity of 1 million barrels of oil. Production on the Goliat oil field is scheduled to start in 2013. The Goliat FPSO will be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The cylindrical hull of the FPSO enables the platform to be anchored permanently, regardless of changing weather conditions. In addition, the platform has considerable storage capacity, the hull is easily constructed, and it can take on large cargoes. ‘PDMS 12 has given us a more user-friendly interface. We now find it easier to define the component catalogues and specifications, and to search for system information,’ says Jonas Fjeld Christensen.

Reconstruction of FPSO Sevan Voyageur In December 2010, Sevan Marine awarded NLI Engineering a major contract related to the reconstruction of Sevan Voyageur. The job will mainly involve engineering related to the topside facility. Sevan Marine has decided that PDMS will be the engineering tool for this reconstruction project even though NLI Engineering used Bentley PlantSpace in the original design of the topside, in 2007. The existing 3D model was successfully converted into PDMS via the AVEVA Implant interface and a conversion program developed in house. Where direct model translation was not appropriate, a combination of 3D laser scanning and remodelling was carried out with very good results. The FPSO left the Shelley field, in the UK sector of the North Sea, in August 2010 and is currently anchored in Nymo at the Eydehavn yard in Norway, where the rebuilding will take place. The FPSO will leave for the Huntington field, also in the North Sea, in the third quarter of 2011; production is planned for the first quarter of 2012. Mongstad SMIL – an extensive onshore project ‘PDMS has also been used for onshore projects,’ says Jonas Fjeld Christensen. ‘In autumn 2008, StatoilHydro awarded us a major contract for mechanical, piping and electrical work on the SMIL project at the Mongstad refinery (Statoil Mongstad Miljøinvesteringer).’

‘We have built up a library of modelled PDMS equipment. By reusing these, we can rapidly create conceptual models for new projects and give clients an early, very detailed view of their project...’ AVEVA PDMS model of one hydro cyclone skid for the water treatment plant on the Goliat FPSO. Image courtesy of NLI Engineering.

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The SMIL project is a cooperative project involving several NLI companies and making use of the whole of the group’s broad knowledge and competence. Project management personnel are provided by NLI’s engineering companies. The contract represents the largest single order ever awarded to NLI. The purpose of the SMIL project is to improve the environment around the Mongstad refinery by increasing the capacity for the removal of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and sulphur. This involves the installation of a sulphur recovery unit, an H2S recovery unit and a sour water stripper unit. All units are to be installed and the existing facilities upgraded with only a short shut-down period for coupling the new units to the existing plant. Reuse of design ‘Every project is unique, but many of the components can be reused as 3D models with minor modifications, saving us considerable time and money. We have built up a library of modelled PDMS equipment. By reusing these, we can rapidly create conceptual models for new projects and give clients an early, very detailed view of their project,’ concludes Jonas Fjeld Christensen.

Corporate structure of NLI as. Image courtesy of NLI as.

About NLI as NLI as has a long history. The group has its origin in a small mechanical workshop founded in Mjøndalen, Norway in 1946. The company has grown significantly since then, in terms of turnover, areas of competence and number of employees. The last five years, in particular, have been marked by significant expansion and diversification, not least geographically, but also into new market areas. NLI has approximately 800 highly-qualified employees. NLI as is a complete supplier of engineering and manufacturing services, technological products and new concepts and patents. Since the company is divided into five main areas, they perform equally well on small projects with only a few disciplines involved, and on large-scale EPC contracts, whether onshore, offshore or subsea. Visit www.nli.no for more information.

AVEVA PDMS model of the topside facility of Sevan Voyageur. Image courtesy of NLI Engineering.

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AVEVA World Community Update Steve Tongish Vice President – Marketing, AVEVA

The new AVEVA World Community was officially announced just over a year ago and AVEVA has now launched the first phase of this initiative, with the promise of more to come. Unveiled at the AVEVA World Summits in 2010, the AVEVA World Community has been created as a common forum to address the needs and interests of AVEVA’s customers. All existing AVEVA customers are eligible to join the Community, which gives them access to selected product information, technical and business events, and customer-oriented activities. Launching a new look If you have visited the AVEVA website recently, you will have noticed that it now sports a totally new look and feel, providing a more comprehensive overview of our products and services. Information is now organised by product, industry or operational responsibility, making it easier to find exactly what you need and helping you to easily discover related information. The site also includes some new resources specifically to serve the AVEVA World Community.

Visiting the Community We encourage you to visit the new AVEVA World Community home page at aveva.com/community. This page provides a focal point for the Community with information about activities and events. It includes links to the 2011 AVEVA World Summits in Copenhagen, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro which are focused on business strategy (advertised in this issue), as well as the more technical AVEVA World User Group meetings held locally around the world.

Speaking many languages AVEVA’s global web presence is being concentrated on a single multilingual site. Our customers expect to do business in their own language and AVEVA supports them through our network of more than 40 local offices around the world. The new multilingual website extends this support. Languages currently include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean, with others to follow soon.

From the Community page, you can learn more about AVEVA’s Product Reference Groups, which are designed to give customers the opportunity to contribute to the evaluation and development of AVEVA’s products. Reference Groups are currently active across AVEVA’s schematic and laser technology product lines, with others to follow soon. The Community page also contains links to AVEVA’s technology forums which are currently active in English, German and Russian. The forums provide AVEVA users with an environment to ask technical questions about some of our most popular products.

‘AVEVA World Community has been created as a common forum to address the needs and interests of AVEVA’s customers...’

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Getting involved The new site also includes links to social media resources, starting with a Twitter account for keeping up to date with AVEVA news and a YouTube channel containing corporate and product video content. Later this year we will also launch a new Facebook page designed specifically for AVEVA’s graduate employment programme. Why not visit the AVEVA World Community home page now and register as a member? You can sign up for local eNewsletters, event announcements and AVEVA News updates. You will also have the opportunity to complete a short survey enabling you to influence how the Community might evolve. We have some great ideas for the AVEVA World Community, but it’s intended to be your Community, so we need your input on where you feel it could deliver the greatest value to your business. We welcome all customers to the AVEVA World Community, and we look forward to working with you to create a valuable resource for all its members.

Visit the AVEVA World Community at: aveva.com/community

AVEVA’s dynamic new online presence - (top) the AVEVA corporate website homepage, (middle) an example of a local language version homepage and (bottom) the AVEVA World Community homepage.

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AVEVA MARS delivers a decade of business benefits to Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede The well-known Dutch shipbuilder, IHC Merwede, has a workforce of roughly 2,800 at different locations in the Netherlands. The company also has branch offices in China, India, the Middle East, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, the UK and the USA. The company, part of the IHC Group, is focused on the continuous development of its design and construction activities in the specialised shipbuilding sector, in particular the dredging, offshore and naval industries. IHC Merwede is among the world’s market leaders in the construction of specialist dredging equipment. The shipyard is also recognised as an outstanding builder of complex, custom-built vessels for offshore construction. The customers include major dredging companies, oil & gas exploration groups, offshore contractors and naval authorities.

Success requires dedicated staff and technology Through its technological innovation, IHC Merwede is known and respected throughout the global shipbuilding industry as a leading player in the international market. The company has gained its strong position in the industry thanks to a highly dedicated and skilled staff, combined with the organisation’s willingness to examine and roll out new technologies. Project Manager for Process Integration, Jaap Toonen, is clear that, in order to keep that competitive edge, you have continually to make sure that employees have the right technology and IT solutions at their disposal. He points to one particular solution – the Integrated Shipbuilding Solution from AVEVA. Jaap Toonen says, ‘For a decade, Merwede has been using solutions from AVEVA. AVEVA MARS was implemented at our shipyard back in 2000, as we were in need of a system that could help us enhance our business processes and would support us in becoming an even better shipbuilder. ‘Having evaluated the AVEVA MARS system, we decided to adopt it, since it was tailored for shipbuilding,’ he continues.

The pipelaying vessel Seven Pacific was designed and built by IHC Merwede using AVEVA technology. Photograph courtesy of IHC Merwede.

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Jaap Toonen demonstrates in the assembly hall an excellent result when integrated software supports outfitting at its best. Photograph courtesy of IHC Merwede.

Leading solutions for the shipyard industry AVEVA MARS (developed by Logimatic but acquired by AVEVA Solutions Ltd in July 2010) is a shipbuilding process management system that optimises project control, logistics, materials management, resource and production planning. It has been designed specifically for the shipbuilding industry, to significantly reduce cost and construction time, thereby increasing a shipyard’s profitability and competitive strength. More than just a supplier of software Today, AVEVA’s solution has been deployed across various business areas at IHC Merwede, and it is among the most important IT systems at the shipyard. It has grown, together with the shipyard and, for several years now, they have been experiencing the benefits of implementing an Integrated Shipbuilding Solution.

‘After nearly a decade of cooperation we do not really see AVEVA as a supplier, but more as a partner who knows very well our business processes and our way of thinking...’

Jaap Toonen stresses that the successful roll-out of the AVEVA MARS system is mainly due to an organisation which has been willing to adjust to changes, and a professional software supplier which has always had the right approach towards the assignment. ‘When implementing a new IT system that is at first completely unknown to you, it is crucial that you gain the support of those who are going to use it as their daily working tool. One pitfall could be the fact that your employees do not want to claim ownership of the new system, as your shipyard is already doing fine with the current set-up, besides which, most people tend to be afraid of change if they are not properly informed. ‘Fortunately, as an organisation, we have always focused on opportunities rather than obstacles, so that was never a problem before, during or after the implementation. Furthermore, AVEVA has invariably been a highly capable supplier with whom we have had a very good working relationship from the beginning.

About AVEVA MARS AVEVA MARS consists of three integrated applications: AVEVA MARS Material for material management AVEVA MARS Planning for resource planning and control AVEVA MARS Production for production management. AVEVA MARS is developed in close cooperation with some of the world’s leading shipyards, enabling it to incorporate a number of best-practice processes and providing natural support for processes which are vital for a modern shipyard. It is currently in use at some 50 shipyards worldwide. The heavy-lift vessel Oleg Strashnov was designed and built by IHC Merwede using AVEVA technology. Photograph courtesy of IHC Merwede.

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The suction dredger Gateway was designed and built using AVEVA technology. Photograph courtesy of IHC Merwede.

‘After nearly a decade of cooperation we do not really see AVEVA as a supplier, but more as a partner who knows very well our business processes and our way of thinking. They have a high level of customer service which is demonstrated, for example, by the fact that they have a dedicated Service and Support team who always provide quick, constructive solutions if problems should occur.

‘After the implementation,’ says Jaap Toonen, ‘we optimised several of our main business processes, including materials management. A firm control of our material flow has helped us become a more competitive and efficient shipyard, as we have significantly reduced our manufacturing costs. We have also streamlined our IT structure, so all our systems are working well together.

‘In addition to that, they have had three of their consultants stationed here with us at different times, which was a good experience for us as it provided us with competent local support. Finally, AVEVA arranges regular user conferences, which gives customers the opportunity to network and learn about various subjects that are of importance to them. We always participate in the conferences, as we learn a lot from them and AVEVA from us,’ continues Jaap Toonen.

‘We know, nevertheless, that we are only as good as our last performance, and we must always continue analysing and improving our shipyard processes. We have been continuously upgrading our AVEVA solutions when necessary, and have added even more functionality. We expect to keep on doing so, in order to maintain our strong position in the global shipbuilding market,’ concludes Jaap Toonen. For more information about IHC Merwede, visit www.ihcmerwede.com.

Benefits obtained and future aims Having used the AVEVA MARS system for almost ten years, IHC Merwede is reaping the benefits of implementing a system that has been developed specifically for the shipyard industry. The shipyard understands, however, that they have to maintain the pace of technological innovation in order to guarantee a competitive edge in a fierce market.

The pipelaying vessels Seven Pacific and Seven Oceans were designed and built using AVEVA technology. Photographs courtesy of IHC Merwede.

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8-10 November 2011 Joined up thinking is our theme for the AVEVA World Summits 2011 and is fundamental to the innovation that drives AVEVA. It captures our collective ambition to create safer, more efficient projects and operations. AVEVA recognises the increasingly complex challenges faced by the engineering community and it is our mission to provide strategies, technology and services that join up this diverse flow of information to deliver success across your entire business. The Summit agenda provides a unique opportunity for delegates from different engineering industries and disciplines to tap into the collective knowledge of experienced management, technology professionals and global leaders from the Plant and Marine industries. To hear how you can benefit from Joined up thinking, register now at www.avevaworld.com

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