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AVEVA Electrical and Instrumentation

by AVEVA

AVEVA's electrical and instrumentation design application, now marketed as part of the AVEVA Unified Engineering suite. It succeeds the separately sold AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical products and shares data with AVEVA's P&ID and 3D tools.

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Specification

Vendor
AVEVA · Schneider Electric
Categories
Electrical & Instrumentation
Phase
EEngineering
Status
Active
Deployment
Cloud
Licensing
Subscription
Standards
None documented
Former names
AVEVA Instrumentation, AVEVA Electrical
Official site
aveva.com

Capabilities

  1. aInstrument and control system engineering
  2. bElectrical design data and deliverables
  3. cInstrument data exchange with AVEVA P&ID and Diagrams
  4. dShared data with AVEVA E3D Design

Assessment

AVEVA's combined E&I application is the logical choice for AVEVA-standard projects that want one data flow from P&ID to 3D. Outside that stack, the specialist leaders remain stronger.

  1. Capability25%8/10

    Covers instrument and control engineering together with electrical design data and deliverables.

  2. Interoperability20%7/10

    Shares data with AVEVA P&ID and Diagrams and E3D Design; third-party exchange should be validated.

  3. Scale15%8/10

    Designed for multidiscipline projects inside AVEVA's engineering environment.

  4. Usability15%7/10

    Combining E and I in one tool simplifies cross-discipline work.

  5. Deployment10%8/10

    Delivered within AVEVA Unified Engineering, including cloud access.

  6. Ecosystem15%7/10

    Adopted mainly where AVEVA is already the engineering standard.

Strengths

  • One tool for electrical and instrumentation
  • Shared data with AVEVA P&ID and 3D
  • Cloud delivery

Considerations

  • Smaller specialist community than Facets Instrumentation
  • Product packaging changed recently
  • Best inside the AVEVA suite

Editorial assessment from public documentation, 23 October 2026. Not a hands-on benchmark. Methodology

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Compare head to head

Documented integrations and data exchange, in either direction.

Sources

  1. AVEVA E3D DesignAVEVA · accessed 22 October 2026
  2. AVEVA Unified EngineeringAVEVA · accessed 22 October 2026
  3. AVEVA Electrical and Instrumentation datasheetAVEVA · accessed 22 October 2026

Plate updated 22 October 2026 · revision 1