AVEVA Releases Powerful New 3D Design Transfer Solution

CAMBRIDGE, England, January 13 - AVEVA (LSE:AVV) announces the release of AVEVA Mechanical Equipment
Interface, a powerful solution to the problem of transferring 3D models
between incompatible design systems.

Until now, solutions for transferring design between different 3D CAD
systems have proved to be inadequate in various ways and have not achieved
the necessary high levels of usability or industry support. Recently,
however, a neutral format has been adopted - STEP AP203 - which does offer an
effective means of 3D design transfer and is now achieving widespread
industry acceptance. AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface has been developed
to employ the AP203 protocol and provides a plant or ship designer with a
robust and efficient tool for importing into AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting
accurate 3D models of suppliers' equipment items.

Commenting on this important new release, Bruce Douglas, AVEVA Vice
President Product and Marketing Strategy, said:

'The inability to easily share data between computer systems has long
been a barrier to exploiting the full value of engineering information and to
effective collaboration on complex projects. AVEVA is committed to the
removal of such barriers and plays a leading role in the development,
promotion and use of open standards for data interoperability.'

'AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is further confirmation of this
continuing commitment and our equal commitment to providing customers with
ever-increasing value from their use of AVEVA solutions. This new product
will make the practicing designer's work a lot easier and provide measurable
business benefits in project cost, timescale and quality.'

A number of customers in the marine, power and mining industries worked
closely with AVEVA during the development of this new product and have
already reported up to 60% reduction in man-hours compared with their
previous practice of re-creating equipment models from scratch in AVEVA PDMS.

AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface is available for immediate
deployment in an AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine environment, and is appropriate
for the Power, Marine, Mining, Mineral Processing, Pulp and Paper,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing sectors.

About AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface

Equipment suppliers can export 3D models from the principal MCAD systems
in STEP AP203 format. Using AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface, a designer
can import these fully-detailed models into AVEVA PDMS or AVEVA Outfitting,
where they can be manipulated like any native PDMS or Outfitting objects.
This avoids the need for laborious and error-prone workarounds, such as
manually re-creating an equipment model in PDMS/Outfitting. Now the full
design value already created by the equipment supplier can be exploited by
the PDMS/Outfitting designer to create better-quality plant or vessel designs
more quickly.

AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface provides facilities for simplifying
the display of an imported model for more efficient working while creating
the overall design, and for exporting selected parts of a PDMS or Outfitting
model to third-party 3D design applications which support AP203 import.

More information about AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface and other
AVEVA solutions can be found at www.aveva.com/plant or
www.aveva.com/marine.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a leading supplier of engineering and design software to the
plant and marine industries. For more information about AVEVA, please visit
www.aveva.com/ednotes.

    For further information, please contact:
    Alison Patey
    Marketing Communications Manager
    AVEVA Corporate
    Tel: +44-1223-556653
    alison.patey@aveva.com

For further information, please contact: Alison Patey, Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA Corporate, Tel: +44-1223-556653, alison.patey at aveva.com