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AVEVA Group plc is a British multinational company
headquartered in Cambridge
, United Kingdom
. It provides engineering design, information management
solutions, and CAD/CAM
software
along with technology consulting services for the Plant
, Power and Marine
industries.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange
and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
.
, UK in 1967 by the UK Ministry of Technology
. Its mission was to develop computer-aided design
techniques and promote their take-up by British industry. Its first director was Arthur Llewelyn who initially contracted out the recruitment and management of specialist staff to ICL.
The centre carried out much pioneering CAD research, and many of its early staff members went on to become prominent in the worldwide CAD community, such as brothers Dick Newell
and Martin Newell
. Dick Newell oversaw the creation of the Plant Design Management System
(PDMS) for 3D process plant design, and later co-founded two software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) which was known for its Medusa 2D/3D CAD system, and Smallworld
with its eponymous Smallworld GIS ( Geographical Information System). Martin Newell later went to the University of Utah
where he did pioneering 3D solid modelling work; he was also one of the progenitors of PostScript
.
Along with the Cambridge Science Park
, CADCentre was one of the original companies involved in what became known as the Cambridge Phenomenon – the transformation of Cambridge from a University town into one of the world's high technology centres within a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
CADCentre became a private company in 1983, was the subject of a management buyout
in 1994 and became a publicly quoted company in 1996. It changed its name to AVEVA in 2001.
AVEVA is currently seeking to improve its market share in the United States and BRIC
countries.
solution
s, technology services, and CAD/CAM
software
for the engineering
industries.
The products, services, and solutions it offers are the following:
of complex engineering projects in the oil & gas, process plant
and power generation industries
The products include principal software solution, AVEVA PDMS
: a customizable, multi-user and multi-discipline, engineer controlled 3D CAD software package
& offshore
industries. It develops and manages an integrated suite of products for engineering, design, production, maintenance and operation of complex ships and offshore vessels
.
applications as well as related project management
, management consulting
services that deliver information management
capabilities, across existing AVEVA products, third-party applications, or any combination of these.
Its flagship information management solution is AVEVA NET.
Chief executive officer (CEO):
Multinational corporation
A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...
headquartered in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It provides engineering design, information management
Management information system
A management information system provides information needed to manage organizations efficiently and effectively. Management information systems involve three primary resources: people, technology, and information. Management information systems are distinct from other information systems in that...
solutions, and CAD/CAM
Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most common; CAM may also refer to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a...
software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
along with technology consulting services for the Plant
Chemical plant
A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. The general objective of a chemical plant is to create new material wealth via the chemical or biological transformation and or separation of materials. Chemical plants use special equipment,...
, Power and Marine
Naval architecture
Naval architecture is an engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures. Naval architecture involves basic and applied research, design, development, design evaluation and calculations during all stages of the life of a...
industries.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
FTSE 250 Index
The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions to and demotions from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December...
.
History
The Computer-Aided Design Centre (or CADCentre as it was more commonly referred to, and later formally became) was created in CambridgeCambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, UK in 1967 by the UK Ministry of Technology
Berr
Berr is a surname, and may refer to:* Hélène Berr , Jewish French woman* Henri Berr , French philosopher-See also:* Ber * BERR, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in United Kingdom...
. Its mission was to develop computer-aided design
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...
techniques and promote their take-up by British industry. Its first director was Arthur Llewelyn who initially contracted out the recruitment and management of specialist staff to ICL.
The centre carried out much pioneering CAD research, and many of its early staff members went on to become prominent in the worldwide CAD community, such as brothers Dick Newell
Dick Newell
Dr. Richard G. Newell has spent over 30 years in the software industry in Computer aided design and Geographic Information Systems .Dick holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Numerical Analysis and a PhD in Chemical Engineering....
and Martin Newell
Martin Newell (computer scientist)
Martin Newell is a British-born computer scientist specializing in computer graphics who is perhaps best known as the creator of the Utah teapot computer model....
. Dick Newell oversaw the creation of the Plant Design Management System
Plant Design Management System
PDMS as it is known in the 3D CAD industry, is a customizable, multi-user and multi-discipline, engineer controlled design software package for engineering, design and construction projects in, but not limited to, offshore and onshore oil & gas industry, chemical & process plants, mining,...
(PDMS) for 3D process plant design, and later co-founded two software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) which was known for its Medusa 2D/3D CAD system, and Smallworld
Smallworld
Smallworld was a GIS company founded in Cambridge, England, in 1989 by Dick Newell and others. It grew to become the global market leader for GIS in utilities and communications, according to Daratech. In September 2000, it was acquired by GE Energy, a division of General Electric...
with its eponymous Smallworld GIS ( Geographical Information System). Martin Newell later went to the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
where he did pioneering 3D solid modelling work; he was also one of the progenitors of PostScript
PostScript
PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
.
Along with the Cambridge Science Park
Cambridge Science Park
The Cambridge Science Park, founded by Trinity College in 1970, is the oldest science park in the United Kingdom. It is a concentration of science and technology related businesses, and has strong links with the nearby University of Cambridge....
, CADCentre was one of the original companies involved in what became known as the Cambridge Phenomenon – the transformation of Cambridge from a University town into one of the world's high technology centres within a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
CADCentre became a private company in 1983, was the subject of a management buyout
Management buyout
A management buyout is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company.- Overview :Management buyouts are similar in all major legal aspects to any other acquisition of a company...
in 1994 and became a publicly quoted company in 1996. It changed its name to AVEVA in 2001.
Operations
AVEVA has about 50 branch offices in 39 countries. It is organised as follows:- North America (based in Houston, United States)
- Latin America (based in Rio De JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Brazil) - Asia Pacific (based in Kuala LumpurKuala LumpurKuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
, Malaysia) - Europe, Middle East & Africa (based in SulzbachSulzbach- Germany :* Sulzbach-Rosenberg, a town in the district Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria* Sulzbach, Saarland, a town in the district of Saarbrücken, Saarland* Sulzbach, Hesse, a municipality in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse...
, Germany)
AVEVA is currently seeking to improve its market share in the United States and BRIC
BRIC
In economics, BRIC is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development...
countries.
Products, services, and solutions
The company provides engineering design, information managementManagement information system
A management information system provides information needed to manage organizations efficiently and effectively. Management information systems involve three primary resources: people, technology, and information. Management information systems are distinct from other information systems in that...
solution
Solution
In chemistry, a solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase. In such a mixture, a solute is dissolved in another substance, known as a solvent. The solvent does the dissolving.- Types of solutions :...
s, technology services, and CAD/CAM
Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most common; CAM may also refer to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a...
software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
for the engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
industries.
The products, services, and solutions it offers are the following:
Plant solutions
The plant solutions division develops and manages an integrated suite of products for engineering, design and design managementDesign management
Design Management is a business discipline that uses project management, design, strategy, and supply chain techniques to control a creative process, support a culture of creativity, and build a structure and organisation for design...
of complex engineering projects in the oil & gas, process plant
Chemical plant
A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. The general objective of a chemical plant is to create new material wealth via the chemical or biological transformation and or separation of materials. Chemical plants use special equipment,...
and power generation industries
The products include principal software solution, AVEVA PDMS
Plant Design Management System
PDMS as it is known in the 3D CAD industry, is a customizable, multi-user and multi-discipline, engineer controlled design software package for engineering, design and construction projects in, but not limited to, offshore and onshore oil & gas industry, chemical & process plants, mining,...
: a customizable, multi-user and multi-discipline, engineer controlled 3D CAD software package
Marine solutions
The marine solutions division caters to the ShipbuildingShipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both...
& offshore
Offshore construction
Offshore construction is the installation of structures and facilities in a marine environment, usually for the production and transmission of electricity, oil, gas and other resources....
industries. It develops and manages an integrated suite of products for engineering, design, production, maintenance and operation of complex ships and offshore vessels
Oil platform
An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...
.
Enterprise solutions
The enterprise solutions division provides specialized technology consulting services and manages enterprise-level softwareEnterprise software
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...
applications as well as related project management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
, management consulting
Management consulting
Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....
services that deliver information management
Management information system
A management information system provides information needed to manage organizations efficiently and effectively. Management information systems involve three primary resources: people, technology, and information. Management information systems are distinct from other information systems in that...
capabilities, across existing AVEVA products, third-party applications, or any combination of these.
Its flagship information management solution is AVEVA NET.
Acquisitions
- On 21 April 2004, the company acquired Tribon Solutions, a global supplier of TribonTribonTribon is a naval architecture program originally developed by Kockum Computer Systems for designing commercial and naval vessels. KCS was spun off from Kockums shipyards as an independent company, later renamed Tribon Systems, which was in turn acquired by AVEVA in 2004.Tribon is actually a...
, a IT solutions for shipbuilding and marine design for US$35 million. The acquisition was completed on 19 May 2004. - On 31 March 2005, the company acquired Realitywave, Inc., developers of a web collaboration & streaming platform for £3.2 million.
- On 30 March 2009, AVEVA announced the acquisition of iDesignOffice Pty Ltd, an instrumentation engineering technology company based in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in products for plant and marine industries.
- On 3 June 2010, AVEVA Solutions Ltd, a wholly owned unit of AVEVA Group plc, announced the acquisition of Logimatic’s MARS business from Logimatic Holdings A/S for GBP12.8 million. This acquisition was completed on 30 June 2010 & MARS products and services were merged into AVEVA's Enterprise Solutions Group and aligned with its flagship AVEVA NET solution.
- On 3 June 2010, AVEVA Solutions Ltd acquired the oil and gas business from ADB Systemer AS, a Sola- based provider of operations integrity management software aimed at owner operators in the Oil and Gas industry.
- On 3 October 2011, AVEVA announced the acquisition of LFM (Light Form Modeller) software division of Z+F UK LimitedZ+F UKZ+F are suppliers of high-speed accurate phase-based laser measurement and scanning systems. The company supplies laser scanning hardware, software and scanning services capturing high resolution data...
. The acquisition allowed AVEVA to expand its offering in the 3D data capture3D data acquisition and object reconstruction3D data acquisition and reconstruction is the generation of three dimensional or spatiotemporal models from sensor data. The techniques and theories, generally speaking, work with most or all sensor types including optical, acoustic, laser scanning, radar, thermal, seismic.-Acquisition:Acquisition...
market.
Leadership
Chairman (Non-Executive):- Richard King (August 1994 – March 2006)
- Nick Prest (March 2006 – …)
Chief executive officer (CEO):
- Richard Longdon (Dec 1999 – …)