CB&I deploys AVEVA's Materials Management Solution: VANTAGE Project Resource Management

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About AVEVA
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers despite the changing nature of the IT industry.

The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1100 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 80% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.

The Group's clients include leading plant owner operators and engineering contractors such as 3M, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, BASF, China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, Daewoo Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Dalian New Shipbuilding, Du Pont, Electricité de France, Halliburton, Hanjin Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Krupp Uhde, Kvaerner, Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, North-West Electric Power Design Institute, Petronas Carigali, Samsung Engineering, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Shell, Sinopec Engineering Incorporation and STX Shipbuilding.

Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 500 staff worldwide with offices in England, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, KSA, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea and the USA.

About VANTAGETM
VANTAGE, the collective name for AVEVA's four-family plant lifecycle product suite, offers proven, integrated and versatile solutions for engineering IT. Well known for its Plant Design Management System (PDMS), it also addresses data management, project management, engineering design, visualisation, third party software integration, procurement and connecting the business enterprise on a common foundation. VANTAGE represents AVEVA's commitment to harnessing the best of technology to answer the needs of good engineering and offers the engineering world's most advanced globally-distributed project work solution. VANTAGE is developed upon a proven and evolving technology that has been deployed on major global projects for over 25 years.

About VPRM
VANTAGE Project Resource Management (VPRM) is a comprehensive solution for the management and control of materials for EPC contractors, clients, vendors and sub-contractors. VPRM can receive issued data directly from AVEVA's VANTAGE Plant Engineering (VPE) P&ID or from any third party P&ID system through an XML-based interface.

About CB&I
CB&I is one of the world's leading EPC companies, specializing in lump-sum turnkey projects for customers that produce, process, store and distribute the world's natural resources. With more than 60 locations and approximately 11,000 employees throughout the world, CB&I capitalizes on its global expertise and local knowledge to safely and reliably deliver projects virtually anywhere.

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