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The four doors: which tool do I need?

Start from what you are trying to do. Design, train, operate or plan: each need has one tool.

I need to design or size a plant

Use Beedy Engineer. It sizes membrane bioreactor (MBR) and conventional activated sludge (CAS) wastewater plants, and designs settling ponds for mine and construction runoff. It is a scoping tool: it gives you volumes, oxygen demand, membrane or clarifier area, equipment and energy at the feasibility stage. Start with Wastewater plant design or Settling pond design.

I need to train my operators

Use Beedy Simulator. It is a training plant your trainee is allowed to break: a control room with levers, failure scenarios, lab procedures and quizzes. Start with The MBR training plant.

I need to run a plant better

Use the Beedy Plant Management Suite. It holds the plant's records and tells the crew what moved first when something goes wrong. Its modules: Troubleshooting, Process safety, Reports and the Shift log. OTIS is in every one of them. The fastest way to understand it is to open the live plant.

I need to plan crews for a remote site

Use Polaris. It plans fly-in fly-out (FIFO) rotations, finds replacements and keeps a record of who was where. See Polaris.

How the doors connect

The plant you size in Engineer is the kind of plant you train on in the Simulator and run in the Suite. Today each product runs on its own; connecting them around one shared plant model is on the roadmap, and each help page says what exists now.

Something else

Beedy also builds custom tools with clients. For that, or for anything not covered here, talk to a person.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-27