AssetWise Provides Superior Asset Lifecycle
Information Management

Bentley’s AssetWise is an operations information modeling platform that delivers applications and online services for infrastructure asset operations. It greatly improves information integrity and operational efficiency while streamlining the business processes associated with sustaining infrastructure assets over their lifecycles. With AssetWise, infrastructure owner-operators can:

• Increase return on asset (ROA) by increasing the useful life of the asset and its productivity throughout its lifecycle
• Manage business risk by meeting regulatory compliance requirements and ensuring public safety and access to accurate information
• Improve operational performance by increasing infrastructure availability, shortening downtime and outages, and improving maintenance efficiency (wrench time)

AssetWise provides a complete and interoperable portfolio of asset information management applications and online services tightly coupled to the operational systems that generate and modify the underlying content/information defining the asset.

Bentley’s approach to Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM) leads to superior solutions in:

• Configuration management
• Document control
• Records management
• Project information management and handover
• Industry-specific compliance solutions

Operations and maintenance of infrastructure assets present unique challenges

Infrastructure assets are unique because of their:

• Scale, which often spans hundreds of miles or square miles
• Complexity, which is often represented by a network or multiple networks
• Life span, which is measured in decades, not years

In addition, many infrastructure assets serve the public. Examples include power generation stations, road and rail networks, and pipelines that carry water or natural gas. The owners of these assets ultimately are responsible to the public for these services.

Infrastructure assets are highly regulated and governed to ensure worker and public safety and consistency of service. In addition, they require unique information models. Information must be accurate, accessible across the enterprise, and linked to requirements and regulations that govern the information. This information also must be auditable to report to the governing bodies that oversee the respective industries that the information serves.

Poor asset information management increases costs

• During the development of infrastructure projects (CAPEX), poor Asset Information Management (AIM) contributes to increased capital costs, extended project schedules, and increased project risk.
• During operations and maintenance (OPEX), poor AIM increases operational costs, contributes to downtime and lost productivity, and adversely affects revenue.
• Risk of noncompliance can lead to costly penalties and poor safety records.

Two strategic acquisitions launch "Bentley’s AssetWise" initiative for owner-operators

Bentley’s acquisition of Enterprise Informatics, Incorporated and Exor Corporation accelerated its focus on value creation for owner-operators – enabling operations and maintenance to take full advantage of information modeling and, thus, realize the potential of “intelligent” infrastructure assets.

Learn more about Bentley's offerings

• eB Insight
  Enterprise Informatics' flagship product provides configuration and change management capabilities for mission-critical infrastructure asset operations for the energy, nuclear, rail, and government sectors
• Exor
  Exor provides information modeling software for the management and operations of linear networks for infrastructure, including roads and railways.
• Transportation Operations
  Bentley's long-standing leadership in transportation engineering solutions evolved naturally over the years into a parallel focus on transportation operations and maintenance.
• Plant Operations
  Bentley's plant information management system provides instant answers to tough issues by connecting the silos of information in the plant enterprise and layering that connection with intelligence.