The Future - Bentley Openplant!

[Data Wrangler]

http://www.tenlinks.com/news/PR/BENTLEY/012908_openplant.htm (http://www.tenlinks.com/news/PR/BENTLEY/012908_openplant.htm)

[PeterJ]

It's Daratech, a time to expect much from Bentley, like
-for our new p&id software :
http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+1/openplant.htm
-for our aquisition of ECT with the promis.e electrical software
http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+1/promise.htm

[dave]

great post Wrangler, thanks. As always it would be nice to go.

[dave]

Has Bentley announced BE '08 yet?

[PeterJ]

It is our pleasure to announce the dates and location of BE Conference 2008!
May 28–30, 2008
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore Convention Center
www.be.org/beconference

[dave]

Thanks PeterJ!

[PeterJ]

feature list OpenPlant PowerPID

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/OpenPlant+PowerPID/Features-list.htm

[dave]

I don't know either. Here are some links that may help. Perhaps PeterJ could give us the readers digest version?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15926

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=29557

http://15926.org/home/tiki-index.php

[Data Wrangler]

Here's Bentley's interpretation:

ftp://ftp2.bentley.com/dist/collateral/whitepaper/OpenPlant_WP_Final.pdf

[dave]

"For 3D models, Bentley
is developing an ISO
15926-based model
management system that
will allow users to
execute model-centric
plant design in a
distributed environment
using different 3D
modeling systems."

Who else is on board with this standard?

[Data Wrangler]

Dunno. Impressive verbage, though.

I think Dassault mentioned that standard when they demo'ed to us.

Derek

[dave]

Indeed it is big talk. Hopefully there is something behind it. According to that article Bentley is the first to adopt. They didn't mention if there was a second or third. Sounds like some others are talking about it, at least that's something.