Architectural Overview

The functional architecture for the AIM-A service is shown in the following diagram:

AIM-A is a standards-driven information management solution. It's built from the following set of optional and mandatory components that are deployed in the cloud:

• AVEVA Asset Information Management - Advanced (mandatory)

• AVEVA 3D Visualization Service (mandatory)

• Faceted Search (mandatory)

• AVEVA Data Pipeline (mandatory)

• AVEVA Information Standards Manager (mandatory)

• AVEVA Document Connector (optional)

• AVEVA Insight BI Gateway (optional)

• AVEVA Work Tasks (optional)

The Data Pipeline is used to capture, interpret and consolidate data from either AVEVA products or third-party systems. This data can consist of 3D models, documents and drawings and engineering metadata.

A dedicated Document Connector can easily transfer documents and corresponding metadata from a Document Management System (DMS) to the AIM-A solution (see the current component release for the DMS systems supported).

The capture, transformation and loading process can be organized and orchestrated easily using AVEVA Work Tasks, allowing notifications and easy scheduling of those activities.

Once the data has been uploaded to the cloud and processed by the AVEVA Data Pipeline service, it is automatically loaded into AIM-A. This consists of the Workhub persistent store and Workhub services which provide data to the AIM-A web application.

The Faceted Search component provides the ability to search keywords, and item, tag and document names in the content of the document files.

The rules that drive the capture, interpret and consolidation processes are defined using AVEVA Information Standards Manager. These processes allow the data to be presented in a common data model using consistent naming conventions that can be uploaded to the cloud.

AVEVA BI Gateway can be used to generate reports around data quality, consistency and completeness of the project based on rules defined in AVEVA Information Standards Manager as well as reporting against any type of data available in the AIM database.

The 3D service provides the web application access to interactive video streaming of uploaded 3D models. The 3D service provides translation services that transform the uploaded 3D models into GPU optimized cached files which are used during the video streaming.