1. Industry background and current usage of AVEVA: It is the core platform for large-scale engineering design, but it has long lacked transparency in use.
In the fields of process industry, energy and chemical industry, offshore engineering and shipbuilding, equipment manufacturing, data centers and large infrastructure construction, AVEVA series software (such as AVEVA E3D / PDMS, AVEVA Diagrams, AVEVA Engineering, AVEVA Everything3D, etc.) is the core platform for enterprises to carry out engineering design, collaborative modeling and data delivery. Within the enterprise, engineers typically use AVEVA to:
- 3D factory and plant modeling- Collaborative design of pipelines, equipment and steel structures- Linkage of P&ID design and engineering data- Multi-disciplinary concurrent design (process, piping, structure, electrical instrumentation)- Multi-stage, multi-version iteration of large-scale projects- EPC project cross-department and cross-regional collaboration The actual use of AVEVA has obvious characteristics:
- The software remains open all year roundDuring the design cycle, engineers often open AVEVA all day long and frequently switch modules for modification and verification.2. Project-driven usage is obviousBefore design freezing, model review, and phased delivery, usage requirements will burst out intensively.3. Multiple majors share the same authorization poolTeams such as process, piping, structure, and electrical equipment work in parallel, and the authorization pressure is highly superimposed.4. The project is large in scale and has a long cycleUse lasts for months or even years, and license occupancy behavior is complex. In the absence of unified monitoring, companies generally face:
- AVEVA cannot start, prompting that the license has been used up.- It’s not clear which major or project is occupied- Some users open the software for a long time without actually operating it.- The process is not released after the model is saved, resulting in “invisible occupation”- During peak periods, many majors have to wait for each other, affecting the design progress.- Management cannot tell whether delegation is truly insufficient- The usage status of cross-regional projects (headquarters + branches + overseas) cannot be uniformly grasped AVEVA has gradually become a key resource in the enterprise with extremely high value but insufficient management transparency.
2. Typical challenges faced by enterprises in the use and management of AVEVA
1. Technical FAQs
- Floating licenses are often full and engineers cannot enter the design environment in time- It is impossible to check in real time who is currently using AVEVA and which module is being used- Engineer switches to conferencing, documentation or other software, AVEVA still takes up license for a long time- Client exception and session residue cause license not to be released- Multiple projects and majors are being promoted at the same time, and authorization conflicts are frequent.- Peak periods are unpredictable and you can only passively wait for resources to be released.
2. Realistic pain points at the management level
- Lack of real usage data, purchasing decisions mainly rely on experience- Not sure about the real occupation ratio of different majors and projects- “It felt like it was not enough” during the peak period of the project, but the reasons could not be quantified.- Distributed team usage is fragmented and cannot be managed uniformly- Idle and abnormal occupancy are difficult to identify and there is hidden waste.- Difficulty assessing whether existing authorization configuration is appropriate In essence, these problems are not that AVEVA has insufficient functions, but that enterprises lack the ability to visualize and data-based management of engineering software usage behavior.
3. Nodexel’s intervention: building enterprise-level usage monitoring and management capabilities for AVEVA
Nodexel does not change AVEVA’s authorization method, nor does it interfere with the normal design process of engineers, but provides a layer of real-time monitoring and data analysis capabilities on top of the existing environment.
1. Real-time monitoring of AVEVA license usage
With Nodexel, businesses can see in real time:
- Users currently using AVEVA online- Department/Project/Project- Occupied AVEVA module type- Use start time and cumulative duration- Remaining quantity of authorization pool- Current load status (whether it is close to the upper limit)- User status (Active/Idle) For the first time, AVEVA usage is presented in a unified, intuitive data format.
2. Identify active and idle (Idle) users
Nodexel recognizes:
- Long periods of inactivity- Opening AVEVA without making design modifications- The act of an engineer leaving his/her work station but still occupying the permit Idle sessions are clearly marked to provide an objective basis for subsequent management.
3. Automatically identify abnormal occupancy and support gentle recycling
For example:
- The client exited abnormally but the license was not released- Invalid session hanging for a long time- Residual processes that did not exit after saving the model If allowed by enterprise policies, long-term idle sessions can be automatically recycled without affecting ongoing design work.
4. Department-level and project-level usage time statistics
Nodexel supports analyzing AVEVA usage from multiple dimensions:
- Occupancy proportion of different majors (piping, structure, electrical instrumentation)- Authorization consumption of different projects at each stage- Which projects cause obvious peaks before the node- Whether there is long-term high occupancy and low activity Management can understand resource usage structures based on data rather than subjective judgments.
5. Visualization of demand fluctuations during peak and trough periods
Through historical data analysis, companies can clearly see:
- Peaks and valleys of daily use- Usage impact caused by project phases- Monthly and quarterly authorization pressure changes This allows planning resource allocation in advance rather than reacting to problems after they occur.
6. Support cross-regional and multi-team unified management
Either:
- Headquarters Engineering Design Center- Branch or project department- Overseas engineering team The usage of AVEVA can be presented uniformly in Nodexel to form a complete and comparable view.
4. Direct management benefits brought by data insights
After using data transparency, companies often achieve the following quantifiable improvements:
- License utilization increased by approximately 20%–40%– Idle occupancy is significantly reduced and invalid resources are released- Engineers’ wait times for permits are significantly reduced– Authorized purchasing decisions are more rational and avoid blind additional purchases.- The overall project delivery efficiency is improved and the design rhythm is more stable These benefits do not come from increasing the number of licenses, but from refined management of existing resources.
5. Real usage scenarios of engineers
An EPC company, 10 am on Monday. Engineer Xiao Li was about to open AVEVA E3D to modify the pipeline model, but found the system prompt:
“No Available License” The project is on the eve of design review, and multiple disciplines are rushing to make progress.The piping, structure, and electrical equipment teams communicated repeatedly:
- “Is it occupied by other majors?”- “Is there anyone left open or not?”- “Are models being run for overseas projects?” But without monitoring tools, the problem cannot be quickly located. After enabling Nodexel, administrators quickly see:
- Two sessions idle for more than 1 hour- A client exited abnormally but the license was not released- The morning is the peak time for centralized modification of multiple projects. After releasing the idle occupation, Xiao Li successfully entered AVEVA and continued model adjustment, and the project was no longer blocked. This is a very typical real scenario in enterprise engineering design, but there has been a long-term lack of effective means to solve it.
6. Summary: Let AVEVA’s usage management move from “experience judgment” to “data-driven”
Nodexel is not a replacement for AVEVA, but a set of engineering software usage monitoring and data management tools.It helps businesses:
- See clearly the real usage status of AVEVA- Reduce waste of authorized resources- Optimize resource allocation among multiple disciplines and projects- Improving the return on investment (ROI) of engineering software- Support the digitalization and refinement upgrade of enterprise engineering management When AVEVA’s usage environment becomes transparent, analyzable, and predictable,Engineering collaboration efficiency and project delivery stability will also be significantly improved.
