Plant Design
What is plant design software?
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.
What is the best Plant Design Software?
Improve your plant design, analysis, and collaborative operations process with comprehensive plant design and engineering software.
Discover which ones are best for your project. Here are some of our most trusted, best-selling plant design software.
Quickly create 3D designs of your plant piping, HVAC, and mechanical and electrical equipment in an open and collaborative digital twin environment.
Improve plant design and operations with fast, intelligent, and accurate P&IDs you can share across your project using the ISO 15926 open data schema.
PlantSight fetches data from multiple 3D models including reality meshes in one portal view, allowing rapid access to information.
Create intelligent isometrics from multiple 3D model sources in a collaborative, interoperable, and stand-alone software.
Get fast and accurate design, modeling, and detailing of support for piping, electrical, and HVAC components.
Produce faster, higher quality general arrangement drawings by automating extraction of 2D files from 3D models.
Plant Design WorkSuite is a collection of plant design software solutions that helps to deliver mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers and designers the tools to design virtually any process plant project.
The EasyPower product suite delivers a full lineup of intuitive electrical software tools for design, analysis, and optimization of your electrical power system.
Save time and reduce costs with the first and only integrated application for cable system layout, routing, and material estimating.
How to choose Plant Design Software
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.
Look for these qualities when choosing plant design software
Usability
Plant designs can be complex, but using them shouldn’t be, with our easy-to-use interface for all phases of the design.
Scalability
Your plant design will grow, so you need a solution that grows with you so you can start small and scale up and deliver detailed plant designs quickly.
Interoperability
Integrate with multiple design applications faster to enhance collaboration and speed up review cycles.
Which professions use Plant Design Software?
Bentley Plant Design software is used by design engineers and owners across all aspects of the plant lifecycle, from initial design through to construction and operations.
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.
Plant Design Engineer
Conduct scalable and collaborative multidiscipline 3D design modeling and rapidly create intelligent piping and instrumentation diagrams.
Cable/Raceway Engineer
Create 3D raceway layouts and route cables in one application.
Digital Twin Designer
Create, maintain, and visualize an evergreen process digital twin throughout the whole asset lifecycle in an open, immersive, and connected data environment.
Operations and Maintenance Engineer
Aggregate, visualize and surface operational data from multiple sources using open formats to gain operational and maintenance intelligence and insights within one centralized application.
Plant Design Software Resources and Tutorials
Find out more about Bentley’s plant design software applications with these resources, educational programs, and tutorials.
software training
Learn with courses
There are lots of videos and courses available to learn all about using Bentley’s plant design software, including OpenPlant and more.
Academic programs
For Students and Educators
If you are an educator or a student, discover more about accessing the software and see what you need to teach or learn Bentley plant design software best practices.
featured user stories
MCC Capital Engineering Research
Delivers Green, Smart Manufacturing Facility
By using Bentley’s plant digital twin applications, they created the first green, intelligent iron and steel manufacturing factory in China.
Citic Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Collaborative BIM Delivers Green, Smart Factory
Bentley’s digital twin applications digitalized asset monitoring and operations management, saving USD 2 million in maintenance.
WISDRI Engineering & Research
Delivers Smart, Sustainable Steelmaking Plant
Using Bentley’s BIM applications improved the team’s design efficiency by 30% and shortened project schedule.
Smart Factories
A Digital Foundation for China’s Aluminum Industry
Bentley’s OpenPlant design applications will help save CNY 117 million in delivering a large-scale production facility in Guinea.
“The Bentley platform works well in improving communication, design quality and efficiency, and in developing reasonable project plans to reduce risks for the whole project.”
Dr. Chu Xuezheng, Deputy Director of the Engineering Digitalization (BIM) Center
WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited
