Tessenderlo Group Wins 2006 BE Award; AutoPLANT/PIDA/eDM System for Engineering and Maintenance Purposes Named Top Project in ''Plant: Lifecycle Information Management'' Category.

EXTON, Pa. -- Tessenderlo Group, a leading international chemicals group, has won a 2006 BE Award for its project to integrate AutoPLANT with its engineering document management (eDM) system for engineering and maintenance purposes. The award category was "Plant: Lifecycle Information Management."

The BE Awards of Excellence, which are selected by an independent jury of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony during the annual BE Conference (www.be.org), honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world's infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks for their industries, and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them.

Tessenderlo Group consists of more than 100 branches with approximately 8100 employees in 21 countries. The goal of its BE Award project was to centralize and connect all plant information from several sites across several countries, making the information available throughout the group and eliminating redundant data. It also involved capturing existing information and documents produced by an earlier CAD system.

Said Patrick Maris, project system coordinator at Tessenderlo Group, "Enormous time savings have been achieved by the integration of AutoPLANT, PIDA, and our eDM system."

The operations sites are constantly undergoing engineering modifications in which precise data and documentation are required, and that results in the generation and updating of many project documents. The central database, containing full details and links with documents and design models, enables engineers to automatically generate design views, generate isometric drawings, and create material lists and their associated documentation.

The database contains close to 9000 equipment records, in more than 15,000 pipeline records, and 22,000 valve and instrumentation records connected to design information. The group has developed standard data sheets containing precise and accurate information that is useful at revamps and for maintenance work. The database also contains thousands of technical data files required for other parts of Tessenderlo.

AutoPLANT is used to create all of the group's 2D and 3D graphical data. Tessenderlo Group developed an interface called PIDA on top of its AutoPLANT database to create bidirectional links among design drawings, data, and project documents. Information originating from the previous CAD system is systematically converted with AutoPLANT's conversion toolkit.

The graphical user interface makes it very easy to retrieve information. By querying any piece of equipment or instrument in the 3D AutoPLANT design review model, all technical data and documents of the component are displayed. Knowing the unique tag number of a component enables the user to retrieve a history of all revisions about the component as well as all project documents.

Via PIDA, AutoPLANT also is connected to the group's existing eDM system provided by Oce. The eDM database currently contains some 250,000 documents. Once all of the links are achieved, Tessenderlo Group expects the eDM database to contain more than 400,000 documents. The document management system, via PIDA, will support several uses for maintenance and operations staff - including ordering components, organizing project documents, and retrieving documents by tag number and risk analyses.

For more information on Tessenderlo Group's winning project and all of the other 2006 BE Award projects, visit www.be.org/awards. For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit www.bentley.com/plant.

About Tessenderlo Group

Tessenderlo Group is a leading international chemicals group with more than 100 branches in 21 countries. Around 8100 people work for the group, 2200 of whom are located in Belgium. The company's consolidated turnover totalled 2.1 billion euros in 2005 from its three business groups (chemicals, specialities, and plastics converting). The group is a European and world leader in most of its product areas. For more information, visit www.tessenderlo.com.

About the BE Conference

The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley users and their managers offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure.

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With 2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2000 colleagues around the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.

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