Bentley AssetWise

2015

Bentley was started by AssetWise APM V7.3

On February 16, 2015 the Bentley Systems company announced start of software of AssetWise APM V7.3.

This version of performance management of assets (APM) is expanded and represents a multifunction software platform for the analysis and information management for reliability of assets and risk management, provides opportunities for process safety management.

Screenshot of a window of the AssetWise APM V7.3 program, 2014

AssetWise APM V7.3 meets the requirements of reliability, integrity, security, needs of managers of maintenance and engineers in the most different industries, beginning from the oil and gas, petrochemical and mining industry and finishing with electricity generation and other utilities, representatives of developer noted. The software guarantees security and reliability of assets, provides their proper check and storage, reducing or eliminating any risk. Ustraneny unforeseen equipment downtimes, benefits for users become: high availability of production assets, their effective operation, cutting of costs for service, support of rules and regulations of security, including ISA 84, IEC 61511, IEC 61508 and IEC 61882.

New features on security of AssetWise APM V7.3 help users to manage integrity of a security system and dangerous processes, thereby preventing failures and accidents and ensuring safety of people, property and the environment. As a part of systems capabilities the analysis of an automatic safety feature (SIF), instrumental security systems (SIS), level of completeness of security (SIL), a security measure, blocking and incidents. AssetWise APM V7.3 got functionality for management and supports of version control, scenario analysis of depressurization, identification and risks assessment, both at the level of a system, and for the corresponding assets (risk matrix).

Other features:

• Space navigation – Engineers of service, reliability or integrity can quickly identify a signal of early warning and/or work which requires attention on an object type or type of a problem in specific geographical area. The blinking signals and notifications of a status of assets displayed on the card provide the visual notification on gravity of problems of assets. Actions can be taken directly from the card, including viewing an information model of an asset is possible to estimate project bases and to compare them to a current status.

• Accounting of production losses – Users can instantly begin improvement of assets, having thereby significant effect on production and on housekeeping overheads. Besides, reliability specialists can easily define "bad" assets and priority of projects on improvement of assets and risk reduction.

• The analysis of the atmospheric reservoir for storage (AST) – Opportunities for checks on the basis of risks assessment were expanded and now include also support of the analysis of AST. Functions of a system for assessment of probability and gravity of effects, assessment of trust, a remaining balance of service life and the following date of survey support AST now.

• Charts of the analysis of root causes (RCA) – Enhanced capabilities of RCA include charts which help to estimate the reason and to precisely define and remove basic reasons of specific failures of assets, unlike simple liquidation of their signs.

AssetWise APM V7.3 helps:

• receive benefits from an opportunity to manage information models of assets for ensuring polydirectional performance management of assets, the visual directing inspection and actions for maintenance; it expands possibilities of use of mobile devices at the enterprises, allowing to browse virtual model in the field and to bring it into accord with a material basis. It allows to analyze observed conditions of performance of an asset and to make the best decisions for achievement of the largest performance and security of assets;

• develop the strategies focused on reliability taking into account risk factors to define the preventive work on maintenance and modifications necessary for optimization of performance; the program generates the efficient, based on data offers on ensuring performance and reliability of assets;

• control a status of assets and their performance using tablet / mobile devices and also collect information on a status of assets from the automated sources depending on time and criteria;

• consolidate and analyze a status of these checks and control devices in real time from all sources using the centralized meter panel of a status of assets; and

• get access to construction and an engineering information model at survey or at accomplishment of the adjusting works with a production equipment.

2014

Bentley AssetWise APM v7.2

On July 30, 2014 the Bentley Systems company announced release of the new version of software of AssetWise APM v7.2.

The advanced version of the Bentley APM software product for performance management of assets gives an opportunity to take advantage of the multifunction APM environment in which hyper modeling is used.

Bentley AssetWise APM

This technology helps production and technical services to perform the approved inspections of critical assets. Users of AssetWise APM v7.2 also have an opportunity to perform inspection of infrastructure assets in the context of the engineering information provided to i-models Bentley and to make decisions on the basis of two-dimensional or three-dimensional images of an asset. Besides, users of AssetWise APM v7.2 can use achievements in the development strategy and integrity of asset management now.

Multifunction approach of software of AssetWise APM v7.2 to visualization of workflows helps to integrate virtual engineering model of the enterprise, division or other assets with their real indicators and representation in IT systems. Evident representation of an asset in this visual environment can be directly connected with indicators of technical condition of assets, allowing to correlate indications of indicators during inspections to visual model. Besides, the possibility of survey of assets using i-models (containing architectural, technical, construction and production information), provides an expanded engineering context in different formats — from project files to technical specifications, corrosion circuits and so forth. Photos of inspections can be attached to information on assets, indicators, indications of indicators and check sheets. Such approach is applicable, both for the new fields, and for fields which are in operation. It allows to overcome a gap between capital and operating costs and offers the steady development strategy in respect of production efficiency and safety of production.

Other innovations of AssetWise APM v7.2 consist in the analytical methods used in inspections taking into account risks (RBI) and in the maintenance focused on reliability assurance (RCM). Possibilities of the Bentley APM software product, except the standard analysis of RBI, include:

• scenario risk analysis of failure of the safety device with assessment of effects for the economic sphere, the sphere of safety of the person, the environment and events affecting reputation of the company;
• risk matrix for assessment of criticality of causes of failures;
• the degradation speed updated in the analysis of causes of failures
• determination of failure probability on the basis of time between failures.

Bentley APM supports single solution for methods of strategy of the analysis of assets of RBI and RCM and also an end-to-end system of data management of inspections. It provides the general organizational approach to risk management, increases time of smooth operation, guarantees safety of process and predictable performance level at the minimum cost of lifecycle.

The unique opportunity of control over reliability and integrity of assets throughout their lifecycle allows users of Bentley to implement processes and methods of reliability assurance for blueprint stage. Bentley APM provides the information platform for ensuring production readiness and steady performance of assets. Software AssetWise APM passed test and received the necessary certification confirming it compatibility with the leading EAM systems including SAP, IBM Maximo and Oracle.

Bentley AssetWise Ivara

Bentley AssetWise Ivara is an information management system about lifecycle of objects. It is created for increase in efficiency of operation, security and compliance to regulatory requirements of infrastructure facilities.

Description

A set of servers and services AssetWise gives to owners/operators powerful abilities to manage information on lifecycle of objects (ALIM). The Assetwise system promotes increase in integrity of information and efficiency of operation and also the business process optimization focused on maintenance of infrastructure facilities during all lifecycle.

Features of use

The unique nature of the problems connected with infrastructure facilities is defined by conditions:

• Scale — often such objects stretch for hundreds of kilometers or occupy hundreds of square kilometers.
• Complexity — objects often represent networks or the systems of networks.
• Service life — is measured decades.

Besides, many of infrastructure facilities are intended for service of the population. Examples of such objects are power plants, automobile both the railroads and pipelines for transportation of water or natural gas. Owners of such infrastructure facilities eventually are responsible before the population for providing such services. Operation of infrastructure facilities is strictly regulated and regulated for the purpose of security of workers and the population and steady provision of services. Information should be exact, available in scales of all enterprise, to the checked and meeting requirements and standards regulating treatment of such information.

Inadequate information management about objects leads to growth of expenses

• Inadequate information management about objects (AIM) in implementation process of infrastructure projects leads to increase in capital costs, increase in project deadlines and project risks.

• Inadequate information management about objects in use and maintenance leads to growth of current costs, increase in idle times, decline in production and has an adverse effect on profit.

• Non-compliance with regulatory requirements can turn back big penalties and growth of number of incidents.

Advantages

• Increase in profitability of objects (ROA) due to increase in life of objects and their performance during lifecycle.
• Management of business risks due to observance of regulatory requirements, security and gaining access to exact information.
• Increase in efficiency of operation due to increase in operational readiness, reduction of a downtime and increase in efficiency of maintenance (reduction of time of repair).

Possibilities of AssetWise

The AssetWise system represents the extensive packet of compatible applications and online services for information management about objects which is closely connected with the operational systems which create and change the basic information defining an object.

• Configuration management
• Document management
• Management of records
• Requirements management
• Knowledge management
• Management of incidents/actions for elimination
• Support of management of works and maintenance