AVEVA Offers a Road-map for Owner Operators to Assess Their Information Management Strategies

Online, July 8, 2013 (Newswire.com) - New business paper provides a maturity model to help define and implement an effective Engineering Information Management strategy for safe and efficient plant operation

AVEVA today announced its release of a new business paper: 'Defining an Engineering Information Management (EIM) Strategy by means of a Maturity Model'. The paper explains how an EIM Maturity Model can help Owner Operators assess their current Information Management capabilities and to identify an effective strategy for raising them to best-practice status.

Owner Operators in the process plant and power industries need a sophisticated means of managing the vast quantities of continuously evolving information used throughout the lifecycle of their assets. The new business paper defines a five level maturity model for Information Management across typical key business functions. This practical, working guide enables an organization to rank its current capability in order to plan a progressive, focused programme to develop the use of its entire information asset to help ensure and demonstrate regulatory compliance and improve safe, efficient operations.

"Effective EIM is extremely challenging given the large number of systems that generate and store engineering information and the many complex business processes that rely on this information," said Derek Middlemas, COO & Head of Enterprise Solutions, AVEVA. "Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach, this unique methodology helps our customers to break down, assess and solve their current Information Management challenges in a manageable, stepwise manner that aligns with their specific business goals. It also encourages the use of existing technology investments to gain early and significant benefits.

"Engineering information deteriorates rapidly if it is not rigorously managed and controlled, increasing operating costs and leading to safety hazards. We believe that adopting the Information Engineering recommendations described in this maturity model will enable access to, and robust management of, all types of engineering information throughout the entire operational lifecycle."

The paper defines the characteristics of the five levels of Information Management maturity and provides recommendations for how to progress to successive levels. It also summarises how such an EIM strategy can be progressively executed using Information Management solutions from the AVEVA Enterprise portfolio.

To download the business paper, or for more information on the AVEVA Enterprise portfolio, visit
www.aveva.com/maturity_model

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