Bentley ProjectWise is the engineering document system behind many roads, railways, water networks, power stations and process plants. Designers and contractors use it to manage drawings, models and deliverables during a project. When the project ends, the owner-operator inherits a huge store of as-built documentation that has to support the asset for decades.
That is when it gets hard. Operations and maintenance teams did not build the folder structure, they do not know the naming rules, and they need one answer: what was actually installed? Agentic CMMS connects ProjectWise to Claude, ChatGPT and the other AI agents your team uses, so an operator or asset engineer can find the right document by asking for it.
What your AI agent can do with Bentley ProjectWise
- Find the as-built. "Get the as-built P&ID for the inlet works at the Westfield treatment plant." The agent searches by attributes and status and returns the as-built version.
- Check a document state. "Is the latest pump station layout approved or still issued for comment?" The agent reads the workflow state and the date it changed.
- Trace a design decision. "Why was the bypass valve on the trunk main moved? Look in the design reports." The agent searches the project documents and quotes the relevant passage.
- Follow references. "Which drawings reference the base survey for the substation upgrade?" The agent follows the reference links between files.
- Collect handover deliverables. "List the operation and maintenance manuals delivered for the new aeration blowers." The agent finds the deliverables and notes any that are missing.
- Read document attributes. "Who is the responsible engineer on the bridge bearing replacement drawings?" The agent reads the attributes on each document.
- Compare versions. "What changed between the tender and construction issues of the switchroom drawing?" The agent opens both versions and lists the differences it finds.
ProjectWise with your other systems
Engineering documents describe the asset. Your maintenance, planning and data systems run it. Connect them for questions that span its whole life:
- Link the as-built drawings in ProjectWise to each matching asset in IBM Maximo or SAP Plant Maintenance.
- Check that the design flow limits in a ProjectWise report match the trends in AVEVA PI System after commissioning.
- Find the drawings for a renewal activity in Oracle Primavera P6 before the outage plan is fixed.
- Compare contractor close-out documents in Procore with the deliverables filed in ProjectWise.
Built for assets that outlive their projects
Infrastructure assets run for fifty years or more, and the people who designed them move on. The agent makes the design record useful for everyone who looks after the asset later. Each person approves their own agent, owners and admins decide which roles may use each ProjectWise tool, and the activity log keeps a full, exportable record of each request.