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AVEVA Helps Atkins Maintain a Competitive Edge

AVEVA (Schneider Electric)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Digital Twin
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Atkins, a leading design, engineering and project management consultancy, operates in Western Australia, a region known for its high cost of doing business. This necessitates the company to be particularly efficient in adding value to remain competitive in the global market. The majority of Atkins’ projects are brownfield ones with difficult access conditions and often inaccurate or incomplete-as-built information available. Traditional surveying techniques can be slow and costly. 3D laser scanning offers a quicker, cheaper and more efficient alternative; however, Atkins needed a 3D design tool that had tight point cloud integration. Read More
About Customer	Atkins is one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing some 18,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Its breadth and depth of expertise, and its drive to continually ask ‘why’, has enabled the company to plan, design and deliver some of the world’s most complex and time-critical projects. The company operates in Western Australia, a region known for its high cost of doing business. This necessitates the company to be particularly efficient in adding value to remain competitive in the global market. Read More
Solution	Atkins decided to put AVEVA at the centre of its engineering. The use of AutoCAD was abandoned and drawings were generated directly from PDMS instead. Atkins had no hesitation in migrating to AVEVA E3D and updating its PDMS-based procedures to take advantage of the new capabilities. Atkins used AVEVA E3D on the Varanus Island Compression Project (VICP) for Apache Energy. This highly collaborative, 8,500-man-hour project involved all engineering disciplines, as well as the client, at each step of the design process. Modular design enabled Atkins to run multiple teams in tandem to fasttrack the work. As a result, they were able to deliver the completed design in just 13 weeks. Atkins is in the process of launching its new global design strategy, in which AVEVA technology will play a prominent role. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Digital Twin

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Atkins, a leading design, engineering and project management consultancy, operates in Western Australia, a region known for its high cost of doing business. This necessitates the company to be particularly efficient in adding value to remain competitive in the global market. The majority of Atkins’ projects are brownfield ones with difficult access conditions and often inaccurate or incomplete-as-built information available. Traditional surveying techniques can be slow and costly. 3D laser scanning offers a quicker, cheaper and more efficient alternative; however, Atkins needed a 3D design tool that had tight point cloud integration.

About Customer

Atkins is one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing some 18,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Its breadth and depth of expertise, and its drive to continually ask ‘why’, has enabled the company to plan, design and deliver some of the world’s most complex and time-critical projects. The company operates in Western Australia, a region known for its high cost of doing business. This necessitates the company to be particularly efficient in adding value to remain competitive in the global market.

Solution

Atkins decided to put AVEVA at the centre of its engineering. The use of AutoCAD was abandoned and drawings were generated directly from PDMS instead. Atkins had no hesitation in migrating to AVEVA E3D and updating its PDMS-based procedures to take advantage of the new capabilities. Atkins used AVEVA E3D on the Varanus Island Compression Project (VICP) for Apache Energy. This highly collaborative, 8,500-man-hour project involved all engineering disciplines, as well as the client, at each step of the design process. Modular design enabled Atkins to run multiple teams in tandem to fasttrack the work. As a result, they were able to deliver the completed design in just 13 weeks. Atkins is in the process of launching its new global design strategy, in which AVEVA technology will play a prominent role.

Impact #1	Design efficiency has been increased by 40%.
Impact #2	Global deployments are now set up in days, not months.
Impact #3	Atkins is overall more competitive in the world market.

Impact #1

Design efficiency has been increased by 40%.

Impact #2

Global deployments are now set up in days, not months.

Impact #3

Atkins is overall more competitive in the world market.

Benefit #1	Design efficiency has been increased by 40%
Benefit #2	Global deployments are now set up in days, not months

Benefit #1

Design efficiency has been increased by 40%

Benefit #2

Global deployments are now set up in days, not months

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AVEVA Helps Atkins Maintain a Competitive Edge

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