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Pinnacle WestPinnacle West Adopts AVEVA for Virtual Testing
Pinnacle West, a utilities organization in the United States, uses APM from AVEVA to support virtual testing for analysts and design leads.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in virtual testing sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | APM is the governed place analysts and design leads use for virtual testing |
| Capability | New joiners can see how virtual testing actually runs |
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Pinnacle West did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed virtual testing to move. In the United States, analysts and design leads already knew where simulation went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
APM from AVEVA is now in that path. AVEVA, part of Schneider Electric, provides industrial software for engineering, operations, and real-time data, including the PI System. The company treats it as production tooling for virtual testing, which is why analysts and design leads live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Pinnacle West can show how simulation is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run virtual testing on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
