Bentley Facilities Planner
A comprehensive application on top of MicroStation to address the space and asset management needs of today’s facility managers.
Bentley Facilities Planner combines the graphic power of MicroStation and the robust managed environment of ProjectWise to ensure powerful space management
- Calculate space information based on actual floor plan data
- Include deduction areas and DIN 277 or BOMA area classification standards
- Bentley Facilities Planner establishes relationships between spaces automatically from the graphics to ensure consistent data
- Work with either DGN or DWG floor plans
- Estimate, evaluate and plan ahead with powerful change management capabilities
- BF change management provides scenario planning for both graphical and database information of spaces and assets
- See and quantify the effects of changes without altering your “as-is” data
- All asset information can be searched for and can be located on the floor plans
- Important asset information that may be tracked in other systems (Maintenance etc.) can be made visible in an engineering context of the drawings
- Utilize move wizards to move multiple pieces of equipment around
- Relationships between assets and spaces are automatically maintained and updated
- Asset information is dynamically displayed in your floorplans and multiple display symbologies can be used and mixed
- Dynamic labeling updates your floor plans based on the Facilities database information
- Use True type fonts and a variety of formatting options for labels and be able to differentiate down to the individual attribute level in each label
- Visualize facilities data with Facility maps that render space and equipment on your floor plans based on dynamic queries
- Add legends to your Facility maps with sums and count capabilities for the individual legend items
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Bentley Facilities Manager
The Management tool to access and edit enterprise data in an easy to learn and use fashion through a non-graphic interface.
Navigate your data in a non-graphic client
- Ideal to downstream several tasks that don’t require a CAD interface
- Modify, Create, Delete and Link information together
- Search for Facilities information and drag and drop results into MS Excel©
- Utilize the same change management capabilities as found in Planner
- Browse cost center structures and move employees non-graphically
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Bentley Facilities Inquirer
A powerful Web-client that enables organizations to publish, modify, create and report on all facilities related data over a standard Web browser.
Access all Facility information
- Ability to modify, create, delete and link Facilities data
- Activate, Commit, Create & Delete proposals and versions used in Planner and Manager
- Query data, find relations between instances etc …
- Publish floor plans and graphically locate spaces and equipment
- Display interactive Facility maps with legends
- Create new assets from catalogs
- Frames and COM model allow full customization of the Web Client with standard ASP pages
- Browse the same navigation trees as in Planner or Manager
- Access ProjectWise folders and their documents. Check in/out of documents (same as PW Web Explorer)
- Redlining of documents
Includes work order capability:
- Provides basic work order functionality
- No CMM overkill but practical Work Order functionality targeted at typical Facilities management tasks
- Browser based interface
- Strong user-role orientation
- Easy to use even for the casual user
- Self-serve style help desk for WO submittal and review
- Full customization options to adopt standard WO module to customer specific workflows & requirements
- Archiving capabilities
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Bentley Facilities Web Reports
Powerful and scalable report server providing truly Web based reporting for all Bentley Facilities clients
Server based, supports various IT environments (various Web servers, OS Windows and UNIX etc …)
- Load balancing
- Reporting against multiple data sources
- Create Reports with Graphs and tables
- Users can create their own specific dashboards
- Users can create Ad-hoc reports by simple drag and drop of the fields they’re interested in. All relationships are resolved automatically in the background
- Schedule reports in various formats and select different delivery types
- Dynamic reports allow entering criteria etc ...
- Fully customizable including extensive SDK
- Available from within Planner, Manager and Inquirer clients
- Fully Web based Report Designer for sophisticated Report creation
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Bentley Facilities Administrator
Powerful data modeling tools ensure that organizational structures can be exactly represented in the Facilities model.
- Add and change Classes and Attributes to really track the information you need. Organizational changes can be reflected even when the system is in productive use
- Control access rights down to the attribute level for individual users or groups
- Configure area calculation rules for Raw, Net and Gross area and space types involved
- Configure automatic link rules for spaces and assets
- Specify and customize area classification standards like BOMA or DIN277 or create your own
- Archive work orders
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