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AVEVA Everything3D™
Plant Design for Lean Construction
The plant industries face many new challenges in an increasingly competitive
global market demanding ever bigger and more complex projects. Just as
Lean Manufacturing transformed the volume manufacturing industries, so
the capital industries aspire to Lean Construction in order to meet these
challenges. Until now, the key enabling technologies have been absent.
AVEVA Everything3D™ (AVEVA E3D™) provides these, opening the door to a
new future of plant design.
AVEVA E3D is the core design application within AVEVA Plant, the most
comprehensive, powerful and tightly integrated plant engineering and design
solution available. Not only does AVEVA E3D provide a considerable increase in
design productivity, it also enables increased quality and speed of execution
throughout the entire project.
AVEVA E3D achieves this dramatic increase in performance by combining improved
performance in design tasks with new technologies enabling novel and more
efficient project execution processes. Together, these save time and cost, and
eliminate many of the most common causes of costly rework in construction.
AVEVA E3D has speed, quality, efficiency and standards-compliance built in. It is
a design solution for the next generation of plant projects and an enabler of new,
Lean Construction business processes.
Rapid Project Start-up
z Set up in days not months
z Rapid global deployment
z Reduce time to deliverables
Design Efficiency
z Experience new levels of
design capability
z Achieve project savings of
up to 20%
Compliance
z Maintain control throughout
the design chain
z Adhere to regulations
z Conform to corporate
standards
Removing Rework in
Construction
z Avoid costly construction
errors
z Save money, increase returns
z Reduce and manage project
risks and exposure to litigation
Business Benefits
Iterative comparison of the evolving design against as-constructed laser data eliminates costly rework on-site

2. Multi-discipline 3D plant design model
z The 3D plant design model is created and modified using
discipline-specific applications, each optimised for the most
efficient modelling in the relevant discipline.
Laser scanning integrated in modelling
z Integrating 3D design models with high-definition laser
surveys of fabrications, sub-assemblies and on-site
construction enables designers to create right-first-time
design and to ensure compatibility between new design and
existing construction.
Advanced 3D graphics, optimised for plant design modelling
z The 3D model rendering conveys a heightened sense of spatial
awareness to the designer through the use of optimised
lighting, shadows and edge highlighting. This makes it easier
and quicker to position objects in the model and to intuitively
avoid many clashes or placement errors.
Easy to use GUI
z The Microsoft Fluent-based user interface makes functions easy
to find and obvious to use. New users become proficient more
quickly and experienced users more productive.
2D and 3D geometry interfaces
z AVEVA E3D provides extensive 2D and 3D geometry interfaces
for effective collaboration with project partners such as
equipment vendors or subcontractors.
Drafting integrated with the model
z Drafting functions directly integrated with the 3D model
enable efficient first-time drafting and rapid drawing
regeneration for subsequent design changes.
Design Checking
z A standard design checking capability can be further extended
and configured by customisable design checking rules.
Key Features
AVEVA E3D graphics engine is optimised for design to enable the designer to recognise the depth of the 3D space more immediately

3. High performance in large networks
z AVEVA E3D performance is optimised
for use across networks with
datacentres or high latency.
Multi-discipline and multi-user
collaboration
z Built-in capabilities are provided
to seamlessly manage project data
with many concurrent users in many
different disciplines.
Built-in data management
z Access Control and Status functions
ensure that each designer has the
correct access to project information.
Integration of 3D data with
engineering and schematic data
z Direct access to engineering
information and P&IDs allows
designers to use engineering and
schematic information when building
the 3D model. Designers can at any
time compare the 3D design with its
related engineering and schematic
data to ensure consistent design as
the project evolves.
Local customisation
z Users can create automated functions
and customise the behaviour of the
product to suit their preferred working
methods or to increase productivity
and competitive advantage.
Parallel running with AVEVA PDMS,
Engineering and Diagrams
z AVEVA E3D can be run in parallel
with the latest versions of AVEVA
PDMS, AVEVA Engineering and AVEVA
Diagrams on the same project data.
This assures security of valuable data
assets and eliminates many of the risks
associated with upgrading any design
solution.
Component rotation constrained to straddle bolt holes, as defined in the catalogue, to reduce fabrication problems
User-customisable contextual display of properties on pop-up tooltips gives immediate feedback to designers

4. Simple creation of projection and sectional views from a base view
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Design products, which create 3D
models for detailed design and produce
all associated deliverables
Design Checker captures knowledge and standards to provide automatic validation of compliance