Houston Community College Licenses AVEVA's VANTAGE PDMS for Continuing Education Program in 3D Plant Design

HOUSTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA today announced that the Houston Community College (HCC) has licensed its VANTAGE(R) Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for use in its design/drafting education program. The total grant value is US $400,000.

HCC will initially offer instruction in PDMS in both seminars and as part of a continuing education program for process and piping design at the HCC Northeast College, Pinemont Center, beginning Fall 2005. HCC is one of the largest community college systems in the United States, offering two-year Associate Degrees and Continuing Education programs at five area colleges throughout Houston.

"Design and engineering for the process industry has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years," commented Frank Ortiz, Department Chair of HCC's Design and Drafting Department. "Most process and marine projects today are being designed to some extent with sophisticated 3D tools like PDMS, which until now have been out of the reach of our students. We are very pleased to provide access to this high-end, real-world plant design and engineering solution that will help our students be more competitive in the job market. Additionally, we hope that by providing highly-qualified, skilled technical graduates to employers, fewer engineering jobs will migrate overseas."

"Houston is the heart of the process industry, and PDMS has been used to design the majority of the CAD-designed rigs in the Gulf, many onshore projects, as well as 80% of all new offshore projects worldwide in the last ten years. HCC's acquisition of PDMS should be a tremendous benefit for the Houston economy, providing many local engineering employers with the technical staff they need to stay competitive on these projects," commented Matt McKinley, AVEVA's Vice President for the Americas.

About AVEVA

AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. The Group reported, for the year ended March 2005, a growth in turnover of 51% over 2004. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.

Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 500 staff worldwide with offices in England, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, KSA, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea and the USA.

About VANTAGE(TM)

VANTAGE, the collective name for AVEVA's four-family plant lifecycle product suite, offers proven, integrated and versatile solutions for engineering IT. Well known for its Plant Design Management System (PDMS), it also addresses data management, project management, engineering design, visualisation, third party software integration, procurement and connecting the business enterprise on a common foundation. VANTAGE represents AVEVA's commitment to harnessing the best of technology to answer the needs of good engineering and offers the engineering world's most advanced globally- distributed project work solution. VANTAGE is developed upon a proven and evolving technology that has been deployed on major global projects for over 25 years.

About PDMS(TM)

VANTAGE Plant Design Management System (PDMS) is a data centric, multi- disciplinary solution for 3D process plant design featuring applications and reference data for every engineering discipline. It differs from conventional 3D approaches by not requiring a drawing engine, but producing graphics directly from a single, coherent data model of the entire plant. First launched in 1976, PDMS's architecture was designed to evolve: it has done so through many leading operating systems during the progress of the IT industry. The system offers compatibility with all previous versions and many other leading industry systems.

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