2010 Issue 1 - Woodside's Journey with AVEVA NET

2010 | Issue 1
Also featured in this issue:
Eka Chemicals – JRI Ingeniería –
K Home International – Saipem –
Paks Nuclear Power Plant –
Sumitomo Heavy Industries –
TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke –
Woodside
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface
Simplifying information exchange
between suppliers and designers

INSIDE
THIS EDITION
Corporate News
Welcome 2
New Customers 32
AMUM 2009 Event Report 33
AVEVA Webinars 36
ISEIT 2009 Event Report 37
Product News
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface 7
AVEVA NET Now SAP-Certified 10
AVEVA and Z+F Sign Technical Partnership 30
Customer News
Woodside 4
Sumitomo Heavy Industries 12
Cover Story: JRI Ingeniería 14
Saipem 17
TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke 20
Paks Nuclear Power Plant 22
Eka Chemicals 25
K Home International 28
Cover photograph: A large minerals screening facility nearing
completion. Image courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.
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Editor – Magnus Feldt
Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA
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Welcome...
2009 has shown how resilient the world’s engineering industries are, promising
well for 2010 and providing much inspiring material for this PIPELINE.
The dramatic image on our front cover comes this time courtesy of JRI Ingeniería, a
mining and minerals company headquartered in Chile. 3D design is not widely used in
this industry sector, so we were delighted when JRI agreed to present at ISEIT Americas.
The exposition of its use of AVEVA solutions to tackle some of the most challenging
minerals projects was one of the highlights of the event. The company continues to set
new standards in its industry and it is a pleasure to be able now to share its impressive
story with PIPELINE readers.
Given the prevailing economic uncertainty, our two major industry events, the AVEVA
Marine Users’ Meeting (AMUM) in Shanghai and the International Symposium for
Engineering IT (ISEIT) in Berlin, attracted high levels of support from sponsors and
delegates.
This reflects the importance of engineering IT throughout the economic cycle; it not
only enables new capabilities during the good times, it provides the means to drive up
productivity and competitiveness in tough times. Both events focused on ‘effective
execution’ and ways to make better use of IT assets and workflows.
With operational efficiency receiving increased focus, 2009 saw AVEVA NET gaining
increased market share, achieving SAP certification and delivering impressive business
value.
Woodside, an important company in the Australian plant sector, has been using AVEVA
NET for five years and was generous enough to not only agree to an independent
analysis of the business benefits achieved, but also to present its experiences at ISEIT.
With savings of over AUD 20 million already achieved at Woodside, rarely can any single
IT investment have delivered such rapid and substantial business returns.
‘With operational efficiency receiving
increased focus, 2009 saw AVEVA NET
gaining increased market share, achieving
SAP certification and delivering impressive
business value... With savings of over
AUD 20 million already achieved at
Woodside, rarely can any single IT
investment have delivered such rapid
and substantial business returns.’

On the engineering design front, AVEVA has
recently delivered some exciting and highly
productive new additions to both its Plant and
Marine applications.
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface and
AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller support our
commitment to increasing data interoperability
and, as you can read in this issue, are already
providing significant business benefits to their
users.
I am sure that, having read the articles and
reports in this PIPELINE, like me you will also
find it easier to be confident about the future
for the world’s engineering industries. 2010
promises both exciting technological and
business progress.
Richard Longdon
Chief Executive
AVEVA Group plc
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How Woodside
deployed AVEVA NET
Woodside achieves breakeven 3.4 years after commencement* –
a substantial Return on Investment over a 10-year period is forecasted.
Kuan Chuan Tan
Technical Writer, AVEVA Asia Pacific
AVEVA NET at Woodside is
known as ALIS (Asset
Lifecycle Information
System).
The diagram left shows
AVEVA NET’s (ALIS’s)
relationship to EDM
applications.
ALIS was established on an
extranet which was accessible
by all parties involved in the
design, fabrication and
installation processes.
Woodside is one of Australia’s top ten companies by market
capitalisation, and the nation’s largest publicly-traded oil & gas
exploration and production company. The company operates
Australia’s largest resources project, the North West Shelf Venture in
Western Australia, producing about 40 per cent of Australia’s oil &
gas.
Woodside implemented AVEVA NET in 2004, in order to improve their
management of new and legacy engineering data, initially across four
different installations. The information stakes were high, although AVEVA
NET was widely used by Woodside’s subcontractors and service providers,
and was thus already a proven brand. The implementation was later
expanded across several other plants, platforms and FPSOs.
AVEVA NET was chosen because Woodside understood that the application
integrates with industry-standard business and engineering applications,
providing a single access point for 98% of Woodside’s engineering data.
It delivers information from a number of Engineering Data Management
(EDM) applications, as illustrated below.
Engineering Excellence Awards: AVEVA NET’s role in the
winning project
In September 2009, Woodside’s AUD 1.6 billion Angel gas processing
platform located 120 kilometres off Karratha won the overall award at
the ‘2009 WA Engineering Excellence Awards’.
The Angel project represents a first for the Woodside-operated North
West Shelf Venture (NWSV). The gas processing facility was designed to be
not normally manned (NNM). It is powered and remotely controlled via a
subsea cable from the NWSV’s North Rankin A platform (NRA) 50
kilometres away.
In the Awards submission, Woodside identified several key factors for
the success of the Angel platform. These included:
• Well-planned and executed engineering phases; no engineering delay
to procurement or construction
• Emphasis on effective communications both within the team and with
interfacing parties
• Documentation and handover requirements identified early, including
Asset Lifecycle Information System (ALIS) and associated visualisation
portal (AVEVA NET).
* Source: Deloitte report titled ‘AVEVA NET Woodside post implementation review’ dated
August 2009, page 2.

Angel was the first project to deliver a fully integrated
set of information to the company for use prior to start-
up. The ‘electronic’ information asset, ALIS, was
delivered within an integrated Angel project portal.
The portal gave access to all engineering, maintenance
and operations information and allowed for two views, a
project view and an operations view. The project view let
project personnel use the portal for project execution,
while the operations view allowed for the integration of
information assisting the development of maintenance
and operations information well in advance of facility
start-up.
ALIS was established on an extranet (a new Woodside
infrastructure) which was accessible to third parties
involved in the design, fabrication and installation
processes. These third parties included Eos (a joint
venture between KBR and WorleyParsons) for the topside
and jacket design, MMHE (Malaysian Marine Heavy
Engineering) for the topside integrated deck fabrication,
Shenzhen Chiwan Sembawang for steel jacket and steel
piles fabrication, and JP Kenny for subsea structures and
cable installation.
The Deloitte report: figures and results on
AVEVA NET’s implementation
To identify the return on investment (ROI) achieved to date and forecasted
through to 2014, Deloitte was commissioned in early 2009 to conduct a post-
implementation review of AVEVA NET at Woodside.
This review was published in August 2009 and is available from both
Deloitte’s and AVEVA’s websites. The following are just some of the
incredible goals that Woodside has achieved through its use of AVEVA NET:
• Reduced handover costs (on its Angel platform) by AUD 1.5 million.
• Reduced anticipated handover costs across multiple platforms in 2010 by
AUD 16.8 million.
• Increased staff productivity by 10% per year.
• Potentially saved AUD 8,500 per worker, per year – or AUD 17.8 million per
year across the business.
• Reduced training costs by over AUD 3.6 million from 2004–2009. This
equates to over 93% of the original training costs!
• Woodside has realized a total accumulative benefit of over AUD 20 million
since 2004 by using AVEVA NET.
AVEVA NET has improved the quality of facility engineering information and
access to it. This improved data quality reduces the likelihood that incorrect
engineering information is used when maintaining a facility, which could
cause a workplace accident or an unplanned shutdown.
The Angel Project off Karratha. Photograph courtesy of Woodside Energy Limited.

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Integration of information was primarily via a tag paradigm and included
access to and from the following:
• Intelligent P&IDs
• 3D models
• Computerised Maintenance Management System
• All engineering data
• Documents and drawings
• Equipment manuals and certification and traceability dossiers
• Photographs
• Subsea Inspection System
• Geographical Information System (GIS).
Many of these engineering applications were new. All information was
progressively passed into the Woodside systems after quality checks were
done. It was a benchmark, with 100% of all project information
established within the Woodside systems at the ‘ready for start-up’
phase, including all hazardous area inspection and pressure safety valve
certification.
The project integrated the asset information, which traditionally has been
restricted to topsides plant, with all the substructure (jacket) and subsea
infrastructure. 3D models built with AVEVA PDMS were the prime
mechanism for navigating this information, using associations with
relevant information and systems. For subsea, this included integration
with the subsea inspection system (COABIS) and the GIS. All 3D models
were as-built and fully tagged with x-refs, an innovation for the industry.
The project pioneered an ALIS data association module for the operations
phase to self-serve tag-to-document relationships. This is now utilised as
an enterprise system.
The Angel project set a new benchmark for project information systems
configuration and integration, and achieved the project and operations
goal of a complete and seamless handover in full support of a flawless
start-up.
Sources
Deloitte report titled AVEVA NET Woodside Post Implementation Review dated August 2009. Note
that the report should read in full and no party can rely on the information contained therein.
Deloitte’s role did not include the validation of any assumptions including the level of costs or
benefits.
Woodside’s submission for West Australian Engineering Excellence
Awards was titled ANGEL – Setting a new world standard
for not-normally-manned gas processing facilities.
Woodside’s subcontractors: Shenzhen Chiwan Sembawang, MMHE (Malaysian Marine Heavy Engineering), JP Kenny, Eos (joint venture between
KBR and WorleyParsons) using AVEVA NET and AVEVA Plant solutions to collaborate during the design and fabrication of the Angel platform.
Subsea-pipeline, subsea
structures, power &
optical cables
JP Kenny
Topside & Jacket design
Eos (KBR/WP)
Steel jacket, steel piles
fabrication
Shenzhen Chiwan
Sembawang, China
Topside integrated deck
fabrication
MMHE, Pasir Gudang,
Malaysia
AVEVA NET (ALIS)
AVEVA PDMS
AVEVA Global
Photograph courtesy of
Woodside Energy Limited.

For many years, there has been strong customer demand for a stable
and efficient solution for importing 3D models of mechanical
equipment into the AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine environments in a
way that is appropriate for multi-disciplinary plant layout and marine
outfitting.
Mechanical equipment is usually designed using 3D MCAD products (like
Pro/ENGINEER, Solidworks or Inventor) which deal with ‘sculptured’ parts
such as castings or machining, whereas AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Outfitting
deal with complex assemblies of large numbers of relatively simple
geometric objects. Each solution is optimal for its purpose, but the two
are based on incompatible mathematical principles.
This fundamental incompatibility between MCAD and plant or outfitting
design systems has long been a barrier to reliable 3D design exchange,
incurring costs in design and error-prone workarounds which can lead to
costly rework in construction and installation.
Part of AVEVA’s interoperability strategy is to bridge the gap between
previously incompatible systems and thereby reduce the costs of non-
interoperability between engineering disciplines. AVEVA has now
overcome this incompatibility in an innovative and unique way by
incorporating B-Rep capability to define equipment items in the AVEVA
PDMS/Outfitting design database.
Users will now be able to quickly and easily import accurate and detailed
equipment models and expose them to the full capabilities of PDMS or
Outfitting as well as the AVEVA solution set. This will save direct man-
hours in the design stage, eliminate many potential sources of error and
rework, and improve productivity across the entire project.
AVEVA worked closely with lead customers during the development of
the Mechanical Equipment Interface. These users consistently reported
man-hour savings of up to 60% compared with their previous practice of
re-creating equipment models from scratch. They also reported less easily
quantified benefits from improved design quality.
New for both AVEVA Plant and Marine is AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface, an important
new product aimed at bridging the gap between 3D Mechanical CAD (MCAD) and systems
used in the design of plants and the outfitting of ships.
Even the most complex of 3D models may be imported into AVEVA PDMS/Outfitting via the STEP AP203 file format.
Note the level of detail on this imported compressor skid unit. Model courtesy of Howden.
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface
– enabling 3D model exchange between equipment
suppliers and plant and marine designers
Derry Vaughan Product Marketing Manager - AVEVA Plant

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Imported engines in ship engine room.
The Mechanical Equipment Interface – what does it do?
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface has been designed to introduce mechanical equipment
items and skid-mounted assemblies into the AVEVA PDMS or Outfitting design environment. It
enables equipment suppliers and manufacturers to supply STEP AP 203 files of their 3D MCAD
models for importing into AVEVA PDMS/Outfitting.
Imported equipment items behave in exactly the same way as other PDMS/Outfitting objects. All
the imported parts which make up the 3D equipment model become individual PDMS/Outfitting
parts. Even the internal details of the equipment (if included) can be shown when performing a
clipping plane on the model.
Using the Mechanical Equipment Interface users will have the option to:
• select the STEP file of the MCAD model
• sort and filter individual parts of the model to select only those parts necessary for building the
plant or ship model
• set Obstruction volumes and Display Levels for 3D graphical representation purposes
• graphically replace the display representation of specific parts with shapes like boxes or cylinders
• specify nozzles on the model to be used for connecting electrical cables and pipes.
Graphical replacement of certain parts can have a significant impact on the performance of the
model within PDMS/Outfitting while maintaining the visual integrity of the model. AVEVA
Mechanical Equipment Interface allows users to select individual parts of the imported model and
replace the graphic for that part with a simple shape such as a box or cylinder.
Spot the difference between the two images.
Graphical replacement of parts allows individual
parts to be replaced with simple shapes.
Before
After
‘...users consistently reported man-hour
savings of up to 60% compared with their
previous practice of re-creating equipment
models from scratch...’

Production deliverables and leveraging the imported models
Importing 3D models from different MCAD systems involves more than just importing a 3D
image. Imported models must be fully usable, not only in the entire design and construction
process, but also through to subsequent operation and maintenance of the facility.
As the imported item becomes a native PDMS/Outfitting object, it can fully interact with all the
other objects in the project model and carry a wide range of attributes which support other
important uses, such as weight and Centre of Gravity calculations.
As with all projects, the generation of accurate and complete production deliverables is
essential. Like other objects, imported models can be sectioned and clipped, and will appear in
all relevant project and production deliverables such as plans, sections and other dimensioned
general arrangement drawings, as well as appearing in Bills of Materials, and so on.
Imported models can be used by all relevant AVEVA applications; for example, they can be
exported to AVEVA Review for visualisation, or shared across multi-site project teams using
AVEVA Global.
Generating project deliverables is essential for any project. Imported equipment can be sectioned and dimensioned,
and can appear in all relevant production deliverables. Model courtesy of Howden.
Crane model courtesy
of Liebherr.
Filter model courtesy of Cia. Minera
Milpo – Lima, Peru.
Engine model courtesy of Wärtsilä,
www.wartsila.com/marinedrawings.
Pump image
supplied courtesy
of Amarinth
Pumps Ltd.
AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface Benefits
In summary, the AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface provides many
benefits, including the following:
• costs can be reduced by the elimination of unnecessary manual replication
of existing designs
• valuable time can saved by avoiding time-consuming and error-prone
workarounds, such as creating approximate models from suppliers’ drawings
• project risk can be reduced by using accurate and detailed models of complex
equipment for clashing, review and maintenance planning, rather than
potentially inaccurate approximations
• project quality can be improved by enabling the confident integration of
complex equipment in restricted spaces and using the imported equipment
models in other AVEVA solutions.

AVEVA NET now SAP-certified
for enterprise applications
AVEVA’s commitment to answering the
needs of Operations in major integrated
energy companies has been further
strengthened through the achievement of
SAP®
integration certification for AVEVA
NET. This certification is an important
milestone in the AVEVA NET portfolio of
best-in-class solutions for Asset
Information Management.
The AVEVA NET Solutions team worked
closely with the SAP Integration and
Certification Center (SAP ICC) and Infoprag
Inc., a premier SAP integration solutions
provider, to achieve this certification.
Simon Fletcher
Marketing Communications Manager - AVEVA NET
What the certification means
The certification validates AVEVA NET’s integration with SAP ERP (ECC 6.0)
and SAP Enterprise Portal. This ensures high-quality integration and a
smooth flow of business data through SAP software and SAP components.
This last point is critical. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are
often key technology in the Operations departments of major integrated
energy companies. They include multiple applications, covering supply
chain management (e.g. purchasing, manufacturing and distribution),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), financials, Human Resources,
decision support, and so on.
But at some point – and this is why AVEVA NET contains standard
gateways and connectors – that ERP system has to be able to exchange
data with AVEVA NET, and vice versa. Some operational or engineering
processes are actually very reliant on business data, and the reverse is
also true.
An example of how AVEVA NET interfaces to SAP can be seen in the work
process for maintaining a pump. The information associated with the
pump itself is, of course, mostly engineering information, but the
information about who is qualified to change that particular pump, and
what the rest of their workload looks like on that day, almost certainly
comes from a combination of other applications within the ERP system.
The scenario for this process might be as follows.
The operations supervisor notes, from the shift handover report, that
there is a leaking pump, named PP-PUMP01, in the sour water unit. He
creates a work order in SAP PM to notify the maintenance department.
The maintenance planner receives that work order and recalls similar
problems with this pump. In AVEVA NET, he searches for the pump by
name (PP-PUMP01); AVEVA NET quickly displays all information related to
the pump.
The maintenance planner sees that the subject pump has been mentioned
in a total of four shift handover logs and that each time it was due to a
leaking seal. He then uses AVEVA NET to create a new change request
asking the plant engineering group to further investigate this situation.
Engineering receives a notification about the change request and
searches AVEVA NET for the pump specification sheet.

Engineering determines that the pump seal material is not optimum for
sour water service and that it should be replaced with another seal
material. Changing the seal as recommended is a ‘Not in Kind’ change so
the change request must be documented as a true Management of Change
(MOC) record and submitted to the MOC coordinator. The coordinator
issues the change request back to the maintenance planner, the seal
information is updated within SAP PM via the gateway, and a work order is
issued to a mechanic.
Good for customers
Dave Coppin, Executive Vice President, AVEVA NET Solutions, commented,
‘This certification shows how the ERP world can be brought together with
the engineering domain to deliver unique, robust and reliable benefit in
both directions.’
Rebecca Ward, who manages the AVEVA relationship with SAP, explained
further, ‘This is just our first step on a ladder of SAP initiatives that each
deliver significant value to customers. For example, AVEVA is now a
member of SAP’s EcoHub as a Software Solutions Partner. SAP’s
Ecosystem brings thousands of customers and providers together to
share business process best practices.’
Good for the business
SAP customers represent 97% of the FORTUNE 500 oil & gas companies,
and SAP is the de facto standard for enterprise software and business
applications in AVEVA’s markets.
Certification means that AVEVA NET now has an accredited route into
existing SAP customers, as well as into the integrators, applications
consultants and business analysts who serve and grow the SAP user base
all over the world.
Coppin continues, ‘We are delighted that AVEVA NET has attained this
certification. Our customers have been using AVEVA NET’s integration
abilities in conjunction with SAP solutions for some time already, and this
certification further demonstrates AVEVA’s commitment in the area of
enterprise asset management, and, in particular, our focus on supporting
the needs of operations in major integrated energy companies.’
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in 120 countries
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more than 50 countries worldwide
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Above: On the left, SAP ERP in classic form shows general data about an equipment item in
a process facility. AVEVA NET, shown on the right, complements SAP by aggregating,
displaying and managing all information associated with enterprise assets and enabling
seamless flow of data to/from SAP.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries
Marine & Engineering
launches first ship designed
with AVEVA Marine
Sumitomo Heavy Industries
Marine & Engineering
(SHI-ME) Co., Ltd., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Sumitomo
Heavy Industries Ltd., has
successfully delivered the first
ship which the yard has
designed using AVEVA Marine.
AVEVA Marine 3D models of the oil tanker Jasmin Joy. Images courtesy of SHI-ME.
Page 12 | AVEVA PIPELINE | 2010 Issue 1 The Sumitomo Yokosuka shipyard. Photograph courtesy of SHI-ME.

SHI-ME is one of Japan’s leading shipyards and has been building ships for over 110 years.
It subscribed to AVEVA Marine in 2005 and was the first yard in Japan to do so. SHI-ME
started designing the 105,000 dwt Jasmin Joy in April 2007 and handed the oil tanker
over to the owner in early April 2009.
Since 1897 and the days of its shipbuilding predecessor, Uraga Dockyard, SHI-ME has built
more than 1,300 ships. Today, SHI-ME focuses on the construction of Aframax and Suezmax
tankers at Yokosuka shipyard, located in Tokyo Bay in the Kanagawa prefecture.
‘The quality and efficiency of our design have been improved with AVEVA Marine. At SHI-ME,
we practise the Toyota Production System concept, which will be enhanced with the aid of
AVEVA Marine. We believe these efficient solutions are key ingredients to success in today’s
competitive and very challenging shipbuilding world,’ says Dr. Masao Takekawa, Director of
SHI-ME’s Construction Management Division.
‘In 2005 SHI-ME implemented the hull application of the AVEVA Marine system. This was
followed, in 2006, by the implementation of the outfitting application. Before that, SHI-ME
had been using the AJISAI system, developed with IHI.
‘AVEVA Marine has so far been employed for the design and construction of four ships. After
Jasmin Joy, the second and third projects were the design of the other Aframax tankers, while
the fourth project was a Suezmax tanker, which we started in the second half of 2009.
‘SHI-ME has achieved a number of benefits using AVEVA Marine. The design quality has been
improved – for example, the number of clashes between piping and hull structure has been
reduced due to the clash-checking function. Accessibility to limited spaces on the ship has
been improved. Furthermore, modelling time has been reduced, as have also the time and
labour for generating drawings and production information.
‘Thanks to being able to review the 3D ship model, the communication between the design
and production teams regarding issues such as weldability has been improved in the detailed
design stage.’
‘The quality and
efficiency of our
design have been
improved with AVEVA
Marine. At SHI-ME, we
practise the Toyota
Production System
concept, which will be
enhanced with the aid
of AVEVA Marine. We
believe these efficient
solutions are key
ingredients to success
in today’s competitive
and very challenging
shipbuilding world.’
The Sumitomo Yokosuka shipyard. Photograph courtesy of SHI-ME. Dr. Masao Takekawa, Director of SHI-ME’s Construction
Management Division.

JRI Ingeniería
and AVEVA
– raising the
benchmark
in minerals
processing
In 1998, JRI Ingeniería made a
technological leap when it deployed its
first AVEVA software, bringing powerful 3D
engineering and design capabilities to its
mining and minerals-processing business.
The result was a major increase in its
competitive strength, and the start of a
long and successful working relationship
between the two companies.
Karla Moises and Kelvin Davis
AVEVA Marketing
Top: A large minerals screening facility nearing completion.
Above: Javier Pozo, mechanical engineer and PDMS Administrator, with Mario González,
chief of JRI’s Integral Design Area. Images courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.

For JRI, its AVEVA Plant deployment has proved an important
differentiator in an industry where many of its competitors continue
to use conventional engineering and design tools. ’With AVEVA PDMS
we can offer quality, accuracy and a notable reduction in the time and
resources required to develop our proposals to the mining companies,’
explained Mr. Mario González, Senior Specialist, Mechanical and
Piping, and Chief of JRI’s Integral Design Area.
Real innovation
One of the principal advantages that AVEVA gives JRI is the ability to win
and deliver large-scale minerals projects, an important and growing
market worldwide. ‘This is a real innovation for JRI,’ continued Mr.
González.’ No other applications have given us this level of business
value.’
Among the most important projects that AVEVA has enabled JRI to carry
out was the Basic Engineering for the expansion of the A2 Concentrator
for Codelco Norte. This was a ground-breaking project for JRI,
demonstrating its ability to use digital design tools to efficiently execute
very large-scale projects.
In 2005, JRI went on to team up with Cade-Idepe and PSI on a
collaborative project for the Mauro recirculating tailings disposal for
Minera Los Pelambres, where it was responsible for the Basic and Detail
Design stages. Later, between 2006 and 2007, JRI carried out a two-phase
development of a new molybdenum plant for the Minera Escondida
mining company, operated by BHP Billiton.
More recently, the company completed the detailed engineering of a new
truck maintenance shop for the huge tipper trucks used by Minera
Escondida, and is today involved in another major project which will
enable the company to produce one million tons of fine copper per year.
The project is, of course, being developed using AVEVA Plant products.
AVEVA Review for collaboration
From the AVEVA Plant portfolio, JRI uses AVEVA PDMS for all its 3D design,
complemented by AVEVA P&ID for creating intelligent process schematics.
But Mr. González also emphasised the value of AVEVA Review as a
collaboration tool, explaining that JRI uses it to create animated movies
of their designs and to simulate complex movements and interactions
between the various project elements.
These animations enable JRI to design in safety from the outset, allowing
early detection and avoidance of problems during construction and, most
importantly, helping to ensure the safety of construction workers.
‘The most important strength of these applications is that they are
integrated,’ explained Mr. González. ‘They let you conceptualise a project
from the earliest stages of engineering to the most advanced ones; they
strongly support the construction phase; and they give the final user
solid and comprehensive plant operation and lifecycle management
information.’ Consistently, JRI has found that its clients understand and
value the benefits that the AVEVA software delivers.
Using AVEVA Review, JRI can model and animate moving elements such as these
massive tipper trucks, for effective review of site operation at the design stage.
Image courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.
‘One of the principal
advantages that AVEVA
gives JRI is the ability to
win and deliver large-
scale minerals projects...
No other applications
have given us this level
of business value.’
An excellent example of how JRI use AVEVA PDMS to create complex minerals
processing facilities on large, multi-level sites. Image courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.

A close relationship
Regarding the relationship with AVEVA, Mr. González explained that, over
time, the two companies have become very close, especially following the
appointment of an AVEVA representative in Chile. ’JRI has received great
support from AVEVA for our internal training programmes, which are
designed and delivered by JRI to meet our particular needs,’ he
continued. ’This has allowed us to train professionals “on demand”, to
our own criteria and procedures, and focusing on our particular industry
expertise.’
In 2008, JRI was invited to present at the ISEIT Americas conference in
Austin, where the company delivered an impressive presentation on its
use of 3D design in an industry which might not, at first sight, appear to
be an obvious application for it. Delegates were treated to some
astonishingly extensive and detailed Review renderings of massive-scale
minerals processing projects executed by JRI. Not only did it become
clear how effective 3D design can be for such projects, JRI also described
how it had used its software tools to meet the unique needs of projects
which extend over hundreds of kilometres in some of the world’s most
mountainous terrain.
‘The originality and technical quality of our engineering solutions were
extremely well received at ISEIT,’ said Mr. González. ’These examples of
collaborative work will undoubtedly help JRI fulfil its objectives in the
mining industry. We look forward to a continuing close relationship with
AVEVA, which we expect will enable us to deliver even more impressive
projects in the future.’
The technical challenge
Javier Pozo, an engineer and JRI’s PDMS Administrator, explained,
’Chile is one of the world’s most productive sources of key minerals,
but its geography imposes unique obstacles to their economic – and
environmentally considerate – extraction. Many of the largest deposits
are high in the mountains, hundreds of kilometres from shipping ports.
Increasingly stringent environmental requirements often demand
sophisticated facilities for cleaning and disposing of the mine tailings.
These factors combine to make Chilean mining a massive-scale
engineering challenge.’
In most conventional plant projects the site is levelled and of limited
area, so there has never been a need for PDMS to include complex surface
topography handling as a standard feature. But in mining engineering,
where a complete project can cover enormous areas and distances,
surface topography becomes an important factor, imposing design
constraints and significantly influencing the costs of a project.
Mr Pozo explained that JRI tackles this by using AutoDesk Civil to
transform topographic survey data from a triangular mesh into a square
mesh grid. This grid data is then exported as an x,y,z coordinate file,
enabling it to be converted by a PDMS macro into a solid polyhedron
element. Designers can then create their PDMS models on an accurate
model of the site topography. This illustrates JRI’s commitment to
working in 3D and to finding ways of making the tools effectively support
its own special requirements.
Typical pipelines for slurry transportation
Chile Argentina
About JRI Ingeniería SA
A multi-disciplinary engineering consulting
company, JRI was established in Santiago,
Chile in 1982. Since then, its consistent
success has brought steady growth in the size
of the business and of the projects it
undertakes.
JRI employs over 250 staff in three offices in
Latin America (Chile, Peru and Brazil) and has
an enviable track record of more than 2,000
completed projects. Around a quarter of its
business is for overseas clients. For more
information, visit www.jri.cl.
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The first
step is a
topographic
grid map
2
The grid is
then used to
create a
polyhedron
in AVEVA
PDMS
3
An example
of a PDMS
structure
positioned
within
complex site
topography
Above: Using topographic survey data for site modelling in PDMS.
Images courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.
Images courtesy of JRI Ingeniería.

Scarabeo 8 – an impressive and complex new
mobile offshore drilling unit successfully
engineered by
Scarabeo 8, the latest Saipem semi-
submersible drilling rig is a typical example
of a complex project where fabrication was
started before the engineering detailed
design had been completed. We visited
Saipem in Palermo, Italy, to find out how the
versatility of AVEVA PDMS from the AVEVA
Plant portfolio helped them to deal with this
complexity.
Magnus Feldt
In late 2006, the Italian offshore contractor, Saipem, won a five-year
contract from Eni Norge to design, build and operate a deepwater
semi-submersible drilling rig, Scarabeo 8, on the Goliath field in the
Barents Sea. The rig is being built at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Palermo,
Italy and drilling operations are due to start in 2010. Operating in the
Norwegian Arctic means that this advanced, substantially automated
rig, equipped with dual drilling systems, requires extensive
winterisation and needs to maintain a zero-discharge environmental
policy.
AVEVA PDMS selected for the project
Ken Thornton, Engineering Manager, and Bob Borrill, Senior Project
Engineer, from the Scarabeo 8 project team explained that they had
selected AVEVA PDMS because they needed a system capable of handling
development and modifications during the design process of this complex
new offshore drilling unit.
Another reason for choosing PDMS was because of its natural integration
of the structural and outfitting disciplines. Saipem also needed a flexible
tool which would facilitate communication between Saipem and their
subcontractors. Furthermore, as Scarabeo 8’s lifetime was intended to be
twenty years, Saipem wanted a system that would be certain to be in the
market for at least that length of time for maintenance purposes.
Building the 3D model from day one
Engineering work began in early 2007 at Saipem’s office in Sharjah, in
the United Arab Emirates, with a team led by Ken Thornton and his group
of specialists from London-based Rig Engineering Consultants, who had
carried out a similar task on Scarabeo 7 in Istanbul a decade earlier.
Saipem
From left: Steve Moore, PDMS Administrator, Ken
Thornton, Engineering Manager, and Bob Borrill, Senior
Project Engineer. Photograph courtesy of Saipem.

Saipem started to build the 3D PDMS model of the rig from the outset,
modelling the structure, equipment and outfitting in PDMS to develop a
3D model of the entire rig. In parallel with this, Severodvinsk yard in
Russia built the ‘baredeck’ hull, which was towed to Fincantieri’s shipyard
in Palermo in November 2007.
PDMS was used throughout the project, from the first layout studies to
the completion of detailed design. The structure, equipment, piping,
cabling and ductwork are all built in the PDMS model and this is used to
generate arrangements, piping isometrics, material take offs (MTOs) and
spool drawings, cable tray routings and ductwork layouts.
Near to the fabrication operation
A year after the start of conceptual design, with the detailed design
approximately 40% complete, the engineering team moved to
Fincantieri’s shipyard to be closer to the fabrication operation. When
engineers need to check details on-board several times a day for
clarification or to follow up construction issues, a two-minute walk from
the office to the fabrication site is a great advantage.
This project consists of more than 4,000 piping lines, so Saipem produced
the isometrics area by area to meet fabrication priorities given to them
by the shipyard. Fincantieri was also given full access to the 3D PDMS
model and derived shop drawings and fabrication information for the
construction, working within it in close cooperation with Saipem.
One of the complexities of the Scarabeo 8 project is that fabrication
started before the detailed design was complete. A key capability of PDMS
is the facility to adjust the design work to priority areas. This is made
possible by PDMS’s flexible database handling, designing and arranging
data in the model in pieces, which makes it very easy to work with
subcontractors, avoiding redesign and costly delays.
3D model made available to production engineers and operations
Saipem made the 3D PDMS model available to production engineers for
review at the fabrication site to support the building of the rig. The
automatic clash-detection functions of PDMS made it possible to generate
completely clash-free designs where everything would fit when the rig
was being built.
Facts about Scarabeo 8
Scarabeo 8 is a dynamically
positioned, semi-submersible
drilling rig capable of dual activity
and winterised to work in the
Norwegian Arctic.
It is designed to operate in water
depths up to 3,000 metres with an
operating displacement of 59,645
tonnes. It has the capacity to drill to
a maximum depth of 10,660 metres
in down-hole pressures of up to
1,020 atmospheres.
The topside consists of five main
areas: power generation, auxiliary
machinery, mud, drilling and
accommodation. Power generation
provides up to 38.7 MW to operate
the unit and drive the dynamic
position-keeping thrusters.
The drilling module supports a
derrick with a 900-tonne main hoist
and 450-tonne auxiliary hoist, as
well as six 270-tonne riser
tensioners that are suspended
beneath the drill floor. The
accommodation unit provides living
quarters for 140 people.
Right: The deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig
Scarabeo 8. Photograph courtesy of Saipem.

Saipem is currently using the 3D model for training purposes to visualise
and communicate with its operation and maintenance staff about their
future workplace, and to verify that adequate space has been provided for
maintenance activities.
Saipem is planning to use PDMS 12 for the next PDMS project. Particularly
attractive to them is the new mechanical equipment interface, which
allows PDMS users to easily import mechanical equipment models from
various sources and to utilise them in the model just like any other
outfitting component.
Saipem at a glance
Saipem, with its head office in Milan, Italy, is a worldwide turnkey
contractor in the oil & gas industry, both onshore and offshore. The
company is 43% owned by the energy company Eni S.p.A., and is
organised in three business units: offshore, onshore and drilling, with a
strong bias towards oil & gas-related activities in remote areas and deep
water. Saipem provides engineering, procurement, project management
and construction services with distinctive capabilities in the design and
execution of large-scale offshore and onshore projects.
The drilling unit operates a fleet of 10 offshore and 39 onshore drilling
rigs. It has drilled approximately 7,000 wells, 25% of which have been
offshore, with a total depth of about 17.5 million metres. Offshore,
Saipem operates in both shallow and deep water, using jack-ups, semi-
submersibles and a drill ship.
Saipem began operations in the 1950s. The company started offering its
services to customers outside the Eni group in the early 1960s and
progressively widened its customer base to include almost all the super
majors, majors, major nationals and independent oil & gas companies
worldwide. Saipem employs over 30,000 people comprising more than
100 nationalities.
Visit www.saipem.eni.it for more information.
Above: AVEVA PDMS 3D images of Scarabeo 8. Images courtesy of Saipem.

TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke
drastically shortens its FEA process with the
new AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller
Two years ago, TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke (BVN) teamed up with AVEVA and three other shipbuilding
companies in Germany to specify the requirements for a link between AVEVA Hull Structural Design and
Finite Element packages such as ANSYS®
Mechanical™. As a result, AVEVA developed Hull Finite Element
Modeller, a new product in the AVEVA Marine portfolio. In November last year, we met Rafael Doig from the
Research and Development Department of BVN, who described their experiences with this new application.
Stéphane Neuveglise
Product Marketing Manager – AVEVA Marine
One common model for both design and analysis
‘Global structural assessment is a crucial task during the structural design
phase and is conducted in order to confirm the global structural integrity
and behaviour of the ship body,’ Rafael Doig explained. ‘We estimate that
around 80% of this task is spent manually creating the geometry of the
Finite Element (FE) model. So we were looking for a more efficient way of
creating one.’
He added, ‘But the game is getting even tougher. Not only does the vessel
have to be silent and quiet for the satisfaction of the customer, there are
also ongoing discussions at the International Maritime Organisation
about the environmental impact of noise that could well lead to stricter
rules for ships in the future. This would then drastically increase the need
for accurate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) as early as possible in the
project. So we definitely wanted to anticipate this challenge and build
the necessary tools to assess both static structural behaviour and the
noise and vibration dynamic response of our ships.’
Rafael Doig emphasised, ‘We at BVN are convinced that there should only
be one single 3D "master" model that is used for structural design, then
detailed design, but also for Finite Element Method (FEM) calculation.’
Working with a consortium of German yards to define the
requirements
A consortium was created early in 2008, comprising BVN as a leader,
AVEVA, and companies from the marine sector in Germany, including
BVN’s sister Blohm + Voss Shipyards, Nordic Yards and the design agent,
SMK Ingenieurbüro. The goal of the consortium was to specify to AVEVA
the technical requirements for an efficient link from AVEVA’s Hull
Structural Design to any FEA calculation link such as ANSYS®
Mechanical™, and for testing and validating the resulting software, which
was then to be developed by AVEVA.
‘The most difficult task was probably to define how the structural model
should be idealised to lead to a simple FEA-compatible mesh model. For
this task, working in partnership with several key shipbuilding players
became a real advantage, as it created a perfect technical platform on
FEA,’ Rafael Doig explained.
The new AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller as a clear answer
Now, two years later, the consortium’s work has produced real results.
Based on the technical specifications of this consortium, AVEVA has
developed a new application, Hull Finite Element Modeller, which has
been extensively tested by the German partners of the consortium. It
generates a finite element model from an idealised version of the 3D
structural model within the AVEVA Marine database. This mesh model can
then be exported, either directly to ANSYS®
Mechanical™, or to similar
FEA packages, using an XML interface.
Rafael Doig comments, ‘It is a simple-to-use tool that can handle 90% of
the modelling automatically. Our aim was to build an effective and
productive system, rather than one that could do the whole of the FE
modelling job at once, which would lead to an excessive configuration
demand. This pragmatic decision has proved to be the right one.’
The benefits
BVN has been using the new AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller for the
FEM analysis of their current frigate project for the German Navy and also
for some detailed analysis. Rafael Doig explains, ‘We can now achieve a
faithful correspondence between the CAD model and the FEM model. As a
consequence, a rapid modelling for finite element assessment can now be
reached very early on. In terms of man-hours, we can estimate that, by
using this new tool for the global Finite Element Analysis of a frigate, we
managed to reduce by 50% the time needed for the whole Finite Element
Analysis task for the basic design of the vessel.’
Michael Bohm from the Structural Design Department of BVN has recently
been using the Hull Finite Element Modeller on the same new frigate
project. He adds, ‘The interface can also be used daily for more detailed
local analysis, and can cut the modelling time for each model from five
days to two. With an average of 40 of those specific local finite element
analyses per ship, we think we can now save roughly 1,000 hours in the
structural assessment of the vessel.’
With regard to the impact on the design of the ships themselves, Rafael
Doig explains, ‘With this increased facility to build FE models from a 3D
structural model, BVN can now conduct two analyses, which was not
economic in the past: one at an early stage for rough estimation (based
on the 3D model from AVEVA Hull Structural Model) and one after having
more structural information available, based on the AVEVA Hull Detailed
Design model. This drastically reduces the risk factor in the project’s
design.’Page 20 | AVEVA PIPELINE | 2010 Issue 1

AVEVA and BVN long-term partnership
BVN has been a long-term customer of AVEVA, as BVN’s first
implementation of an AVEVA software application goes back to 1982.
Today, BVN is using the Hull Structural Design and Hull Detailed Design
applications from AVEVA.
AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller
AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller is a new software application that
enables the configurable, automatic creation of efficient finite element
meshes from the hull structural model, and data transfer directly into
ANSYS®
Mechanical™ or other third-party analysis programs which
support XML.
It generates a 3D mesh model from an idealised structural model where
insignificant components such as notches, cut-outs or small holes can be
filtered, and where geometry is simplified and idealised to be suitable for
finite element analysis.
The properties of the resulting mesh model can be controlled in terms of
the shape of elements, aspect ratios and the maximum number of nodes
per element, before generation and export to ANSYS®
or similar FEA
packages.
About ThyssenKrupp Marine
Systems (TKMS)
BVN is one of the shipyards belonging
to the TKMS group, which also
comprises Blohm + Voss Shipyards in
Hamburg and Kiel, Howaldtswerke –
Deutsche Werft GmbH shipyard in Kiel,
Germany, Kockums shipyard in
Karlskrona, Sweden and Hellenic
Shipyards near Athens, in Greece.
All these shipyards are now dedicated
to the design and production of mega
yachts and naval vessels, from
submarines to surface vessels such
as frigates and corvettes.
From left: Rafael Doig and Michael Bohm.
Photograph courtesy of BVN.
Above: The mesh in ANSYS®
Mechanical™ is automatically generated from the pre-mesh created in AVEVA Hull Finite
Element Modeller. Image courtesy of BVN.
‘By using the Hull Finite Element
Modeller on a frigate project, we
believe we can reduce the time
needed for detailed finite
element meshing
by approximately
1,000 hours.’

AVEVA NET integrates information at
Paks Nuclear Power Plant
Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary has a total
nominal power of 1,970 MW electrical (MWe) and
supplies approximately 40% of the country’s
electricity. The plant has been generating power
since 1982.
In 1989, AVEVA PDMS was introduced at the plant
site and, in 2008, the plant became one of the first
operational nuclear plants in the world to introduce
AVEVA NET.
We visited Miklós Mészáros, Group Leader of the CAD
group (top right) and Gabor Debulay, CAD Engineer,
Technical Division (Mechanical Engineering Section)
(lower right) to learn how the AVEVA software is
being used at the plant.
Bob Aldridge
Product Marketing Manager - AVEVA Plant
Below: The Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary.
Photograph courtesy of Paks Nuclear Power Plant.

25+ years of continuous operation
The plant was originally constructed in four separate VVER blocks, each
designed to generate 440 MWe. In addition to the regular maintenance
that has taken place since the first block began generating power in
1982, many major upgrades and modification projects have also taken
place, both to increase the power output and to keep the plant in line
with ever-changing regulatory requirements and international
standards. Today, 2,500 people are based at the site, including all of the
maintenance teams.
A long history with AVEVA software
AVEVA PDMS soon became an important part of the plant maintenance
and modification programmes.
One of the earliest uses of PDMS was for the creation of accurate as-built
documentation. A PDMS 3D model was created, using information from
the original design drawings handed over with the plant, coupled with
on-site measurements, many of which were carried out using photo-
measurement techniques. The required documentation was then
generated from the intelligent 3D model.
The 3D model has been kept up to date since that time and is a key
information source for the plant. Many of the major plant modification
projects that have been carried out at the plant since then have been
planned using PDMS.
As significant modifications have been carried out on the plant,
information has been fed back to the CAD group, enabling the PDMS
model to be updated. New drawings have then been produced, so that
the next maintenance tasks can be planned using up-to-date
information.
AVEVA NET
Fast, efficient access to all of the required plant information is vitally
important to the efficient operation and maintenance of the plant.
’PDMS is an important part of that information, but it is only a part,’
explained Miklós Mészáros. ’In order to carry out their work, our
maintenance teams need to access data from many sources including
P&IDs, that originate from Phoenix, engineering drawings that
originate from PDMS, and other plant data that we hold in our Indus
PassPort system.
‘We selected AVEVA NET as the technology for delivering fast, easy
access to the integrated plant information required by our maintenance
teams. Having all of the information available via a web portal and
being able to navigate quickly through the information makes
everything faster and easier.’
Life extension programme
One of the major projects where fast access to information is vitally
important is the plant lifetime extension project currently under way at
the plant. The design lifetime of the original blocks was 30 years, which
means that the operating licence for the first block expires in 2012.
The project is designed to extend the life of each block by a further 20
years, and it simply has to be completed on time if the plant is to
continue operating. The ability to quickly and reliably access integrated
information is critical here, and this is one of the drivers for the
adoption of AVEVA NET.
Above: Screenshots from the AVEVA NET
software at Paks Nuclear Power Plant.
Images courtesy of Paks Nuclear Power Plant.

Implementation of AVEVA NET
Paks purchased AVEVA NET in 2008, after a number of trials and
evaluations. The software was rapidly installed at the plant, and a
programme of work was begun to build the portal.
The aim is to allow the maintenance teams to be able to quickly access the
latest available information for the plant, and navigate through it. The
initial focus is on integrating P&IDs, PDMS and Indus PassPort
information, but ultimately this will be extended further.
A rigorous, managed process is essential
AVEVA NET will serve as a major information source for an operational
nuclear plant, and the collection and loading of the data and documents
therefore has to follow a very rigorous procedure. Everything must go
through a formal check and approval process with the quality control
department before it can be loaded into the portal.
At the time of our visit, in March 2009, approximately 1,000 checked and
approved P&IDs had been loaded, and many 3D models, piping isometrics
and PDMS Draft drawings had already been added.
A well-planned approach is essential
A lot of thought has gone into the planning of the portal to ensure that it
meets the requirements of the maintenance team at the Paks plant, and
that it can be easily maintained.
The implementation that has resulted allows data to be navigated by
system and/or by area. Engineers can also navigate along a pipework
system, moving from one pipe section to the next. In line with
requirements of the nuclear industry, it has to be possible to ’drill down’
into the information on every individual piping component, even the
elbows.
One of the advantages of the way that the portal has been structured is
that it will be easy to maintain. For example, when maintenance work is
carried out on a given pipe, only the pipe concerned will need to be
updated in the portal.
AVEVA PDMS also has to be configured
To optimise the process of updating the portal, consideration also had to
be given to the way that PDMS was configured, so that the required data
and documents could be published using batch or semi-automated
processes.
The PDMS information delivered to the portal includes 3D models, piping
isometrics and Draft drawings
Integrating AVEVA PDMS and PassPort information
For many of the components (such as valves) in the plant, there will be
information both in PDMS and the PassPort system. The maintenance
engineer looking for data on any given component in the portal, however,
needs to be able to reliably access a single consistent set of data that
represents the complete ’master’ information for that component.
Gabor Debulay, CAD engineer, Technical Division, explained that a
significant part of the AVEVA NET implementation is to plan the process
and procedures by which the PDMS and PassPort data is combined. A key
part of this activity is a clear definition of which system is the master
source of any given part of the data. In concept, PDMS is the master
source of engineering drawings and PassPort is the master source of data
but it is, of course, more complicated than that in practice.
Not all of the integration happens in the portal itself. For example, the
master source of data for the safety class of an item at the plant is
PassPort. However, the safety class also has to be available in PDMS, so
that it can be included on drawings, such as piping isometrics. In cases
like this, AVEVA Query is used to access the required information from
Passport and make it available to PDMS.
About Paks Nuclear Power Plant Ltd
The Paks Nuclear Power Plant Company was founded in 1976. Four VVER-
440/213 type units are operating at its site in central Hungary,
generating a total nominal power of 1,970 MWe, more than 40% of the
country’s electrical energy. More than 2,500 people work at the plant
location in central Hungary.
Further information is available at www.atomeromu.hu.
Above: AVEVA PDMS 3D model of a turbine room at Paks Nuclear Power Plant, shown alongside the real-life plant. Image and photo courtesy of Paks Nuclear Power Plant.

Eka Chemicals – a chemical supplier
with engineering competence
Eka Chemicals, a business unit within AkzoNobel, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers
of bleaching and performance chemicals for the pulp and paper industry. Eka Engineering,
the in-house engineering department of Eka Chemicals, has been using the AVEVA Plant
portfolio of products since 2002. To learn more about Eka Chemicals and their business we
visited their office in Stockholm in Sweden.
Magnus Feldt
At Eka Engineering’s Stockholm office, we met Kenth Löfqvist,
Manager of Engineering IT, and Michael Rätsep, PDMS administrator.
They explained that Eka Engineering designs and supplies complete
plants for the pulp and paper and chemical industries worldwide. The
company also performs engineering tasks for other pulp and paper
companies worldwide.
Use of AVEVA Plant products
They continued, ‘Applications from the AVEVA Plant portfolio, including
AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global have been in use at Eka Chemicals since
2002. PDMS was implemented because of a specific demand from
customers in the pulp and paper industry, where PDMS was regarded as a
de facto standard.
‘As a matter of interest, AkzoNobel, our parent company in The
Netherlands, was one of the first users of PDMS and they still use it.
AkzoNobel Technology & Engineering was one of the joint partners in the
collaborative project in Cambridge that developed PDMS for the chemical
process industry in the mid-1970s.
‘A pulp mill in Chile was the first project with PDMS. Since then, Eka
Engineering has constructed more than 35 plants with PDMS.
‘The trend over the years has been to use PDMS in more and more
of Eka Engineering’s engineering disciplines. Today, almost all
disciplines are modelled in PDMS, creating a complete 3D model
for piping, structural, electrical and instrumentation.
‘We frequently use the 3D model when the company is
communicating internally and working with the
project. The level of detail in the PDMS model has been
significantly increased. We put almost everything that
takes up 3D space into PDMS, to ensure a completely
clash-free design, where everything will fit when we
build the plant. This saves both time and money by
avoiding costly modifications at the construction site.
The 3D model is used for design reviews during the
projects, and production engineers can easily
follow the design process. When the design
tasks are completed, we deliver the 3D
PDMS model to our client for use at
the construction site to support the
building of the plant.’
‘We put almost everything that
takes up 3D space into PDMS, to ensure
a completely clash-free design, where
everything will fit when
we build the plant.
This saves both
time and money...’
From left: Kenth Löfqvist and
Michael Rätsep.

AVEVA PDMS used right from the start
‘Today, PDMS is used right from the start of a project when the first layout
of a new chemical plant is created. PDMS models are employed from the
beginning of the proposal stage all the way through to executing the
project. A 3D model makes it easy to visualise the plant for the client. And
with PDMS, it is easy to reuse existing design data to create an early
conceptual model of a new plant.’
Globally executed projects
‘New investments in the pulp and paper industry take place today in areas
where you find fast-growing trees. Brazil is one such area, with an
excellent climate for the fast-growing eucalyptus trees used to make
short-fibre bleached pulp. Production of the factories takes place where
the customer is situated.
‘Our projects are often very complex, and are executed globally, using
subcontractors. AVEVA Global plays an important role here, enabling our
offices in Brazil, China, the USA and Sweden to work concurrently
towards the same model, independent of geographical distances and time
zones. Subcontractors are also connected via Global.’
The Chemical Island concept puts the environment in focus
‘Our contribution varies in scale, from total involvement in a chemical
plant, with remote control and monitoring of all operations, to
controlling a single process or make-up unit. Sometimes Eka is the
operator, sometimes the customer takes responsibility for operating
the plant.
Above: The first Chemical Island in Brazil – a greenfield bleached
eucalyptus kraft mill. Photograph courtesy of Eka Engineering.
Below: AVEVA PDMS model of the first Chemical Island in Brazil – a greenfield bleached
eucalyptus kraft mill. Image courtesy of Eka Engineering.

‘We are now seeing a trend for companies in the pulp and paper industry
to let us take care of the production and supply of all chemicals. We call
this the “Chemical Island” concept. This concept gives the customer a
total chemicals management system, with all required pulp and paper
chemicals produced on site, maintained by our own personnel.
‘Eka Chemicals offers a complete package including pre-study, pre-
project, engineering, construction works, training, commissioning, start-
up and maintenance, ensuring that customers save energy and raw
material, as well as reducing shipping costs.
‘One of our first projects using PDMS was for a pulp mill in Brazil. This mill
is a greenfield bleached eucalyptus kraft mill, close to an extensive,
established eucalyptus plantation. This was our first Chemical Island in
Brazil and it opened in October 2005.
‘In April 2009, we opened our second Chemical Island in Brazil. The new
production line for sodium chlorate will serve a pulp mill, making use of a
chlorine dioxide plant and a tank farm at the site. PDMS was used for this
project, which started in 2007.’
Benefits
‘PDMS’s ability to generate completely clash-free designs is very
important. This saves both time and money by avoiding costly
modifications at the construction site.
‘The automatic generation of isometric pipe drawings has led to time
savings and improved quality of design and construction information.
‘By using PDMS, we have managed to considerably reduce schedule times.
We can now complete in six months projects that might have taken nine
months a few years ago, and with more production documents produced.
‘The PDMS user interface can be tailored to best suit the precise needs of
a project. We have customised our system to present our own menus, and
created specific reports, for example for change management, to further
improve the design process.’
Reuse of design
‘To further rationalise the design work, we have started to build up a
central library of standard chemical units as PDMS 3D models such as
pumps, tank vessels, etc.
‘Every chemical project is unique, but several of the components are
identical and can be used each time we design a new plant. Many of these
components can be reused as 3D models with minor modifications, saving
us considerable time and money.’
Future plans
‘We are currently using PDMS on three projects and for several
quotations. We plan to use PDMS 12 for our next pulp and paper project.
The new Mechanical Equipment Interface, which allows PDMS users to
easily import mechanical equipments from various sources and to utilise
them in the model just like any other component, is very interesting
for us.
‘In our next large project, we plan to use the newly implemented AVEVA
Multi-Discipline Supports (MDS) application for the design of hangers and
supports, and we expect to save one-third of the existing design time for
all kinds of supports. Another benefit is the automatic generation of
fabrication drawings with complete Material Take Off.’
Eka Engineering also provides the engineering for revamp and
modification projects. They are now looking at the possibility of using
laser scanning as a more cost-effective solution for creating an accurate
‘as-built’ 3D picture of the existing processing unit. By using 3D laser
models with PDMS, designers can avoid remodelling the existing unit,
review proposed design changes, plan construction, and clash-check the
PDMS models, helping to reduce project time and rework.
About AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel is one of the largest global paints, coatings and specialty
chemicals companies in the world. The company, which employs 58,000
people, has bases in 80 countries, and headquarters in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
About Eka Chemicals
Eka Chemicals, a company within the AkzoNobel group, is one of the
world’s leading manufacturers of bleaching and performance chemicals
for the pulp and paper industry. The company, headquartered in
Gothenburg, Sweden, has 2,700 employees worldwide and production
sites at 36 locations in 19 countries.
Eka Chemicals assists its customers in every area of their operations –
from managing their chemicals inventory to designing and optimising
their processes. Eka Engineering specialises in plants for sodium
chlorate, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide and paper chemicals.
Eka Engineering is the engineering department of Eka Chemicals, with
offices in Sweden, Brazil, China and the USA. The department designs
and supplies complete plants for the pulp and paper and chemical
industries worldwide.
Below: AVEVA PDMS model of a Chlorine dioxide plant. Image courtesy of Eka Engineering.

K Home
International
complete the
successful delivery
of SeaDragon 1 using
AVEVA technology
August 2009 saw the handover of drilling
rig SeaDragon 1’s 3D model to owners,
SeaDragon Offshore, after successful
completion of the detailed engineering
design by K Home International, one of the
first and largest users of AVEVA technologies
in the north of England.
SeaDragon 1 is one of two sixth-generation semi-submersible drilling
rigs commissioned by SeaDragon. When completed, these will be two
of the world’s largest units, and will be equipped for global ultra-deep
water and harsh environment capabilities. The successful completion
of an engineering project of this size and level of complexity demands
the use of an integrated, multi-discipline design and engineering
solution, and it was this requirement which led to the involvement of
K Home International with AVEVA PDMS, part of the AVEVA Plant
portfolio.
K Home was recognised by SeaDragon for their previous experience with
PDMS and in the design of drilling rigs for the oil & gas and petrochemical
industries. Their location in the north-east of England, which has a
resource pool of highly skilled design engineers and a low turnover of
workforce, enabled K Home to provide SeaDragon with high quality, cost-
effective solutions.
Matt Wren
Marketing Coordinator West EMEA, AVEVA
‘Our PDMS resources have helped
us win some major projects and
we will continue to invest in this
and other areas to offer our
customers a more accurate and
better value product...’

At the start of the project, K Home was presented with a large volume of
hull pipework which had been created in Foran. These 300 files were
converted and subsequently imported into PDMS using AVEVA’s ImPLANT
application. K Home estimated that starting the project with this exercise
saved them months of man-hours which would have been spent
recreating these designs. Nick Harkin, who heads up K Home’s PDMS
facility, stated, ‘Not only did we save considerable time at the start of the
project importing the data from Foran, but we also benefited throughout
the design from PDMS’s automatic clash detection capabilities.’
PDMS facilitated the concurrent design of the piping, equipment, HVAC,
cable trays, steelwork, cladding, access ways, escape routes and
structural supports, with deliverables on these totalling 23,000
documents including over 3,000 pipework isometrics. The cable
containment system was also designed using PDMS to meet the
requirements of DNV and NORSOK standards. The total number of
instrument, fire and gas, ESD, telecoms and electrical cables came to
12,500, amounting to a total of 454,500 metres of cable with a further
125,500 metres of vendor cable also incorporated into the overall
containment and transit design.
Nick Harkin added, ‘With the requirement to include all disciplines in a
very complex and demanding design, automatic clash detection is a must,
as it allows our engineers to work across these disciplines simultaneously
whilst avoiding the potential for costly mistakes and delays.’
Another benefit which Nick Harkin believed was crucial during the design
of SeaDragon 1 was PDMS’s ability to calculate the weight of pipe spools
and print them onto each isometric. He continued, ‘This feature greatly
assisted in the lifting studies, providing us with crucial information when
weight is obviously such an important factor.’
With man-hours exceeding 240,000, SeaDragon 1 is the largest project
undertaken by K Home International to date. At its peak, the manning of
the project reached 130 personnel. Nick Harkin firmly believes that, in
keeping with KHI’s Strategy for Success, an ethos strongly supported by
investment in technology, their ability to deliver larger and more
demanding projects will continue to grow.
K Home International’s CEO, Andy Home, supported this belief, ‘Our PDMS
resources have helped us win some major projects and we will continue to
invest in this and other areas to offer our customers a more accurate and
better value product.’
Project update
The six-column, baredeck hulls, manufactured at Vyborg and Sevmash
shipyards in Russia will be outfitted, tested and completed by Jurong
shipyard, Singapore. The first rig is due to be delivered later this year for
a five-year drilling contract with Pemex in the Gulf of Mexico.
About K Home International
From offices in the UK and the Middle East, K Home International
provides world-wide multi-disciplined Engineering, Procurement and
Construction management services to the chemical, pharmaceutical,
petrochemical, aluminium, oil & gas, power and energy industries.
With over 200 employees, K Home, established in 1973, offers an
innovative and professional range of integrated engineering services
including feasibility studies, process modelling, front-end engineering
design, risk identification and management, environmental guidance and
compliance, project management, multi-discipline design, procurement,
construction management, CDM/SHE management, cGMP/validation,
PDMS 3D modelling software and ISO 9001:2000-certified quality
management. Visit www.khe.co.uk for more information.
Above: AVEVA PDMS view of riser tensioning. Image courtesy of K Home International.
Left: SeaDragon 1 and SeaDragon 2 baredeck units in Jurong shipyard, Singapore, June 2009.
Photograph courtesy of SeaDragon.
Above: AVEVA PDMS 3D model of SeaDragon 1. Image courtesy of K Home International.

AVEVA and Z+F sign
technical partnership
AVEVA and Z+F have strengthened their technical and commercial partnership through
an increased focus on delivering new levels of productivity and integration between
laser scanning, detailed design and asset management.
Les Elby
Head of Partnerships (Plant), AVEVA
The laser scan market is evolving at a tremendous rate: year on year,
laser scanners are becoming faster, more sophisticated and more cost
effective, thereby fuelling their popularity and uptake within the
plant market.
The chart in Figure 1 shows just how quickly the overall laser scan market
has grown over the last few years. Today, laser scanning is arguably one of
the fastest and most cost effective ways of capturing plant as-is
conditions. Laser scan data provides companies with a solid base from
which to confidently make engineering decisions.
This changes the game for projects such as retrofits and upgrades of
existing plant, or upgrades and conversion of vessels such as FPSOs
which, until recently, have relied upon error-prone manual surveys to
capture as-built data – a task not always easy and, in many locations,
hazardous to perform.
Companies today can enjoy integration of sophisticated laser modelling
technologies with plant engineering. Working closely with laser scan
partners such as Z+F has enabled AVEVA to fuse state-of-the-art,
datacentric 3D design with high-definition scanning of the real world, to
bring massive benefits to plant engineering and operation, such as
increased efficiency and reduced project execution times.
Successful partnership
AVEVA’s stronger technical partnership with Z+F will enable AVEVA and
Z+F to transform efficiency in producing intelligent 3D CAD models from
laser data, drastically reducing the time and cost of producing intelligent
3D.
Working together will allow high-definition, photo-realistic laser images
to be quickly and easily hot-spotted, linked to other plant data and
accessed over the web in our asset management suite, AVEVA NET.
Furthermore, the combined expertise of both companies will transform
3D model generation by drastically reducing the time and cost of creating
an intelligent PDMS model from laser data.
AVEVA has been working with laser scanning partners, including Z+F, for
many years, during which time the two companies have formed a
successful business and collaborative technical partnership that delivers
high-value solutions to their joint markets.
‘I think there is a lot of strength in AVEVA and Z+F
working closely together. There will always be
something else innovative required to solve the
problem of next week as well as this week. By
working together, overcoming these challenges
becomes easier.’
Colin K Fairweather – AMEC.
Figure 1. Laser scan market size (hardware, software, services).
Source: SparPoint Research LLC.

AVEVA has long made available the Laser Model Interface API, that allows
laser partners to make the laser data captured within their systems
accessible within AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Review.
Z+F has developed functionality to:
• enable plant engineers to accurately extract site information in a
precise, safe manner
• enable project teams to access dangerous and inaccessible parts of a
plant from the comfort of their desks
• make laser surveys accessible to a wider audience, i.e. no longer the
remit of a surveyor, but presented to the engineer in a manner they are
familiar with
• visualise laser surveys over a Wide Area Network, in an easy-to-use
manner for the non-expert user.
About Z+F
Z+F, a company that specialises in 3D laser scanning, invented the world’s
first stand-alone 3D laser scanner, and was subsequently one of the first
companies to release a phase-based laser scanner.
Such innovations are in part inspired by Z+F’s close contact with industry
stakeholders, whose feedback is actively sought and integrated into new
versions of Z+F products. Z+F actively promotes laser scanning technology
and has developed the successful LFM suite of products that is being used
by many Owner Operators including BP, Shell, British Energy, BASF, Total
and Saudi Aramco, and EPCs including AMEC, Jacobs Engineering and
Fluor.
Z+F is a global company whose products operate within the civil
engineering, process, power & marine, architecture, forensics and
infrastructure markets. Visit www.zf-uk.com for more information.
‘Working together will allow high-definition, photo-realistic
laser images to be quickly and easily hot-spotted, linked to
other plant data and accessed over the web in our asset
management suite, AVEVA NET.’
Hot-spotted panoramic laser scans hosted in AVEVA NET.

ABB AS, Norway
Abener Energia, Spain
Acerplan Planungsgesellschaft
mbH, Germany
Adexflow international, France
AE&E - Von Roll, Inc., USA
Ak-Kim Kimya Sanayi Ve Ticaret
AS, Turkey
Aker Solutions Australia Pty Ltd,
Australia
ALCIM Technology Sdn Bhd,
Malaysia
AMET University, India
Anhui Conch Design & Research
Institute of Building Materials,
China
APRO Ingenieurbüro GmbH,
Germany
Ariosh LTD., USA
Arup, UK
ASTRAMATIC, Spain
Ayesa, Spain
Babcock Power Espana, Spain
Baltmarine, Russia
Bashgiproneftekhim, Russia
Bassi Luigi & C, Italy
Beijing Aerospace WanYuan Coal
Chemical Engineering
Technology Co., Ltd, China
BHP Billiton Petroleum, USA
C.S. Impianti S.r.l, Italy
Cadsud, France
Call Easy Engineering &
Construction Corporation,
Taiwan
Caltex Refineries (Qld) Pty Ltd,
Australia
CCI AG, Switzerland
Cegelec Sud-Est, France
Centroprojekt do Brasil S.A.,
Brazil
Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz
GmbH, Germany
China HuaDian Engineering Co.,
Ltd., China
Chiyoda Philippines Corporation,
Philippine
Cimtas Borulama San. Ve Tic. Ltd.,
Turkey
CKD PRAHA DIZ, A.S., Czech
Republic
CLS Engineering Sp. z o.o., Poland
CNOOC Energy Technology &
Services Limited. Oilfield
Construction Bohai Engineering
Co., China
Compass Energy Pte Ltd,
Singapore
Consorcio-ALUSA-TOME-GALVAO,
Brazil
Consorcio Camargo Correa-
Promon-MPE, Brazil
Consorcio CCPR-REPAR, Brazil
Consorcio Conpar, Brazil
Consorcio Gasvap, Brazil
Consorcio Mataripe, Brazil
Consorcio Mendes Junior-MPE-
SOG, Brazil
Consorcio PPT-REVAP, Brazil
Construtora Queiroz Galvao S.A.,
Brazil
Consulpri Consultoria e Projetos
Ltda., Brazil
COOEC-ENPAL Engineering Co.,
Ltd., China
COTES, Russia
CPECC East-China Design Branch,
China
CS Systemes d'information,
France
Dae Bong Acrotec Co., Ltd., Korea
Dalian Liaonan Shipyard, China
Danisman Pty Ltd, Australia
Day and Zimmerman, USA
Degremont, Spain
Degremont Tratamento de Aguas
Ltda, Brazil
DneprVNIPIenergoprom, Ukraine
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, UK
Dover Engineering Limited,
Nigeria
Dragados Offshore de Mexico S.A.
de C.V., Mexico
DuPont, Spain
Duro Dakovic Termoenergetska,
Croatia
Econ Barbara Kokoska, Poland
Ecovap Engenharia e Construcao
Vale do, Brazil
Edoxx Technical Services, LLC.,
USA
EJ Joint Venture Sdn Bhd,
Malaysia
Elomatic spo. z o.o., Poland
Energoproekt, Ukraine
Enex Process Engineering S.A.,
Belgium
ENFIL-VEOLIA-RNEST, Brazil
Engineering Consultants Group
SA, Egypt
ESN Engineering Services,
Germany
Euridis Azur, France
Exterran Eastern Hemisphere Fze,
United Arab Emirates
Factorias Vulcano, Spain
FASE, Portugal
Ferrostaal Ldal, Portugal
FEST Engineering s.r.o., Czech
Republic
Fidema Progetti s.r.l., Italy
Firestone Polymers, USA
FIVES India, India
Foster Wheeler Iberia, Spain
G-PEM Engineers, Inc., Korea
General Electric Oil & Gas, Italy
Gi.Di.A srl, Italy
GRAVER, Spain
Grimley Smith Associates, UK
Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power
Company Ltd, China
H&G Hegmanns
Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH,
Germany
H & R Industrierohrbau GmbH,
Germany
Hatch Associates Pty Ltd,
Australia
Houston Community College, USA
HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited, India
Hualu Engineering & Technology
Co., Ltd., China
ICE Services SRL, Romania
ICPE Inc., USA
IDOM Madrid, Spain
IDRECO SpA, Italy
Inelectra Argentina S.A.,
Argentina
IHM Engineering GmbH, Germany
INE Technologies Sdn Bhd,
Malaysia
Initec Plantas Industriales, Spain
Intertechma Tecnologia Ltda.,
Brazil
Institute of Technical Education
College Central (Yishun
Campus), Singapore
Invensys Process Systems, Inc.,
USA
Inzynieria, Doradztwo,
Technologia IDEK Sp. z. o. o.,
Poland
Iosis Energies er Systemes, France
Jacobs, Spain
JKM Consultoria e Projetos LTDA,
Brazil
Karachaganak Petroleum
Operating B.V., Kazakhstan
Kentz Middle East, Qatar
Kilowatts Design Company, USA
Korea Power Engineering
Company, Inc., Korea
Kukdong Engineering &
Construction Co., Ltd., Korea
KZ Engineering Corporation,
Korea
La Energía, Spain
Lanzhou Aerospace Petrochemical
Engineering Corporation, China
Lengiproneftechim, Russia
Loadmaster Engineering, USA
Lonas Technology, Russia
Longen Engenharia Ltda, Brazil
Lotte Engineering & Construction
Co., Ltd., Korea
Macomb Community College, USA
Madosa Division Ingenieria S.A.
de C.V., Mexico
MAINTEC Co., Ltd., Japan
Matsumoto Engineering Co., Ltd.,
Japan
MCE Berlin GmbH, Germany
Minimax GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Modelos 3D y Servicios de
Ingenieria S.A. de, Mexico
Modullar Projetos Ltda., Brazil
NEMOC Limited, UK
Newfield Peninsula Malaysia Inc,
Malaysia
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Japan
Nitroterv Tervezo, Beruhozo,
Muszaki, Hungary
O&G Solutions Ltd, UK
OAO KhNIPKI “Energoproekt”,
Ukraine
ÖbVI Petersen, Germany
Offshore Ship Designers, UK
OJSC DneprVNIPIergoprom,
Ukraine
Origin Energy Resources Limited,
Australia
Palmer Johnson Norway AS,
Norway
Petrofac Engineering Limited, UK
Petrofac Facilities Management
Ltd, UK
Petroplus, France
PetroVietnam Investment
Consultancy & Engineering
Joint Stock Company, Vietnam
PlatinA Gesellschaft für Planung,
Germany
Plexal Group Pty Ltd, Australia
Pluskompetens utbildning I
Sverige AB, Sweden
Polichimservice, Russia
POMIT INC., Korea
Poyry Tecnologia Ltda., Brazil
PPA ENERGO s.r.o., Slovakia
PROALTEC, Spain
Procon India Private Limited,
India
Projenia, Italy
Prokop Engineering Brno, spol. s
r.o., Czech Republic
Proyectos Industriales del Golfo,
S.C., Mexico
PTSC Mechanical & Construction
Co., Ltd., Vietnam
QPSEM Engineering & Consulting,
France
Repsol YPF, Spain
Republic of China Navy, Taiwan
Samuel Engineering, USA
Sartorius AG, Germany
Scantec 3D GmbH, Germany
SEEBLA-Servicos de Engenharia
Baumgart Ltda, Brazil
SEHWA EnsTech Co., Ltd., Korea
Semcon Caran AB, Sweden
Shanghai Zhenhua Port
Machinery Co. Ltd, China
SHI Designing & Manufacturing
Inc., Philippine
SIDCCO, Iraq
SK Engineering & Construction
Co., Ltd., Korea
SMEC Australia Pty Ltd, Australia
Space Hellas SA, Greece
SPEC Services, USA
SPG Engineering & Procurement
SRL, Romania
STPC Hediger & Partner AG,
Switzerland
STRABAG AG Environmental
Technology, Austria
STX France Solutions, France
Sumiju Plant Engineering Co.,
Ltd., Japan
Syngenta Crop Protection SA,
Switzerland
Talisman Energy Norge AS, Norway
Tebodin Middle East, United Arab
Emirates
Tebodin SAP-Project SP z o.o.,
Poland
Techint Engenharia e Construcao
S.A., Brazil
Techni Plant System SRL, Italy
Technical Services &
Management, USA
Technoedif Engenharia, Portugal
Technological Engineering
Company AS, Norway
Technology Design and
Engineering ENG'nD Oy, Finland
TECNA, Spain
The Bangkok Dock Co.(1957) Ltd.,
Thailand
The Board of Governors of the
Southern, USA
The Korea Chamber of Commerce
& Industry Busan Human
Resources Development
Institute, Korea
The Institute of Seawater
Desalination and Multipurpose
Utilization, SOA Tianjin, China
Uniao Engenharia Fabricacao e
Montagem Ltda, Brazil
Unitech Machines Ltd, India
Universidad de Castilla a la
Mancha, Spain
Universiti Malaysia Pahang,
Malaysia
UOP LLC, USA
Ura Sekkei Jimusho, Japan
Usiminas Mecanica, Brazil
Zektin Engineering Pty Ltd,
Australia
Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard
Co., Ltd, China
Westfield Engineering & Services,
USA
Wuhu Xinlian Shipbuilding Co.
Ltd, China
WW-Konstruktionen GmbH,
Germany
The AVEVA Plant, AVEVA Marine and AVEVA NET solutions are associated with complex process plant and marine assets around the
world. AVEVA has unparalleled experience and understanding of these markets, which is just one of the reasons why we are proud
to welcome these companies as new customers.
AVEVA welcomes our new customers in 2009

AVEVA Marine Users’
Meeting 2009
– hosted in Shanghai,
China’s shipbuilding capital
Magnus Feldt
The 27th AVEVA Marine Users’ Meeting
(AMUM), a three-day event in September
2009, was attended by more than 270
delegates from 93 companies worldwide. This
year’s event was hosted by Shanghai which is
home to some of China’s most notable
shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard which is
China’s oldest shipyard, dating back to 1865.
It is also the home of leading industry players
such as Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding.
The emphasis this year was on effective
execution, whether in the project engineering
process of shipbuilding, or in the operation,
maintenance and life extension phases of a
vessel’s life; and on how the AVEVA Marine and
AVEVA NET solutions support effective
execution.
EVENT
REPORT

Application in actual ship construction
COSCO’s first-built ship using AVEVA Marine
Luan Fengyi, Technical Director, COSCO Shipyard Group, described the experiences
COSCO has had in actual ship construction since the implementation of AVEVA
Marine and AVEVA NET. The design and construction of a 92,500 dwt bulk carrier
was their first project using AVEVA Marine, and COSCO estimated that productivity
was increased on this project by 30%. Employing AVEVA Marine and AVEVA NET has
optimised the integration of COSCO’s design, shipbuilding and management
processes.
PLM
AVEVA NET driving shipbuilding and offshore industries
Dave Wheeldon, Group Product Development Director, AVEVA, stressed AVEVA’s
unique Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for shipbuilding through
the AVEVA Marine and AVEVA NET adoption path – a path which provides a
complete marine information management solution.
Dave Coppin, Executive Vice President, AVEVA NET Solutions, presented the Digital
Information Hub, the centralised, secure, collaborative data manager on which
AVEVA NET is built. AVEVA NET is progressively applying, to traditional enterprises,
Web 2.0 technologies originally developed for social computing. Collaboration in
shipbuilding projects is becoming increasingly important to the shipyards, to
their suppliers and also to classification societies and ship operators. AVEVA NET
does not simply facilitate collaboration in the classical engineering domain. It
has also begun to apply Web 2.0 technologies to serve the future needs of our
users, who are already enjoying the benefits of social computing websites that
allow a different experience of user interaction and content provision.
In the PLM breakout session, John Fouda, CAD Specialist, NASSCO, presented a
paper on a new rule-based system they developed internally on top of AVEVA’s
Marine solutions, for routing steel parts in the shipyard during their production.
Such new features helped them by reducing manual errors and streamlining the
routing process. NASSCO’s paper contributed to a better understanding of what is
expected from a PLM system in production.
Early Design
Adding value to the early design phases
Ulf Eriksson, Product Manager, Early Design, AVEVA, described AVEVA Marine’s
Early Design concept, that is, the use of one single model throughout the whole
lifecycle of the ship project. This enables one continuous process with extensive
reuse of design data from previous phases, without disruptive step changes
caused, for example, by imports or data conversions. This process is supported by
the Common Reference Model which contains all primary structures and early
outfitting information.
Rafael Doig, R&D Product Manager, TKMS Blohm & Voss Nordseewerke GmbH,
presented a development project with participants from AVEVA and Finite Element
Model (FEM) experts from the German companies SMK, ThyssenKrupp Marine
Systems, Lindenau Shipyard and Wadan Yards. This project shows how an
integrated structural design and assessment process results in higher product
quality and substantial savings in effort. Rafael Doig expects that, when this new
functionality is in full use in production, it will have a remarkably positive effect
on the whole design process.
Dr Christian Cabos, CAE Development, Germanischer Lloyd, presented the use of
hull design data in classification and maintenance-related tasks in the ship’s
lifecycle. He showed how AVEVA Marine and GL tools are integrated through the
AVEVA Marine XML interfaces. GL Poseidon can export design data into AVEVA
Marine where the corresponding model data is automatically generated. AVEVA
Marine can export model data into GL tools for rules checking, FE modelling and
for handling in the GL Hull Lifecycle Program (HLP).
Richard Longdon
Migration workshop Rafael Doig
Christian Cabos
Wayne Forrest
Taewan Kim
Wang Dongyi
Takuya Matsumura
Luan Fengyi
Josephine Zhou
Peter Finch
Derek Middlemas
Dave Wheeldon
Dave Coppin

Interoperability
Removing barriers
In his conference introduction, Richard Longdon, AVEVA Chief Executive,
highlighted a major interoperability issue when he spoke about the need
to remove technology barriers. Derek Middlemas, AVEVA Group Operations
Director, explained that Product Interoperability is AVEVA’s core strength
and that AVEVA is a thought leader in adopting industry standards,
making it possible for AVEVA to offer solutions to meet new industry
challenges.
The technological context was provided by Stéphane Neuveglise, Product
Marketing Manager, AVEVA Marine, who portrayed AVEVA’s Digital
Information Hub as the lynchpin for AVEVA solutions – not only in
greenfield Integrated Project Execution but also in brownfield Operations
Information Integrity.
Neil McPhater, Product Marketing Manager, Interoperability, outlined the
wider impact of information on AVEVA’s markets. He identified digital
convergence as the major business driver producing increasing digital
overlap across not only previously isolated markets like Marine and Plant,
but also supply chains, geographical locations and business operations.
As evidence, he cited a number of major engineering projects where
AVEVA solutions had removed interoperability barriers for substantial
project benefit.
This was reinforced by Wayne Forrest, Design Technologies Manager of
ASC Pty Ltd., who showed the benefits of an overlap between the marine
and mechanical markets with the migration of Collins Class submarines
designs from CADDS5 to AVEVA Marine.
Migration
Hands-on workshop
A two hour, hands-on workshop on data migration from Tribon M3 to
AVEVA Marine 12 was held by Johan Nyrén, Team Lead, AVEVA Diagrams
and Migration team. During this workshop, the participants used AVEVA’s
migration tools to migrate a complete Tribon M3 model into AVEVA Marine
12. Hull design and production data, outfitting catalogue, piping,
equipment, outfitting steel, HVAC, cable, drawings and assembly from
Tribon M3 were all successfully migrated into an AVEVA Marine 12 model.
Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation moves to AVEVA Marine
Takuya Matsumura, Staff Officer, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
(KSC), Japan, presented a thorough and comprehensive plan for the
migration from Tribon M3 to AVEVA Marine 12. KSC, AVEVA’s first marine
customer in Japan, has been using AVEVA solutions for the detailed and
production design phases of commercial and naval vessels since 1994.
AVEVA solutions are used in both Kawasaki’s Kobe and Sakaide shipyards.
In 1994, Tribon was implemented in Kawasaki and, within five years, was
applied yard-wide within the Sakaide shipyard to all newbuild work. Over
the next ten years, Kawasaki went through a serious of Tribon upgrades,
the latest being Tribon M3 in 2003.
Looking to the next generation of design systems to improve efficiency,
Kawasaki decided to migrate to AVEVA Marine, as the solutions range
provided more effective and rapid design functionalities and more front-
loading design capabilities, and was better at systemising technical skills.
Sponsors
AVEVA would like to thank Ghenova Ingeniería, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and
Royal Selangor who sponsored this event.
AVEVA Marine Picture Awards
The award for ‘AVEVA Marine solution Product Information Model’ went to CSSC
Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding, China, for the image of an 82,000 dwt bulk carrier.
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Japan, won the ‘Special Award: Most Creative’ for
the image of a simulation of block installation.
The ‘Special Award: Best Details’ was won by Jiangnan Shipyard (Group), China, for
the image of a 16,500 dwt chemical tanker.
Guangzhou Shipyard International, China, won the award for a ‘Completed Product
Designed with AVEVA Marine solution’ with their image of a 1,600LM Ro/Ro passenger
vessel.

To see is to understand – AVEVA Webinars
There’s no substitute for seeing something for
yourself, so what better way to get to know
AVEVA’s leading-edge technologies than to
take part in one of our frequent AVEVA
Webinars?
Around the world, AVEVA hosts regular webinars
in which we present selected products and show
you how you can use them to do your job better
and make your business more successful.
Topics are selected to highlight new or
interesting product features; show how day-to-
day tasks can be made easier and more
productive, or to focus on an application of
particular interest in your region.
AVEVA Webinars will appeal to both technical and
managerial professionals, covering both the
‘how to do...’ and the ‘how to benefit from...’
aspects of using AVEVA technology.
AVEVA always listens to its customers, so we’re
always open to requests and suggestions for
topics that interest you.
You can find our current schedules of regional
webinars at www.aveva.com/webinars.
Why not check it out now and register for an
AVEVA Webinar? You may be surprised at what
you can learn!
Missed a webinar? No problem – just watch the video!
All AVEVA Webinars are recorded so if you miss one, or you want to show one to a
colleague, visit www.aveva.com/webinars and click the button!
www.aveva.com/webinars

EVENT
REPORT
Magnus Feldt
The International Symposium for Engineering Information Technology
(ISEIT), hosted by AVEVA, was held in Berlin, Germany in October, attended
by 245 delegates from 121 companies in 24 different countries.
The comprehensive programme provided informative and strategic
presentations from AVEVA, while clients shared their experiences and
insights from building and maintaining the world’s most complex
engineering plants. Delegates were able to network, review and
discuss business and technical challenges. AVEVA demonstrated how
the AVEVA Plant and AVEVA NET solutions support the use of
engineering IT in making real business gains.
AVEVA Chief Executive, Richard Longdon, opened the conference and
stressed the intense pressure across the engineering industries in the
current economic crisis to drive down costs and timescales. This makes it
more important than ever to look at every aspect of business processes,
cutting out inefficiencies and seeking more effective ways of delivering
results. Hence the theme of ISEIT 2009 – Effective execution from concept
to operations. Richard confirmed that AVEVA’s solutions are well prepared
to meet the demands of a new generation of young engineers soon to
enter the industry. As the consumer Internet develops further Web 2.0
technologies, AVEVA NET will continue to adapt these new forms of
collaboration to the needs of the engineering domain.
Derek Middlemas, AVEVA Group Operations Director, underlined how
AVEVA solutions help deliver real cost savings in plant operations through
the effective use of plant information, a key asset today. Time and money
are saved through efficient project execution with a minimum of errors
and rework. Derek presented FIATECH’s work with information standards,
making collaboration and the exchange of information easier to exploit
for digital assets.
Paul Elton, Vice-President of Technology, AVEVA, explained how AVEVA
will use new technologies to improve the way people work together in
engineering projects. Improved collaboration is vital to overall project
productivity. Paul stressed the importance of the AVEVA Digital
Information Hub which brings together the AVEVA Dabacon database and
AVEVA NET strengths, to provide a common environment for the storage
and sharing of information across applications and between EPCs, their
partners and Owner Operator clients.
Below: Richard Longdon
Above: Derek Middlemas
Below: John Westwood

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