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Data-centric Plant Design and Management


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Top Reasons for Owner-operators to Use Bentley DigitalPlant products

Comprehensive Set of Engineering Tools for the Complete Plant Life Cycle

Bentley DigitalPlant products engineering products cover all of the disciplines involved in plant design to provide a fully integrated model of the plant. This model comprises the functional (2D) model as well as the detailed physical (3D) model. Starting with FEED (Front-End Engineering Design), the process design is fully evolved into a detailed digital engineering design of the plant which can then be used for construction management as well as operations and maintenance processes. Product integration ensures that the digital data is maintained and guarantees data and document consistency.
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Comprehensive Management of Change

One of the biggest issues owner/operators face is reducing project cost overruns, due to engineering change orders (ECOs) becoming unmanaged and causing further ECOs. Bentley Digital Plant products provide extensive change management tools within its ProjectWise suite to properly manage enterprise data, integrated with the design tools, to manage changes within projects. Using these tools, all partners in the project can review and manage changes rapidly allowing better change control.
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Fully Interoperable and Open Systems

Bentley DigitalPlant products utilize open architecture to ensure full access to the data created and managed by its applications. This open architecture includes both MicroStation and AutoCAD as primary CAD platforms and ensures straightforward and easy interchange of data to third-party software applications and databases.

 
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Evolving/Adaptable Information Model

Bentley DigitalPlant software integrates discipline-data with a fully integrated information model based on industry standards. As a participating member in standards-definition committees, Bentley’s DigitalPlant information model complies with the ISO15926 industry standard, ensuring that the data will continue to be useable throughout the long lifecycle of the plant facility.

 
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Re-useable and Repeatable

Bentley DigitalPlant products have unique tools within the product suites to allow existing data to be the starting point for new projects. Owner/operators can initiate projects with current plant data allowing faster project startup and shorter design cycles. Bentley’s commitment to supporting legacy data, incorporating data standards and an active policy of interoperability with third-party vendor products, ensures that owners/operators can be sure that their data will be re-useable throughout the lifetime of their plant.

xScaleable and Expandable Product Set

The Bentley DigitalPlant portfolio contains powerful design tools no matter what the size of the project. The Bentley DigitalPlant architecture can be used for small stand-alone projects being handled by on-site contract staff and large multi-contractor projects being deployed world-wide. Bentley DigitalPlant 's Split/Merge concept allows companies to move work around the world to permit a 24-hour project work day in multiple offices, while still maintaining data consistency, thus reducing the project timeframe.

 
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Ease of Deployment

The Bentley world-wide organization provides services to ensure rapid deployment of the DigitalPlant products within the owner/operator enterprise. Staff training is available 24/7 through online and classroom training ensuring fast project startup.

Rapid Acquisition of the physical plant into a CAD 3D Model

The Bentley CloudWorx product quickly creates accurate 3D models directly from the point data acquired by laser scanning. This accurate 3D model can be used as the 3D model starting point for modifications to existing plant for which there are no 3D CAD models.

 
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Globally Distributed Workflows

In today’s global enterprise environment, tools are needed to accommodate global distribution of project work. Bentley’s DigitalPlant products have embedded technology to allow projects to be managed centrally while the work is distributed globally. Using this approach, an owner/operator can have several projects proceeding simultaneously in many different countries and still ensuring that the data remains consistent as the project progresses.

 

Multiple CAD Platform Support

Bentley’s DigitalPlant products are supported on both MicroStation and AutoCAD allowing full flexibility and fully leveraging the corporate investment made by the owner/operator in its choice of CAD system.

 
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