AVEVA World Magazine 2013(2)

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MAGAZINE 2013 | ISSUE 2

North Sea Success The story of the Gudrun platform

Also featured in this issue: z EDC’s use of AVEVA Bocad™ for structural steelwork z DSME’s migration from Tribon to AVEVA Marine™ z Two years on: AVEVA Engineering™ in practice z UPEC leads the way in Russian power project engineering z Integrated shipbuilding at Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard

INSIDE THIS EDITION Corporate News Welcome

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AVEVA infographic 22 AVEVA honoured at two prestigious award ceremonies 35 Focus on your industry 35 AVEVA World Summit 2013 38

Product News Structural Growth: AVEVA Bocad

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What’s new with the Future of Plant Design 20 An overview of AVEVA Engineering in practice 24

Customer News Cover story: Aibel’s global operations deliver success

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EDC: Daring to be Great 12 DSME’s migration from Tribon to AVEVA Marine 16 Urals Power Engineering Company 28 SEDIN Engineering: Strategic collaboration in China 32 L&T-Chiyoda: Raising one’s game 36 MIPAC – Instruments of Change 40 Integrated Shipbuilding at Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard 42

Cover photograph: The Gudrun topsides. Photograph courtesy of Aibel and Statoil. © Copyright 2013 AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the copyright holders. Licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited or any other reproduction rights organisation do not apply to AVEVA World Magazine. The views expressed in AVEVA World Magazine by any contributor are not necessarily those of AVEVA. Continued product development means that information relating to AVEVA’s products is subject to change. No responsibility can be accepted by AVEVA for action taken as a result of information contained in this publication. Editor – Magnus Feldt, Senior Marketing Specialist, AVEVA

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Convergent evolution In biology, it is common to encounter completely unrelated species – often on widely separated continents – that have so successfully solved the same survival challenges as to have become physically almost indistinguishable. It’s called convergent evolution. A corresponding convergence is also taking place in the engineering world, as sectors and disciplines that once considered themselves unique progressively adopt common solutions to what are, in essence, common challenges. The obvious difference of course is the speed of the convergence, which is driven as much by the rapid advances in enabling technologies as by the relentless growth of global demand. AVEVA has played a central role in this, perhaps most conspicuously in integrating plant design and construction technologies with those of shipbuilding to support the booming offshore industry. We continue to drive convergence in other areas, towards a vision of efficient, seamless engineering in a seamless AVEVA technology environment.

‘While last year may have been the most exciting ever for AVEVA, I think many of our customers are finding this year just as exciting. At our early adopters of AVEVA Everything3D we find their engineers tremendously enthusiastic about its new capabilities...’

This issue features some good examples of this. We have made strong progress in integrating best-in-class structural steel design with plant and outfitting design, while AVEVA Engineering™ is rapidly bringing down barriers between engineering and design disciplines. Traditional boundaries between asset creation and asset operation are also eroding as Owner Operators come to appreciate the considerable economic benefits of sharing information with their EPCs from the earliest stages of a project. And this is not just one-way pressure; UPEC, one of our progressive Russian EPC customers, is actively promoting this collaborative way of working to its Owner Operator clients. The big breakthroughs we described in the last issue are now being followed up with consolidation as we bring planned incremental developments and technology integration to market. So while last year may have been the most exciting ever for AVEVA, I think many of our customers are finding this year just as exciting. At our early adopters of AVEVA Everything3D™ we find their engineers tremendously enthusiastic about its new capabilities. As you turn these pages you will find success after success as we and our global customers advance together. As they have used AVEVA technology to grow in efficiency and capability, so AVEVA has continued to grow in turnover and global presence. Together we are converging on a shared vision.

Richard Longdon Chief Executive AVEVA Group plc

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Aibel’s global operations deliver North Sea success The story of the Gudrun platform Magnus Feldt Editor, AVEVA World Magazine

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The newly built Gudrun platform has been a very successful and challenging project for the Norwegian company, Aibel. AVEVA’s Plant portfolio has played an important role in this complex, collaborative project, executed by Aibel’s engineering offices in Haugesund, Oslo and Singapore, and its fabrication yards in Haugesund and in Laem Chabang, Thailand. We visited Aibel in Haugesund, on the island of Risøy on the west coast of Norway, only a few days after the enormous, 10,600 tonne topsides was moved out of the North Sea (fabrication) Hall.

The Gudrun topsides. Photograph courtesy of Aibel and Statoil.

This demanding project for Statoil was rapidly approaching its conclusion. Only testing, finishing work and transfer of systems remained before the platform was to be towed into position over the Gudrun oil & gas field in the North Sea in July this year. Production start-up is planned for the first quarter of 2014. At the recently completed office building, we met Knut O. Storsveen, Lead Advisor, CAD Systems, and Bengt A. Morken, Engineering Manager, to learn more about this project. The oil and gas reservoirs of the Gudrun field are from the Jurassic era and lie at a depth of 4,200–4,700 metres. Creating a suitable production platform has been a complex and exciting project showing Aibel’s ability to work interactively between their engineering offices and their fabrication sites. The Gudrun platform comprises a fixed processing platform supported by a steel jacket resting on the seabed. Its topsides include a facility for preliminary processing of the oil and gas which will then be sent to the Sleipner A platform and the Kårstø processing plant, for further treatment.

Modifications prior to detail design In spite of the modifications, Aibel convinced Statoil that the platform would be delivered on time, within budget and with no reduction in the original high quality. Aibel altered the layout of the platform to reduce the required amount of structural steel, pipework, cabling and so on. The structural design was also modified to further optimise weight. Aibel achieved this impressive design revision by drawing on their experience from previous engineering work on the Kvitebjørn platform for Statoil, and with the help of their in-house developed project system, built on top of AVEVA PDMS. An experienced user of AVEVA PDMS Aibel used PDMS throughout this project, from FEED to the completion of detail design, as it does in all its projects. The structure, equipment, piping, pipe supports, cable trays and ductwork were all built in the PDMS model, which was used to generate arrangements, piping isometrics, material take offs (MTOs), spool drawings, cable tray routings and ductwork layouts.

FEED and detail design contracts In 2009, Statoil awarded Aibel the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for the Gudrun topsides development. The scope of work also included living quarters with 42 cabins, and the jacket interface. The engineering work encompassed structural and piping design, specifications and 3D modelling of the topsides in AVEVA PDMS™. Then, in July 2010, Statoil awarded Aibel the contract to build the topsides for the platform. This involved engineering, procurement, and construction of the platform deck and processing facility, and mating with the steel jacket. Aibel won the contract because it had proved to Statoil that its design concept enabled it to modify the design in order to reduce the total weight of the topsides. This was critical; it would otherwise not have been possible in a single lift to mount the topsides aboard the jacket already placed in the North Sea.

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The major part of the engineering was performed at Aibel’s engineering offices in Oslo and Singapore. The Singapore office was opened in 2007 and continues to expand; Aibel plans to employ more than 500 people there soon. The company also has a small engineering office in Thailand, to support fabrication work at the yard. Early start of fabrication To be able to deliver the platform to Statoil on time, fabrication had to start well before the detail design was complete. The powerful data management capabilities of PDMS were a key factor for Aibel in being able to manage this effectively. Aibel’s designers were able to ensure that the design work was completed in the order required by the fabrication plan and validate the completeness and integrity of the relevant parts of the design work at each and every stage. Designers completing the remainder of the design work were always aware of the work that had already been committed to fabrication, ensuring that their work was carried out without necessitating rework at the yard. Construction of the topsides, including the accommodation and processing facility, started in May 2011 at Aibel’s facilities in Thailand and Haugesund. The topsides arrived for final assembly at Haugesund in November 2012, after a month-long voyage from Thailand. The jacket was manufactured at Aker Verdal, while Apply Leirvik manufactured the living quarters and fitted the helicopter deck, which had been fabricated in China. The entire platform was assembled at Aibel’s fabrication yard in Haugesund. In August 2011, the steel jacket was lifted into place on the Gudrun field by the Saipem 7000 crane ship, the world’s second-largest crane vessel. This completed the first phase of the extensive installation work being carried out there. Work shared dynamically AVEVA Global™, AVEVA’s solution for multi-site concurrent working, enabled Aibel to share work dynamically across four of their design and fabrication sites, and with Statoil, as the project progressed. This saved time and cost by enabling continuous working across the different time zones and by optimum assignment of tasks to the most suitable locations. Statoil understands the value of the huge amount of information contained in the PDMS 3D models of its oil & gas facilities.

From left, Bengt A. Morken, Engineering Manager, and Knut O. Storsveen, Lead Advisor, CAD Systems. Photograph courtesy of Aibel.

To help in organising ongoing maintenance and plant upgrades, Statoil maintains up-to-date PDMS model data throughout the entire lifecycle of each asset. It issues detailed requirements to its contractors of what to include in the models, and how the models should be structured. Aibel’s work processes are fully compatible with Statoil’s own PDMS/Global implementation. Review meetings a key component Design review meetings by video between the engineering and fabrication teams in Norway, Singapore and Thailand have been a key component in the success of this project. The 3D PDMS model of the platform enabled the engineers to perform ‘virtual walk-throughs’ of the whole facility, quickly detecting and resolving potential design problems before the actual fabrication started. Maintenance and modification projects Aibel is also a major player in asset maintenance on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The company’s activities involve a significant number of platforms and floating production installations, and important assignments at several onshore installations. Aibel is currently present on 30 of the 70 platforms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and on four of the six onshore facilities in Norway.

The town of Haugesund is situated on Karmsund, a strait which used to be strategically important, as ships could pass through it to avoid crossing heavy seas. The coastal waters off Haugesund used to be a rich source of herring, and the town grew in consequence. In recent decades, the town has been turning towards the petroleum industry, and the herring are long gone. Haugesund has a coastline on the North Sea, but the island of Karmøy and the Røvær archipelago shelter most of the city from the rough waters of the ocean.

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Moving the Gudrun topsides out of the huge Haugesund fabrication hall has made room for some important modification projects. Fabrication work for Norske Shell’s Draugen platform and the Gullfaks C platform for Statoil is now occupying the hall space. Troll TPC34 is also a major part of the work in the yard these days. Aibel is carrying out the modifications using AVEVA Plant™. Draugen started production in 1993 and the platform will undergo major upgrading to significantly extend its service life. The project involves adapting the platform’s existing structure to provide a new accommodation module and four new lifeboats. Renewable energy projects A promising new business area for Aibel is the wind energy industry. Aibel’s first wind platform, DolWin Beta, is taking shape at Drydocks World in Dubai and has also been designed with AVEVA Plant. DolWin Beta is a submersible floating platform with a helipad, two lifting cranes and separate living quarters for 24 people. The platform is a collaborative project between Aibel and ABB. Aibel is designing and building the platform, whilst ABB has overall project responsibility and is supplying cables and the conversion equipment. Work in Dubai will be complete by mid-December and the platform will then be shipped to Haugesund for outfitting. In mid 2014, DolWin Beta will be towed out and placed on the seabed in the DolWin field, a large wind-farm cluster in the German sector of the North Sea, where it will receive alternating current from wind farms, and convert it into direct current before sending it onshore via subsea cables. Aibel may not be unique in operating globally collaborative workflows, but it certainly provides an example to others of how effective these can be in delivering challenging projects to demanding cost and timescale requirements. Aibel’s experiences clearly show that augmenting engineering skill with enabling technology in this way increases the capabilities and efficiency of all project participants. About Aibel Aibel is a leading service company within the oil & gas industry and is also established in the renewable energy field. The company has close to 6,000 employees in Norway and abroad, engaged onshore and offshore. With headquarters in Stavanger in Norway, Aibel has eight engineering offices in Norway, in addition to four international engineering offices in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Singapore and Thailand. The company also has two fabrication yards, in Haugesund, Norway and Laem Chabang, Thailand. Visit www.aibel.com for more information.

3D image of the Gudrun topsides. Image courtesy of Aibel.

Top: Aibel’s first wind platform, DolWin Beta, is taking shape at Drydocks World in Dubai. Below: An artist’s impression of the platform in its operating position. Photograph and illustration courtesy of Aibel.

‘To be able to deliver the platform to Statoil on time, fabrication had to start well before the detail design was complete. The powerful data management capabilities of PDMS were a key factor for Aibel in being able to manage this effectively...’ AVEVA World Magazine 2013|Issue 2

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Structural Growth How AVEVA’s acquisition of bocad is delivering new capabilities A great deal has been achieved in integrating bocad and its products into the AVEVA family. Here, we take a look at the benefits this is already delivering for our customers.

Background Most engineering companies use a variety of different applications for different tasks, but incompatibilities between them often create discontinuities in what should be a seamless, collaborative workflow. The acquisition of bocad was an important step in AVEVA’s continuing strategy to remove such obstacles to sharing information. It brings bestin-class, highly automated structural steel detailing within the AVEVA environment. The need In the plant or offshore industries, designers create structural steelwork along with all the other piping and equipment layout. But it has been customary to export the data to a specialist contractor who would use third-party software to complete the detail design and fabricate the parts. This export takes place early in the programme, because steelwork must progress to construction in advance of the rest of the project. From the moment of export, of course, the steelwork design diverged from the rest of the layout, which continued to evolve, creating the very real risk of undetectable clashes causing serious problems in construction. The business case was clear. It was already possible to exchange data with bocad’s solution, which was recognised as the leader in its market and was popular with many AVEVA customers. Closer integration would avoid the design divergence problem and increase productivity.

Steve Insley Product Business Manager, AVEVA Brian Hughes Product Strategy Manager, AVEVA

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Working together The expanded AVEVA team has already created optimised solutions for specific markets and simplified the product range, making it easier for customers to acquire, and benefit from, this powerful technology. With the recent release of two new products, the AVEVA portfolio now includes: z z z z z

AVEVA Bocad Steel™ AVEVA Bocad Offshore™ (add on) AVEVA Bocad Onshore™ (add on) AVEVA Bocad Tower™ AVEVA Bocad Roof and Wall™

Solutions for the plant industries… Here, the core solution is AVEVA Bocad Steel. This provides best-in-class design automation capabilities in general steel detailing and fabrication. Integrated with both AVEVA PDMS™ and the new AVEVA Everything3D™ (AVEVA E3D™) it enables effective collaboration between the plant layout designer and the steel detailer, overcoming the ‘diverging designs’ problem. The steel detailer can periodically return the structural steel model into the PDMS / AVEVA E3D environment where the plant designer can use the Compare & Update capability to review changes and accept them into the master project model, or reject them. This makes it easy to keep steelwork and plant layout in step as the overall design is developed. Status highlighting can be applied to distinguish areas that have been released to fabrication from those still subject to change. The business value this brings in eliminating sources of construction problems is considerable.

‘The expanded AVEVA team has already created optimised solutions for specific markets and simplified the product range...’

The AVEVA Bocad Onshore add-on pack provides further productivityenhancing features for the plant industries, making it quicker and easier to define structures such as pipe racks and towers. This not only saves valuable man-hours, it also increases design quality because all the essential features of a particular element are predefined and parametric, configuring themselves automatically in accordance with rules (which are themselves configurable). …and ideal for marine and offshore, too AVEVA Bocad Steel also integrates with AVEVA Outfitting™, offering similar productivity gains for shipbuilders. To meet the specialist needs of the offshore industry, which has evolved design principles and practices not encountered elsewhere, AVEVA Bocad Steel can be augmented with the AVEVA Bocad Offshore add-on pack. This extends the built-in catalogue with a range of industry-specific templates that make it easier and quicker to create features such as complex, compound-angle joints, mudmats (used on the bottom of platform legs), helidecks and flare booms. With the oil & gas industry moving into deeper waters, many of these features will be of value to shipbuilders collaborating on floating exploration and production facilities.

‘It brings bestin-class, highly automated structural steel detailing within the AVEVA environment...’

Removing business barriers AVEVA customers’ projects rarely exist in isolation, so removing barriers to related areas of engineering is a valuable business enabler. Bocad technology has enabled us to offer two more complementary products. AVEVA Bocad Tower is optimised for the power distribution and similar industries. It comes with an extensive library of parameterised tower structures, such as the familiar three- and four-leg pylons or tubular communications towers. In use, the tower designer has only to define key dimensions, add necessary elements such as ladders and decks, and specify the materials to be used, and the application will create fully detailed fabrication and construction deliverables.

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AVEVA Bocad is efficient for complex design.

Finally, AVEVA Bocad Roof and Wall serves the needs of many of bocad’s long-standing customers in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. It will be of particular interest to AVEVA customers in the power industry, enabling them to execute both plant and building design in a common 3D environment. The AVEVA Bocad applications are elements of AVEVA Plant™ and AVEVA Marine™, enabling structural steelwork to integrate effectively with all the other disciplines in a seamless, multi-discipline AVEVA 3D environment. Specific connection libraries are available, shown here for onshore applications.

The AVEVA Bocad advantage Like the rest of the AVEVA portfolio, the new AVEVA Bocad applications integrate 3D model data with 2D deliverables. Any approved change to the model is immediately reflected and highlighted in the affected drawings and, indeed, vice versa. Many experienced engineers find it easier or more convenient to create design changes on a drawing; this two-way 2D/3D integration enables efficient working in either direction. But the feature that puts AVEVA Bocad technology demonstrably ahead of its competition is the completeness of its shop-ready 2D drawing output. Using other steelwork solutions, manually editing and completing drawings for issue to fabricators can absorb some 30–40% of design office man-hours, even on simple projects. In the majority of cases, AVEVA Bocad drawings need no, or very little, extra work. This high level of drawing automation also reduces the effort in making subsequent design changes, and further eliminates sources of error.

Detailed general arrangements and fabrication deliverables can be quickly and easily produced.

Examples of ‘off the shelf’ macros specifically designed for the offshore industry.

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Importantly, this supports Just In Time fabrication, another element in Lean Construction. Drawings can be released at the last moment, incorporating all necessary updates and minimising the risk of a late change being overlooked between drawing production and steel manufacture. AVEVA Bocad deliverables are fully detailed for accurate, least-cost fabrication and construction, while direct output to CNC cutting, forming and welding machines saves time and ensures accuracy.

‘With AVEVA Bocad, there are effectively no limits to design creativity; if you can model it, AVEVA Bocad will generate all the high-quality deliverables required to construct it...’

Assured integrity Structural integrity is not negotiable. It must be verified during construction and maintained throughout the asset lifecycle. To support this, the AVEVA Bocad products uniquely treat welds as intelligent tagged items, not just arbitrary symbols on a drawing. This ensures that callouts on a drawing exactly represent the welds defined on the model, eliminating one obvious source of error. Welds can also have attribute data associated with them, enabling efficient project tasks such as weld material provisioning and certification tracking. In asset operations, every weld can be individually referenced in work packs or inspection procedures and its entire history recorded. A secure future In just one year, AVEVA has: z met customer demand for more fully automated structural detailing z optimised a range of best-in-class products for the plant, mining, power distribution, shipbuilding, offshore and construction industries z provided effective integration between the most advanced solutions for structural steel, plant and marine outfitting design z established a clear roadmap for continuing technology development and integration. Another example of Continual Progression in action!

Above: AVEVA Bocad Steel provides best-in-class design automation capabilities in general steel detailing and fabrication.

Right: AVEVA Bocad Steel is capable of producing projects with extremely complex model geometry.

Left: To meet the specialist needs of the offshore industry, AVEVA Bocad Steel can be augmented with the AVEVA Bocad Offshore add-on pack. Image courtesy of Dragados Offshore.

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Daring to be Great How AVEVA Bocad™ technology enabled an innovative Australian start-up to become the most capable business in its sector AVEVA acquired bocad because we could see that its considerable technological leadership matched and complemented our own. But even our enthusiasm for it pales compared with that of EDC Consultants, its leading exponent in the Australian structural engineering sector. When we asked EDC’s Managing Director, Chris Velovski, if he would share his experiences of the Bocad technology, we almost had to hold him down!

Steve Insley Product Business Manager, AVEVA

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EDC Directors Mark Bajorek and Chris Velovski. Photo courtesy of EDC.

Like many start-ups, the company was formed out of trauma. ABB had purchased the Allco Steel Corporation, then one of the biggest steel fabricators on the east coast of Australia, and a number of experienced engineering and design staff found themselves surplus to requirements. This proved to be a blessing in disguise; Chris and a colleague, Mark Bajorek, set up the Enterprise Drafting Company Pty Ltd in 1992 and have never looked back since. The team had a lot of high-quality experience behind them, having worked on some of Australia’s most prestigious building and plant projects, so success and growth came quickly. By 2008, the company had grown far beyond being just a supplier of drafting services, and renamed itself EDC Consultants Pty Ltd. A key factor in this growth was the adoption, in 2001, of BoCAD (as it was then called) software for structural steel design. Chris Velovski explained, ‘We’d had some very bad experiences with general-purpose 3D modelling systems. They were claimed to be able to do anything, but we quickly discovered how drastically they would fail when pushed. I had had some experience with an early version of BoCAD when working with Allco Steel, and I learned that it had since moved on from being a rather unwieldy programming language to being a full visual modeller. So I made a point of attending a demonstration advertised in the Australian Steel Institute’s magazine.’ For some time, Chris and his team had been evaluating other structural steel solutions and they had been disappointed to find that these still had many of the shortcomings of the general-purpose systems. The BoCAD demonstration was impressive and further investigation indicated that EDC had at last found a solution that could support their long-term development. BoCAD-3D was purchased and, after a brief training period, put to work on a live project.

Above: An isometric view of the buffer bin assembly for the Newcastle Coal Export Terminal. The facility handles 30Mtpa of coal. Image courtesy of EDC.

Zoran Markovski, BoCAD Coordinator / BIM Coordinator, explained, ‘This decision changed the course of the company. We increased our productivity and were able to integrate our project delivery faster than I would ever have thought possible. The ability to model intuitively in 3D, and to move freely around the model without continually resetting coordinates was exhilarating!’ AVEVA World Magazine 2013|Issue 2

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A conveyor gallery module, automatically generated and detailed by one of EDC’s sophisticated Bocad macros. Image courtesy of EDC.

Two 57m galleries installed at Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group’s shiploading facility. Bocad software enabled accurate planning of the lifting arrangements for safe and rapid installation. Photo courtesy of EDC.

Director and Operations Manager Mark Bajorek, added, ‘At that time we were committed to heading down the true CAD/CAM path, so we needed software which could accurately reflect the design intent and generate CNC data for automated production machines, without requiring costly and error-prone fixes and workarounds. BoCAD clearly met this need.’

To illustrate what he meant by ‘smarts’, Chris showed us an impressive model of a conveyor gallery structure, used in the minerals processing industry. Any designer would feel pleased at having created so complex a model in a few days but, using Bocad, EDC can create it in just ten minutes, with all the welds, stiffeners and connections fully defined.

Twelve years on, EDC has achieved some astonishing results with its BoCAD system. Chris Velovski explained that one important driver was being able to compete on technical ability against overseas competitors who could afford to throw huge amounts of low-cost labour at a project. ‘I tell our clients that we use our smarts,’ he went on. ‘With the combination of our imagination and the power of the software we can overcome any challenge. And I do mean any challenge!’

This certainly isn’t out-of-the-box functionality, so how do they do it? Zoran told us that they began using Bocad’s macro language, COPL, almost from the outset to streamline and automate a growing range of design tasks. ‘These macros are quick and easy to create,’ he explained. ‘They save time and provide a designer with more options. We can implement parameterised connections quickly, in multiple locations, and if a change is needed it will update every instance right across the model.’ Experience and success with COPL macros led EDC to wonder how much further they could push design automation with Bocad. Zoran became expert in the use of FFEIN, a deeper-level programming language that enabled the development of larger and more complex macros, such as that used to create the gallery model.

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Above: An overview of the structure for the massive Rouse Hill retail development. Image courtesy of EDC.

Left: A buffer bin for NCIG’s shiploading facility, showing Bocad’s ability to handle complex platework structure. Image courtesy of EDC.

The lower section of the buffer bin being lifted into position. Photo courtesy of EDC.

‘This shows why we are so committed to the Bocad technology,’ continued Chris. ‘Out of the box it is way ahead of any comparable solution; the automatically generated deliverables, for example, are in a class of their own. But, for companies like us, who are prepared to invest in developing more advanced capabilities with its use, Bocad gives us so much competitive advantage that we would not be the business we are today without it. No other solution could do this, and the support we have had from the local Bocad team has been outstanding.’ With such deep reliance on the technology, we wondered whether EDC were concerned at AVEVA’s acquisition of bocad. ‘Quite the opposite,’ Chris and Mark assured us. ‘Although we don’t use AVEVA PDMS™ ourselves, we work with companies who do and we know the reputation AVEVA has in the industry. Closer integration between plant layout and structural/mechanical design detailing has to happen and AVEVA is clearly the company who can achieve it. We can see endless possibilities for EDC as a result of this.’ One of EDC’s core business values is ‘Dare To Be Great.’ Having seen the team’s culture and its extraordinary expertise at first hand, we could think of no better title for this article. About EDC Consultants Pty Ltd Based in Newcastle, New South Wales, EDC employs a team of 12 engineers locally and 25 designers in its Newcastle and Sydney offices, supported by a team of over 200 engineering and design staff in Bangalore, India. It provides a wide range of design, engineering and project management services to industries including petrochemicals, mining, minerals processing and building construction. Among its more impressive projects have been: z The Newcastle Coal Export Terminal, NSW. This multi-phase project was designed collaboratively by a team of designers and included two conveyor galleries feeding massive buffer bins. The complex bin and supporting structure design required only 25 days modelling time and 35 days of document processing to generate over 2,500 fitting drawings and 1,160 marking plans and assemblies. z The Rouse Hill town centre redevelopment project, creating 65,000m2 of retail space in a development described by its programme director as ‘integrating architecture and environmental engineering to a level never before seen in a retail development in Australia.’ z A 20,000m2 manufacturing facility for BlueScope Steel in Western Sydney. z The Geelong & Clyde petrochemical processing plant. For more information, visit www.edcgroup.com.au.

Commencing construction of a refinery module. Bocad technology generated accurate and fully detailed fabrication deliverables. Photo courtesy of EDC.

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DSME’s migration from Tribon to AVEVA Marine Five key reasons for making the move

Janis Choi Senior Marketing Specialist, AVEVA Korea

Overview of DSME’s shipyards in Geoje Island, South Korea. Photo courtesy of DSME.

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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME), located at Okpo Bay in South Korea, is one of the world’s most productive shipbuilders. This famous shipyard has been responsible for the design and construction of some of the world’s most complex commercial and naval vessels, as well as offshore structures. DSME has recently migrated from AVEVA’s legacy Tribon shipbuilding system to the new AVEVA Marine™. This article examines why this premier shipbuilder chose to move to AVEVA Marine for their next generation of projects, by exploring the five main reasons for its decision.

The Tribon shipbuilding system had justifiably been second to none in marine 3D solutions since 1974. However, technology is changing fast, and projects are becoming ever more complex. At the same time, the depressed marine market is seeking new opportunities, and shipyards have to become more competitive if they are to be successful. The time had come for DSME to bid a grateful farewell to Tribon and prepare to welcome AVEVA Marine, the most innovative 3D design software suite for the shipbuilding and offshore industries. AVEVA Marine is helping shipyards around the world maximise productivity and capability throughout the design and construction processes, while minimising costs and timescales for various types of projects. This is particularly true for very large scale and highly complex new-build projects. DSME, faced with a range of challenges in recent years, recognised the need for a new solution to meet the complex requirements of the market. Specifications were changing frequently and project sizes were increasing considerably, and there were limits to Tribon’s ability to meet these new demands. After a thorough evaluation of various engineering and design systems, DSME chose AVEVA Marine. The history of Tribon and DSME goes back to the 1980s. Before AVEVA acquired Tribon Solutions in 2004, DSME had already implemented Tribon, and was breaking shipbuilding industry records year on year. Over the last 25 years, an estimated 1,000 ships were designed and produced using the Tribon software.

DSME, always a pioneer, was moving on to the next phase in its business growth and the company now states that the migration to AVEVA Marine is playing a key role in its ongoing success. Mr Heung-Won Suh, Director of DSME’s Information Technology Team identified the five main reasons driving its migration to AVEVA Marine. Full support from AVEVA He told us, ‘Adopting new tools is always risky. To minimise the risks, DSME was clear about the need for close and seamless cooperation with the software vendors. One of the advantages of AVEVA Marine for us is that it still incorporates Tribon’s 40 years of shipbuilding expertise. Over the last 25 years we’ve built very strong relationships and this means that we could be confident AVEVA will support us well after the implementation of the new tools. ‘After the first pilot test,’ Heung-Won Suh continued, ‘we carefully tested the AVEVA Marine version 12.0 environment and migration toolkits and, to improve the testing process, DSME worked closely with the development team at AVEVA. At DSME’s suggestion, functional testing in a single-user environment was executed before the application was tested in a multiple-user simulation. After that, we deployed the testing in a real production environment. Working in this way allowed us to save man-hours in both the testing and migration phases of the project. ‘One of the key factors in the success of our migration was the commitment of the local AVEVA engineers to solving the software problems, no matter what the issue. The AVEVA development team were keen to further improve the quality of AVEVA Marine and provided us with software updates and new releases.’

‘AVEVA Marine will be popular in the engineering world, particularly with the offshore structure industry.’

Heung-Won Suh, Director of the Information Technology Team, DSME. Photo courtesy of DSME.

‘It was particularly helpful that local engineers were located close to us. We had regular meetings with AVEVA to review the status of the project and to exchange information. Migration was a complex process, but AVEVA’s support team worked hard to enable a smooth and effective implementation process,’ Mr Suh added. ‘In addition, the AVEVA Marine Technology Service Centre (MTSC) in Busan, Korea, completed a collaboration project with us at the end of February 2013. This long-term partnership will beneficially affect not only DSME, but also other AVEVA Marine users, since we have been continuously providing realistic feedback to assist with product development. AVEVA and DSME are both looking forward to further collaboration on future product development, which will provide considerable improvements for the shipbuilding and offshore industries.’ AVEVA World Magazine 2013|Issue 2

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An FPSO designed with AVEVA Marine is now in construction. Photo courtesy of DSME.

Data consistency after migration ‘When implementing AVEVA Marine,’ Mr Suh went on, ‘we had two concerns about consistency. ‘One concern was related to the consistency of legacy data moving from Tribon to AVEVA Marine. As a long-term user of Tribon, we had an enormous volume of design data. Moreover, ongoing projects needed to continue as normal. Since data was changing every day, it had to be kept consistent at all times. We are pleased that AVEVA Marine facilitates the collection and continuing management of a consistent set of whole data that can be used to support all aspects of ongoing projects. ‘The other concern was about how well in-house systems could be implemented in the AVEVA Marine environment. While we were using Tribon, we developed a number of in-house systems: a modelling program, a drawing program, a Bills of Material (BOM) system and a visualisation program. The migration of in-house systems began in 2011, and they are maintained in AVEVA Marine just as they were operating before. ‘AVEVA Marine is currently being used for ten offshore projects and we are also going to adopt it for commercial ships, special ships and other offshore projects beginning in 2014. To carry out these projects, we have already trained about 1,500 employees to be expert users of AVEVA Marine and we aim to train an addition 500 people in 2013. We propose to build approximately 70 ships and offshore units per year with AVEVA Marine.’ Better performance than Tribon ‘Certainly,’ Mr Suh continued, ‘we reported some errors and incidents with the earlier versions of AVEVA Marine. However, it has been improved thanks to user feedback, and we recognised that the overall performance is better than Tribon. In addition, AVEVA Marine is now more robust, flexible and scalable than Tribon.’ 18

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‘Tribon with its long development history was regarded as very stable, but AVEVA Marine contains many more useful, up-to-date functions and modules that are not included in Tribon. Users can feel uncomfortable when they start to use the new tools, but eventually they find that AVEVA Marine is faster and more versatile than Tribon. ‘Thanks to its strong core technology, AVEVA Marine is more suitable for meeting the technical requirements of our new, complex upcoming projects. For me, the most significant feature in AVEVA Marine is its parametric functionality, which provides intelligent graphical design and effective design quality assurance. ‘Among AVEVA Marine’s new features and functions, it allows users to build template-based libraries, so they don’t have to waste time redesigning every item each time saving time and effort. AVEVA Marine also includes a sophisticated 3D graphical user interface enabling quick and intuitive modelling. The ability of various data input/output functions provides further user-friendly customised features. Designers can take advantage of Design Review features to check, not only for clashes, but also for any model parts they may need.’ Collaboration benefits ‘DSME now has a vision for the next 50 years as a global top player in the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) business. To make this a reality, DSME values the importance of collaboration with major EPCs, not only locally but globally. AVEVA PDMS™ is a leading solution of choice for the world’s power and plant industries supporting projects of all sizes, from the smallest upgrade to new-build installations of unlimited complexity, and it offers valuable collaboration opportunities and an extensive pool of skilled users. Demonstrated interoperability between AVEVA Marine and PDMS enables effective collaboration between DSME and other EPCs.’

First project with AVEVA Marine At DSME, AVEVA Marine was initially used to design a fixed platform and FPSO for the P6046 Arkutin-Dagi project. For this project, named after the location of Arkutun-Dagi field, Sakhalin DSME and WorleyParsons set up a global work share which made possible parallel design and information sharing in real time between Okpo, Korea and Houston, USA. Thanks to AVEVA Marine’s integrated engineering and design approach, WorleyParsons and DSME were able to execute detailed design with AVEVA PDMS. The tighter links between AVEVA Marine and AVEVA PDMS gave them a wide choice of Engineering & Design tools for each stage of the complex project. Both companies were also using AVEVA Global™ for design sharing, as this product allowed them to work together simultaneously on detailed design projects from multiple sites. It controlled the release of data for production design on a weekly basis to each site. Data was copied from AVEVA Global and implemented in AVEVA Marine for block allocation and production data input. Production design was carried out with AVEVA Marine.

‘When our business area was focused only on shipbuilding, we could manage most projects solely in our shipyards. However, we now recognise the importance of cooperation and integration between EPCs for offshore projects. That’s why we chose AVEVA Marine as it enables precisely this sort of cooperation,’ said Mr Suh. New business opportunities ‘DSME has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in commercial shipbuilding, but it has also moved into a succession of offshore projects, and is proud to have become the first company in the world’s shipbuilding industry to have achieved sales of USD 10 billion in the offshore arena. Indeed, DSME’s offshore contracts formed 82.5% of total new orders for 2012. DSME believes that AVEVA Marine will give it a competitive advantage for the offshore market as AVEVA Marine’s Outfitting module is derived from AVEVA PDMS, the leading 3D design software in use in the offshore industry.’ The company recently announced a new order from Statoil, a multinational energy company, to build a fixed platform, with the option for an additional platform in the future. It will be installed at the Mariner oilfield on the UK’s North Sea continental shelf.

‘This platform will have a 31,000 ton scaled topside for oil production and will yield 31,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It will be designed with AVEVA Marine and constructed in the Okpo shipyard. Delivery will be at the end of 2016’, said Mr. Suh. About DSME Since 1973, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) has played a key contractor’s role in the shipbuilding and offshore industry. The company has approximately 30,000 employees including its subsidiaries. Its leading technology, competitive on-time delivery, and reliable production management systems bring DSME to the top position worldwide in building various vessels, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, FPSO/FPUs, submarines and destroyers. The shipyard, at Okpo Bay, Geoje Island in South Korea, covers an area of 4.3 million square metres, encompassing the world’s largest dock, with a million-ton capacity. It is optimised for building high-tech motor vessels using cutting-edge equipment, including a 900-ton Goliath crane. Please visit www.dsme.co.kr for further information.

AVEVA Marine model of an FPSO. Image courtesy of DSME.

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AVEVA Everything3D What’s new with the Future of Plant Design The end of last year was a very exciting time for everyone at AVEVA as we completed the launch of our new plant design product, AVEVA Everything3D™ (AVEVA E3D™). At the 2012 AVEVA World Summit in Paris, AVEVA E3D took centre stage, but behind the scenes we were also introducing our new project to develop mobile applications for plant design. It was here that we shared the first previews of our research prototype, which allows for the visualisation of AVEVA E3D models.

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But why are we directing our efforts towards developing mobile applications? AVEVA recognises the following important industry changes: z Mobile applications are being used for business to business requirements The consumer market has produced millions of apps but very few business to business apps; this will change with the advent of the next generation of tablet using Windows 8. z Project complexity means more staff are mobile and in different time zones The trend is towards more subcontractors and more diverse joint ventures. z Decision making must be streamlined Under these more diverse engineering environments the process of decision making must not hinder project progress. z Business processes must adapt to new opportunities Mobile technologies provide an opportunity to reassess the current business processes and investigate new options. z New engineers expect higher levels of availability and interactivity from their applications Great user experience, easy-to-use systems and powerful functionality are all cornerstones of the new wave of mobile applications. The feedback from everyone in Paris was very positive and further consultations with many of our customers soon set us on the right path to turn this prototype into a real product. Since then our development team has been working tirelessly to realise the vision of mobile apps which support the process of plant design. So here is a sneak preview from behind the scenes to see what has been happening. Future of Plant Design Our new project team has been operational for over six months and has made excellent progress towards completing the product. Our close partnership with Microsoft has helped to provide more insight into the technologies and developments behind Windows 8, which is our chosen platform for application developments at this stage. Windows 8 provides a robust platform for developing our new mobile application. We are focusing this new application on the design leaders and management team who are not always available in the design office, but who are key decision makers and active members of the review and approval teams across the design. We have concentrated on a number of key areas in order to help them drive designs forward and streamline the approval process. Live access Important feedback from our customers includes the desire to be able to see and interact with the live design model, not a static snapshot. Engineers need to see the latest available information and its current known status. Access to the live information helps a multi-disciplinary and multi-regional team work off the same understanding of the design progress.

Visualisation The ability to visualise and to easily manipulate the 3D model with zoom, pan and rotate functions is essential in highlighting design areas of interest and seeing them in the context of nearby objects. Inspection In order to make decisions regarding the validity of designs, the engineer must be able to assess the design situation. This means seeing the design in 3D model space, measuring distances, identifying potential clashes and querying the attributes of 3D objects. All of these help to create a picture of the design for proper assessment. Notes and comments for the design must also be easy to append and share with collaborating parties for quick problem resolution.

‘We are focusing this new application on the design leaders and management team who are not always available in the design office, but who are key decision makers and active members of the review and approval teams across the design...’

Approval The most important part of streamlining the approval process is enabled by allowing mobile authorised workers to approve designs in progress. Being away from the office need no longer hold up the process of design approval. Mobile users should be able to change the status of the design directly on the design model and indicate their approval. User experience (UX) The availability of a lightweight application development framework and gesture technologies through Windows 8 has allowed us to direct our product design effort to creating a simple and efficient user interface. The introduction of gestures for selecting functions and manipulating the 3D model help to make the experience very intuitive. Taking advantage of the new 3D design graphics within AVEVA E3D makes the operation of the app very tactile and highly productive when combined with our new pop-up AVEVA PowerWheel™. Developments are still under way for the new product, which will be launched at the AVEVA World Summit in Boston at the end of October 2013. For more information on this exciting new application, simply sign up to the new alerts from our Future of Plant Design website: www.aveva.com/futureofplantdesign. Right: These images are from a development version of the software; the final version may differ.

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Two Years On An overview of AVEVA Engineering in practice AVEVA Engineering™ was released in October 2011, so two years on seems like a good opportunity to take stock of its development since then and of its impact on the engineering industries.

Background AVEVA Engineering’s importance can be summed up in one word: control. Engineering projects create and manipulate huge amounts of disparate types of information, through a process of continual change. Historically, this required the different disciplines to work with many mutually incompatible applications and any number of home-grown spreadsheet documents. Chemical Engineering Magazine1 once observed that ‘...engineers working with stand-alone computer programs spend 50–80% of their time moving and organizing data between programs.’

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That was quite a startling statistic. It implied that many engineers were only fully productive for one or two days a week; for the rest of the time they were creating opportunities for errors to creep in, which is frustrating for the engineers and bad for business. The road to a common byte’ Chemical Engineering, Vol. 101, Issue 9

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Even with subsequent technology advances, effort that could be more productively applied is still absorbed in checking, correcting and rechecking every individual change across every business process that consumes it. Inevitably, some errors can remain undetected until the construction stage, leading to costly rework and project delays. So AVEVA’s strategy has long been clear; bring information under control by integrating it on a common project database, and provide benchmarkquality functionalities to enable it to be created, changed and shared under robust control. It is easy to see that, just by eliminating much of the 50–80% of working time spent shuffling information, engineering productivity can shoot up, reducing costs and timescales. Equally important, by also eliminating sources of error, less checking effort is needed and a better quality project can be delivered. AVEVA Engineering achieves all this.

Show and tell Many leading EPCs have already embedded AVEVA Engineering into their engineering and design management processes and have achieved significant productivity gains as a result. But companies to whom it is unfamiliar may understandably need to be convinced of its value in their particular situation. AVEVA therefore created an interactive Business Value Calculator (BVC) that enables a prospective user to create a profile of their current performance in creating the principal types of engineering deliverable on a representative size of project. Once this has been done, the BVC calculates the savings likely to be achieved, in cost and time, based on data compiled from testing on real-world data and feedback from customers.

Multi-discipline collaboration AVEVA Engineering enables the management of the status of every tagged item on a project, from its initial creation as an item on a P&ID, through its progress through successive changes and levels of maturity. But rarely, if ever, is a tagged item of interest to only a single discipline; it is the subject of collaboration between Process, Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation and other disciplines. These various participants work at different rates through different phases of the project. Each contributes or updates information concerning the tagged item at different times. It is essential, not only that the item’s various attributes remain under the control of the responsible disciplines, but that every discipline can always see the item’s true current status in order to keep their own part of the overall design up to date. Your AVEVA Account Manager or local sales team will be pleased to help you use the BVC to illustrate how AVEVA Engineering would perform in your particular situation.

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To enable this, AVEVA Engineering is database-driven. Each tagged item behaves as a unique data object, with many attributes that describe it from the perspectives of the various disciplines and the applications they use. This approach inherently eliminates the problems of sharing and reconciling information between different applications. The various discipline-specific views, such as line lists, P&IDs and the 3D model, each present the relevant attributes of the individual data objects. This is shown in the example screenshots. According to need, an item may be viewed as an intelligent object in a P&ID, in the 3D model, or even in both at once. Selecting it in one view automatically highlights it in the other views, making it easy to understand both its context and its various attributes. This has one obvious benefit: a change to an item is immediately highlighted in all its views, making it easy for other disciplines to see and respond to the change. Importantly, however, they do not necessarily have to reflect the impact of the change immediately. It remains highlighted but does not prevent the other disciplines from continuing to work at their own pace and schedule. A 3D-layout designer, for example, may choose to ‘batch up’ a number of minor changes that affect existing layout for later updating after a higher priority task is completed.

Above: Reports can include charts and graphics.

Tools for the job Database technology is, however, only half the story; it would be of little value if the tools used to work with the data were inadequate. AVEVA Engineering therefore provides intuitive and powerful functions that correspond to the types of tool in common use. Arguably the most popular engineer’s tool is Excel; almost every engineer uses it and a spreadsheet is ideal for working with tabular data such as line lists. AVEVA Engineering’s users immediately find themselves at home with its Excel-compatible interfaces.

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Engineering information is used for a variety of business purposes, so it is essential to be able to reliably ‘round-trip’ data to and from other formats. Users can not only create new data within AVEVA Engineering, they can also import data from existing spreadsheet documents, securing the value of a company’s accumulated data assets. Information can be exported in either Excel or pdf formats for use in third-party applications or for aggregation into reports; and it can also be published to AVEVA NET™ for enterprise-wide use. From the outset, AVEVA Engineering has had a clear roadmap for longterm development to increase its business value. The new release delivers two important new productivity-enhancing capabilities: Datasheets and Project Breakdown Structure.

Above: Example report showing completeness of attributes in a line list.

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New capability: Datasheets At its first release, AVEVA Engineering could generate datasheets based on the Reporting tool. However, once generated, the data on such datasheets could not be modified and, being only reports, they could not be used for data entry.

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AVEVA Engineering now ships with a built-in range of standard datasheet templates but, if none of these match a customer’s particular requirements, it is easy to import a suitable Excel-format datasheet and map it to the database fields. An automapping function will handle all existing fields and can create new fields if desired. The user benefits are significant. Data entry is exactly like using a spreadsheet, requiring little, if any, additional training, but it puts the data directly under database control and makes it available for use without further definition. A range of standard features are provided, including radio buttons, check boxes, picture files, calculation fields, units of measure, units of measure conversions and reference data. Free text fields enable the addition of comments (normally unmapped fields, as comments are not usually controlled data). All can be configured easily and enable powerful control of data. A particularly powerful feature is the ability to link multiple datasheet templates to a single equipment item. For example, one can create datasheets in multiple languages, enabling data to be entered in an English template but issued in, say, Korean. Or one could use a company standard template but issue datasheets in API, Norsok or a client’s own standard format. Powerful and configurable datasheet revision control is provided, while ‘round-tripping’ is supported for purposes such as vendor completion, by selectively locking data fields while leaving others as read/write for the vendor to populate. Colour highlighting and accept/reject capabilities enable effective change control. And, as an integrated member of the AVEVA Plant™ and AVEVA Marine™ portfolios, data handled by AVEVA Engineering can be readily shared across multiple work sites via AVEVA Global™. New feature: Product Breakdown Structure The new release also brings improved ways in which to view and use the data. Project Breakdown Structure (PBS) enables stored data to be viewed in a variety of ways based on configurable hierarchies; for example by system, area, building, level, commissioning system, and so on. Such configuration of task-optimised views enables different users to navigate engineering information for their own particular needs in an intuitive manner.

Navigation and selection of data are determined only by the configuration of the view itself; they are not affected by the organisation of the database. The PBS can be regarded as a sophisticated explorer for easy and intuitive navigation to any project item through a structure that is easily recognisable by the end-user. Any PBS node is automatically populated with new objects as soon as they meet the defined criteria for that particular node. Together, these features make AVEVA Engineering particularly valuable for occasional users, who will require no specialist skills or training to be able to find data efficiently when they need it. Delivering results Some of AVEVA‘s lead customers generously agreed to evaluate AVEVA Engineering’s performance on representative data and contributed valuable feedback on its ease of use. As a result, when it was released, it was already proven in the field. Customer response was enthusiastic and further feedback from its early adopters helped AVEVA to refine the roadmap for its continuing development to provide the kinds of functionality described above. Today, AVEVA Engineering is in use across all of AVEVA’s key markets: oil & gas, chemical, power (thermal and nuclear), marine, biochemical, metals and mining, water treatment and pulp and paper. Its versatility and ease of use support a wide variety of use cases. Some customers create all engineering items within AVEVA Engineering before using the data in other applications, while others create data in other applications such as AVEVA P&ID™ and transfer it into AVEVA Engineering. Specific uses include: z creating process and mechanical information for equipment, lines and components z engineering system design z producing data sheets, lists and schedules z aggregating imported data, for use in AVEVA PDMS™, AVEVA Everything3D™ (AVEVA E3D™) or AVEVA Diagrams™ z tag registration z catalogue management z tracking of modifications z controlling P&ID drafting z piping component supplier evaluation z piping MTO production.

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This has now been addressed, enabling engineering data to be entered using either the grid view or a datasheet. This is similar to the way that data can be entered in AVEVA Instrumentation™ and AVEVA Electrical™. Either method automatically stores data in the database, from where it is automatically visible in both the grid and the datasheet.

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Justifying the reputation How Russian engineering skills and AVEVA technology combine to make the Urals a leading centre of power project engineering Russian engineers have a welldeserved reputation for skill and resourcefulness. Within Russia, the Urals region, bridging the European and Asian cultures, is particularly noted for its people’s energy and focus. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that its capital, Ekaterinburg, should be home to the Urals Power Engineering Company, UPEC, one of the country’s leaders in the design and engineering of energy facilities.

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What is surprising to those not aware of this regional characteristic is that UPEC rose to its current pre-eminence in only 11 years. AVEVA technology has played a key role in this achievement, so we met with Mr Arkadiy A. Egorov, UPEC’s General Director, to learn more. ‘UPEC’s history shows that a professional approach and a clear vision of one’s goals can achieve extraordinary results in a very short period of time,’ he explained. ‘The company’s philosophy has always been one of continual progression, so in this respect we have very much in common with AVEVA.’ Challenges and opportunities The company was set up with the aim of being the most modern and innovative of its type, so the need for both advanced technologies and best-practice working methods was obvious. From the outset, UPEC developed a very successful internal quality management system, which is still in use today. ‘For Russian design enterprises, the 1990s were tough times,’ continued Mr Egorov, ’and we saw many fundamental changes in the markets and in the challenges and opportunities that emerged. We could see then that technology would be key to our future, so in 2008 we began our successful collaboration with AVEVA, with our first seats of AVEVA PDMS™.’ Pavel V. Glukhovtsev, Head of the IT department at UPEC, takes up the story. ‘Our first PDMS project was for the production of design documentation for the new compressor station at the 410 MW GRES Power Plant at Sredneuralskaya. This was a pilot project, during which we upgraded from PDMS 11.6 to 12.0. It involved all project disciplines and was accomplished within eight months.’ Olga E. Gerulaytis, Head of the CAD department, added, ‘One of the key requirements that we needed AVEVA to demonstrate during the pilot project was the ability to connect objects with all their associated data. For instance, we could associate the P&ID with the 3D model in PDMS and run fully automatic consistency checks. The system enabled us to eliminate even the slightest risk of clashes and errors.’

A view of the Tom-Usin plant’s original turbine hall. Photo courtesy of UPEC.

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First steps in creating a new PDMS design in context with the 3D laser scan data. Image courtesy of UPEC.

Arkadiy A. Egorov, General Director, UPEC. Photo courtesy of UPEC.

Pavel V. Glukhovtsev, Head of the IT department at UPEC. Photo courtesy of UPEC.

Early success Success followed success. The next project, on a greater scale, was the expansion of the Surgut-2 power station with a combined-cycle gas turbine and steam turbine unit. This was particularly challenging, as the engineering team had to design and analyse a number of alternative approaches to increasing the plant’s generating capacity. Once the best approach had been selected,UPEC’s specialists developed full project documentation, both for the main building and for all of the infrastructure. On completion, this project had increased Surgut-2’s generating capacity to 5,600 MW. Extending capabilities As UPEC rapidly became skilled in the use of PDMS, further AVEVA applications were implemented. AVEVA Review™ had already been implemented alongside PDMS, followed in 2010 by AVEVA Diagrams™, AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator™ and AVEVA Cable Design™. AVEVA NET™ was added in May 2011, adding advanced Information Management to a powerful suite of engineering and design tools. Training was provided by AVEVA’s Moscow team, and UPEC today has over 80 trained AVEVA Plant™ users.

Progressively adding new PDMS objects. Image courtesy of UPEC.

Olga E. Gerulaytis, Head of the CAD department at UPEC. Photo courtesy of UPEC.

With strong demand for plant upgrades, UPEC soon realised that accurately capturing the as-built state would save significant cost and time. In December 2011 it adopted AVEVA Laser Model Interface™ in preparation for its next project, the Tom-Usin power station, where laser scanning was used for the first time to survey the main building, and the scan data was put into PDMS. UPEC immediately became a committed user of this powerful technology. AVEVA Plant is being used on a succession of challenging projects. A complex gas turbine project on the Severo-Labatjuganskoe field was quickly followed by the Tachom field development. Here, the challenge lay in positioning a large quantity of racks on very difficult site topography, a task which was made considerably easier using PDMS. Currently, the UPEC team are working on projects for the Akademicheskaya Thermal Power Plant (TPP), the reconstruction of the Nizhnekam TPP with the introduction of cold gas turbines, and the re-equipping of Blocks 4 and 5 of the Tom-Usin plant.

The final PDMS layout of the new Tom-Usin turbine hall. Image courtesy of UPEC.

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Olga E. Gerulaytis commented, ‘The ability to integrate all engineering and design data into AVEVA Plant is key to our being able to meet continually changing project criteria. AVEVA PDMS enables the different disciplines to work concurrently on the same project model and helps us to transfer data without any headaches. This eliminates errors and loss of information, and reduces time to commissioning.’ Increasing client value Mr Egorov described the broader picture of UPEC’s work. ‘Our designers face many technical challenges, but we always try to focus on the plant operators’ interests. The way in which plant design technology and methodology affect operating efficiency is not fully appreciated in Russia at present. Our goal is to help Owner Operators (OOs) understand, not only that the innovative technologies used increase our project efficiency, but also how they can increase their own operational efficiency and safety. ‘PDMS enables us to provide a fully intelligent 3D model and high-quality deliverables to our customers; unquestionably a great advantage. However, we want them also to realise that the use of a common platform for all types of engineering data will enable them to control every stage of project development, no matter where they are located geographically. This can be achieved through the use of AVEVA NET, for example. The advantages are obvious, and we aim to promote the idea that collaborative use of technology by both OOs and contractor is as essential as the use of 3D.’ Mr Glukhovtsev agreed. ‘Efficient information sharing is essential. When I analysed our own working methods I found that at least 40% of our work was collaborative. That’s one reason why AVEVA Plant helped us to achieve such big improvements in project quality, cost and delivery time. It’s obvious to me that similar efficiency improvements could be achieved through OOs and their contractors working with a common information resource.’ Leadership in many spheres UPEC sees many opportunities for AVEVA technology to support its continued development. It is already providing PDMS models to customers for their lifecycle management needs and has plans for further improvements to its own business processes through increased design automation and more closely integrated management processes. Russian engineering is a competitive industry and UPEC intends to maintain its leadership by using technology to drive continuous improvement in its capabilities, speed of delivery, project cost and quality, and added value for its customers. As if all its engineering successes were not enough, UPEC is also making a name for itself in the social sphere, placing great importance on the personal development of its professionals. In 2007 the company was represented at the Kremlin Hall to receive the first prize in the ‘Best Socially Effective Company’ competition, one of Russia’s most prestigious awards in this field. As Mr Egorov put it as we left, ‘Just remember that these guys are from the Urals!’

Engineering drawings for the Tom-Usin power station upgrade. Drawings courtesy of UPEC.

About the Urals Power Engineering Company UPEC was founded in 2002, and in 2008 it became a member of JSC ‘Energostroyinvest-Holding’. It employs approximately 1,600 staff in its 12 offices and delivers a wide range of projects for Russia’s thermal power generation industry. Visit www.iceu.ru for more information.

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Strategic collaboration in China How SEDIN Engineering has put AVEVA technology at the heart of its long-term business strategy

AVEVA PDMS models from the SEDIN-Jinsuo lignite cleaning project. Courtesy of SEDIN.

SEDIN Engineering Co., Ltd (SEDIN) is one of China’s leading EPCs, with an impressive track record spanning many important industry sectors. In 2008 it became an AVEVA customer and quickly signed a strategic cooperation agreement that puts AVEVA’s solutions at the heart of its long-term business strategy and strengthens AVEVA’s position as a key technology provider to the Chinese plant industries. Ryana Chen Marketing Specialist, AVEVA

Since its foundation in 1958, SEDIN has built up an enviable reputation as a technology-driven EPC. By 2008, increasing demand for its services on ever more challenging projects had begun to reveal the limitations of its engineering design technology. This prompted a search for a more efficient and scalable solution that would support its continuing business growth. A trial of AVEVA PDMS™ quickly convinced SEDIN’s engineers and managers of its capabilities and, supported closely by AVEVA China, the initial deployment was put to use on an alkene coal gasification project for the Shenning Group. Successful on-time delivery led to SEDIN increasing its AVEVA deployment; in 2011 it extended this again with a further 50 PDMS seats. From the outset, the relationship between SEDIN and AVEVA has been one of close partnership. With their deep experience of the application of technology in the engineering industries, AVEVA’s consultants were able to work with SEDIN’s engineers to develop more efficient workflows and business processes. The relationship grows From that first, successful PDMS trial in 2008, cooperation between SEDIN and AVEVA has continued to grow. In addition to SEDIN’s increased deployment of PDMS, it has adopted more AVEVA products, including AVEVA VPRM™, AVEVA Diagrams™ and AVEVA Global™, all of which are now in daily use on a range of important projects. Paul Eveleigh, Executive Vice President, AVEVA, commented, ‘China’s engineering industry recognises the importance of using the most up-to-date technology to support world-class business performance. SEDIN’s strategy is a good example of this in practice. Working with SEDIN’s engineers to ensure a successful implementation of our solution, and then helping them develop more efficient working methods that take advantage of the technology, has been a rewarding experience for both parties. ‘A successful relationship like this with such a highly regarded Chinese engineering company also helps to establish AVEVA as a credible technology partner in this economically important industry.’ As a full-service EPC, SEDIN also extends the use of PDMS to the fabrication sites, making the model available to support efficient construction processes and to help quickly resolve any problems. The improved workflows developed at SEDIN have been so successful that SEDIN has now teamed up

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‘AVEVA has provided exemplary support in the maintenance of our PDMS system and has helped us further develop our layout design and engineering applications to much greater depth. AVEVA’s solutions and services are indeed helping us achieve many operational goals. This successful collaboration has been invaluable to us and will, I believe, continue to drive our close partnership with AVEVA to reach even higher levels...’

with AVEVA to promote these to the rest of China’s chemical industry, pushing for them to be recognised as industry standards. Moving forward Helping SEDIN to improve its engineering and design processes also identified opportunities to support its strategic development with more advanced Information Management. AVEVA has helped SEDIN to set up a Digital Engineering Information Handover system with standardised functionalities. As a result, not only has SEDIN increased efficiency in its own engineering and design processes, it can now provide innovative, value-adding engineering services to its customers. SEDIN is currently working with AVEVA to evaluate the suitability of AVEVA NET™ as a foundation for more comprehensive information management processes. SEDIN continues to promote best-practice business processes to the Chinese chemical engineering industry, counselling other companies on how they have enhanced AVEVA Diagrams and VPRM with application features and rules to meet the standards of China’s chemical engineering industry. For its part, AVEVA is able to draw on SEDIN’s knowledge and experience in this area to update its own products to make them even more suitable for China’s chemical engineering industry. Mr Yan ShaoWei, Vice General Manager, SEDIN, commented, ‘AVEVA has provided exemplary support in the maintenance of our PDMS system and has helped us further develop our layout design and engineering applications to much greater depth. AVEVA’s solutions and services are indeed helping us achieve many operational goals. This successful collaboration has been invaluable to us and will, I believe, continue to drive our close partnership with AVEVA to reach even higher levels.’ SEDIN and AVEVA have formalised this strong relationship by signing a strategic cooperation agreement. SEDIN will use AVEVA solutions in all of its projects.

The SEDIN office building. Courtesy of SEDIN.

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About SEDIN Originally China’s Second Design Institute of Chemical Industry, SEDIN Engineering Co., Ltd was founded in 1958 and affiliated to the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. It became a member of the state-run China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation (CNCEC) in 1988 after a national reorganisation. SEDIN is today one of China’s leading EPCs, with extensive expertise in the coal-to-liquid, coal-togas, coal-chemical, organic and inorganic chemicals, pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals, environmental protection, and geological surveying industries.

PDMS projects at SEDIN Alkene coal gasification facility for the Shenning Group In this, SEDIN’s first PDMS project and China’s largest coal gasification plant, PDMS was used for the entire project, with such success that SEDIN decided to standardise its operations on PDMS.

A 10,000 tons per annum aniline project for the Tianji Company, at Chengjiachuan, Shanxi province This revamp project added more products to the client’s product range, supporting its growth and increasing its capabilities. The project complied with national industry standards. PDMS enabled quick and efficient 3D modelling and detailed design of the piping and layout arrangement. Clash and integrity checking ensured a high quality design with minimal rework, while the use of AVEVA Global enabled the geographically distributed design team to work together effectively on the plant model. The plant has an annual production of 180,000 tons of nitrobenzene and 130,000 tons of aniline, and represents an investment of around CNY 522M (USD 85M).

A demonstration lignite cleaning project at Jinsuo, Yunnan province This plant has an annual output of 500,000 tons of methanol, 186,250 tons of gasoline, 24,130 tons of LPG and 147,000 tons of LNG. The project benefitted from PDMS enabling SEDIN’s designers in different disciplines to work concurrently to develop the complete digital model. Multiple design checks across the entire design eliminated errors and enabled high quality construction.

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AVEVA PDMS models from the SEDIN-Tianji aniline project. Courtesy of SEDIN.

AVEVA honoured at two prestigious award ceremonies AVEVA has been honoured at two UK award ceremonies. The company was named Business of the Year, 2013 at the Cambridge News Business Excellence awards, which took place on 21 March 2013 at Kings College, Cambridge. Chosen from a list of prestigious Cambridgeshire companies, the award recognises an organisation which has led the way in 2012 in terms of growth, diversification or consolidation. AVEVA was also awarded the London Loves Excellence, Technology and Telecoms award. Winners had to demonstrate significant growth or expansion, with judges recognising, among other things, an outstanding increase in sales, profit, headcount or geographical expansion, and sustained financial performance. The judges were unanimous in choosing AVEVA as their winner. They praised AVEVA for achieving significant growth as it approaches the £200 million turnover mark, and for its successful diversification and internationalism.

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‘These two awards are a real testament to how the AVEVA team made 2012 a great year,’ said Richard Longdon, CEO, AVEVA. ‘2012 marked our 45th anniversary. We are growing rapidly and we have just released some of the most exciting technology in the company’s history. This accolade is a direct reflection of our commitment to significant and sustained R&D investment, commercial achievement and a solid growth strategy. We currently employ 1,400 staff around the world, with approximately 400 in the UK, making us a truly global company. ‘Our customers are in the process plant, power and marine industries and rely on our software to create and operate the world’s most complex engineering assets. We continually strengthen our product portfolio through both in-house development and the acquisition and integration of industry-leading technologies. It’s wonderful that the dedicated efforts of our AVEVA colleagues have been recognised by the judges.’

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AVEVA PDMS model of one of the Gas Field Development Plants in the Middle East. Images courtesy of LTC.

Raising one’s game How AVEVA Plant has enabled LTC to handle much more complex and advanced projects

First major project with AVEVA PDMS L&T-Chiyoda (LTC) had built up an enviable reputation as an EPC specialising in fast-track smalland medium-size projects for challenging applications such as offshore platforms. In 2011, an opportunity to execute a USD 150m gas treatment plant project for Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO), as part of the Lekhwair Gas Field Development Project, led to the start of a successful association with AVEVA.

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Adding PDMS to LTC’s existing suite of engineering and design solutions proved straightforward. User training was provided at LTC’s offices, and modelling of the new design began less than a month later. Two years on, and LTC has over 80 engineers and designers trained and working with AVEVA software.

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The client had mandated the use of AVEVA PDMS™ for this prestigious 3 million cubic metres/ day gas production facility. Mr. Kishorkumar Shah, LTC’s IT Head, explained, ‘This was a major breakthrough for LTC. It was the biggest project we had handled and was strategically important for us. There is considerable growth potential in the region’s natural gas industry, but it is a very competitive market for EPCs, so we needed to demonstrate our ability to deliver large, complex projects efficiently.’

Reaping the benefits LTC’s Piping Head, Mr. Nitish Chaube, responded saying ‘Once we had adopted PDMS, we quickly realised the opportunities that other AVEVA Plant™ programs could offer us. Perhaps the biggest business opportunity has been created by our adding AVEVA Global™, which enables us to collaborate efficiently on multi-site projects. We are currently using it on two projects, the Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 for PDO and one for the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC). The team at our Vadodara office work seamlessly with the teams at PDO and GS Engineering and Construction Company (GS E&C), in Korea.’ Mr Chaube, went on to describe the productivity benefits that LTC had gained from its AVEVA deployment. The high-quality visualisation of the plant during the detailed engineering stage results in high efficiency and accuracy in engineering which, in turn, leads to ease of construction. This general benefit underpins improved working methods and new capabilities provided by the use of AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports™, AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface™ and AVEVA Laser Model Interface™.

‘With AVEVA, we can do more, in less time and to a higher quality standard...’

Using Multi-Discipline Supports, LTC customises and models project-specific supports with a significant degree of detail in the 3D model. Fully detailed piping support drawings can be produced much more quickly than by using a conventional CAD drawing utility. Mr Chaube estimated that this saves around 35–40% of the man-hours originally required. Similarly, using AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface has resulted in significant savings in effort which would have been spent on remodelling vendors’ equipment. For the PDO project, LTC is importing models of compressors and accessories designed by their vendor (GE) in Pro/ENGINEER, using the AP203 format. Together with PDMS’s powerful model editor, this makes equipment positioning and the associated pipe routing work quick and efficient. On the same project, Mr Chaube explained that they were expecting a requirement to work with as-built data captured by laser scanning, something which he is well placed to meet by the use of AVEVA Laser Model Interface, which enables 3D scan data to be referenced directly within PDMS.

Mr. Kishorkumar Shah, LTC’s IT Head. Photo courtesy of LTC.

Bigger, better, faster projects Though every project is unique, LTC has been able to benefit from increased design reuse. Many components can be reused either as-is or with only slight modification, saving considerable modelling time. Models can be stored as library items, progressively growing LTC’s assets of proven designs and increasing its design efficiency. Mr Chaube’s team has also been quick to take advantage of PDMS’s PML programming language to automate or streamline routine tasks, such as: z z z z z

customised schedule report generation fetching additional information on isometrics, for fabrication and erection warning of inconsistent design while extracting isometrics customisation of project-specific pipe supports customisation of project-specific forms.

PDMS also delivers value right through to construction. LTC routinely makes the PDMS model available to the team on the construction site, greatly assisting the avoidance or resolution of problems at this critical stage. A bright future LTC is in no doubt about the opportunities that its AVEVA Plant deployment offers for its business growth. Demonstrated success on the PDO project followed similar high performance on two Indian projects: a process/living-quarters platform for Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited and a modular cellar skid for Cairn India, on the Raageshwari, Bhagyam and Aishwariya oil fields. Mr Chaube commented, ‘We are already working on a follow-up project for PDO and four units for ERC. The ERC project is our largest international direct order to date. We would not have been able to tender for it without our proven ability to work on collaborative projects. With important add-ons like AVEVA Global and Laser Model Interface, it enables us to punch well above our weight on far bigger and more complex projects. ‘With AVEVA, we can do more, in less time and to a higher quality standard,’ he concluded.

LTC’s Piping Head, Mr. Nitish Chaube. Photo courtesy of LTC.

About L&T-Chiyoda Ltd L&T-Chiyoda Ltd is an engineering consultancy organisation formed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd, a leading Indian EPC company, and Chiyoda Corporation, a Japanese engineering company with five decades of experience in hydrocarbon and related fields. LTC is a versatile company, specialising in engineering for fast-track EPC projects in oil & gas, LNG and LPG, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, fertilisers and similar process industries. Visit www.lntchiyoda.com to find out more. AVEVA World Magazine 2013|Issue 2

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30 October to 1 November, 2013 | Westin Copley Place | Boston, Massachusetts, USA About the Summit The Summit is AVEVA’s premier annual event, providing a unique opportunity to learn about new developments at AVEVA and to share experiences with the world’s leading EPCs, Owner Operators and Shipbuilders. Join us in Boston The Summit programme is designed to address the business and strategic issues that are important to senior management and decision makers. You will hear from an impressive list of customer speakers who will share their insights on industry challenges and their experiences with AVEVA solutions. We start the Summit with a Welcome Reception on 30 October at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, located in the heart of Boston’s scenic Back Bay district. The reception allows you to mingle with your industry colleagues and our technology partners in the exhibition space. Our Gala Dinner on 31 October features a night at the Museum of Science – one of the world’s largest and most fascinating science centres. The Summit registration fee includes all scheduled sessions, meals, entertainment and access to postevent Summit materials.

Streamlined Agendas This years’ Summit has three focused agendas, designed to meet the different interests of our delegates. Maximise your Summit experience by selecting the agenda that offers the greatest benefit to your business. Rest assured that you are also free to move between agendas, selecting individual sessions that are of particular interest. All three agendas contain a mix of both AVEVA and customer speakers. Agenda for Owner Operators This agenda focuses on the key risk reduction and ROI challenges faced in the CAPEX and OPEX phases of the global Oil & Gas, Process Plant, Power and Mining industries’ projects. Agenda for EPCs This agenda explores how these companies can improve the efficiency of major capital projects from FEED through to handover while improving their competiveness in an increasingly complex market. Agenda for Shipbuilders This agenda delivers insights and strategies for creating a more integrated and competitive shipyard for both vessel and offshore projects.

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Day 3 – Friday 1 November, 2013 The evergreen asset Asset capture, revamp and operations

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Day 2 – Thursday 31 October, 2013 Setting the stage Sharing new perspectives

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Lunch and Sponsor Exhibition Adding value to your asset Exploiting the digital plant for greater ROI

Team working across the project Plant design, construction and material management

Adding value to your projects Integrating information for greater productivity

Working smarter Building relationships in structural steel

A view into the future New opportunities in technology and collaboration

To find out more about the Summit agenda and view the latest version, please visit www.avevaworld.com Owner Operator Agenda

Gala Dinner – Museum of Science

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Featured Customer Speakers The AVEVA World Summit always includes an impressive list of customer speakers who are willing to share their business and technology expertise. The 2013 Summit is no exception. Customers speaking this year include:

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MIPAC – Instruments of Change How AVEVA Instrumentation supports an agile, dynamic Instrumentation & Control systems company Change invariably creates opportunities. When, in 1997, Australia’s Mount Isa Mines company (MIM) decided to close down its process control group, the staff and contractors seized the opportunity to strike out as an independent company, MIPAC. Combining 30 years’ experience with the ‘can-do’ approach of a start-up business, MIPAC’s original nine-man team quickly established a worldwide customer base and has now grown to over 50 skilled engineers.

Instrumentation & Control is a specialised discipline that requires specialised tools. MIPAC recognised the advantage of plant design software to maximise efficiencies but they wanted more than just an ‘outof-the-box’ solution. Available options were not adequate for their needs, and the technical support to make them so was not available, so the MIPAC team set about creating their own solution. The result proved very effective and was a key factor in the company’s success, but that success came at a price. Continuing development and maintenance absorbed valuable effort by one individual, increasing overheads and leaving the company vulnerable. MIPAC began looking for a replacement solution which would be better able to support their long-term goals.

Kelvin Davis Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA

By 2011, MIPAC’s engineers had encountered AVEVA Instrumentation™, which was being used by some of their clients. They were impressed, not only with its performance, but also with reports of the technical support available. These impressions were confirmed when MIPAC was involved in a client’s implementation of AVEVA Instrumentation and in developing project templates for it. Jon Burton, MIPAC’s Engineering Manager, explained, ‘We were very impressed with the AVEVA team’s willingness to respond to suggestions and to configure the standard product to

MIPAC’s engineers take advantage of AVEVA Instrumentation’s close integration with Microsoft Excel.

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meet particular project needs. As members of our design team gained experience with the product, I quickly came to appreciate the competitive advantages that AVEVA Instrumentation could offer MIPAC in both productivity and credibility.’ Having decided to replace their in-house system with AVEVA Instrumentation, MIPAC cautiously minimised business risk by deploying it initially on just one project, an innovative gold production facility in Armenia. Implementation proved straightforward. User training was provided by the local AVEVA team, who also helped MIPAC’s designers to create templates and populate the database. A senior MIPAC draughtsman helped to create AutoCAD drawing templates in the correct project format. Covering motor control as well as instrumentation, this first live project proved very successful, with the first design completion milestone being reached within five months, ahead of schedule. It was also well within budget, having required a small team of only two engineers. ‘Such rapid success on a technically pioneering project really convinced us of the advantages of AVEVA Instrumentation,’ commented Jon. ‘It gave us the confidence to deploy it across all our projects and retire our old home-grown system, with no regrets.’ Jon went on to describe some of the benefits that MIPAC had gained. The biggest of these was the ability to deliver high-quality instrumentation design, to the company’s standards, with around only half the number of engineers. ‘The design cost savings alone are considerable,’ he explained, ‘but other savings arise from the reduction in checking effort. The database-driven approach eliminates duplication and a lot of human errors. We’ve also removed a great deal of double-handling

of information; for example, we can export I/O allocation lists in Excel format for direct import into Distributed Control Systems (DCS).’ Unexpected benefits were also found. For example, procurement tracking reports can be created from the system, eliminating more doublehandling between designers and buyers. This led MIPAC to identify still more ways to use the AVEVA Instrumentation database to support procurement or project planning tasks. We asked Jon Burton whether the new capabilities had changed MIPAC’s methods of working with its customers. ‘Not yet,’ he replied. ‘At present, we concentrate on design and commissioning on new-build projects, for which our clients require documentation deliverables. Although we can offer the ability to deliver database content directly, this has not yet been required. But I’m sure it will come; AVEVA Instrumentation would be ideal for operators to maintain their plants with. ‘What we have certainly found is that winning new business is easier. We can tender more competitively and our high-quality deliverables and on-schedule completion are helping to secure more repeat business and client recommendations. AVEVA Instrumentation is a key platform for our specialist services.’ About MIPAC Based in Brisbane, MIPAC is a privately owned provider of businesscritical process control, instrumentation and electrical engineering solutions for the plant and mining industries. It has an impressive track record in projects around the world in the minerals and metals, oil & gas, food and beverage and pulp & paper sectors. Sustained success has brought awards and industry recognition and, in 2012, the company opened an office in Vancouver. To find out more visit www.mipac.com.au.

‘We were very impressed with the AVEVA team’s willingness to respond to suggestions and to configure the standard product to meet particular project needs. As members of our design team gained experience with the product, I quickly came to appreciate the competitive advantages that AVEVA Instrumentation could offer MIPAC in both productivity and credibility...’ Jon Burton, MIPAC’s Engineering Manager.

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Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard implements AVEVA’s Integrated Shipbuilding solution for improved project management Located on the Neva River near St Petersburg, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a medium-sized shipyard employing around 1,100 people, is one of the most efficient shipbuilders in Russia. The shipyard builds naval and commercial vessels, including missile boats, mine hunters, patrol ships, passenger vessels and work vessels up to 100 metres long and 800 tons in weight. Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is regarded as a technological pacesetter in the Russian shipbuilding industry, continuously applying new shipbuilding technologies and utilising new construction materials. When electric welding was introduced to shipbuilding in the 1930s, the shipyard was one of the first in the world to make use of this technology; in the 1960s, it was among the world’s first to build fibreglass (glass-reinforced plastic, GRP) minesweepers. The shipyard was founded in 1912 and has built more than 500 naval and commercial ships and vessels in 43 different designs for the Russian Navy and foreign clients. When we visited the shipyard in March this year, they were building a composite passenger catamaran designed with AVEVA Marine™. The company had recently announced their latest order, the construction of six pusher-tugs for the Moscow-based company, P. Transco, to be delivered in April/May 2014. These tugs will be built with the use of AVEVA Marine.

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We met Mr V. Seredokho, the Director General, who explained the changes the shipyard is carrying out to further increase productivity to meet the new challenges they are facing. He told us, ‘Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard has unique knowledge in how to build ships in different materials such as aluminium, fibreglass, composite, ordinary and low-magnetic steel. The company also provides engineering services for the plant industry. Our engineering department has recently completed the design and fabrication of the steel structures for a huge fluid gas terminal plant for the gas processing and petrochemicals company, SIBUR.’ He continued, ‘The AVEVA Marine solution was implemented in 2008, when the shipyard carried out an extensive investment programme in order to further increase our production capacity and boost productivity by implementing the latest technologies in shipbuilding. We undertook a comprehensive reconstruction of the main workshop facilities for machining, chemical and galvanic processes, outfitting and GRP. Our fabrication process is now an up-to-date, workstation-oriented, workshop production line with modern panel-line and assembly-line equipment. ‘I, and many of the engineers in our organisation, have had a long and positive experience with the Tribon shipbuilding system when we were with other shipbuilding companies. The decision to select AVEVA Marine as the engineering solution at our shipyard was an obvious choice as this solution fully supported the design and production processes in the shipyard for the complete structural steel and outfitting disciplines. ‘We found AVEVA’s acquisition of Tribon Solutions very positive,’ he continued. ‘We regard the AVEVA Marine solution as an important longterm commitment from AVEVA to the further development of shipbuilding technology, with input from other important industries such as offshore, oil & gas and energy, leading to an improved outfitting solution for shipbuilding. ‘Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC, with 60 leading marine engineering offices. Several of the engineering offices also use the AVEVA Marine solution, and we receive many 3D ship designs in AVEVA Marine from them. With AVEVA Marine we can now easily improve these designs to satisfy our shipyard’s fabrication standards. Cooperation with the engineering offices in USC has become much easier since we now have a “common language.”

Above: Mr V. Seredokho, Director General, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

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‘We have extended the use of the 3D model to the fabrication area. The model is made available for review by the fabrication engineers and workers. This gives us a prompt understanding of how the pipes and equipment are placed.

And the assembly work has also become much easier thanks to access to the model. Our aim is to develop a fully automated shipyard, with a minimum of paperwork, and where more people in the organisation will have access to the model. For example, the full, integrated model should also be available to the project management team.’ Early this year, in order to improve the shipyard’s project management process and take the next step towards a fully integrated shipbuilding strategy, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard purchased the AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management™ applications, AVEVA Planning™, AVEVA Material™ and AVEVA Production™, thus optimising project control, logistics, materials management, resource and production planning. With this integrated shipbuilding approach, the shipyard’s design and engineering processes will be fully integrated with downstream engineering processes such as the supply chain, production and planning. Planners, engineers and designers in all disciplines and all departments will now be able to work simultaneously on a single ship model database, to plan, create, develop, manage and exploit engineering and design data in the most productive and risk-free way. ‘We want to be in full control of each individual project and we want to know how efficiently we are using our resources at the shipyard. We constantly analyse new shipbuilding technologies and the latest materials for building new types of ships. We are currently building a new slipway so that we will be able to add offshore supply vessels to our portfolio in the near future,’ V. Seredokho concluded. Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard has a rich history with a wealth of experience. One key to its past success has been its ability to adapt to changing technology by deploying the latest software and industry best practice. Over the years it has evolved from using independent software applications to deploying a complete Integrated Shipbuilding strategy, helping to secure its success for the future. About Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC. USC is an open jointstock company in Russia, uniting shipbuilding, repair and maintenance subsidiaries. The state owns 100% of the shares. USC also has a 50% stake in Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, a joint venture with STX Finland Cruise Oy. USC includes 60 leading Russian marine engineering, shipyard, and ship-repair enterprises, bringing together more than 70% of the domestic shipbuilding industry. In total, the members of the USC businesses and organisations employ about 74,000 people.

All images courtesy of Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

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