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Your plant design is in AVEVA. Your vendor data is in a different system, a shared drive, an inbox – or still waiting on a supplier who has not responded.
It is a situation every project team in asset-intensive industries recognises. A facility takes shape in AVEVA with precision. Tag registers grow. Engineering documentation is structured and managed. And then the supply chain creates the gap that no engineering platform was built to close – thousands of data requests, each one tied to a specific tag, each one dependent on a supplier delivering the right documentation in the right format at the right time.
Sharecat and AVEVA solve this together. By connecting via open API, the two platforms create an automated flow of vendor data from engineering design through to operations – so the asset information your teams rely on is complete, validated and ready when it needs to be.
AVEVA's engineering and asset information tools are built for the full project lifecycle. AVEVA Unified Engineering brings together process simulation, 3D design and engineering data in a single environment. AVEVA Asset Information Management connects engineering, operations and maintenance teams with validated asset data across the facility. Together they give industrial organisations one of the most capable environments available for managing complex projects and facilities.
The gap opens not inside AVEVA, but between AVEVA and the supply chain.
As a facility takes shape in AVEVA, thousands of tags are created – instruments, valves, pumps, rotating equipment, safety systems. Each one carries a set of data requirements: manufacturer data sheets, technical specifications, dimensional drawings, test certificates and operating manuals that must be sourced from suppliers, reviewed against project standards and linked to the correct tag before handover.
This is where projects lose time. Not because of AVEVA – because collecting, chasing and validating vendor documentation at the scale of a complex industrial project is simply not what engineering platforms are designed to handle. It requires a dedicated process, built specifically for the supplier data layer.
Sharecat is an open industrial data platform built specifically for vendor data management and supplier documentation across complex industrial projects and operations. The connection to AVEVA works via open API, creating a seamless two-way data flow between the two platforms.
Tag registers, equipment objects and asset data move from AVEVA into Sharecat, where they become the structured basis for vendor data collection. Sharecat sends clear, tag-specific requests to the right suppliers– collecting technical documentation, data sheets and specifications automatically, then validating them against project requirements before they are approved and returned.
Once vendor data has been collected and validated in Sharecat, it flows back to AVEVA via API – linked to the correct tags and objects,enriching the asset information environment with the supplier data it needs to be complete. No manual uploads. No email follow-up. No reconciliation work before handover.
The result is an AVEVA environment where the engineering data and the vendor data tell the same story.
For engineering teams in AVEVA Unified Engineering, tag data moves automatically to Sharecat at the point of need. Supplier requests go out structured and specific. Documentation comes back validated and linked. The engineering data that feeds into AVEVA Asset Information Management is complete from the start – built up systematically through the project rather than assembled under pressure at handover.
For operations and maintenance teams working with AVEVA AIM,asset records are enriched with the technical data they depend on. Equipment specifications, manufacturer references and maintenance documentation are linked to the correct objects and accessible in the system teams already use –without gaps or manual effort.
For project managers and document control teams, handover from construction to operations becomes a controlled, traceable process. The vendor data collected through Sharecat arrives structured and ready for the AVEVA environment – giving operations teams a complete asset information foundation from day one.
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In asset-intensive industries, the quality of data at handover is not an administrative concern. It is an operational one. The completeness and accuracy of asset information at the point when a facility moves from construction to operations directly affects how efficiently maintenance is planned, how quickly problems are diagnosed and how confidently decisions are made for the life of the asset.
For organisations running AVEVA, connecting to Sharecat means the asset information environment they have built becomes more complete – not just at handover, but throughout the project. Engineering data and vendor data are part of the same connected workflow, managed together from the earliest stages of design through to the first day of operations and beyond.
That is the difference between an asset register that reflects what was designed and one that reflects what was actually built, tested and delivered.
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