AVEVA Ships New Laser Model Interface

Software Provides Direct Link Between AVEVA's PDMS and Four Major 3D Scanning Solution Providers

HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SPAR2006 -- AVEVA Group plc today announced that it is shipping its Laser Model Interface (LMI), a software solution that provides a direct link between AVEVA's VANTAGE(R) Plant Design Management System (PDMS) and four of the major 3D laser scanning systems being utilized to capture as-built data for retrofit and brownfield engineering projects.

The new product, which is available as a separately licensed module of PDMS 11.6 SP2, is now being launched following a year's collaboration with the market leading laser modeling vendors -- BitWyse, Leica Geosystems HDS, Quantapoint, and Z+F. LMI has been built into the heart of PDMS. This enables engineers to design fully intelligent plant directly with respect to Point Cloud Data (PCD) as if they were in a dedicated PDMS application. This also means that existing PDMS capabilities like Clash Manager and PDMS Global can be seamlessly invoked. In particular, any clashes between points in the PCD and 3D engineering components in PDMS can not only be identified interactively, they can also be managed and approved explicitly in the Clash Manager module.

Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA, said: "After a year of collaboration with our partners we are delighted that we can now see the fruits of our labour. The Laser Model Interface will enable EPCs and Owner/Operators to bring 'existing conditions' data directly into PDMS, allowing faster, more efficient repairs, and reducing plant downtime. Our customers tell us that the time and cost savings achieved using 3D modelling and laser scanning together can amount to up to 10% of the capital expenditure of the whole retrofit project. We have seen the fastest adoption of the technology in the offshore oil and gas, and nuclear power industries, but expect that this technology will rapidly become an indispensable part of most revamp projects."

Commented Colin Fairweather, Engineering Systems Manager for AMEC and a beta user of AVEVA's LMI product: "AVEVA's Laser Modelling Interface has given AMEC a key first-mover advantage in the market and we've already seen the benefits of its deployment on a number of projects. It has delivered a quantum leap in overall productivity and significantly improved design processes, quality, and safety."

About AVEVA Group plc

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.

The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1500 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.

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, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, Canada and the USA.

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