Harmonizing Industry Standards to Exchange Equipme...

Harmonizing Industry Standards to Exchange Equipment Data

The objective of this initiative is to harmonize three technical activities: ISO 15926, AEX cfiXML, and the Hydraulic Institute (HI) EDE 50.7 standard. Each of these activities endeavors to facilitate efficient exchange of capital facility and engineering data in electronic format. However, each approaches and solves these issues in different manners. An exploratory analysis of the three data exchange specifications and the creation of a general outline of how the harmonization process would proceed was performed in 2011. Completing the harmonization of the HI EDE, AEX, and ISO 15926 RDL requires alignment of data dictionaries and a mapping of the entire HI EDE dataset into existing and new entity combinations within the ISO 15926 RDL. It also requires the accurate and accessible publication of such mappings in an electronic form.

Benefits

Will significantly aid in software development processes as it will provide implementers with a concrete and well-defined target dataset in which to develop, test, and use their software (based on iRING tools or other technologies).

Opportunities/Status

Interested Fiatech members may engage in the project to define and oversee the approach and work of the contractor and provide input to the deliverables. A kick-off meeting is planned for February 2012.

Fiatech Staff Project Manager

Faith Junghans, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Project Leads

Mark Palmer, National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST)

Participating Companies

AspenTech, AVEVA, DuPont, Hydraulic Institute, and NIST

Deliverables

• Deliverable 1: A mapping listing of 102 initial fields along with significant findings and lessons learned.

• Deliverable 2: A mapping listing of an additional 138 fields along with significant findings and lessons learned.

• Deliverable 3: A mapping listing of final 98 fields along with significant findings and lessons learned.

• Deliverable 4: Final report containing all 338 HI Fields and a selection of 10-20 MOV data fields from the GVCC data dictionary. Also included in the final report will be an evaluation of the overlap between the MOV and HI data dictionaries. This deliverable will also mark the official release of HI Sandbox with iRING tools.