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AVEVA Connect

Connect with the tools that are shaping the future.

Progressive People, Operations and Assets

AVEVA Connect is a unified industrial software platform spanning your entire business – from design, engineering and procurement to the optimising of operations and production. It also includes the onboarding and upskilling of your people.

This platform, designed to drive business excellence across asset and operations lifecycles, is assisting the evolution of the industries that are powering our world.

As it is completely scalable, AVEVA Connect offers you a powerful, flexible set of tools for transforming opportunities into business value.

  • Connect your people and remove operational barriers to bring about an empowered, unified workforce.
  • Connect your processes to new capabilities like machine learning, early awareness, dashboards, advanced analytics and more.
  • Connect your asset and operations value chains in order to improve profitability and maximise return on capital.

AVEVA Connect – Features

AVEVA Connect delivers the capabilities that enrich and enable the living Digital Twin. It covers all aspects of the physical item, as well as disciplines – from design to operations and procurement, to workforce empowerment.

Engineer, Procure and Construct

Engineer, Procure and Construct

Reduce cost, time and risk of capital project engineering and execution by applying integrated engineering and design solutions.

Train, Onboard and Upskill

Train, Onboard and Upskill

Be certain that your people are prepared for the real world – safely and efficiently – with innovative Cloud-based simulation and training solutions.

Operate, Optimise and Improve

Operate, Optimise and Improve

Achieve superior visibility and analysis of real-time operations and production processes while simultaneously eliminating inefficiency – and driving performance.

Speak to an Expert

Contact one of our highly qualified sales representatives to see how we can assist with maximising your potential!

    AVEVA Work Tasks

    Increase collaboration and productivity across people and systems through digital workflow management

    Digitally Transform Your Operational Processes

    The digital transformation of operational processes, incorporating a business process and advanced workflow management system, facilitates enhanced collaboration between people, as well as automation systems.

    The consistency and automation of electronic workflows with detailed execution records make a significant improvement in operational efficiency possible. It also reduces the cost of compliance. It is possible to orchestrate processes across functional domains. This includes the integration of connected plant assets and systems with business functions.

    Process Excellence is Achievable

    Increase operational efficiency by enforcing standard operational procedures (SOPs). Increase productivity through the digital collaboration of functional teams and related systems. Do away with paper documents by using electronic forms and make use of improved information views to mitigate the risks connected with manual processes, while capturing the knowledge of an ageing workforce.

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    Increase in Compliance to Mandates

    Workflow Management – How It Helps You

    Digital workflow management includes all procedures and processes – from standard operating procedures and manufacturing execution processes, to escalated responses, to critical operating conditions. It enables the standardisation of operational business processes as well as best practices across your enterprise.

    Workflow Automation

    Workflow Automation

    Digital Workflow management facilitates the automation of operational processes and the proliferation of best practices. In doing so, it eliminates paperwork and manual, error-prone procedures, effectively accomplishing both simple and complex tasks.

    Notifications, as well as easy-to-use data entry forms through multiple secure communication channels, speed up decision-making and task responses in mission-critical processes.

    Continuous Process Improvement

    Continuous Process Improvement

    Measure and document processes for continuous improvement opportunities using a model-driven approach. This empowers business stakeholders, as well as non-IT users to visually compose processes, monitor and measure performance, quickly improve processes as well as to adapt changes.

    Workflows and Work Tasks on Mobile Devices

    Workflows and Work Tasks on Mobile Devices

    A platform-neutral Web interface and applications for mobile devices ensure that more of your mobile workforce remains connected with mission-critical processes. Workflow forms offer automatic, responsive layout adoption and form previews for multiple mobile devices.

    The Work Tasks app supports users who are on the move, ensuring their interactions either with or without network connectivity. Work Tasks for Android, iOS and Windows offers enhanced collaboration and enterprise mobility among stakeholders.

    Configurable Forms User Interface

    Configurable Forms User Interface

    The Workflow Forms Designer is a web-based design tool used for creating complex layouts through the use of smart controls.

    Its design-friendly canvas aids the configuring and sustaining of custom forms for the collection and/or visualisation of data at any particular step in the process. This includes scripting for more advanced tasks, as well as individual security applied to different fields, with electronic signature support. Automatic responsive layout adoption and form previews, offer out-of-the-box support for desktop screens and multiple mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones.

    Plant Connectivity and Enterprise Integration

    Plant Connectivity and Enterprise Integration

    Out-of-the-box connectors for both industrial and business applications offer you the flexibility to integrate your enterprise. It also has the capacity to respond to events that originated in MS SQL Server and Oracle databases, in XML messages, Web services as well as in other generic interfaces.

    It integrates with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange. Connectivity to automated production processes through MES, System Platform and APM integration, as well as through third-party manufacturing operations applications, allows for a true, end-to-end operational process management. It also enables the standardisation of processes spanning industrial enterprises.

    Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

    Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

    Integrated business activity reporting and activity-monitoring tools empower you to build customisable KPIs, associate workflows with BAM events, conduct performance analyses, as well as receiving proactive alerts of Business Exceptions and KPIs. BAM includes a dashboard highlighting both workflow status and workflow instances, allowing for at-a-glance process management.

    VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design

    Offering superior flare designs for your process, utilising industry-standard compliance codes

    Ensure Your Plant’s Safety

    VISUAL FLARE™ Safety Relief Design is a robust, steady-state simulator that is used to design, rate and analyse oil and gas flare networks. This application offers safer design and operation for engineers, in addition to providing lowered capital and operating cost.

    Design Better Relief Systems

    VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design offers quick, reliable, as well as accurate solutions for applications, ranging from line sizing to the rating of complex relief systems. Using this rigorous, steady-state simulator, process and safety engineers can design, analyse and rate processes.

    Accuracy

    Accuracy

    VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design can handle the most challenging single- and multi-phase fluid-flow systems, through the use of point-by-point thermodynamics and pressure-drop calculations. Robust flow models of utility networks ensure reduced capital costs, as well as improved plant operation.

    Intuitive GUI

    Intuitive GUI

    Using point-and-click access to data entry menus, a simple flow diagram describes the overall system structure. Complex piping isometrics can be defined through the use of the interactive drawing tool. Users are also able to import streams directly from PRO/II Process Engineering.

    Safety and Regulatory Compliance

    Safety and Regulatory Compliance

    VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design offers a comprehensive model of the plant’s flare relief systems, including full documentation of the network structure, control systems and strategy, as well as maximum relief-rate capacities. Additionally, VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design is DIERS compliant, achieving results within tolerance on all DIERS benchmark cases.

    Integration with Excel

    Integration with Excel

    It is possible for VISUAL FLARE™ Safety Relief Design simulations to be controlled and modified via an Excel interface constructed through a drag-and-drop interface. This enables the simulation to be used by anyone, even individuals unfamiliar with constructing a model. This expands usage and enhances the return on investment.

    AVEVA Process Simulation

    Designed from the ground up, SimCentral Simulation Platform was created to enable the next generation of engineers and deliver the process side of the Digital Twin.

    A Digital Twin for Your Entire Process Plant Lifecycle

    SimCentral Simulation Platform is an innovative, integrated platform that covers the complete process engineering lifecycle of design, simulation and training, so delivering the process side of the Digital Twin. 

    SimCentral comprises the first commercially available platform taking advantage of the development of web-based and cloud technologies, in order to deliver an enjoyable user experience. This will enable engineers to be more productive, collaborative, creative and inspired.

    Enable the Future of Plant Process Simulation

    Plants are becoming increasingly more complex and more integrated. Enterprises bring new processes and products to market at a faster rate. Engineering departments are global, and Engineering Managers are required to respond to changing conditions, while at the same time onboarding a new generation of engineers. SimCentral Simulation Platform has been designed from the ground up to deliver all the benefits of Digital Transformation to your business.

    Lifecycle Simulation

    Design, Rating and Dynamics modes allow you to reuse the same simulation over all engineering phases, within a single model.

    Faster Adoption

    A single, easy-to-use interface allows you to replace up to 50 programmes used in a typical process-engineering department.

    Increase Collaboration

    Adjust the engineering workflow with concurrent use by a process, control, utility and mechanical engineers.

    Retain Top Talent

    Transform engineering so that it entails more creative problem-solving – and less button pressing.

    A Single Platform for Supporting the Process Model Lifecycle

    Conceptual Design

    Conceptual Design

    Make use of the fast evaluation of design alternatives with flexible specifications and continuous solving to find the optimal design.

    Feed

    Feed

    Specify optimal equipment through the modelling of interacting systems and the direct population of the engineering database.

    Detailed Engineering

    Detailed Engineering

    Discover the optimal set point, with smooth, dynamic simulation and design for controllability.

    Start-up

    Start-up

    Facilitate rapid trouble-shooting through operator training simulation and integrated DCS logic.

    Operations

    Operations

    Minimise downtime by running debottlenecking and process improvement studies using the same model in flow-driven or pressure-driven modes.

    Capture Corporate Knowledge by Creating Process Models

    A next-generation process simulation platform can assist you in designing new processes and first-of-its-kind plants. SimCentral Simulation Platform’s intuitive modelling features help engineers to focus on the problem, act fast and share results.

     

    Capture Corporate Knowledge by Creating Process Models

    A next-generation process simulation platform can assist you in designing new processes and first-of-its-kind plants. SimCentral Simulation Platform’s intuitive modelling features help engineers to focus on the problem, act fast and share results.

    Ease of Use

    Pioneering ease of use with an intuitive, responsive interface based on contemporary standards like undo/redo and notification badges.

    Cloud Access

    Transcend IT constraints with native cloud accessibility and enjoy the advantages of parallel computing power.

    Library Approach

    Enhance the model quality and reuse through the sharing of custom models in protected libraries.

    Unified Engineering

    Facilitate multi-discipline collaboration with the smooth flow of information, from one single data hub.

    Steady State and Dynamics

    Adjust modes at any time and in any direction among flow-driven, steady-state mode (Process), pressure-driven rating (Fluid Flow) as well as Dynamics.

    Powerful Thermodynamics

    Integrate industry-standard thermodynamic methods and component databases.

    Open Modelling

    View the underlying equations and extend them by using proprietary knowledge, or create completely new models without any programming.

    Equation-oriented Solver

    Solve flow-sheet models fast and efficiently, using state-of-the-art numerics solved continuously.

    Transform the Way Your Teams Function

    Collaboration should be a smooth process, even when engineers are separated by time zones, experience or areas of speciality. SimCentral is designed for collaboration, with features such as cloud access and user roles. SimCentral allows engineering teams to become more flexible and increasingly aware of their impact on the big picture.

    Empowering Engineering Firms

    Deliver your projects faster and with increased efficiency, while increasing asset utilisation and customer satisfaction.

    Equipping Operating Companies

    Ease your workforce’s learning curve by consolidating many tools into one, unified solution, one that meets the expectations of the next-generation workforce.

    Point Solutions Consolidated to a Single Platform

    Substitute up to 50 programmes used in a typical process-engineering department with just one, simple-to-use interface. Perform activities in the same master simulation – your process’s Digital Twin.

    Chemical Distillation

    Chemical Distillation

    Design distillation columns with just one simulation for design, relief and controls.

    Steam Balances

    Steam Balances

    Substitute complex spreadsheets with an easily specified, maintainable flow sheet.

    Heat Exchanger Tube Rupture

    Heat Exchanger Tube Rupture

    Predict the pressure surge in piping and low-pressure equipment.

    Flare Systems

    Flare Systems

    Unite process dynamic simulation and flare network analysis, for the proper sizing of flare systems.

    Column Relief

    Column Relief

    The steady-state process design simulation can be applied for dynamic flare relief without the need for creating another, separate model.

    Steam System Dynamic Studies

    Steam System Dynamic Studies

    Utilise only one, integrated model for both dynamics and steam balances.

    Pressure Surge

    Pressure Surge

    Use a consistent platform for performing water hammer and pressure surge analyses.

    Pressure Surge

    Pressure Surge

    Use a consistent platform for performing water hammer and pressure surge analyses.

    Compressors

    Compressors

    Simulate compressors for process design, transient operations and equipment rating.

    Flexible deployment tailored to your needs

    SimCentral Simulation Platform is used by plant owner-operators, EPC firms, R&D departments, universities, consultants and more. Every group has its own, unique business model and licensing requirements. We offer SimCentral as a traditional, on-premise installation, or it can be used as a pure cloud service with flexible licensing options.

    AVEVA’s cloud services make possible new levels of collaboration, productivity and efficacy across the operational and engineering lifecycles. Access becomes easily scalable – without any IT footprint as projects ramp up-and-down.

    AVEVA Process Optimisation

    ROMeo Process Optimisation makes use of real-time and offline process and economic data, so guaranteeing maximum operating profit while adhering to all regulatory requirements.

    Robust Online Modelling with Equation-Based Optimisation

    Process Optimisation is industry-leading technology for real-time optimisation. It can generate precise operating information, so improving performance and empowering operators to make informed decisions faster.

    Optimisation is the area where operations and economics meet. As it is based on the first-principle simulation, Process Optimisation can enhance plant performance and profits, with typical benefits ranging from $0.05 to $0.25/bbl throughput, with a payback period of 12 months or less. In addition, ROMeo Process Optimisation extends beyond purely process optimisation, so enabling refinery/plant performance monitoring, troubleshooting, as well as robust engineering studies.

    Process Optimisation

    Process Optimisation makes use of real-time process and economic data, in order to determine the set points guaranteeing maximum operating profit while meeting all regulatory requirements.

    A Scalable, Maintainable Optimisation Solution

    A Scalable, Maintainable Optimisation Solution

    Designed specifically to address the need for real-time, non-linear optimisation of continuous processes, Process Optimisation utilises real-time process and economic data to determine setpoints that guarantee a maximum operating profit, while achieving all regulatory requirements.

    Process Optimisation uses first-principle simulation techniques with proven data reconciliation and optimisation technologies, in order to provide maximum, sustainable plant performance, as well as increased return on investment.

    Evaluation of “What if?” Scenarios

    Evaluation of “What if?” Scenarios

    Making use of precise models representing your plant’s actual operating conditions, Process Optimisation provides a Microsoft Excel- and flowsheet-based interface to enable offline “what-if?” scenarios. Additionally, Process Optimisation models can be utilised for procurement planning, as well as for the evaluation of the benefits of process changes.

    Automated Optimisation and Reporting

    Automated Optimisation and Reporting

    Process Optimisation’s Real-time System (RTS) offers an integrated, graphical scheduling environment. This enables users to automate optimisation and reporting. By making use of RTS, users can define complex event sequences for closed-loop optimisation with ease, without the need for user intervention.

    Task sequences can be scheduled to run on a daily or weekly basis, or at any pre-set interval. Such sequences can also be dynamically controlled when specific conditions, such as reaching a steady-state, have been achieved.

     

    Results Visualisation and Key Performance Indicators

    Results Visualisation and Key Performance Indicators

    Process Optimisation’s industry-proven results can be rapidly visualised through the use of embedded web page reporting, as well as via the Intelligence application for web-based dashboards. These dashboards display key performance indicators and other important operations information.

    Integrated Modelling Makes Optimisation Easy

    Integrated Modelling Makes Optimisation Easy

    Process Optimisation is the only complete process optimisation solution to integrate heat and material balance rigorous simulation, economic optimisation, gross error detection, data reconciliation, as well as performance monitoring into a single user environment.

    Its online modelling and optimisation capabilities make use of industry-proven thermodynamic methods and data in order to generate highly accurate operating information. This allows managers to rapidly and precisely react to changes in market pressures, energy costs, as well as the performance of equipment.

    With its integrated interface and drag-and-drop functionality, Process Optimisation minimises the user’s learning curve while accelerating real economic benefits. In modelling large processes, Process Optimisation’s equation-based optimisation engine is unmatched.

    AVEVA Off-Sites Management

    Inventory, movement and blend management for refinery off-sites, as well as terminal operations

    Modular, Scalable Off-Sites Suite

    Refinery Off-sites, Tank Farm and Terminal solutions offer reliable, accurate and accessible inventory and movement information, movement automation, as well as off-line/on-line multi-blend optimisation. Enhanced automation and information management minimises quality giveaway, avoids reprocessing and increases accounting accuracy.

    Refinery Off-Sites Features

    The Refinery Off-sites Suite encapsulates the best practices and experience of more than two decades of refinery off-sites and terminal project engineering, along with numerous successful installations. This software is designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing plant systems – and to support your current workflows. Refinery Off-sites cuts down on product cost while promoting faster time-to-value, increasing customer satisfaction.

    Modular, Scalable Off-Sites Suite

    Modular, Scalable Off-Sites Suite

    Contributing to the development of our 10-module suite of tools for refinery off-sites and/or petrochemical terminal planning and operations, are hundreds of man-years of off-sites project engineering experience. The vast, wide-ranging offering includes inventory and movement management; accounting balance and tracking; as well as monitoring, optimising and blending.

    Compliance with open industry standards makes possible the integration with existing plant and business systems, so maintaining – and enhancing – the return on investment in existing assets and systems.

    Tank Farm Inventory and Movement Management

    Tank Farm Inventory and Movement Management

    Inventory management and movement automation enhance planning, scheduling, and operational efficiency. At the same time, it reduces the risk of contamination, reprocessing and demurrage. Mass balance reconciliation and inventory information facilitate increased accuracy in yield accounting and stock loss control.

    Results include increased asset utilisation, lower cost of tank farm operations, increased accuracy in inventory accounting, enhanced cash flow management and increased customer satisfaction.

    Blend Control and Optimisation

    Blend Control and Optimisation

    One-of-a-kind off-line/on-line multi-blend optimisation technology allows for the opportunity to maximise overall blend production profit against the refinery’s true, long-term operational constraints. On-line blend control and optimisation reduce the need for re-blends.

    It also minimises giveaway and component costs while ensuring that products meet quality and regulatory agency specifications.

    Overall Refinery Optimisation

    Overall Refinery Optimisation

    Refinery Operations Management is designed to enable greater agility and responsiveness. It facilitates this through the integration of complex, disparate software applications in both the supply chain and operations layers, so enabling collaborative work processes.

    Refinery Operations Management integrates Refinery Off-sites with ROMeo Process Simulation, Yield Accounting, Enterprise Asset Management and Historian, as well as other applications.

    AVEVA Recipe Management

    Boost operational efficiency, ensure product quality and manage enhanced product variation

    Digital Formula and Recipe Management

    Irrespective of whether you are operating a batch production operation or a production line, the number of recipes requiring consistent and accurate maintenance can be overwhelming. Our off-the-shelf, commercial formula and recipe management software enables simplified recipe optimisation, deployment, adaptation, as well as execution. It enhances operational efficiency and flexibility through the reduction of product changeover time while enforcing product quality and repeatability through parameter download and procedure automation.

    Electronic change and execution history records, which includes electronic signatures, lower compliance costs. The system-neutral design abstracts recipes and formulas from underlying control systems. This enables the standardisation and streamlining of new product introduction processes across the enterprise.

    Digital Recipe Management

    Reduce product formulations and recipe management while increasing recipe agility. Secure product and process quality by automating your equipment set-up and recipe execution.

    Formula Management and Download

    Formula Management and Download

    For many manufacturing processes, the rapid and consistent set-up of equipment is the key to flexibility and consistent quality. Formula management has its focus on the management of formulas and equipment, for consistent parameter value transfer to control systems. Formulas are defined as independent of shop floor equipment. This enables users to centrally manage product definitions for use in multiple production locations, irrespective of each location’s automation system.

    Formula download is simple, making use of the web-based user interface. Operators assign formulas by browsing and then making a selection from a list of available and approved formula instances for specific equipment. Operators are then able to review the assigned target values, adjust them within the supplied limits, then download the formula to the connected automation system.

    Recipe Management and Execution

    Recipe Management and Execution

    Recipe management and execution enable users to create procedures which define the order of equipment execution. A recipe contains the defined procedure, as well as a mapped formula defining the making of a product, through the association of a formula and capability parameters.

    Manual capabilities are at hand for manual data entry and acknowledgement. In order to execute a recipe, an operator simply assigns a recipe to the appropriate equipment. Then the operator starts, monitors and controls its execution. Operators can adjust parameter values within the defined limits. This can be done before the recipe start, or even just before the capability is executed.

    Electronic Change and Execution History Record

    Electronic Change and Execution History Record

    Comprehensive reporting and history records enable users to view historical information relating to formulas and recipes that have been created, changed or executed. Equipment, formulas, as well as recipes, are all “versioned” items. This means that any configuration change increments the version number. Electronic records are automatically created for formula downloads documenting the parameter values, as well as for recipe execution.

    Electronic records can be configured for electronic signatures as well. Electronic signatures (done by/check by), which include optional comment enforcement for actions, are available for the facilitation of implementations that comply with life science industry regulations. These include FDA 21 CFR Part 11, or cGMP guidelines (EudraLex Vol. 4 Annex 11).

    Integrate with All Automation Systems

    Integrate with All Automation Systems

    It is possible to integrate the software with System Platform, or it can be used stand-alone with any control system, via the OPC UA Data Access specification. Using a state interface that can be configured to provide full alignment with ISA-88 standards, the recipe procedure is coordinated with the control system. The Recipe Management user interface can be accessed via a web browser on mobile devices, via a desktop or via HMI. Operators can access the execution web page in a browser, or by using a browser control within InTouch for System Platform, or by making use of other HMI software.

    Progressive Handover

    Remove the risk from the traditional, event-driven handover – from the project phase into operations

    Features and Capabilities

    • A staged, incremental flow of validated data that is based on data maturity
    • Continuous information status assessment and reporting throughout the project
    • The early availability of information for operational readiness
    •  The first stage to full Asset Life Cycle Information Management

    Progressive Handover De-risks the Traditional, Event-driven Handover from the Project Phase into Operations

    AVEVA’s Progressive Handover solution can bring down handover costs by as much as 85%* while streamlining the population of operational readiness systems as well as reducing information retrieval time in operations. It offers key metrics on information completeness, as well as ready access to actionable, trusted information in operations.

    Key Features

    • Automatic extraction and linking of tag data from drawings and documents
    • Simple, non-invasive deployment
    • Aggregation of information from multiple sources
    • Powerful search-and-reporting capabilities
    • Intuitive, fast access to information of known quality
    • Built-in 2D and 3D data visualisation

    *AVEVA NET – Woodside post-implementation review; Deloitte

    Production Scheduling

    Decision-support tools that provide fast, accurate and transparent information on current – and future – activities.

    Schedule Confidently

    Making sure that a refinery meets all its requirements – while remaining close to operating targets– is always a complicated task. Schedulers require decision-support tools that provide fast, accurate and transparent information on current and future activities. In addition, these tools need to have the flexibility to solve short-term problems, as well as highlight any drift from long-term goals.

    As part of Spiral Suite, Schedule enables users to quickly set up and adapt their schedules for meeting their day-to-day requirements. Schedule also offers users the flexibility to meet their preferred way of working – via Gantt or table – or to add or modify activities quickly through integration.

    Easy-to-use and fast-to-learn, Schedule’s familiar UI allows users to quickly adapt and evolve the schedule, even as requirements change.

    Supply Chain Scheduling

    Sharing the same plant definition and mathematical engine as Plan allows for consistency. Users are empowered to comprehend the implications of their decisions on the business in its entirety, allowing them to concentrate on solving practical, short-term problems, highlight drift from long-term goals, as well as make the best possible use of the plant’s assets.

    Work with Pipelines and Blends – with Ease

    Easily configured functionality for a processing unit, pipeline and product blends allows users to set up, adjust and optimise single and multiple blend activities quickly and simply. Schedulers can make use of the powerful blend optimisation engine and sequential blend environments, so ensuring stable and optimal operations across single as well as multiple time frames.

    Economic and operation targeting ensure schedules that are profitable as well as realisable.

    Compare the Plan, the Schedule and the Actual

    The same reference data (including process unit models, plant topology and feedstock data from Assay) is shared between Schedule and Plan. This ensures the consistency of information and predictions between various user groups. Share model updates and targets instantly, with an easy comparison of plan versus schedule, to highlight potential problems. Compare various timeframes and focus on the biggest differences between activities and inventories.

    The seamless sharing of knowledge and understanding between planners and schedulers enhances operational planning, as well as supporting quick reactions to market and plant changes.