Bentley Buys Design Power for Knowledge Based Engineering
Company is integrating PlantWise with its AXSYS, AutoPIPE, and STAAD
products
 HOUSTON,
Texas (daratechPLANT2007), January 30, 2007 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated
announced at daratechPLANT today that it has acquired
Design Power, a
leading provider of design automation solutions used by major engineering,
construction, and manufacturing firms, including Fluor, KBR, General
Electric - Oil & Gas, Bayer AG, Emerson Motors Company, Robertson Ceco
Corporation, NCI Building Systems, Inc., and the Selvaag Group.
At the core of Design Power’s solutions is Design++, a knowledge-based,
multi-dimensional engineering solver. Design++ captures in-house engineering
expertise through flexibly extended business rules to automate design
iterations in engineering platforms such as MicroStation. The results are
designs that are heuristically optimal within the economic context modeled
by the captured knowledge. This very powerfully boosts productivity,
improves quality, accelerates delivery, and creates a sustainable
competitive advantage.
Design++ automation solutions enable user organizations to more
effectively offer complex systems and products that are designed-to-order.
They provide design-based configurations, proposals, and technical drawings;
reduce cost by automatic reuse of design rules and best practices in the
design for manufacturing; minimize subsequent rework by ensuring feasible
designs; and build customer loyalty by increasing responsiveness to initial
proposals and change requests. The solutions can be applied to design
processes for systems and products as diversified as process plants, capital
equipment, electrical systems, and building structures.
Design Power’s PlantWise solution utilizes Design++ with a proven,
versatile, and extensible rule-base to enable fully piped and lowest-cost 3D
plant concept models to be easily created for review and contextual
optimization. Featuring collaborative “what-if” change implementation and
feedback, PlantWise allows users to interactively and visually iterate to
arrive at plant layouts that best meet design criteria for throughput,
economics, and safety. Piping applications such as PDS, among others, may
then conveniently be used for detailed engineering with minimal information
loss.
As Thilo J. Werners, project manager, Bayer Center for Technical
Engineering, explained in discussing a $36-million Bayer AG methyl chloride
project, “The primary advantage of using PlantWise is the ease with which we
can create and review new plant concepts in 3D. The software allows managers
to review and discuss design ideas and to implement alternative solutions on
the fly.
“For the methyl chloride plant, we considered numerous variations,
including piping and cable tray routing, operations concepts, erection and
dismantling access for every piece of equipment, piping studies,
instrumentation and control loops, penetrations, and passages. PlantWise
enabled the team to quickly develop and implement alternative solutions.”
Bentley is integrating PlantWise with its AXSYS, AutoPIPE, and STAAD
products to deliver a unique and complete solution for front-end engineering
design (FEED). Outputs include initial process flow diagrams (PFDs),
preliminary P&IDs, equipment sizing for procurement and process analysis,
and engineering analysis models that help assess plant design safety based
on applicable standards. This capability is being demonstrated by Bentley at
daratechPLANT.
Said CEO Greg Bentley, “First, on behalf of Bentley colleagues around the
world, I am pleased to welcome all Design Power users into the Bentley user
community. By integrating the capabilities of Design++ and PlantWise within
Bentley’s DigitalPlant portfolio, we are able to offer an advanced,
rules-based plant engineering and design solution surpassing any other. It
will provide sharp increases in productivity early in the design phase, and
lead to significant and continued cost and time savings throughout the plant
lifecycle.
“Better still, we can deliver all of this improved capability without
asking users to change their preferred engineering and construction
platform. Our new FEED solution will interoperate with whatever tools
they’ve come to trust.”
“Design Power CEO Ulf Strom and his colleagues have proven the
advantageous applicability of a flexible, heuristic solver to many demanding
AEC requirements. Our solution executives at Bentley are already planning
breakthrough configurations of the Design++ solver for other asset classes,
such as certain repeatable building types, for which the technology has been
deployed so impressively by Robertson Ceco and Selvaag BlueThink.”
Added Rob Whitesell, vice president, Bentley Software, “Though Design
Power has always supported integration with other vendors’ solutions,
Bentley’s steadfast commitment to open standards, particularly ISO 15926,
will provide Design Power users with even greater opportunities for
interoperations. ISO 15926 will facilitate higher levels of data fidelity
when moving data into detailed plant design software, allowing the transfer
of complete, fully optimized conceptual designs, rather than simply rough
snapshots. And the openness of our new FEED solution means all users,
especially PDS users, can reap its many benefits on any of their projects.”
Said Ulf Strom, “All of us at Design Power are pleased to be joining the
Bentley organization, and know that our many loyal users will be impressed
with and benefit from Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions and
capabilities. The new FEED solution that incorporates PlantWise is the first
of many innovations they can look forward to.”
Design Power is part of a DigitalPlant acquisition strategy for FEED that
began with the purchase of the AXSYS suite of products from Aspentech in
2004, followed by the acquisition of the STAAD product line in 2005. It is
yet another achievement towards Bentley’s dual objectives of improving the
productivity of its users through interoperable solutions with which they
are already familiar, and of leveraging the power of engineering information
beyond the design workflows in the plant lifecycle.
Bentley and the Design Power team will work closely with Selvaag
BlueThink, creator of computer-based tools that automate residential
building design, in its application of Design++ technology to building
industry processes.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2000 colleagues around the world,
Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering
News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the
world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent
Daratech research study.
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