奔特力工程软件系统有限公司（Bentley Systems, Incorporated）今天发布了OpenPlant，该系列软件产品开行业之先河，底层采用了流程工厂信息的国际标准——ISO 15926数据模型，用于工厂基础设施的创建和管理。奔特力的OpenPlant系列产品将软件互操作性发展到新的水平，从而为跨越不同系统的分布式企业协作提供便利。OpenPlant的特点是能够实现无缝协作，使分布式的团队之间和工作包之间能够在工厂全生命周期共享、复用准确一致的数据。这些先进功能缩短了停工时间，加强了工厂的安全性，而且增强了灵活性，提高了生产率，因而推动了为基础设施提供可持续支持的创新工程设计和运营的进步。OpenPlant名称将用于奔特力新版（基于ISO 15926标准的）工厂设计产品以及其他新开发的应用软件。奔特力公司推出的第一款支持ISO 15926标准的产品是ProjectWise Lifecycle Server。如今，奔特力推出了OpenPlant PowerPID，这是基于一个全面开放的数据模型的唯一一款商用管路及仪表布置图（P&ID）解决方案。

首席执行官Greg Bentley说，“我在去年的daratechPLANT大会上指出，我发现我们所服务的项目发生了变化，这些项目倾向于采用更具创新性、生产效率更高的方法，以数码工作包的形式来分派工作任务。而这些工作包与行业解决方案供应商的关系越来越紧密。全球工程设计资源增长速度不能满足当今市场的项目需求，这样的现实情况促成了这种变化。

要执行这些提高生产率的新战略，就需要分散的企业相互配合，共享设计创新。在daratechPLANT 2007年大会上，我们探讨了内部协作的重大突破，这是奔特力通过整合新收购的业务而实现的。现在，我们宣布，奔特力公司再进一步，成为首家推出真正的开放式解决方案的工厂设计软件提供商。在这些解决方案之中，我们的各种工厂设计软件的新版本均采用了ISO 15926数据模型。采用开放式标准来实现数据持久性，这就是说，奔特力的用户可以跨一大步，迈过互操作性的模糊目标，而获得实际的互操作功能带来的好处，达到他们寻求的企业生命周期生产率的转折点。这样一来，工厂的业主运营商和建造商就可以弥补资源的短缺，为基础设施提供长久支持。”

奔特力公司负责工厂、建筑和结构开发业务的副总裁Rob Whitesell说，“奔特力公司之所以能够倾力投入这个实际性的开发计划，是因为我们坚信，项目数据是属于用户的，而不是属于软件供应商的。既然工厂软件数据集能够通过应用ISO 15926数据模型而变为开放式的，那么就没有理由不去保障工厂业主运营商和建造商自由使用并无限制的复用他们的信息投资。”

Whitesell又说，“奔特力的OpenPlant是唯一一款支持企业进行分布式协作的开放式工厂设计软件。由于是在国际公认的非专利标准的基础上开发的，OpenPlant系列产品可使项目团队投入到精简的协作工作流之中，而这样的工作流能够支持不受限制的工程师和行业解决方案提供商实现持续的有组织的创新，并对其进行管理。OpenPlant能使分布式的团队即刻连通进行合作，让他们把数据和工作包无缝整合起来，因而缩短了项目周期和产品上市时间，增强了盈利能力和可持续发展能力。”

关于OpenPlant的ProjectWise Lifecycle Server

作为面向业主运营商的工厂设计软件市场的领先企业（根据工厂设计行业市场调研公司Daratech的数据），奔特力公司特别重视可交付使用的工厂设计方案在整个生命周期的复用问题，ISO 15926标准对于这个问题很有帮助。

ProjectWise Lifecycle Server经受了世界上最严格的工厂环境的考验，客户包括英国石油公司、雪佛龙公司（Chevron）、康菲石油公司（ConocoPhillips）、KBR公司和Southern Company；该产品支持奔特力基于标准的工程数据仓库，能够应对工厂全生命周期的工程自动化和其他资产信息管理需求。ProjectWise Lifecycle Server以ISO 15926标准为基础，因此可以带来前所未有的互操作性，能够在奔特力工厂设计软件和同类竞争软件产品之间共享数据，还能与企业IT环境共享数据。

迄今为止，移交过程中的数据合并与集成是流程行业目前所面临的最棘手的IT问题。ProjectWise Lifecycle Server是奔特力解决方案的核心所在。其主要目的是从不同数据源中发现数据元素，然后进行合并。由于信息是从不同的学科、不同的承包商或供应商那里得来的，ProjectWise Lifecycle Server提供了全面的质量检查功能，以确保所接受的信息是完整、无误、一致的。该产品获取有关信息来源和共享条件的背景数据，来为已交付使用的工厂所必需的企业级变更管理提供支持。

如需了解ProjectWise Lifecycle Server的详细情况，请访问：www.bentley.com/lifecycleserver。

关于OpenPlant PowerPID

根据Daratech公司的数据，奔特力公司是工厂设计制图软件领域的市场领先企业。OpenPlant PowerPID是唯一一款基于完全开放的数据模型的流程和仪表布置图商用软件，奔特力公司在OpenPlant系列之中率先推出这款设计软件是合适的。由于OpenPlant PowerPID的原始数据模型模式是ISO 15926，任何映射到ISO 15926模式的数据本身都能与OpenPlant PowerPID实现互操作。这就是说，任何使用OpenPlant PowerPID创建的工厂图表不需要复杂的软件编程接口就能共享。数据存储保持在中立的非专利格式中，任何映射到 ISO 15926模式的应用程序都可以访问这种格式。

除了具备前所未有的互操作性以外，OpenPlant PowerPID还利用最新的软件技术带来同类最优的生产率：

——快速自动创建智能型的管路及仪表布置图，以提高处理能力；

——共享的文件：允许多用户各自独立更改文件，然后整合为单一的管路及仪表布置图，从而缩短设计时间；

——装配管理，以快速布置复杂部件；

——将DWG和DGN两种格式用于可交付使用的智能解决方案，从而扩大了项目的机遇；

——管理功能：确保管路及仪表布置图符合项目数据和制图质量标准。

如需了解OpenPlant PowerPID的详细情况，请访问：www.bentley.com/PowerPID。

关于奔特力公司

奔特力工程软件系统有限公司为全球基础设施的整个生命周期提供软件。公司为建筑工程、工厂设计、土木工程和地理信息垂直市场提供综合性解决方案，涵盖建筑、工程、施工（AEC）和营运领域。奔特力公司年收入现已超过4亿美元，全球已有2400多名员工，是为《工程新闻记录》评出的一流设计企业以及各大业主运营商提供建筑、工程、施工（ AEC）软件的领先供货商，在Daratech公司一项研究中被评为全球第二大GIS/地理信息软件解决方案供货商。

如需实时获得奔特力公司新闻，请访问www.bentley.com/bentleywire。如需了解更多信息，请访问：www.bentley.com。如需在线查看奔特力公司2007年4月发布的年度报告副本，请访问：www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport。

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( BW)(TX-BENTLEY-SYSTEMS) Bentley Announces OpenPlant - the First Plant Applications Based on ISO 15926 Data Model

     Products Provide Consistently Reusable Data Throughout Plant Lifecycle, Delivering Greater Flexibility, Productivity, and Innovation - for Sustaining Infrastructure

    Business Editors/Tradeshow Writers/Technology Editors daratechPLANT2008

    HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2008--Bentley Systems, Incorporated today 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. By enabling the next phase in software interoperability, Bentley's OpenPlant products facilitate distributed-enterprise collaboration spanning disparate systems. The OpenPlant hallmark is seamless federation for sharing and reusing consistent and accurate data among distributed teams and work packages throughout the plant lifecycle. These advances reduce downtime, increase plant safety, and deliver greater flexibility and productivity - stimulating innovative engineering and operations for sustaining infrastructure. The OpenPlant designation will apply to the next (ISO 15926-based) versions of existing Bentley plant offerings as well as newly developed applications. Bentley's first ISO 15926-compliant offering was its ProjectWise Lifecycle Server. Today it is introducing OpenPlant PowerPID, the only commercial P&ID solution to be based on a completely open data model.

    CEO Greg Bentley said, "I pointed out at daratechPLANT last year that I had observed a change in the projects we serve towards more creative and productive distribution of work through digital work packages, which increasingly involve industrial solution suppliers. Driving this change is the reality that global engineering resources are not growing quickly enough to otherwise meet today's project demands.

    "To deliver on these new productivity-enhancing strategies requires interoperations and the sharing of design innovation throughout distributed enterprises. At daratechPLANT 2007 we discussed major breakthroughs in intra-operations that Bentley achieved in integrating new acquisitions. Today, we are here to announce that Bentley has moved forward to become the first plant creation software vendor delivering truly open solutions, including our adoption of ISO 15926 data models as the basis for the next version of all of our plant applications. Using that open standard for data persistence means Bentley users can take a giant step beyond vague goals of interoperability to the benefits of actually interoperating, to reach the inflections in enterprise lifecycle productivity they've sought. As a consequence, plant owner-operators and creators will be able to offset resource shortages for sustaining infrastructure."

    "Bentley's commitment to this pragmatic development was driven by our ingrained belief that project data belongs to users, not software vendors," said Rob Whitesell, vice president, Bentley Plant, Building, and Structural development. "Now that plant software datasets can be open - by adhering to ISO 15926 data models - there is no excuse not to guarantee plant owner-operators and creators unimpeded access to, and unlimited leveraged reuse of, their information investment."

    Whitesell continued, "Bentley's OpenPlant is the only open plant software that's designed to support the way in which the world of distributed enterprises works today. Because they are based on a nonproprietary, internationally recognized standard, OpenPlant products empower project teams to engage in streamlined collaborative workflows that empower and harness the constant organic innovations that unfettered engineers and industrial solution suppliers can accomplish. By enabling distributed teams to connect and work instantaneously, and federate their data and work packages seamlessly, OpenPlant compresses project schedules and time to market for improving profitability and sustainability."

    About OpenPlant's ProjectWise Lifecycle Server

    As the plant creation market leader in software for owner-operators, according to plant industry research firm Daratech, Bentley has devoted a particular focus to the challenges of lifecycle reuse of plant design deliverables, for which ISO 15926 has been instrumental.

    Already proven in the world's most demanding plant environments - with user organizations including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, KBR, and Southern Company - ProjectWise Lifecycle Server supports Bentley's standards-based engineering data warehouse, addressing engineering automation and other asset information management needs for the full plant lifecycle. Built on ISO 15926, ProjectWise Lifecycle Server accordingly offers unprecedented interoperability - providing the ability to share data across Bentley and competitive plant applications, and with enterprise IT environments.

    The consolidation and integration of data during handover is by far the toughest IT problem faced by the process industry today. ProjectWise Lifecycle Server is at the heart of Bentley's solution. Its core purpose is the identification and consolidation of data elements from disparate sources. As information is released from different disciplines, contractors, or vendors, ProjectWise Lifecycle Server provides comprehensive quality-checking to ensure that accepted information is complete, correct, and consistent. Context data about where information originated and the conditions under which it has been shared is captured to support the industrial-strength change management necessary for commissioned plants.

    For more information about ProjectWise Lifecycle Server, visit www.bentley.com/lifecycleserver.

    About OpenPlant PowerPID

    As the market leader in plant schematics software, according to Daratech, it is fitting that Bentley's first OpenPlant design application is OpenPlant PowerPID, the only commercial software for process and instrumentation diagrams to be based on a completely open data model. Because the native data model schema for OpenPlant PowerPID is ISO 15926, any data that is mapped to the ISO 15926 schema can natively interoperate with OpenPlant PowerPID. This means that any plant schematics created with OpenPlant PowerPID can be shared without the need for complex application programming interfaces. The data is stored and maintained in a neutral, nonproprietary format that can be accessed by any application that is mapped to the ISO 15926 schema.

    In addition to its unprecedented interoperability credentials, OpenPlant PowerPID leverages up-to-date software technologies to deliver best-in-class productivity:

    --  Rapid - and automated - creation of intelligent P&IDs, for increased throughput;

    --  Shared files that allow changes made independently by multiple users to be reconciled into a single P&ID, for faster completion of designs;

    --  Assembly management, for quick placement of complex components;

    --  Both DWG and DGN formats for intelligent deliverables, broadening project opportunities;

    --  Administrative functions to ensure P&ID compliance with project data and drawing quality standards.

    For more information about OpenPlant PowerPID, visit www.bentley.com/PowerPID.

    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 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.

    To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's April 2007 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport.

    Bentley, the "B" Bentley logo, OpenPlant, OpenPlant PowerPID, ProjectWise, and ProjectWise Lifecycle Server are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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