Bentley Systems OpenPlant CONNECT Edition plant design system

Bentley Systems has announced the availability of OpenPlant CONNECT Edition, the latest of Bentley’s plant design offerings that allows users in the process and manufacturing industries to improve design and operations with a collaborative, intelligent, 2D and 3D plant design environment based on open data standards. OpenPlant CONNECT Edition now provides owner-operators and engineering, procurement and construction companies the ability to design and manage their plant data through cloud-based services, while supporting asynchronous project visibility.

OpenPlant CONNECT Edition is the first application in Bentley’s multidiscipline plant design to utilise iModelHub, Bentley’s cloud service, which tracks all changes made to project designs and notifies users of changes. Participants can choose to synchronise to and from particular timeline milestones and can visualise, summarise, analyse and interpret the impact of ongoing changes. Utilising the integration between OpenPlant and iModelHub, users can synchronise 3D models from OpenPlant with iModelHub, to view and query the model data in a web-based interface. Users can also perform 2D and 3D consistency checking through integration with OpenPlant PID. A full history of all the changes made to the 3D model and 2D designs are synchronised to iModelHub, including who made changes, what was changed, when changes were made and the date the changes were completed.