AVEVA extends Japan shipbuilding IT contracts; Ubisense RLS used in nuclear plant; Aruba wins Cambridge Uni wireless contract
AVEVA, supplier of engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries, said that key Japanese shipbuilders - NAmura Shipbuilding, Universal Shipbuilding Corporation, Shin Kurushima Dockyard, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering and Imabari Shipbuilding Group - have signed contracts worth over $2.5m to extend their use of AVEVA marine solutions. The contracts were made in the first half of AVEVA's financial year ending 30 September 2008.
AVEVA marine solutions were first used in Japan by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in 1994. Kawasaki has since expanded the use of AVEVA marine solutions to its commercial and naval yards. There are more than 20 Japanese customers who actively subscribe to AVEVA's shipbuilding solutions.
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Areva NP, nuclear power plant designer and builder, said it has deployed in production usage the Ubisense Real-time Location System for a critical safety application within their new central archive complex in Erlangen, Germany. The system has been installed and configured by Dynamic Systems, a specialist in industrial identification and monitoring.
The archive stores plans and other printed building documents for up to 90 years as required by the regulations and laws governing nuclear facilities. In order to prevent loss or damage due to fire or water from the use of extinguishers, a system is installed which floods the archive with nitrogen. In such a situation, it is imperative to be able to immediately locate and find all personnel precisely and reliably to facilitate rapid rescue and evacuation.
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Aruba Networks, a provider of wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, said the University of Cambridge has selected and is deploying Aruba's wireless LAN equipment to provide hotspot and wireless service across the university.
According to a release, the university's legacy network had become unmanageable and its maintenance a drain on resources. As a result the University Computing Service, which runs the wireless service, issued a tender for a replacement network. Aruba was selected for the project because its centralized management minimized deployment and support costs, and its Remote Access Point technology created an extensive "private" network with local bridging to IT resources and services within each college. The University also plans to implement voice applications leveraging Aruba's voice quality of service feature. Support services are being provided to the University by Vanix, an Aruba-authorized integrator.
