Plant Design software is used to help plant engineers and designers to design and build models and digital twins in a 3D plant design environment to model piping, mechanical, HVAC, and electrical components primarily in mining, water and wastewater, process, and power generation, in an open, intuitive, and collaborative environment.
How does plant design software from Bentley compare to other vendors? How can you tell which products are best for the type of design projects you will be working on? There are different types of plant design software that will help you deliver different types of projects.
Since every project requires a different mix of plant software for modeling, documenting, and delivering new and updated assets, we have assembled helpful software lists broken down by profession to help guide you.
Included in Plant Design WorkSuite, OpenPlant Modeler is a 3D plant design and modeling software that enables you to accurately and rapidly perform 3D plant designs of any size. Using OpenPlant Modeler, your project team can work remotely on the go or in a connected environment via iTwin technology. OpenPlant Modeler supports many data types such as DGN, DWG, JT, point clouds, and PDFs so that your design and review process remains flexible.
Included in lant Design WorkSuite, OpenPlant PID allows you to generate P&IDs with components verified against valid piping specifications. Computational drafting routines are used to speed drawing generation. Task-based navigation and other advanced user interface features make the system easy to learn and use.
Included in Plant Design WorkSuite, OpenPlant Isometrics Manager allows isometrics to be independently produced by document control or other supporting project personnel, freeing piping designers to focus on design activities. By managing isometric production through project-based rules, the software provides users with a way to easily generate isometrics from inside OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant based iModel, directly from connected iTwin project or other sources using a simplified interface, without the need for a complex design application. It also enables project teams to output in either DGN or RealDWG formats.
Included in Plant Design WorkSuite, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management allow designing complex raceway and cable systems in integrated environment and includes wide range of design and documentation tasks typically involved. Bentley Raceway and Cable Management provide the complete layout, routing, and material estimating functions in a single, integrated system. It creates the framework for an effective workflow spanning all phases of the design, from initial concept to detailed layout and construction. Fast track your next project with automated workflows for conceptual and detailed design phases.
A perpetual license of Bentley software is a one-time purchase, with a yearly maintenance subscription, called SELECT. This includes 24/7/365 technical support, learning resources, and the ability to exchange licenses for other software once a year. With SELECT, you will benefit from:
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PROCAD uses cutting-edge technology to take plant design to the next level. With an abundance of features, PROCAD offers designers and engineers a complete system for modeling and drafting that integrates indispensable intelligent features like data management, BOM generation and other automation tools to streamline operations.
Intelligent software suite for piping and plant design. With an abundance of automation and data management features, PROCAD provides users with a better way to organize and manage entire projects from start to finish.
Treating water often requires more than one technology to achieve the desired quality. Most software for water-treatment plant design does not allow you to optimize multiple-technology systems, requiring separate software and more of your time for setup and management.
In a truly integrated software, modifications made to any operation automatically propagate throughout the system design, whereas other software requires modifications to be manually entered into the feed of the downstream operation.
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Variations in feedwater temperature, salinity, or pump pressure can influence the apparent productivity and rejection of a membrane system, making it less obvious when a real change in membrane performance has occurred. FT-Norm PRO takes away the guesswork by compensating for these variations.
Connect people, data, and processes across the project lifecycle in a cloud-based, common data environment. Expand beyond the office; work together anytime, anywhere. With transparent workflows, you can reduce distractions and errors, and increase capacity. And with a centralized source of truth, you can eliminate siloes, improve access to data, generate insights, and enjoy complete oversight.
With the AEC Collection, empower your plant with the ability to deliver more sustainable infrastructure. Connect multidisciplinary teams to support projects that provide enhanced environmental, social, and economic advantages.
With Info360 Plant, improve the operational efficiency of your water and wastewater treatment plants to meet regulatory requirements. Use real-time data analytics and cloud solutions to extract actionable insights from plant sensor and IoT data.
Benefits of plant design software like the Plant 3D toolset in AutoCAD include centralized project data and BIM workflows, such as automated drawing generation based on the 3D model, spec-driven piping, and P&ID creation.
Process plant engineering involves the design, development, construction, and operation of industrial facilities to produce materials or chemicals on a large scale. It aims to optimize processes, ensure safety, select suitable equipment, and manage projects efficiently. The field spans industries like oil and gas, water/wastewater, power generation, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and food and beverage processing. Engineers collaborate across disciplines like chemical, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering to achieve efficient and cost-effective production while adhering to safety and environmental standards.
Plant engineering software is used by a wide range of professionals, ranging from plant engineers responsible for overall plant design and operation, process engineers optimizing industrial processes, and mechanical, civil, and electrical engineers designing specific systems within the plant. For example, the Plant 3D toolset, included as part of AutoCAD, enables plant designers to create and edit piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and to generate and modify process plant models, which they use to produce piping isometrics and piping orthographic drawings.
In addition, project managers, engineering services, compliance managers, operations managers, engineers, on-site staff, and executive decision makers use software to monitor and optimize plant operations. For example, Autodesk Info360 Plant is a cloud-based operational analytics solution designed for water and wastewater treatment plants to improve real-time data analysis and enable workflows associated with performance, compliance, and improvement planning.
The Plant 3D toolset within AutoCAD produces all relevant documents from P&ID schematic flow diagrams, 3D models, Plan and Sections, right through to fabrication and construction documents like Isometrics and Spool drawings. You can use Revit to model the facilities that hold the pump and treatment equipment, and Navisworks Manage to detect and manage clashes between pipes and facility structures. All these tools and more are available in the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection.
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