Visual
Workflow Supports Greenfield and Brownfield Operations, Enabling
Sustainable
Business Strategy for Operational Excellence and Safety
Solutions 2.0 Innovations in Asset Information Management
Conference – July 28, 2014 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the
leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining
infrastructure,
recently announced the release of AssetWise
APM
V7.2. This enhanced version of Bentley’s asset performance
management (APM) software enables users to take advantage of
immersive
APM,
a visual environment in which hypermodeling is used to spatially
enable operations and maintenance for the interactive inspection of
critical assets. AssetWise
APM
V7.2 users can also view infrastructure assets in the context of
engineering information conveyed by Bentley’s i-models,
and can initiate actions directly from the 2D or 3D representations
of the asset. Additionally, AssetWise
APM
V7.2 users now benefit from advancements in asset strategy
development and integrity management.
In
related news, Bentley further announced:
- a new version of Bentley’s APM Supervisor Dashboard app for Windows 8.1,
- the alignment of its APM Process Maturity Model directly to ISO 55000.
Alan
Kiraly, Bentley senior vice president, server
products, said, “What differentiates Bentley’s AssetWise
APM V7.2 is the unique capability to interact with the virtual
plant and connect asset health data to 2D and 3D models of the plant.
Bentley users can walk an inspection prior to going to the asset and
make better decisions faster.”
Immersive
Asset Performance Management
AssetWise APM V7.2’s immersive approach to
visual operations helps converge the engineer’s mental model of the
plant, network, or other asset with its performance and
representation in IT systems. The hypermodels in this visual
environment can directly link to asset condition indicators, enabling
inspection indicator readings to be associated with the visual model.
In addition, the ability to view assets via i-models (conveyors of
architectural, engineering, construction, and operations
deliverables) provides expanded engineering context in a variety of
formats – from design files to specification sheets to corrosion
loops, and more. Inspection photographs can also be included with
assets, indicators, indicator readings, and checksheets.
The visual workflow supports both greenfield and
brownfield operations, bridging the gap between CAPEX and OPEX and
enabling a sustainable business strategy for operational excellence
and safety.
Also
new in AssetWise APM V7.2 are analysis techniques used in
Risk-based Inspections (RBI) and Reliability-centered Maintenance
(RCM). Capabilities include demand scenario risk analysis based on
the consequences of economic, health and safety, environmental, and
company reputation effects; risk matrices support for failure mode
criticality evaluation; and degradation rates updated from failure
modes, analysis based on economic feasibility of maintenance
strategies, and probability based on time between failures.
Bentley
uniquely delivers a single platform to support both RCM and RBI asset
strategy development methods, as well as a comprehensive inspection
data management system. This drives an enterprise-wide approach to
managing risk, increasing uptime, and ensuring process safety and
predictable production at the lowest lifecycle cost.
With
the unique capability of addressing reliability and integrity across
the lifecycle on a single platform, Bentley users are able to push
reliability-based processes and practices earlier into the design
phase of the asset lifecycle. Bentley delivers an information
management platform to ensure operational readiness and sustainable
asset performance. AssetWise APM has tested and certified
integrations to leading EAM systems, including SAP, IBM Maximo and
Oracle eAM.
APM
Supervisor Dashboard App for Windows 8.1
Bentley’s APM Supervisor Dashboard app, which
was originally released for Android-based devices, gives reliability
and maintenance managers an at-a-glance, actionable, 24x7 view of
asset health and key performance indicators (KPIs). Bentley’s new
APM Supervisor Dashboard app gives managers the added
flexibility of responding to alarms and approving work from home or
elsewhere offsite on Windows 8.1 devices.
Process
Maturity Model Aligned with ISO 55000
New in Bentley’s Reliability Business Improvement
Assessment is the alignment of its APM Process Maturity Model
directly to ISO 55000. This standard enables users to identify the
qualitative and quantitative evidence of their existing capabilities,
to assess the stage at which their organizations currently operate,
and to know what is possible with a given business case and plan.
Kiraly
said, “Bentley’s approach to asset performance management was the
first to combine process, practices, technology, and methodologies
that are tightly coupled and automated to provide sustainable
results. This approach, which has a 15-year proven track record at
Bentley and Ivara, has, in 2014, evolved into the ISO 55000 standard
for asset management. As a result, Bentley’s AssetWise APM
offering naturally aligns to ISO 55000 to deliver increased value to
our users.”
For additional information:
- To view a new video on AssetWise APM titled “Immersive Asset Performance Management,” visit www.bentley.com/AssetWiseAPMVideo.
- To download high-resolution AssetWise APM images, click here.
- To read more about AssetWise APM, visit www.bentley.com/APM.
About
Bentley Systems
Bentley
Systems is the global leader dedicated to providing architects,
engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and
owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing
the design, construction, and
operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information
mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure
lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley
solutions encompass MicroStation
applications for information
modeling, ProjectWise
collaboration services to deliver integrated
projects, and AssetWise
operations services to achieve intelligent
infrastructure –
complemented by worldwide professional services
and comprehensive managed services.
Founded
in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries,
more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2006 has
invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and
acquisitions.
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