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DuPont to standardize on Bentley OpenPlant P&ID
Oct. 5 | Intelligent P&ID is perhaps the most competitive aspect of the already competitive Plant design business. DuPont says it applied a rigorous Sigma Six evaluation. Chemical processing giant DuPont has decided to standardize on the intelligent piping...
Big data meets big infrastructure as Bentley acquires Ivara
Sep. 18 | The deal will beef up Bentley’s existing asset performance management portfolio. Ivara technology is used extensively in asset-intensive organizations including mining and process/power plant operation. Bentley Systems today announced that it has acquired...
Aveva teases customers with new plant design product vision
Jun. 27 | Details are slim but the track record suggests a bold initiative that will blend engineering data with point clouds, with an SaaS component. Plant design specialist Aveva has released a statement announcing a new software initiative. “The Future of...
BuiltWorks 3.1 increases SolidWorks utility for plant design
May. 24 | New interoperability with plant design systems from Aveva, Bentley, and Intergraph. An update to BuiltWorks adds support for leading plant design software formats. (Source: SolidACE) Only five months after a major update, SolidACE has released an update...
Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality
May. 17 | Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up. By Kathleen Maher May Day is over and the workers of the world are still pretty much wearing their chains. Ironically, the...
Intergraph releases SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility
Apr. 4 | ISO 15926 is the foundation of a semantic web for process and power plant design and operations. Its support by CAD vendors in the plant space has become ubiquitous. With the release of its SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility Intergraph is...
EdgeWise Plant 3.0 runs up to 12x faster with multicore processing
Mar. 14 | Other new features include enhanced pipe extraction, QA tools to verify accuracy, and real-time finishing tools. ClearEdge3D this week released EdgeWise Plant 3.0 with six major new features to optimize and accelerate 3D modeling workflows. The software...
Autodesk’s AEC division regroups
Dec. 4 | Progress' new CEO, Jay Bhatt The surprise move put the AEC division under an unscripted spotlight at last week’s Autodesk University. It is a good time for a shake-up in the division; Bentley is gaining ground. In a move seen as positive by...
ClearEdge3D wins National Science Foundation grant
Oct. 3 | The maker of wicked fast 3D scan technology for feature extraction will work on eliminating blind spots and extending the technology’s use from single buildings or plants to whole facilities and city blocks. ClearEdge3D has won a research grant...
