DIGITAL
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Unlock the power
of your Digital Asset
What is the
Digital Asset?
The Digital Asset is the information core of every
project and facility. It is the unification of the trusted
information that flows through every system,
populates every application, and is embedded in
every document and model. It lives in sync with its
physical equivalent; a record of change and a
platform from which to predict its future.
This asset actually appreciates in value across the
life cycle – growing in breadth, scale and detail to
underpin reliability, safety and productivity. It is the
digital heart of your asset.
DIGITAL
ASSET
The AVEVA
Digital Asset
approach
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We live in a world of high complexity,
fast change and big data, all producing
a torrent of information. Accuracy and
reliability of information are critical for
all applications and for decision making.
But information without structure and
context is worthless.
Our approach is to help customers harness
their information, unlock it from silos,
validate it, let it flow between systems
and be shared between disciplines –
empowering experts and improving
performance. Customers can control
project inflation, assure schedules
and maximise uptime – overcoming
complexity and delivering engineering
innovation on a global scale.
Our object-centric philosophy underpins
our integrated applications and persists
throughout our open Information
Management solutions. This places
customers at the centre of an
interconnected information model.
The right information – available to
the right person, at the right time.
Everything, in context.
AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach
understands information can never be
tied down to a single system, solution
or vendor. It embraces information from
anywhere, drives progress even in the
midst of flux, masters change and
supports evolution. It offers enterprise
scalability with pinpoint accuracy. You
can find the specific information you need
within your asset’s entire digital history.
Our full portfolio is built upon this
approach, so that you can unlock
the power of your Digital Asset.
The Digital Asset
life cycle
To help our customers unlock the power of trusted information across
their asset life cycle, we focus on its major phases and the related
business challenges. All our solutions and supporting products are
built upon the Digital Asset approach and grouped by the capabilities
that support achievement of the goals specifically identified by our
customers in each phase:
Engineering
Goals: Enable engineering disciplines to work
together in the most effective manner, with the
ability to efficiently control, communicate and
respond to change and inconsistency.
Solution: AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering &
Design solution.
Operational Readiness
Goals: Streamline, simplify and validate the handover
from the EPC-managed CAPEX project phase to
commissioning and start-up, and support the earliest
possible achievement of nameplate capacity without
compromising on quality, safety or reliability.
Solution: AVEVA’s Progressive Handover solution.
Design
Goals: Streamline the design process and ensure
rapid project start-up, improved design efficiency,
and clash-free design to reduce construction rework
and simplify compliance.
Solution: AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering &
Design solution.
Enterprise Asset & Information Management
Goals: Support the elimination, minimisation or
mitigation of operational risks, and the optimisation
of reliability and production efficiency in the face of
the reality of a constantly changing operating asset.
Solution: AVEVA’s Asset Life Cycle Information
Management solution; AVEVA’s Control of Work
solution; AVEVA Enterprise Asset Management™.
Project Information Management
Goals: Provide fast, easy but controlled global
access to the full ‘as-is’ Digital Asset for all project
stakeholders, regardless of discipline or location.
Solution: AVEVA’s Project Decision Support solution.
Material Management
Goals: Minimise stockholding, eliminate waste and
surpluses, and maximise cost-efficiency by enabling
cross-project bulk material coding consistency,
and seamlessly integrate materials control with
design and work planning systems to ensure the
right materials are always available when and
where needed.
Solution: AVEVA’s Integrated Materials Management
Solution; AVEVA Catalogue Manager™.
Planning
Goals: Provide full planning flexibility to cope with
top-down or bottom-up approaches, and give realtime responsiveness to predict, prepare for and
respond to change right across the project life cycle.
Solution: AVEVA Planning™.
Construction/Production Management
Goals: Enable construction efficiency, predictability
and visibility by seamlessly coordinating the
management of people, materials and equipment,
supplemented by access to trusted project information,
throughout the end-to-end construction process.
Solution: AVEVA’s Construction Management solution.
Asset Visualisation & Simulation
Goals: Support safe, reliable production by providing
O&M teams with fast, easy and intuitive access to
exactly the asset information and immersive training
they need in order to maximise uptime whilst protecting
themselves, their colleagues and the environment.
Solution: AVEVA’s Immersive Training & Simulation
solution; AVEVA’s Asset Visualisation solution.
Brownfield Data Capture
Goals: Quickly, reliably and accurately capture the
‘as-is’ physical environment to provide a data-driven
engineering baseline for revamps, efficiency
improvement planning and operational compliance.
Solution: AVEVA’s 3D Data Capture solution.
Asset Modifications
Goals: Ensure that asset modifications can be
planned and implemented quickly, efficiently and with
the minimum possible downtime.
Solution: AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering &
Design solution.
The Digital Asset is at the heart of what our customers do, and so it
is also at the heart of what we do. AVEVA’s portfolio of products and
solutions is built upon our Digital Asset approach, and support our
customers in creating and managing their own Digital Assets across
the life cycle.
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How can AVEVA’s
Digital Asset
approach help
my business?
Engineering, Procurement &
Construction Contractors (EPCs)
Using the AVEVA Digital Asset approach,
EPCs can manage the critical demands
of cost control, deadlines, quality and
compliance. Rapid project start-up, high
multi-discipline efficiency, streamlined
compliance, and clash-free design
eliminate construction rework and
drive schedule assurance. Develop a
high-quality physical asset through to
handover to the Owner Operator – on
budget and on time. Deliver additional
value to your customers through the
provision of an ‘as-built’ Digital Asset
comprising accurate, comprehensive,
validated information.
Owner Operators (OOs)
The AVEVA Digital Asset approach allows
Owner Operators to actively manage
their complex facilities and critical
equipment for maximum operational
efficiency. Trusted information is intrinsic
to reliability – it helps the anticipation,
management and reduction of the risks
from outages and incidents, to cut
downtime, control costs and increase
safety throughout the operational
lifetime of the asset.
Shipbuilders
AVEVA’s approach ensures that
throughout the gradual aggregation
and evolution of the Digital Asset,
shipyards are able to identify information
inconsistencies that might arise from
the many different disciplines involved.
AVEVA’s blend of object-centric
information management, deep
integration of business processes and
high availability and visibility of progress
information delivers the business control
that is critical to successful shipbuilding
project execution.
How
important is a
Digital Asset?
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ASSET
“Owners need to know that
data is current and complete.
Having no centralised location
for all the plant data limits the
efficiency of the engineering
and management. Operators
need confidence that the system
will improve the basic methods
out there in a way that doesn’t
compromise quality or safety.”
Facilities Engineer, Global OO
“Finding ways to get more data,
bring it together, and being able
to get back to it again easily
is important.”
Business Development Manager, Global
Chemicals Manufacturer
“The problem is an almost infinite
degree of complexity. You need a
way to file away pertinent emails,
drawings and reports where they
can be found easily months or
even years later. You need to
keep track of the life-cycle history
of every component throughout
your plant. Data storage is no
longer a problem, but finding the
data you need out of the terabytes
that you have accumulated is a
constant struggle.”
Engineer, Global EPC
“Our efficient operation hinges
on good, up-to-date data and
integrated systems.”
Project Manager, Global Petrochemicals
Manufacturer
“A Digital Asset approach is key
to realising the vision of giving
an engineer the ability to find
information required to make
a decision in 3 minutes or less.”
Engineering Information Manager,
Global OO
How do I unlock
the power of my
Digital Asset?
AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach is simple to adopt. It is complementary
to your existing IT investments and infrastructure – it allows you to
retain point solutions, should you wish to, while still extracting greater
value from sharing, validating and reporting on the information that
flows through them. Beginning the journey to an interconnected
information model can begin with a single step – a single application –
from which you can begin to master change and complexity, and
exploit your Digital Asset.
To take that first step, contact your area sales representative today,
or visit www.aveva.com/digitalasset to find out more.
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