Case Study: MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd. achieves 20% design-time reduction with Bentley OpenPlant

MCC-CERI Reduces Steelworks Design Time by 20 Percent With Bentley OpenPlant

MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd., a Beijing‑based engineering institute, needed to meet an aggressive six‑month EPC schedule to design a $300 million steelmaking and casting workshop. The team’s challenge was to replace traditional 2D design with a coordinated 3D approach to avoid pipeline clashes, improve multidisciplinary collaboration, and automate bills of material; they turned to Bentley solutions, notably Bentley OpenPlant alongside MicroStation, Structural Modeler, Bentley Architecture, Bentley Building Mechanical Systems, and ProjectWise.

Bentley implemented an integrated 3D design platform centered on Bentley OpenPlant and ProjectWise for clash detection, visualization, automated BOM generation, and collaborative file management. The solution cut overall design time by at least 20%, reduced time to create BOMs by about 20%, and produced roughly 5% cost savings from reduced man‑hours—enabling MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd. to meet the schedule and deliver thousands of drawings and model files for the project.

MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd.

Keming Chen

Deputy Director