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News Release from: Bentley Systems (UK) | Subject: OpenPlant PowerPID
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2008
Open software eases plant data sharing
OpenPlant allows the sharing and reusing of consistent and accurate data among distributed teams and work packages throughout the plant lifecycle.
Bentley Systems has released OpenPlant software products for the creation and management of plant infrastructure based on the ISO15926 data model, an international standard for process plant information By enabling software interoperability, Bentley's OpenPlant products facilitate distributed enterprise collaboration spanning disparate systems
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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OpenPlant allows the sharing and reusing of consistent and accurate data among distributed teams and work packages throughout the plant lifecycle.
These advances reduce downtime, increase plant safety and deliver greater flexibility and productivity.
The OpenPlant designation will apply to the next (ISO15926-based) versions of existing Bentley plant offerings as well as newly developed applications.
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Bentley's first ISO15926-compliant offering was its ProjectWise Lifecycle Server.
It has now released OpenPlant PowerPID, the only commercial PandID solution to be based on a completely open data model.
CEO Greg Bentley said, "I pointed out at daratechPlant last year that I had observed a change in the projects we serve towards more creative and productive distribution of work through digital work packages, which increasingly involve industrial solution suppliers".
"Driving this change is the reality that global engineering resources are not growing quickly enough to otherwise meet today's project demands".
"To deliver on these new productivity-enhancing strategies requires interoperations and the sharing of design innovation throughout distributed enterprises".
At daratechPlant 2007 we discussed major breakthroughs in intra-operations that Bentley achieved in integrating new acquisitions.
"Bentley has moved forward to become the first plant creation software vendor delivering truly open solutions, including our adoption of ISO 15926 data models as the basis for the next version of all of our plant applications".
"Bentley's commitment to this pragmatic development was driven by our ingrained belief that project data belongs to users, not software vendors", said Rob Whitesell, Vice President, Bentley Plant, Building and Structural Development.
"Now that plant software datasets can be open - by adhering to ISO15926 data models - there is no excuse not to guarantee plant owner-operators and creators unimpeded access to and unlimited leveraged re-use of their information investment".
Whitesell continued, "Bentley's OpenPlant is the only open plant software that's designed to support the way in which the world of distributed enterprises works today".
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