AVEVA CONGRATULATES UNIVER. OF NEWCASTLE FOR TWO DESIGN WINS.

The University of Newcastle's School of Marine Sciences & Technology has announced its M.Eng students have won both first and third place in the prestigious 2005 Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME) conference. The accolades mark the ninth time the school has placed in the top three since 1995: seven times in first place and once in second. The Stage 4 Group Ship Design Project at the University of Newcastle brings together M.Eng students studying for M.Eng (Hon) Marine Technology in numerous disciplines. The projects were designed with AVEVA's Tribon solutions.

The Dr. James A. Lysnik Student Ship Design Competition (SSDC) Award, organized by the SNAME Education Committee, is open to undergraduate student members of SNAME and the American Society of Naval Engineers in their final undergraduate year and attracts entries from universities the world over. Its aim is to stimulate interest in ship design as a career choice and to increase students' understanding of competence in ship design. This year's winners are Naval Architecture student Laura Philips, Small Craft Technology student Philip Wykeham and Marine Engineering students Shaw Chuan Ivan Lim Michalis Christoforou and George Georgiou. The group awarded third prize was led by Naval Architecture student Ben Graat in the design of a novel double-acting CNG carrier concept.

The winning group identified a need for a novel and innovative Live Food Fish Carrier for the lucrative transatlantic live lobster trade route between Europe and New York to meet the increasing European demand for the live American Lobster. An extensive economic study and fleet analysis for the route suggested a single monohull vessel on the route with a length of 124.3m, a displacement of 20,000 tons, a service speed of 20 knots and carrying a payload of 5,400 tons. The lobsters are shipped in a specially-designed cold, wet environment in four tanks with refrigerated sea water circulation. The vessel has diesel electric propulsion driving two compact azipod propulsors.

"As with all the winning entries of previous years, the groups that took part in the competition used the Tribon Initial Design Suite of programs in developing and evaluating their design," said Dr. Peter N. H. Wright, who teaches ship design at the university.

"AVEVA's Tribon Surface/Compartment module facilitated the hull form development by allowing distortion of a parent form and control over the derived form to meet the requirements of the design; providing a suitably fine form with aft lines appropriate for azipod propulsion as well as modelling the cargo holding system and other spaces. Tribon then allowed extensive hydrostatic and hydrodynamic evaluation of the proposed design through the Calc/Hydro module."

The use of Tribon Initial Design for undergraduate teaching purposes at Newcastle has been a great success, evolving to assist students in becoming familiar with the software. These teaching methods have been developed as a close cooperation between Dr. Wright, Graeme White of AVEVA and Keith Hutchinson of naval architecture consultants Armstrong Technology. They bring together the requirements for an academic teaching environment, a software developer and an industry expert user respectively.

About AVEVA Group plc

AVEVA Group plc, headquartered in Cambridge, England, 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 , the Group reported, for the year ended March 2005, a growth in turnover of 51% over 2004. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile 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 1500 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 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.

About VANTAGE(TM)

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(TM) is developed upon a proven and evolving technology that has been deployed on major global projects for over 25 years.

For more information, call 713/977-1225 or visit http://www.aveva.com. TI ACTIFY UNVEILS ACTIFY DESIGNSHARE DATA MANAGEMENT >TX Actify Inc., San Francisco, the global leader in digital design communication solutions, has unveiled Actify DesignShare. Actify DesignShare is a collaborative product data management solution that enables users to leverage the power of Actify's digital design communication platform from within a managed Microsoft SharePoint server-based environment. It provides a complete encapsulated solution for creating visual product data-based communications within the enterprise that is easy to deploy. Actify DesignShare addresses the needs of workgroups and design teams to effectively manage visual product data to facilitate collaboration and communication internally and externally.

Because Actify DesignShare provides a complete system for managing communications that have historically been undocumented, uncontrolled and ad-hoc, users now have a single system that manages all relevant documents, including all major 2D and 3D file formats. The ultimate benefit is an increase in overall productivity, including time savings, reduced costs, reduction in excess work, fewer errors and improvement in communication of designs and associated data.

"Actify is helping solve a problem in a way that is unique to collaborative product data management (CPDM), product lifecycle management (PLM) and other product-centric management systems," said Bill Gerould, industry director, worldwide discrete manufacturing, Microsoft Corp. "CPDM and PLM systems tend to be expensive, difficult to work with as well as, inappropriate for small to medium business units because of the dynamic nature of concurrent collaboration throughout a product's development lifecycle. With the release of Actify DesignShare, organizations are better able to communicate and collaborate on product information with internal and external teams allowing them to stay more competitive with a much lower total cost of ownership than other methods."

"Actify DesignShare is a significant milestone for Actify in providing the best solution suite for enabling collaborative visual product data management," said Randy Ochs, CEO and president of Actify Inc. "By providing document management, sharing and collaboration capabilities to users in workgroups and design teams within the Microsoft SharePoint and Office Solutions platform, we are confident that manufacturing enterprises will see the value in easily configuring and customizing business systems to suit their specific needs and internal processes."

The release of Actify DesignShare extends the collaboration platform within the Actify Suite of Products helping companies manage the digital design communication process. The full suite of products includes Actify Publisher 2005, to automatically convert CAD files to Actify's .3D format; SpinFire Professional, to view, measure and markup CAD files; SpinFire for Microsoft Office, to imbed rich 2D and 3D design data within Microsoft Office documents; the free SpinFire Reader, to view 2D and 3D files; and now Actify DesignShare.

Through Actify DesignShare's managed server based environment, users will be able to do the following:

Create a customized dashboard to manage all collaboration processes that require access to native CAD data

Access a secure and easy-to-use environment for suppliers and other external partners to collaborate

Centrally automate and monitor the conversion of native CAD files to .3D

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Manage and version control of .3D files created and authored within SpinFire Professional and SpinFire for Microsoft Office.

Actify's suite of products are designed to enable easy and secure access, communication and distribution of multiple 2D/3D CAD file formats, and related documents through global enterprises and supply chains, without requiring expensive native CAD products or access to complex data management systems. This allows for paperless distribution and collaboration of complex design data so companies will realize cost savings and productivity gains in product design, procurement, quoting and estimation, manufacturing, sales, marketing and field support.

For more information or to purchase Actify DesignShare, visit http://www.actify.com.

About Actify Inc.

Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of CAD visualization and digital design communication solutions with over 8,000 customer companies throughout the automotive, high technology, aerospace, industrial automation, and discrete manufacturing industries. Actify's Suite of Products provide the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across manufacturing industries and through their supply chains. The Actify Suite of Products are sold through authorized distributors and Value Added Resellers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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