AVEVA Engineering enables multi-disciplinary engineering teams to collaboratively develop and manage project engineering data in a centralized database. It allows each discipline to control its own data for items while providing visibility of full data to other teams. The software automatically records changes to the data and allows users to highlight and view modifications. It also generates reports from the database and checks for data inconsistencies across engineering, 3D, and schematic documents.

1. AVEVA Engineering
Manages evolving multi-discipline data for tagged
engineering items such as lines and equipment
AVEVA Engineering enables multi-disciplinary teams of specialist engineers to
work together in an effective manner as they jointly develop the definition of all
the key engineering items involved in plant and marine projects.
As the engineers work, they build a database of engineering objects, including
items such as lines, equipment and valves, together with all of their key attributes.
Advanced technology allows this process to take place across multi-disciplinary
teams in such a way that each discipline retains full control of its part of the
information relating to any item.
The product has a highly configurable data model allowing it to be adapted to
fit a wide range of project, customer and industry requirements, and to manage
virtually any scope of project engineering data. For example, customers may
choose to use the product to manage just the line data, or they may expand their
usage to manage data, for instance, for items such as equipment and valves.
A wide variety of fully formatted reports can be generated automatically from
the database, including key project documents such as master tag registers, line
lists, equipment lists and valve lists, as well as any kind of ad hoc or departmental
report.
z Gets engineering data out of
disconnected spreadsheets and
into a database – more effective
management, control and
exploitation of data.
z Allows multi-discipline
engineering teams to work
together more effectively –
increased design efficiency,
quality and multi-location, global
working.
z Enables changes to be
implemented more quickly, and
controlled and communicated
more effectively – reduced impact
of change on cost, schedule,
quality and risk.
z Enables a wider range of data
inconsistencies to be detected
during design – increased design
quality and reduced risk of
costly, late design changes and
associated rework.
z Unrivalled opportunities
for integrated schematics,
engineering and 3D working
– enables new, more effective
working practices to be
introduced.
Business Benefits
Automatic change highlighting in AVEVA Engineering
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Tool-tip shows previous values
Filters to select and sort
on type of change
Key:
Additional items
Modified attributes

2. The user is able to easily create and modify data in the database
using both spreadsheet and database explorer-style user
interfaces. Any required view of the data can be created. For
example, the user may wish to:
z interact with the database via a standard engineering list for
some tasks, potentially modifying several items in a single
action
z create any number of specialist views of the data applicable
to particular tasks
z navigate the plant breakdown structure and work solely on
the detailed information for a single item.
Database access controls are in full operation at all times,
controlling how much of the data the user may view and/or
change.
All changes to the data are automatically stored in the
database, and information about changes is accessible to
other users on demand as they carry out their daily work.
Configurable consistency checks can be applied across the
database at any time to check the quality of the data.
Built-in status control tools enable the status of individual
objects to be carefully controlled and made visible to other
users of the information as they work.
Compare and Update utilities allow the identification of
inconsistencies with data created in other AVEVA products
and/or external systems and data sources.
The product can be configured to suit a wide range of project,
customer and industry requirements, and is built on AVEVA’s
proven PDMS and Outfitting technology, which allows
distributed, multi-location working with AVEVA Global.
AVEVA Engineering includes a powerful programming language
(PML) and .NET APIs, allowing all kinds of customer/industry
customisations and automations to be applied.
Overview
Change Highlighting Change Highlighting
Compare
and Update
Compare
and Update
Line/Equipment List
Multi-discipline
engineering attributes
P&ID
3D Layout
Instrument data
Electrical data
Tag registers
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Above: AVEVA Engineering allows different sources of information
to be efficiently developed in parallel in the early stages of a project
Right: At an appropriate time in the project, data can be linked
together enabling consistency checking across multiple sources

3. Key Features
z Database approach with proven, scalable, multi-user
technology
Delivers the concurrent, multi-discipline, multi-user working
environment required across project engineering teams on
typical plant and marine projects.
z Sophisticated access controls
Allows each engineering discipline to be in full control of its
own data for any given item, whilst allowing other project users
to be able to view the complete data. Includes the ability to
maintain issued and working versions of each discipline’s data.
z Automatic change recording and highlighting
Changes are automatically recorded in the database. Change
information can be selectively viewed by users as they
work, with the ability to highlight additions, deletions and
modifications within any dataset that the user is working with.
z Highly configurable
All aspects of the product, including the data model,
engineering discipline boundaries and access rights, are highly
configurable. The product also includes a powerful programming
language (PML) and .NET APIs allowing all kinds of customer/
industry customisations and automations to be applied.
z Modern, easy-to-use user interface
Microsoft®
Office Fluent™-based user interface makes the
product quick to learn and easy to use. Users interact with the
database via familiar spreadsheet functionality.
z In-built status control
Engineers have better visibility of the quality of information,
and can generate progress reports directly from their working
data.
AVEVA Engineering allows each discipline to be in full control of their own data, whilst working with data issued from the other disciplines
AVEVA Engineering manages the
evolution of data throughout the
project

4. Key Features (continued)
Engineers working in the spreadsheet view can navigate to the P&ID; this example shows the ability to
instantly view the P&ID on which a valve in the valve list appears
z Compare and Update
Compare and Update utilities allow parts
of the AVEVA Engineering data to be
compared against data created in other
AVEVA products and/or external systems,
and allow updates to be selectively applied
as, where and if required. This makes the
alignment with a new revision of data from
another engineering department easier and
faster.
z Data consistency checks
A wide range of inconsistencies can be
detected in the engineering data itself and
across the engineering, 3D, schematic,
instrumentation and electrical datasets.
z Automatic reports direct from the
database
A wide variety of project quality, formatted
reports can be produced directly from
the database, including conventional
engineering documents, such as line lists,
equipment lists and master tag registers
(all configured as required), ad hoc reports,
progress reports and status charts.
z Same technology infrastructure as
AVEVA’s PDMS, Outfitting, Diagrams and
Schematic 3D Integrator products
Existing system administration and
customisation/configuration skills can be
used for AVEVA Engineering.
z Opportunities for new levels of integrated
working
In-built integration keys allow access to
data created in PDMS and/or Outfitting, and
to P&ID and other diagramming data held
in AVEVA schematic databases, providing
unrivalled integration opportunities.
Project engineers have access to a much
more extensive dataset as they carry out
their daily work. Linking mechanisms can
selectively connect the different datasets,
allowing transitions between parallel
and single source working, as required at
different stages of the project.
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such information is subject to change without prior notice and is related to the current software release. AVEVA is not responsible
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AVEVA Engineering is one of AVEVA’s
Engineer products, which create
schematics, diagrams, datasheets,
engineering lists and indexes
Information in this datasheet relates to product version 12.1 unless otherwise stated.
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Tags grid-style UI with data management UI and status controls
z Multi-location global working
AVEVA Engineering is compatible with AVEVA Global, allowing the
product to be used across even the most complex multi-location,
distributed engineering projects.
z Option to publish to AVEVA NET
Data and documents generated from AVEVA Engineering can be
published to AVEVA NET.