AVEVA Releases Powerful New 3D Design Transfer Solution

Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - AVEVA announces the
release of AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface, a powerful solution
to the problem of transferring 3D models between incompatible design
systems.

Until now, solutions for transferring design between different 3D
CAD systems have proved to be inadequate in various ways and have not
achieved the necessary high levels of usability or industry support.
Recently, however, a neutral format has been adopted - STEP AP203 -
which does offer an effective means of 3D design transfer and is now
achieving widespread industry acceptance. AVEVA Mechanical Equipment
Interface has been developed to employ the AP203 protocol and
provides a plant or ship designer with a robust and efficient tool
for importing into AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting accurate 3D models
of suppliers' equipment items.

Commenting on this important new release, Bruce Douglas, AVEVA
Vice President Product and Marketing Strategy, said:

'The inability to easily share data between computer systems has
long been a barrier to exploiting the full value of engineering
information and to effective collaboration on complex projects. AVEVA
is committed to the removal of such barriers and plays a leading role
in the development, promotion and use of open standards for data
interoperability.'

'AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is further confirmation of
this continuing commitment and our equal commitment to providing
customers with ever-increasing value from their use of AVEVA
solutions. This new product will make the practicing designer's work
a lot easier and provide measurable business benefits in project
cost, timescale and quality.'

A number of customers in the marine, power and mining industries
worked closely with AVEVA during the development of this new product
and have already reported up to 60% reduction in man-hours compared
with their previous practice of re-creating equipment models from
scratch in AVEVA PDMS.

AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is available for immediate
deployment in an AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine environment, and is
appropriate for the Power, Marine, Mining, Mineral Processing, Pulp
and Paper, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing sectors.

About AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface

Equipment suppliers can export 3D models from the principal MCAD
systems in STEP AP203 format. Using AVEVA Mechanical Equipment
Interface, a designer can import these fully-detailed models into
AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting, where they can be manipulated like
any native PDMS or Outfitting objects. This avoids the need for
laborious and error-prone workarounds, such as manually re-creating
an equipment model in PDMS/Outfitting. Now the full design value
already created by the equipment supplier can be exploited by the
PDMS/Outfitting designer to create better-quality plant or vessel
designs more quickly.

AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface provides facilities for
simplifying the display of an imported model for more efficient
working while creating the overall design, and for exporting selected
parts of a PDMS or Outfitting model to third-party 3D design
applications which support AP203 import.

More information about AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface and
other AVEVA solutions can be found at http://www.aveva.com/plant or
http://www.aveva.com/marine.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a leading supplier of engineering and design software to
the plant and marine industries. For more information about AVEVA,
please visit http://www.aveva.com/ednotes.

For further information, please contact:
Alison Patey
Marketing Communications Manager
AVEVA Corporate
Tel: +44-1223-556653
alison.patey@aveva.com

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Contact:
CONTACT: For further information, please contact: Alison Patey,
MarketingCommunications Manager, AVEVA Corporate, Tel:
+44-1223-556653,alison.patey@aveva.com