Barco and AVEVA to offer portable project review environment to the process and power industries
Barco, the imaging technology specialist, today announces a marketing alliance with AVEVA (LSE: AVV), the leading supplier of engineering IT systems for the offshore, process and energy industries. The new alliance will allow AVEVA customers, using its Review product for high-end rendered visualisation on large 3D models, to benefit from preferential rates on Barco TRACE™ visual display units.
AVEVA, in the 1990s, was first to develop use of visual engineering centres. However, although the value of large-scale, group visualisation was appreciated, technology at the time dictated that installations were fixed and expensive and largely prohibitive to most engineering companies.
Today, users of AVEVA's VANTAGE Plant Design Review solution can take full advantage of Barco TRACETM, an affordable portable visual display unit that can be used in well-lit rooms with active 3D stereo display. The TRACE unit is scalable, enabling multiple applications to be displayed with bright image.
The visual display unit from Barco is also well suited to AVEVA’s VNET web-enabled collaboration and integration solutions that will help bring information together for globally dispersed project offices. The alliance will enable both companies to demonstrate their respective products at key industry events.
Paul Daynes, Marketing Manager, Global Sales and Services commented: "Throughout its history AVEVA has been at the forefront of high-end visualisation for the process and power market. Through alliances like this one with Barco, we will once again set new standards in enabling effective engineering project reviews at a cost that engineering companies will find attractive."
Darrel Fanquy, Market Development Manager, at Barco Simulation, commented: "With portability and bright image display at the top of our design criteria, we are confident that the TRACE unit, with AVEVA products, will deliver a very attractive proposition when compared with fixed and expensive environments.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Euronext Brussels and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company.
About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world’s leading engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, pulp and paper, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Formerly known as Cadcentre, the group has a history of groundbreaking innovation that spans five decades. It is one of the world’s fastest growing solutions providers and the founder of most of today's empirical lifecycle engineering IT practices.
AVEVA Group plc operates globally through three divisions: AVEVA Consulting, AVEVA Managed Services and AVEVA Engineering IT. A fourth division, AVEVA Solutions, is responsible for product development. The group’s technology has been integral to the engineering process of industrial plants with a value in excess of US$500 billion for more than 800 clients across the globe, including leading plant owner/operators and engineering contractors such as 3M, Aker Kvaerner, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, BASF, DSME, DuPont, Engineers India Limited, Electricité de France, Foster Wheeler, Framatome, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, KBR, Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Petronas Carigali, Samsung Heavy Industries, Shell, Technip and Uhde.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ 350 staff in 25 offices worldwide, maintaining the consistency of their operation across six continents.
About VANTAGETM
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 PDMSTM
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.
For more information, please contact
Jay
Luis
Director of Marketing Communications (US)
Barco Simulation USA
Telephone
+1 937 372.7579
jay.luis@barco.com
