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Bentley Systems (UK) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 1, 2007
Bentley Systems has acquired Design Power and KIWI Software.
Bentley Systems has acquired Design Power and KIWI Software, whose respective PlantWise and ProSteel products deepen the unique lifecyle span of Bentley's DigitalPlant portfolio for unprecedented integration within front-end engineering design (FEED) and of detailing for fabricaters.
Bentley is demonstrating several advances for interoperations provided by its DigitalPlant solutions, including: knowledge-enabled FEED processes (AXSYS, PlantWise); integrated pipe stress and structural analysis (AutoPIPE, STAAD); and visual collaboration for construction (ProjectWise Navigator).
"The business process improvements these advances enable motivate Bentley's continued commitment to ISO15926 and other key information standards" according to Charles Foundyller, President and CEO of Daratech.
"Bentley, through its product development and strategic acquisitions, is assembling a growing palette of integrated solutions for plant creation that spans simulation, engineering, fabrication, and construction".
"What I really like about its strategy is that it is making its software interoperable and appears to be sincerely supporting key industry standards".
"In particular, the Design Power and KIWI Software acquisitions further extend Bentley's DigitalPlant portfolio by bridging the information gaps between simulation and engineering, and from engineering to fabrication and construction - something users have been requesting for a long time".
Design Power brings a knowledge-based solver that can be universally applied to existing work processes and design environments to interactively optimise facility designs.
Its proven application in PlantWise applies general and user-specific piping design criteria to iteratively yield superior engineering and economic productivity.
KIWI Software's ProSteel is a leading application for steel detailing, now providing users with the opportunity to engineer direct for fabrication.
CEO Greg Bentley said "These two acquisitions are strategic because they enable us to achieve breakthroughs in the interoperations benefits we strive to deliver".
"Rich, bi-directional information sharing among multiple disciplines and multiple phases results in benefits well beyond faster design - look for improved plant quality, safety, economics, and sustainability".
Bentley continued, "Over the past few years, I've seen a change in the projects we serve, driven by the pressure on engineering resources, towards more creative distribution of work through the currency of digital work packages".
"Our flexible and open solutions enable these distributed enterprises to naturally interoperate and organically innovate".
"With the IT environment encouraging and leveraging - rather than inhibiting - creativity and inventiveness, the result is multiplied effectiveness of limited engineering resources".
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