At a press conference today during DaratechPlant (Houston; January 28–30), Greg Bentley, CEO for Bentley Systems, Inc. announced OpenPlant, the first range of software products for the creation and management of plant infrastructure inherently based on the ISO 15926 data model — an international standard for process plant information. This development is inline with the owner/operators’ need for software that is compliant to global standards. Bentley cited Jerry Gipson, director of the Engineering Solutions Technology Center for The Dow Chemical Co., who spoke just this morning at the DaratechPlant Owner/Operator Roundtable about the need for standard-compliant software.
Bentley’s first OpenPlant design application is OpenPlant PowerPID, said to be the only commercial software for process and instrumentation diagrams to be based on a completely open-data model. This product, which is currently in beta testing, is expected to be ready to ship by the end of the 2nd Q this year at a very affordable price.
Another announcement today is that Bentley Systems, Inc. has acquired the global business of ECT International Inc., to provide advanced computer-aided engineering design tools for electrical control systems.
Bentley Systems announces first plant applications based on ISO 15926
| By Dorothy Lozowski