Welcome to AVEVA NET Gatekeeper and AVEVA Change Manager

AVEVA NET Gatekeeper is a part of AVEVA’s Information Management solution and a key component of AVEVA’s implementation of the Digital Information Hub concept. It provides the essential function of loading information into the Digital Information Hub and ensuring that this information complies with industry and operating standards.

For engineering contractors, this saves the time and cost overhead involved in identifying and correcting non-compliant information and creates a platform for informed decision making. It is a key enabler for streamlined handover of high-quality asset information to an Owner Operator. For asset operators, it ensures that information created or updated throughout the asset’s working life remains trustworthy to support safe and efficient operation. In combination with AVEVA Change Manager, it is also the foundation for a legacy data clean-up program. AVEVA NET Gatekeeper integrates directly with AVEVA NET Workhub and Dashboard and is capable of automatically importing thousands of data objects in a single upload.

AVEVA NET Gatekeeper validates the integrity of incoming information against configurable, defined criteria, whether applicable industry standards such as ISO 15926 or enterprise-specific ones.Levels of validation compliance can be defined according to appropriate criteria. Non-compliant data can be rejected automatically or accepted for import but flagged for review and resolution. This enables bulk information uploads to be performed efficiently and any errors or inconsistencies managed by exception, providing robust control of data quality without unnecessary hindrance to workflows. AVEVA NET Gatekeeper also enables phased information handover from contractor to operator by enabling efficient business processes during both project execution and asset operations, by monitoring automated data uploads.

AVEVA NET Gatekeeper provides not only information validation, but valuable additional capabilities, including:

• A formal process for information acceptance by an information manager.

• Streamlined data loading through the identification and loading of only information which is new or changed since the previous import.

• Full reporting of compliant and non-compliant information.

• Tools to provide configurable reports and key performance indicators on data quality.

  

AVEVA Change Manager is part of AVEVA’s Information Engineering category of products within the AVEVA Enterprise portfolio. It provides the essential means for robust and visible management of the continual changes to information in the digital asset which accompany the many changes – large and small – made to the physical asset during its lifecycle.

Throughout an asset’s working life, both in normal operations and during projects such as brownfield modifications or data clean-up exercises, many different users need to access and change technical information that originates from a variety of sources. Not only must this information remain both accurate and available, it must be maintained so by the rigorous control of any changes made to it. Achieving this requires standardized tools, business processes and procedures for controlling changes to information and synchronising them across multiple business systems.

AVEVA Change Manager enables Owner Operators to optimize, control and monitor their change management process for all technical information. It can be customized and tailored to your needs. Combined with AVEVA NET, the solution highlights information changes to its users, enabling better-informed decision making. Implemented as a combined solution with AVEVA NET Gatekeeper, users are able to validate new and legacy data against configurable, predefined information standards before making controlled updates using AVEVA Change Manager. By assuring information integrity, AVEVA Change Manager delivers increased operational efficiency and regulatory compliance on all types of plants.

The key features of AVEVA Change Manager:

• Full management of changes to technical information created by Modification Projects and work packages.

• Reservation of new Tags and Documents resulting from changes entered directly in AVEVA Change Manager or by an upload process.

• Validation of all data against information handover specifications, external application registers and code tables.

• Support for ISO 15926.

• Class library driven, multi-lingual.

• Efficient information search functions.

• Fast-track capability for expediting urgent changes without the need for a formal approval process.

• Configurable best-practice workflows to support complex business processes.

• Integration with AVEVA NET for browsing, navigating, contextualizing and visualizing the entire information asset.

• Integration with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Document Management (DM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, whether AVEVA’s or third-party.

• Tools to provide configurable reports and key performance indicators on data quality.

• Role-based user access control, enabling internal and external organizations to manage large quantities of information in an orderly manner.

• Full audit trail of all changes.

• Better-informed decision making, leading to greater efficiency in both routine asset operations and brownfield projects.