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Rio TintoRio Tinto Extends APM Across Engineering Design
Rio Tinto, a materials organization in the United Kingdom, uses APM from AVEVA to support engineering design for design engineers.
Rio Tinto runs engineering design on AVEVA so ownership is obvious when work stalls.
“Design engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.”
“AVEVA, part of Schneider Electric, provides industrial software for engineering, operations, and real-time data, including the PI System.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Engineering design stays visible to adjacent teams through APM |
| Capability | Design engineers work from the same APM record for product design |
| Capability | Product design can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
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Inside Rio Tinto, engineering design used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in materials groups working out of the United Kingdom. Design engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Rio Tinto uses APM from AVEVA as the working layer for product design. AVEVA, part of Schneider Electric, provides industrial software for engineering, operations, and real-time data, including the PI System. The practical change is simple: engineering design has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Rio Tinto gets from AVEVA is a durable place to run engineering design and a way for design engineers to see the same product design at the same time.
