Bentley Releases OpenPlant V8i

Bentley Systems has released OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries . OpenPlant V8i is being widely adopted by leading plant engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators who have confirmed it as the most practical system for plant design, engineering, construction, and operations - in terms of fastest return on investment. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant V8i enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle, as well as among third-party systems - all with full fidelity, while also empowering them to easily migrate from other vendors’ legacy systems.

 Greg Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems said, "t Bentley Systems, our commitment and our hallmark is to accomplish software superiority in both practicality (that is, quick ROI) and scalability for the largest projects and the largest challenges - in particular, the work sharing and global sourcing required in plant creation today. With the SELECTseries 5 release of OpenPlant V8i, I believe our users agree that we have understood their priorities, to hit this mark."

OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5) provides enhanced information mobility across project team disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle through its use of not only iRING/ISO 15926, but also i-models – containers for open infrastructure information exchange. In addition to using i-models to share information among the broad range of Bentley applications, Bentley provides tools to create i-models from third-party systems, such as SmartPlant, PDS, PDMS, and Revit, for integrated review with OpenPlant. This information mobility is secured by Bentley’s ProjectWise system of collaboration servers and services underlying OpenPlantModelServer.