CADCentre
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Holding company (Public limited company) |
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Information Technology Technology consulting CAD/CAM Software Enterprise Solutions |
| Founded | 1967 (Cambridge) |
| Headquarters | High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Philip Aiken (Chairman) James Kidd (CEO) |
| Products | See below |
| Revenue | £201.5 million (2016) |
| £29.4 million (2016) | |
| £20.5 million (2016) | |
| Website | www.aveva.com |
AVEVA Group plc is a British multinational information technology company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It provides engineering design, information management solutions, and CAD/CAM software, including specialised technology consulting services for the plant, power and marine industries. AVEVA grew out of the government-funded Computer-Aided Design Centre which was established in 1967.
AVEVA is listed on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The origins of AVEVA start in 1967 in Cambridge, UK, with the establishment of the Computer-Aided Design Centre or CADCentre as it was more commonly referred to, and later formally became. It was a government-funded research institute created by the UK Ministry of Technology, with a mission to develop computer-aided design techniques, and promote their take-up by British industry. Its first director was Arthur Llewelyn, who initially contracted out the recruitment and management of specialist staff to ICL.
The centre carried out CAD research, and some of its early staff members, such as brothers Dick Newell and Martin Newell, went on to become well known in the worldwide CAD community. Dick Newell oversaw the creation of the Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for 3D process plant design. He later co-founded two software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) which was known for its Medusa 2D/3D CAD system, and Smallworld with its eponymous Smallworld GIS (Geographical Information System). Martin Newell later went to the University of Utah where he did pioneering 3D solid modelling work; he was also one of the progenitors of PostScript.
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