A brief introduction to Bentley information mobility solutions for infrastructure life cycle management. Presented in Estonian Bentley users seminar organized by Cad-Susteemide Ou - September 2014.
Bentley’s offerings span the infrastructure lifecycle-- from buildings to bridges, transit to utilities, offshore or underground. Here you see our ‘playlists’ of applications comprising the best mix of software for their respective disciplines on a given project.
Here is our historical GAAP revenue, which you can see has been steady over the past years.
GAAP revenue growth in 2013 was $593 million
Bentley BIM is uniquely optimized for all three phases of the lifecycle; it’s “not just for Architects anymore”.
i-models, these conveyors of AECO deliverables, allow for the harvesting of BIM data for use by non-techies:
Graphics (pictures)
Business data (spreadsheets, DB, etc.)
FM
So the reality is that in this environment many things can go wrong and waste money and time. Think about the time wasted in searching and transferring files over slow network connections. Broken references and inconsistent standards that further complicate this issue. Travel expenses, manual design reviews, lost feedback – all these add up to make projects inefficient and wasteful.
Information mobility empowers project teams to share AECO and geospatial information within models across the infrastructure lifecycle and project disciplines, all in a controlled and secure fashion regardless of the file formats or devices used. Information mobility is the long awaited payoff for interoperability: ensuring the right version of information, in the appropriate format and with the required level of precision, can be accessed by the right people at the right time.
Information mobility is particularly crucial in integrated projects to facilitate collaboration and enable decisions to be made in the context of other disciplines – making the “hand-off” of information between design and construction and the “handover” between construction and operations “hands-on!”
Bentley’s i-model container for open infrastructure information exchange delivers this information mobility while the ProjectWise system of collaboration servers and services secures it. Together, they ensure information mobility with integrity.
ProjectWise ensures information mobility because it is a system of collaboration servers and services for AECO information for the design and construction of infrastructure projects while the work is in progress. AECO refers to architectural, engineering, construction and operations. We group ProjectWise software products into 3 categories: work-sharing, content reuse, and dynamic.
Work-sharing provides Organizational Agility in a Managed Environment by creating and maanging ongoing work-product effectively – where the right people quickly and reliably accelerate work-in-progress using infrastructure tools and workflows of choice.
Content re-use maximizes value across the enterprise by informing project stakeholders and enterprise systems in a more consistent, timely and predicable manner using high-impact deliverables.
Dynamic feedback ensures Timely and Actionable Participation by synchronizing comments to resolve issues quickly and effectively in a ‘closed-loop’, returning feedback in context to all the relevant designers so as to be actionable.
i-models are a medium for information exchange for projects associated with the life-cycle ofinfrastructure assets
i-models contain information with engineering precision and no loss of accuracy.
They store their own Provenance, so they retain knowledge about their original source, the state of the information when they were published and why they were published
i-models are also Self Describing. You don’t have to have the original native application to display the geometry or view the business properties. Every i-model carries with it a schema that describes its content.
i-models are Flexible. They can be transformed to conform to a specific industry standard or to contain business data aggregated from sources outside of the design environment.
i-models are portable, they are optimized for sharing and distribution.
And finally i-models include support for Digital Rights Management and Digital Signatures to ensure security and reliability.
Bentley provides application plug-ins to create i-models directly from software applications, including:
Over 70 Bentley Products
Revit
AutoCAD*
Civil3D*
Sketchup*
Rhino*
Bentley provides publishing solutions to automate the creation of i-models for:
All applications with available plugins
Plus:
PDS
SmartPLANT
Bentley provides a software development kit to allow any 3rd party software vendor or user to create i-models from their application.
Tablets and other mobile devices will become pervasive in our industry.
However these new form factors and operating systems open the door to new productivity gains but also create a challenge to distributing engineering data into field based work-processes.
Let me explain some use case scenarios we are targeting before delving into our mobile technology.
Cloud-based processing to perform complex simulation and analysis quickly
Scenario management to evaluate many options effectively
Share and manage point clouds across distributed teams
Stream point clouds directly to your design environment on demand
Integrated with ProjectWise