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AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports 12.0

Accurate and efficient design and detailing for all types of supports

AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports (MDS) is a highly productive application for fully designing all kinds of supports, from a complicated framework to a simple u-bolt. It reduces man-hour costs, schedule time, materials and rework during construction and erection, and integrates completely with AVEVA PDMS.

Business Benefits

Reduced design man-hours and improved quality
Support designers work in the integrated 3D PDMS design environment, so they can work closely with related engineering disciplines.
Automatic design checking tools eliminate errors.
Fabrication drawings and complete Material Take Off (MTO) information can be produced automatically.
Effective control and change management
All supports data is created within the multi-discipline AVEVA PDMS database, exposing it to all of PDMS's sophisticated data-management, work-sharing, access and change-management controls.
Reduced schedule times
Support designers are more productive and late design changes more easily handled.
Accurate materials information allows correct and timely procurement.
Integrity and clash-checking tools eliminate design errors and avoid construction delays.

Key Features

Full power
All MDS users have access to all the facilities of AVEVA PDMS at all times. All MDS data is managed within the PDMS database.
Automatic part creation
Catalogue-driven, MDS automatically models the support and creates all the necessary components.
'Right first time' design
Design rules ensure that only the appropriate supports are applied to pipes. A wide range of pre-defined supports are supplied and specials may be easily created where necessary.
Design quality
Integrity and clash-checking tools ensure design quality and can be re-run at any time.
Complete information
Each support is created as a fully detailed part of the 3D model, visible to all disciplines. It can be included in layout drawings, visualisations, weight calculations etc.
Full deliverables
MDS provides comprehensive design outputs, including fully detailed drawings and Material Take Off, weights, line identifications, fabrication details, weld data, location plans, isometric views and drawing schedules.

Modelling with supports from Pipe Supports Ltd

How it works

Supports can be designed according to the rules in selected support manufacturers' software. Currently interfaced by MDS are the design rules for Lisega, Carpenter & Patterson and
Pipe Supports Limited (PSL).

The work process is as follows:

Identify item to be supported and the steelwork/civil connection.
Read all the information from the design model and pass it to the support manufacturer's software.
Design the support.
Exit the manufacturers' software; MDS builds the support in the model.

Download the
AVEVA Multi Discipline Supports
brochure
(430kB pdf)