Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, has released OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5), the emerging pacesetter in information modeling software for multi-discipline plant teams. 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 - and the most scalable.

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.

CEO Greg Bentley said, "At 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."

He continued, "Reinforcing the emerging market leadership of OpenPlant is its selection by Siemens Industry Automation, officially announced earlier this week, to augment its offerings in the process industries for information mobility across CAPEX and OPEX. I've enjoyed observing the enthusiasm of Siemens and Bentley colleagues, and of our joint users and prospects, as we've demonstrated this week - at Hannover Messe in the Siemens exhibit - our OpenPlant 'working smarter, together' with the Comos engineering software solution from Siemens to deliver this breakthrough."

OpenPlant Provides Information Mobility with Data Integrity

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 OpenPlant ModelServer.

The OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5) Offerings

The SELECTseries 5 releases of OpenPlant V8i include the following product offerings:

• OpenPlant Modeler V8i, providing:
• The ability to work stand alone or synchronized with the rest of the team in a distributed environment;
• 2D/3D comparison tools with OpenPlant PowerPID V8i, enabling data to be shared between the P&ID and the model, speeding the design process and facilitating consistency checking across tags;
• KKS workspace for users working on projects requiring the classification system used by power plant operators throughout Europe (available as a separate download);
• Persistent point-clouds, enabling users to interchangeably maintain and interact directly with both point clouds and geometry in hybrid models, made practical for even the largest plant projects through point-cloud streaming from ProjectWise Point-cloud Services;
• Support for over 80 new component types, including the Lindab HVAC catalog;
• A custom component builder, catalog editor, and dynamic slope placement;
• OpenPlant ModelServer V8i, featuring new automation tools to create and manage i-models across the design project, and new tools to provide more granularity around the checking in and out of components; together, these provide more robust access control and management, along with greater visibility into project status;
• OpenPlant Isometrics Manager V8i, delivering a simple user interface to quickly create isometrics styles for each project, eliminating the complexity and extensive time typically needed to configure isometric production using other plant design systems; with this new functionality, projects can start up faster and address the needs of each project with less administrative overhead.

(OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5) is now available for download on Bentley's SELECTserver. For additional information about OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5), visit www.Bentley.com/OpenPlant)