CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 January 2005
Company News
AVEVA Signs Technical Alliance with Z+F UK Limited
AVEVA Group plc has signed a technical alliance with Z+F UK Limited, providers of 3D laser scanning products and services. AVEVA has now formed alliances with the five market-leading 3D laser scanning vendors, also including BitWyse Solutions, Leica Geosystems HDS, MENSI, and Quantapoint. Laser scanning provides fast and accurate physical plant surveys, saving huge amounts of time and vastly reducing errors in measurement and modeling.
This signing completes phase one of AVEVA's strategy, providing customers with a choice of best-in-class solutions for capturing and using 'existing conditions' in revamp engineering projects. The two companies plan to jointly develop a dynamic interface between AVEVA's PDMS® (Plant Design Management System) and Z+F's LFM Server, a versatile 3D point server for managing massive data sets. LFM Server can provide instant and random access to over 12 billion scan points, allowing designers to obtain quick answers to difficult as-built questions.
John Sanins, AVEVA's Head of Plant Design commented: "This alliance completes the first phase of AVEVA's strategy for integrating as-built data with PDMS. In the next phase, we will be opening the environment further to allow others to plug into our technology. The technology we have already developed with Z+F delivers not only the ability to view some of the most advanced laser-captured data, but to work with it and model around it with interactive clash checking. Our customers asked for this alliance and for this capability and we have delivered it."
Graham Dalton, Technical Director for Z+F UK Limited commented: "In recent years, laser scanning has become a vital tool in engineering revamp projects. The dynamic link between PDMS and LFM Server means that not only can PDMS users easily review their designs against the existing conditions scan data, but also make use of the fully automated clash detection facilities of both solutions. This will greatly reduce rework costs. This is a particularly exciting time for Z+F."
Z+F UK Limited ( http://www.zf-uk.com/ ), based in Manchester UK, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zoller + Frohlich GmbH Elektrotechnik. Z+F UK specializes in the Process and Industrial market sectors for which they produce software to handle high density, high resolution laser scan data. Z+F UK Ltd also provides laser scanning, modeling services and product sale of 3-D laser scanners and supporting software.
The company offers a complete integrated hardware and software package which combines the very rapid data collection of the Z+F laser scanning technology with the LFM Modeller and LFM Server software which views the data and reverse engineers it into 3-D CAD.
AVEVA Group plc ( http://www.aveva.com/ ) is a global lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services provider to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange , the Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2004 of GBP 6.1 million on a turnover of GBP 38 million, a growth in turnover of 113% in five years.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 450 staff worldwide.
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