Administration

Large projects designed using AVEVA E3D are usually broken down into individual areas (either physical areas or design areas), depending on the physical size, complexity and configuration of the project.

On a large project, the system administrator first agrees with project and design management, the breakdown of the AVEVA E3D project into sections which:

• Are relevant to the needs of project reporting and control

• Form reasonable design subdivisions with sensible match-lines and design content

• Enable enough designers to work in parallel with simultaneous access to carry out their design tasks.

In much the same way as in a design office (with its section leader, draftspeople and so on), AVEVA E3D has Teams, the members of which are called Users. These Teams can consist of any number of Users and can be organized by discipline or physical work areas.

The main features are:

• Access Control (Teams and Users)

• Databases

• Multiple Databases (MDBs)

• Database management functionality.

AVEVA Administration includes a database integrity checking utility, used to check for inconsistencies in the contents of the databases and to derive statistical information about the use of the database storage capacity.

Note: AVEVA Administration also allows the system administrator to reconfigure a project, which may be necessary to:

• Compact databases at intervals, freeing disk space

• Upgrade AVEVA E3D™ projects when the database structure changes

• Compare the contents of two similar databases; for example, to create a modification record.