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Aras and AVEVA’s Partnership: Data Connectivity and the Digital Thread

Malcolm Panthaki — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:50:00 GMT

AVEVA is focusing on connecting the industrial ecosystem and providing data in context

From the first keynotes at this year's AVEVA World, held October 23-26, the focus was on shared data connectivity in a multi-vendor, distributed industrial ecosystem and how it can increase impact, inform sustainability initiatives, and increase resilience in a time of rapid technological change. With the explosive advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning, and with generative AI in particular, the time for a data-centric platform solution is now!

In his keynote, AVEVA CEO Caspar Herzberg spoke about their broad ecosystem of partners on AVEVA Connect and how it is fast becoming the heart of their industrial software environment. Herzberg explained why Connect is uniquely positioned to leverage AVEVA solutions to provide a single source of truth for trusted data, analytics, command and control, and decision-making. The bottom line? AVEVA Connect provides an industrial cloud platform for managing connected data, intelligent search, and enhanced decision-making. This is central to AVEVA's portfolio and solution strategy for their customers.

Rob McGreevy, AVEVA's Chief Product Officer, discussed their research into using Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist in the intelligent search of industrial data. AVEVA is experimenting with using LLMs in their Innovation Labs to infuse AI into their connected data platform to help customers in their search, analysis, and management decisions.

Bry Dillon, SVP, Partners at AVEVA, summed it up best this way:

Data is one of the few resources that gets more valuable the more it is used.

Establishing a connected, collaborative Digital Thread

Aras brings a powerful digital thread platform to AVEVA and its ecosystem of applications and data. It adds a traceability and lifecycle management capability to their industry-leading suite of industry solutions. It allows users to track their industrial assets from ideation to FEED, design, construction, operations, and end-of-life. This unbroken flow of digital data helps companies gain critical insights to inform decisions throughout the asset's lifecycle. It improves communication and collaboration among individuals, distributed teams, and the global supply chain.

This results in a connected, encompassing digital thread for complex engineered assets, bringing seamless data connectivity and extremely valuable context to that data that can be leveraged to gain new insights, leverage AI, and enable a new level of cross-lifecycle collaboration.

AVEVA and Aras sign Lighthouse Agreement with McDermott

AVEVA and Aras recently announced that McDermott signed a lighthouse agreement with both companies to develop its asset lifecycle management capability across the energy transition, oil and gas, and nuclear sectors. In a joint presentation with Aras and AVEVA at AVEVA World, McDermott shared their view on why the industry needs asset lifecycle management and a cohesive digital thread architecture to deliver on the goals of digital transformation. The presentation recording will become available sometime before the end of the year.

The McDermott agreement follows a recent strategic OEM partnership between AVEVA and Aras to deliver a new series of scalable AVEVA offerings built on top of the modular Aras Innovator platform. The goal is to overcome the challenges of deploying Product Lifecycle Management in large capital projects, the marine shipbuilding industry, and the design, construction, and operation of continuous-process plants.

The seamless integration of Aras Innovator with AVEVA Unified Engineering, AVEVA Asset Information Management, and other AVEVA tools and services will enable the creation of an engineering system of record. A trusted single source of truth will allow customers to improve engineering efficiency, data control and distribution, and traceability across the entire asset lifecycle. The Aras platform will extend the capabilities of AVEVA's trusted EPC tools into a collaborative project space inclusive of requirements management and workflow-driven capabilities.

As Roque Martin, CEO of Aras, said:

AVEVA's robust industry asset lifecycle management solutions, built on the Aras platform, will enable McDermott to design and better manage their customers' asset lifecycle data by leveraging a fully connected digital thread of the asset's engineering and operations information. From the start, these solutions will be guided by the voice of experienced industry global organizations such as McDermott to ensure that together, we create useful, usable, and powerful software for our joint customer base.

Roque Martin and Caspar Herzberg met at AVEVA World to reaffirm the strategic nature of the partnership to both companies and review its goals. The goal of the Asset Lifecycle Management program is to realize benefits like lowered costs and risks over the project lifecycle, improve decision-making across the entire asset lifecycle, achieve better compliance and traceability, and enhance collaboration across the industrial ecosystem via an industrial intelligence platform.

Overall, there was strong interest in the Aras / AVEVA partnership at AVEVA World. Check out the recording of the latest version of the demo to see why. For more information on the partnership, the companies' joint project with McDermott, and more, here are some additional resources:

Aras and AVEVA: Building a Unified Digital Thread for Industrial Asset Lifecycle Management

Malcolm Panthaki — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:20:00 GMT

Learn more about the expanding AVEVA / Aras partnership at AVEVA World 2023

Recently, AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation, announced that they can now offer Aras Innovator^® to joint customers alongside AVEVA^TM Unified Engineering, AVEVA^TM E3D Design, and AVEVA^TM Asset Information Management as part of a reseller agreement.

The partnership between AVEVA and Aras will allow users to access valuable insights derived from accurate/historical data using a robust enterprise-wide digital thread. We are excited to partner with AVEVA and proud to be silver sponsors for this year’s AVEVA World, October 23 – 26, 2023, in San Francisco.

How it works

Aras and AVEVA have partnered to deliver a unique solution for managing information, processes, and data across the lifecycle of large industrial assets.

The Aras Innovator platform has been a disruptor in the PLM space with the industry’s most comprehensive set of Digital Thread capabilities:

Flexibility: Highly configurable, low-code platform with the flexibility to adapt faster
Scalability: Adapt to changing needs for computing power, storage, and network capacity
A CAD-agnostic platform: No longer limited to one specific vendor’s CAD tools
A robust Digital Thread: Unlimited connectivity and traceability across the lifecycle

AVEVA is collaborating with Aras to build Digital Thread solutions within a unified data platform that combines engineering, construction, and asset operations data to improve decision-making. This is the underlying current and historical data (“single source of truth”) that underpins AVEVA’s Digital Twin.

Empower your asset lifecycle management process with Digital Thread

Since entering into an OEM partnership, AVEVA and Aras have worked together to operationalize and unify data to establish a collaborative Digital Thread (see Figure 1). AVEVA’s unified data platform supports and accelerates decision-making using asset engineering, construction, and operations data. AVEVA will provide data aggregation and contextualization, with Aras managing the full connected history of that data, adding configuration management, change management, approval and other workflows, and requirements management. AVEVA and Aras make a powerful team with a long list of synergies we reviewed in an earlier blog about the partnership.

Figure 1

AVEVA World 2023

Aras is a sponsor of AVEVA World 2023 and is participating in the Partner and Product Expo and Partner Solution Talks. I will deliver a Partner Solution Talk on From Data to Knowledge: Empower Your Asset Lifecycle with Digital Thread, as well as participate in a joint presentation with McDermott and AVEVA in the Engineering Track. We encourage you to check out AVEVA’s latest blog on our partnership and collaboration and invite you to visit us at the AVEVA World Expo, Booth #8, to see a demonstration of seamless, data-centric document management workflows across AVEVA tools and Aras Innovator.

"Our partnership with Aras is a game-changer for AVEVA and our joint customers. By combining AVEVA’s and Aras’s 75 years technology experience, marks a formidable digital-centric execution solution, uniting established AVEVA tools with the powerful digital transformation capabilities of the Aras low-code platform. Together, we're on a mission to digitize industry processes that have long been document-centric, unlocking untapped potential and driving innovation to a data-centric future. We're thrilled about the possibilities that lie ahead as this collaboration is not just about technology; it's about transforming how businesses operate and make decisions. We're proud that Aras is silver sponsors for this year's AVEVA World, and we look forward to showcasing the incredible capabilities that this partnership brings to the table.”

Greg Pada, Vice President Head of Engineering Business, AVEVA

Malcolm Panthaki

Malcolm Panthaki — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:46:10 GMT

Malcolm Panthaki has over 30 years of experience developing simulation environments to enhance the effectiveness of the product development process, bringing simulation safely and robustly to the entire enterprise. As an entrepreneur and founder of Comet Solutions and the founder of the online community Revolution In Simulation, he has helped reshape the dialogue on bringing simulation to everyone who needs it. As VP of Analysis Solutions in Strategy at Aras, Malcolm helped guide Aras MBSE and Simulation strategy and messaging. As VP of Global Alliances, Malcolm now manages the strategic partnership with AVEVA and works with other partners, including the Global SIs.