At the Year in Infrastructure 2022 conference, Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today introduced Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, a combination of enterprise systems that spans the entire life and the global infrastructure value chain. Bentley Infrastructure Cloud is built on the iTwin platform and Bentley infrastructure blueprints and therefore integrates seamlessly with Bentley's engineering applications. It enables you to improve the creation, delivery and ongoing operation of better infrastructures, thanks to comprehensive and always up-to-date digital twins.
Bentley Infrastructure Cloud includes ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction, and AssetWise for asset management. These enterprise systems now leverage digital twin technologies, Powered by iTwin, to use data contained in design files through automatic, intrinsic mapping to Bentley infrastructure patterns. By advancing these business systems to become fundamentally data-centric without disrupting file-based workflows, Bentley Infrastructure Cloud provides user organizations with opportunities to improve collaboration, productivity and quality.
Bentley's infrastructure schemes are open and extensible, now connecting reality modeling and IoT devices, and incorporating carbon computing and underground data. Bentley's rich infrastructure schema data representation is useful for exporting Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). The ability to seamlessly share data and enrich it throughout its lifecycle helps engineering firms and owner-operators create and extract more value from their engineering data.
The potential for a unified cloud solution across the infrastructure engineering lifecycle arises from the institutionalized limitations of fragmented information flows that have impeded connections, feedback, analysis, reuse, and knowledge transfer. Bentley Infrastructure Cloud includes an always-on, always-updated and always-accessible data-centric federated environment that maintains and connects engineering data throughout the design, construction and management phases. Information mobility and semantic continuity across traditional boundaries with Bentley Infrastructure Cloud will help accelerate buildability and modular design as well as performance-driven design, among other advances.
“Bentley Infrastructure Cloud represents our commitment to connecting everyone and everything in the infrastructure engineering value chain and extended project ecosystems. Infrastructure professionals deserve an up-to-date digital twin environment for data they can trust and act upon. I believe Bentley Systems is uniquely positioned to meet this requirement due to the combined comprehensiveness of our business systems from ProjectWise, SYNCHRO and AssetWise, the inherent technical accuracy of our software, and our commitment to openness, including our unique determination to integrate semantically the full range of relevant engineering file formats. The iTwin platform has become the solid foundation for unifying our software developments and has proven itself up to this challenge.”
Bentley Systems also unveiled major enhancements to ProjectWise to extend the scope from ongoing engineering to full digital delivery. Complementing each project's sequential file-based workflows with data-centric information mobility and analytics across all projects:
With new project portfolio and program management capabilities, ProjectWise users can now apply engineering-level analysis to all projects, learn from and reuse comprehensive project data, and retain knowledge to improve quality and performance. efficiency of future projects.
With new digital twin capabilities, ProjectWise users can undertake interdisciplinary reviews and advanced design validation to improve the effectiveness and quality of their designs, as well as increase the reach of their digital products for construction and operation. to position their businesses for transformative digital services beyond delivery.
Digital delivery capabilities leverage digital workflows to automate and manage the creation, exchange and review of final contract documents, including PDFs and Industry Foundation Classes, as well as digital twins. ProjectWise users can avoid wasting time manually assembling and shipping packages, can reduce risk by gaining visibility and traceability into final documentation workflows, and automatically maintain a comprehensive audit trail.
ProjectWise for digital delivery, Powered by iTwin within the Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, enhances engineering firm opportunities by minimizing risk and improving project performance and quality control. Infrastructure digital twins created in the design phase can be invaluable to owner-operators as final project documentation, including recurring services of engineering firms in the role of “digital integrators” for data quality and security, own analyzes and monitoring.
Lori Hufford, Vice President, Engineering Collaboration for Bentley Systems, commented: “Engineering firms today face unprecedented challenges to deliver more and better quality projects, despite a talent shortage, a retiring workforce and the loss of institutional knowledge. Employing the iTwin platform we are now able to progress ProjectWise beyond the ongoing engineering work for one project at a time, to use it across projects to maximize insights, learnings, re-use and machine learning. ProjectWise users already have extensive project experience built into their ProjectWise archives. Now, as part of the Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, ProjectWise can drive the change needed for the efficiency, effectiveness and transformation of engineering firms.”
Finally, Bentley also announced the availability of new asset-specific solutions, Powered by iTwin, which leverage iTwin Experience, iTwin Capture and iTwin IoT to provide real-time monitoring of asset health.
The AssetWise Bridge Monitoring solution transforms traditional bridge inspections into a modern digital workflow. Using drones and using iTwin Capture to create a 3D digital twin of the bridge, inspections can be conducted virtually, avoiding costly and dangerous field trips, while leveraging remote expertise and artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically identify and classify defects. The information is made available to stakeholders as part of the workflow via the iTwin Experience. Inspection data needed to correct problems can be seamlessly passed on to the maintenance, design and construction phases to create substantial cost savings.
The AssetWise Dam Monitoring solution is purpose-built for engineering firms to offer digital services to dam operators who are modernizing their safety programs to reduce risk and meet growing regulatory requirements. The future solution will provide unified access to sensor data and will be able to be implemented without specialized technical personnel. Users can embed sensor data into any digital twin for a contextual view of real-time data and associated metrics.
Cory Baldwin, Vice President, Infrastructure IoT for Bentley Systems, said: “We want to enable engineering firms to become digital integrators for the infrastructure digital twins they create in the project delivery phase and maintain the performance digital twins for the owner-operators. To accelerate these opportunities, engineering firms can quickly get started with iTwin Capture, iTwin Experience, iTwin IoT and our AssetWise cloud monitoring solutions and add their own proprietary, asset-specific service and analytics programs.”
The AssetWise Bridge Monitoring and Dam Monitoring solutions are in Early Access.
Bentley Chief Product Officer Michael Campbell concluded: “We are working closely with engineering firms and asset owners and have clearly understood that they want innovations without disruption. With Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, users of ProjectWise, SYNCHRO and AssetWise accelerate their generational shift to the digital twin, without compromising existing workflows for engineering collaboration, construction and asset performance management. And best of all, their existing project and asset files are the springboard to their data-centric future.”
Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, which includes ProjectWise, SYNCHRO and AssetWise business systems, is now available. For more information, please visit www.bentley.com.
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We deliver innovative software to advance the world's infrastructure, supporting both the global economy and the environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals and organizations of all sizes for the design, construction and management of roads and bridges, railways and transportation, water and wastewater, works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining and industrial facilities. Our offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for network and asset performance, Seequent's range of industry-leading geoscience software solutions, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twin. Bentley Systems employs more than 4.500 people and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186 countries.
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