Comparison Between PDMS and PDSThere are 3 major themes running through this document * Arguments to explain why a 3D solution from AVEVA is a better option than a 3D solution from Intergraph. ¢ Arguments to Support that PDMS is a technically superior and more effective solution for their business * Arguments to use to explain why PDMS is a better option than SP3DKEY BENEFITS IN MOVING TO AVEVA 3D SOLUTIONS Staying efficient and competitive. PDMS continues to be proactively developed, to become ever more efficient and effective in project execution and exploiting the latest advances in IT technology. Your competitors are using state-of-the-art PDMS technology on projects right now. They are gaining the benefits of increased effectiveness. Can you afford to wait and fall ever further behind — after all you will bidding against them for your next project? Productivity: Just show your PDS users the user interface of the .NET version of PDMS. See how quickly and easily they do their work — and how little training they need. Compare the speed with which users can manipulate large volumes of shaded 3D graphics — compared with PDS which is stil largely a wire-line UI. Advise them to talk to existing PDMS customers (especially those who have recently switched from PDS) about the speed with which they generate completed high quality, validated isometric, support and layout drawings. Unrivalled Multi-location/Global working capability: With Aveva technology Project work and data can be dynamically shared between many sites working in parallel. This means that projects can make use of high value centres and specialist teams for project work and at the same time not have to move the expert designers oF construction personnel around the world with all the personnel and cost problems this brings. Whether you compare it to PDS or SP3D — Aveva's multi-site engineering solution is far and away the best on the market. Unlike other approaches, the Aveva approach delivers:-AVEVA Global Fast performance - virtually band-width independent. Designers at all locations work at local office speeds — irrespective of the band width between locations. Extreme flexibility. Work-share allocations can be revised in line with the organizations overall work-load as the project progresses. New locations can easily be brought on line — or existing locations removed — as and when required. High levels of productivity. Your designers can carry on working even when the communication links between sites have failed or are over-loaded. Control. If your project team includes locations with whom you don't want to share all the data — then you don’t have to. Maybe you are designing a power plant — and you don’t want the location designing the turbine hall to have access to the details of the boiler island. No problem. Maybe, however, you still want to see the whole project at one location. We can do that too (and at the same time).PDMS + Unrivalled capabilities in re-use of design information. Re-use of component information, and pre-designed plant modules (or even whole plants) gives massive savings in terms of cost, schedule time and quality — and is a key factor in most industry sectors. PDMS wins hands down in this area against both PDS and SP3D. It's enormously easier with PDMS to re- use old designs or parts of old designs on new projects to get fast project start ups — and to share catalogue information between multiple projects. One of the weakest points of SP3D is in its catalogue handling capabilities. + Numerous technical advantages: PDMS has a number of technical advantages over both PDS and SP3D. Continuous development ensures that the difference in functionality, especially with PDS — which has limited on-going developments, is ever widening as time moves on. Details are given in the respective sections below. + Look at the market trend: Many have moved from PDS to PDMS _- and virtually none have gone from PDMS. Transferring PDS data fo PDMS is ossible but not SP3D. Advise your prospects to speak to some of the ormer Intergraph users that have moved to PDMS and ask them how they found the difference.+ The only option for new medium term projects? If you are starting a new project today with a say 3 to 5 year timetable there can only be one system that you can select to use to be sure that it will be fully available and supported during the project. The IG situation is that it might be PDS or it might be SmartPlant 3D. Can you afford to take the risk and end up with lots of rework when data has to be converted from one system to another? + Growing Local service: Aveva has a growing localised service compared to a reducing level of IG support in a number of territories. + Proven track record: AVEVA is a high quality, rapid growing company that has a track record of delivering what it promises. The company is guided by the following principles — Trust. - Freedom. — Excellence + Assurances is made that data created with PDMS will be fully upward compatible with new releases to protect customer's investment in training and data — it is not the result of a new marketing campaign. This assurance is founded on a long history of behaving in this way — References going back 10, 20 or even more years.+ Protection of your existing investment in PDS data. You might be surprised just how much of your existing data Aveva can recover for use in your future projects. AVEVA have lots of experience in helping PDS customers move over to PDMS — and in transitioning whole projects from PDS to PDMS. + Protection of your future investment in skills & data: AVEVA is a solid company delivering a continuous, never ending series of development upgrades and support for its PDMS product in’an incremental way to protect customer's investment in standards and trained personnel. An evolutionary strategy as opposed to the revolutionary strategy of IG. + The AVEVA evolutionary development approach means that the latest version of PDMS has the most up to date technology such as Microsoft .NET technology. AVEVA's evolutionary strategy means that PDMS customers can have the benefits of the latest IT technology AND proven, robust software that is in use world-wide on some of the world’s largest projects. + The AVEVA evolutionary development approach also means that customers can be assured that data made with PDMS will be fully upwards compatible with new releases to protect customer's investment in training and data. This assurance is founded on a long history of behaving in this way. Data created more than 20 years ago is still available for use within today's NET version of PDMSWHY NOT WAIT UNTIL SMARTPLANT 3D IS READY? How long are you willing to wait? — its already been a (very) long time coming — and even today we don't know of any significant engineering projects using SP3D in a large way. Can you afford to stay with an out-of-date system of PDS and move to an unproven system of SP3D? Can you afford the risk? SP3D isn't an update to PDS — it's a re-write — and it's not complete yet. It's already late — and it still hasn’t been through any serious production proving. Does your company really want to pioneer completely new software, that hasn't been proven in production? PDMS is already better than SP3D in many areas - and its available now - and its production proven. See technical sections below for details, Project Ready: Unlike SP3D, the PDMS product has been proven on many of the. world’s largest engineering projects — executed in all parts of the world. Availability of skilled personnel. Today the world is desperately short of skilled engineers. How many trained skilled SP3D engineers do you think there are in the world? Try phoning the agencies you use and ask them how many experienced PDMS engineers they could supply for your next project. Now ask them the same question about experienced SP3D engineers? How big an issue is the availability of skilled personnel on a global basis an issue for your company?There is no seamless upgrade: Whichever system you move to (PDMS or SP3D) (ou face a major discontinuity ~ you can’t avoid it. AVEVA believe that moving from DS to PDMS is much less of a discontinuity than moving to SP3D — and you end up with a proven, established state-of-the-art system — guaranteed. PDS and SmartPlant 3D are not at all compatible so this means there is a major cost and discontinuity for current PDS customers in: Re-training of staff Availability of agency personnel for project work Conversion of catalogues and specifications Re-development (from scratch?) of in-house developments, customizations interfaces etc developed for use with PDS. Migration to alternative 2D drafting systems and technologies (PDS is based on MicroStation, SP3D is not) Re-making of data from old projects (standard designs e& reference projects etc) Major changes to working practices Cost of software and/or services to attempt an upgrade (IG's own PDS to ‘SmartPlant3D . IG iterature states: “Project / Model translation tools require a separate license unless used in conuncion with Intergraph services)PDMS STRENGTHS AGAINST PDS How many Owner Operators will accept SP3D formats? The fact that SP3D is not established in the market also means that it is not an accepted format by owner operators. PDMS has the following important technical benefits when compared to PDS —_ Ahighly interactive, 3D, multi-discipline colour shaded design environment In PDMS everyone has 3D ~ all the time. Shaded, wire-line - what ever you need to get the job done quickly and right first time. PDS is predominantly wire-line in day-to-day working. PDMS also has a consistent 3D design environment for all disciplines. The higher level of visualization at the desk top means that itis far easier for designers to understand the current status of design, to work with far higher volumes of data on the screen (covering all engineering disciplines). The result is a higher percentage of right-firstime design — and fewer quality issues to detect and manage. = One 3D Design environment for all engineering disciplines Engineering activities take place in a fully multi-disciplinary 3D model (although, of course there are all the access and change controls in place too). Releasing and issuing data between disciplines is only constrained by your engineering work process — not the capabilities of your 3D system In PDS, HVAC, Raceway etc are very much separate applications. ~_ Windows .NET user interface Quicker and easier to learn — you can train up new personnel much quicker. Faster to use = higher levels of productivity. PDS has not been re-engineered to use the latest and greatest Microsoft technology. ‘SP3D claims to use the latest Microsoft technology — but hasn't yet emerged as an active Production tool. SP3D also appears to be based on some Microsoft technologies which are already being obsolete by Microsoft!Robust, Flexible Database ~ Purpose designed for 3D Plant Design ‘Access control is one of the strengths of PDMS. Access control can be setup on specific objects, individual disciplines or parts of the project. With PDS it is much more difficult to limit access to parts of a project for one designer. Most likely every PDS user does have full access to a project, even temps and less trained users. With PDMS you can have as much or as little control as you want. If you want to have automated work-processes where access rights are automatically updated as the engineering design of items reaches certain status levels - we can even do that too, Handling of very large project models The PDMS database has no practical limit in size so the largest projects can and have been handled. However PDS does have a limit. This can be proved if a small madel.is modeled in both PDMS and PDS and then progressively duplicated many times in both systems. If this process is run back to back then the PDS system will at some stage fail to make the next duplication. This is a way to prove the capability of the PDMS database compared to PDS. PDS forces you to split big projects. That means more admin, more complexity, less flexibility and more dependence on key skills,— Revision Management (3 Model, Layout drawings, Piping Isometrics otc) PDMS has extensive, customizable data management tools to ensure available data is always fully controlled according to the project procedures and that a full audit trail of changes is available. This is achieved with features such as Full change history ‘Model versioning and status Data Access Control rules (that can be applied down to individual attributes) Change highlighting on deliverables (piping isometrics, layout drawings etc) Rollback of database to any previous configuration. Comparison with data today and any previous state. PDS has none of these features! There is status on an attribute level and that's it - you can't compare versions or go back to a previous version. = Copy paste across all disciplines Itneeds a real PDS expert to copy from old projects. Even then it’s sometimes almost impossible to copy piping elements. This way of working to reduce project start up times is fully supported in PDMS - for everything from design data, to project administration to drawing libraries, to customizations. The ablity to quickly extract and re-use data from a pre-existing project is of course a major benefit of POMS. But we don’t stop there. Why copy data that you need more than once? — why Rot simply reference t? — so that you can manage and control standard data in a much more efficient and effective way — saving cost and improving quality. With PDMS you can share all or parts of catalogues between any number of projects ~ and you can make it all work in a multi location set-up as well.= Managed multi-site (Global) Engineering PDMS has the best 3D plant design environment for Multi-location/Global working. Project. work and data can be dynamically shared between many sites working online in parallel. This means that projects can make use of high value centres such as India for project work and at the same time not have fo move the expert designers or construction personel around the world with all the personnel and cost problems this brings. Unlike other approaches, the Aveva approach delivers:- Fast, performance - virtually band-width independent. Designers at all locations work at local office speeds ~ irrespective of the band width between locations. Extreme flexibility. Work-share allocations can be revised in line with the organizations overall work-load as the project progresses. New locations can easily be brought on line ~ or existing locations removed - as and when required. High levels of productivity, Your designers can carry on working even when the communication links between sites have failed or are over-loaded, Control. If your project team includes locations with whom you don't want to share all the data jptten you don thave to, Maybe you are designing a power plant and you don't want the location designing the turbine hall to have access to the details of the boller island. No problem. Maybe, however, you still want to see the whole project at one location. We can do that too {and af the same time). Tae argess control and authority rights for working in a global way can be set up fo exactly reflect the contract terms between the various parties working on the contract. This ensures {hat only the personnel with the correct authority can change and update the data, PDS does not have such 8 capabiliy, PDS users are just moving forward and backwards MicroStation files and need to check differences manually- Very low administration effort * Overall the administration effort to set up and run a PDMS project is much less than a PDS project. In addition the powerful administration tools of PDMS allow the work breakdown of the project to be modified during the project if needed. PDS does not have such a capability. — AutoCAD Integration + This is a big plus point for AVEVA. + AutoCAD js the number 1 drafting system in the world — and is a format frequently specified by many owner operators. We have a relationship with Autodesk — and the Final Designer product has been designed specifically to link the 3D design world of PDMS with the 2D world of AutoCAD, This must be a better overall solution for anyone needing to produce AuloCAD deliverables — or who does a significant proportion of their work in2D (e.g. HVAC detailing, structural detailing etc etc).Automatic drawing extraction PDMS can be configured to generate fully automatic production of drawings from the model with automatic lateling and dimensioning. Also when a change is made tothe model and the Grawing produced again the system can automatcaly highlight onthe drawing the changed parts. PDS does not have such a capability. On large projects the enormous numbers of drawings are generated. There might be 40,000 support drawings alone. The cost, time and quality savings achieved via automating such drawing production processes can be phenomenal. One programming language for all dis: PDMS is delivered with a buitin with an extremely powerful programming language as standard. I's availabe to everyone ~and is consistent across all disciplines aid all functions. You can use ito customize your POMS applications, to automate design or deliverable production tacks eic. You can Create mutt-isciplinary applications Just like our data, i's upwards compatible between releases too. Because i's standard — and because PDMS is everywhere ~ you can buy in programming experts only if and when you need them This also means customization developers can easily move from one discipline to another. Also productivity improvement customizations can be developed once and then available for all disciplines Immediately. Overall there is less need for developer taining, ‘Compare this o PDS. A PDS administrator needs to know EDEN (Piping, EQP, RWAY, HVAC), FPL. (Structura), MDL (MicroStation) and APL Piping) and you may nd you need to buy 3 whole load of ew licences as well (| think APL is separately chargeable). Try finding a team of APL developers ~ or vuting an application that cames out mult-disciplinary data valdation checks and then generates & repor on the subject of reports - yes ofcourse the POMS PML language can be used to create any form of report or interface you want.