First AVEVA E3D Design competition for users
March 2024
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AVEVA has opened entries for its first-ever AVEVA E3D Design competition. The contest invites users from across the world to create innovative solutions with AVEVA’s E3D Design’s machine learning (ML) interface, to address their organisation’s business challenges.

Stephen Burrows, R&D director of AVEVA E3D Design.
AVEVA E3D Design is the world’s most technologically advanced 3D design solution for multiple industries. It enables powerful visualisation and clash-free, multi-discipline 3D design, and rapidly generates accurate drawings and reports to reduce costs, timescales, and commercial risks of both greenfield and brownfield capital projects.
The competition will serve as a platform for AVEVA software’s engineering users to demonstrate and showcase their AI/ML skills within the industrial applications sector. It will highlight the global pool of talented users, and also the solution’s most innovative use cases. The contest is open to engineers within the fields of energy, oil and gas, chemicals, MMM, water and marine.
Stephen Burrows, R&D; director of AVEVA E3D Design commented: “This competition is designed to showcase the solution’s many uses for addressing business challenges, and the ingenuity of the E3D community. I’m always struck by the exceptional capabilities, passion and creativity of users of AVEVA software.”
AVEVA E3D Design empowers engineers and designers to create solutions in a fast, efficient, sustainable and innovative manner. The intuitive ML interface enables users to leverage AI/ML in their designs.
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