Annual Report 2009

AVEVA NET is a powerful information management solution, capable of handling all types of digital information - not just engineering data - to create a complete digital model of a plant or ship. It enables the full exploitation of reliable, up-to-date and fully cross-referenced project and operational information.

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The challenge

China's Shanxi Electric Power Exploration & Design Institute needed to find a way to import, manage and access data on the Linfen Thermal Power Project project. This project had generated vast amounts of disparate data (3D designs, drawings, manufacturers' data, correspondence, and so on) created using many different software applications, with no method of associating and validating the project information. The Institute was also seeking a platform for project collaboration and mark-up to share documents and drawings around the globally dispersed project organisations.

The solution

The Institute turned to AVEVA NET, to provide an information management hub for visualisation; the import of data and documents from multiple information sources and access to it through a unified, web-based interface. This involved a real mix of applications - specialist document management systems, file convertors, an XML layer for Chinese character support, and so on. However, using AVEVA NET, even such complex data could be imported automatically, enabling staff to focus on customising other aspects of AVEVA NET to meet their precise needs.

The outcome

AVEVA NET provided the entire project team with a single, up-to-date source for every type of information relating to the project. It also enabled them to create intelligent associations between data, so that the system can, for example, highlight when information is missing or incomplete. A similar project at the Jin Xin substation is now well advanced and has clearly demonstrated AVEVA NET's ability to greatly improve efficiency.