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AVEVA PERSPECTIVES - Responding To A Changing Industry
AVEVA PERSPECTIVES - Responding To A Changing Industry
AVEVA PERSPECTIVES - Responding To A Changing Industry
AVEVA PERSPECTIVES
Published June 2012
Contents
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1. Introduction
5. Summary
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1. Introduction
The intensity of change across plant industries is unprecedented
from the impact of operating in a new economic climate, to
increased opportunities in resource extraction and expanded
market openings in emerging regions.
Industry players must determine how best to seize new market
opportunities in an affordable and sustainable way. Responding to
new levels of demand for energy and resources will require largescale investment in infrastructure and plant assets. Decisions made
today will influence the development of societies and industries
for many years to come.
With a need for faster asset modification and creation to address
new opportunities and increasing regulation, new pressures will
be placed on capital project execution.
This paper looks at what is needed for modern plant design; it
addresses the key fundamentals to project success and sets out
to define the future of plant design.
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Rather than simply providing efficiency gains for the design office,
plant design software should also present opportunities for
improving efficiency in the construction phase. The information
created from the plant design system represents the as-designed
view of the asset, and this information hardly ever matches up
perfectly to the as-built asset. Narrowing the gap between the
design office and the on-site construction team will help to expedite
reworks, reduce materials errors and, with the use of laser data,
improve accuracy for dimensional alignment on site.
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The powerful combination of laser scan data and design models will
enable customers to save money in construction and hence increase
profitability. Support for mobile computing will help site and office
staff to keep abreast of the rapid rate of change on the construction
site, accelerating informed decision making and improving the quality
of collaboration between design and construction.
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5. Summary
With global demand for resources rising fast, the opportunities for
EPCs and Owner Operators are abundant and highly remunerative.
Yet with a changing market there are new challenges: working
across multiple locations involving multiple corporate partners,
EPCs and Owner Operators must continue to deliver exceptional
quality but at higher speeds.
A new era of collaboration has consequently emerged between EPCs
and Owner Operators, through the need for design, construction
and maintenance coherence: digital representations of physical
assets are now crucial to this process, allowing for improved asset
management, better design control and lower costs.
With unprecedented pressures on capital project financing and
delivery continuing unabated, plant design software will need to
expand on current capabilities to deliver greater collaboration,
faster project deployment and enhanced traceability throughout
the design and build process.
As we look to the years ahead, next generation plant design
software will be instrumental in:
z enabling fast capture and transfer of expertise across global
teams, multiple disciplines and project management
z facilitating faster decision making, design and construction,
and providing access to critical design data and transparency
of the design at all times
z enabling safety to be engrained in the design process
z accelerating project execution without compromising system
stability, accuracy and compliance.
AVEVAs new initiative Defining the Future of Plant Design focuses
on creating a new generation of plant design software that
addresses the dynamics of a changing market.
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