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Toward the Digital Power Plant: Siemens and Bentley Close the Gap on Design, Build, Operate and Maintain

Renewable Energy World: This week in London to kick off the Year in Infrastructure event, Siemens and Bentley Systems announced a further integration of their respective platforms with the combination of Bentley's and Siemens’ asset performance management (APM) software capabilities. The companies say that the integration will allow power plant owners to take full advantage of digitalization, which helps improve maintenance operations and planning.

Mark Confer, Director Business Model Development at Siemens Energy, said that before this integration, APM was mostly a “do-it-yourself” model where plant operators had to hand-build the models. This integration allows connections to flow from the design model of the plant to the asset management model so “it’s immediately implementable,” he said.

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