Accelerating Deployment of ISO 15926 (ADI)

Allied Organizations:

Project Manager : Onno Paap, +31 (23) 543-2116 or onno.paap@fluor.com
Chairman of ADI Steering Committee: Robin Benjamins, (301) 228-7508 or rxbenjam@bechtel.com

"Keep up the great work you and your team are doing on behalf of FIATECH and the construction industry." ~ Steve Makredes, Director, Construction, Target

Overview

Over 30 FIATECH owners, contractors, equipment suppliers and software providers working together (see list below) in this jointly funded project, with the POSC Caesar Association and DNV, to create a Work-In-Progress (WIP) ISO 15926 online reference data library that includes life cycle information models as well as software interface tools for process industry life cycle information integration.

Business Case

Integration, exchange, and hand-over of information between all parties during the entire life cycle of a capital project is estimated to result in a 30% productivity improvement in engineering, construction, supply-chain, operations, and maintenance. Users of ERP systems are benefiting by having up-to-date and historical data readily available. This project is working closely with the POSC Caesar Association to provide a unique platform for companies to interoperate using ISO standard-based life cycle information integration technologies. Other benefits include:

The produced software and methodology will serve as an example for building commercial applications to the benefit of the process industries.
The establishment of the work-in-progress (WIP) ISO 15926 data repository will dramatically accelerate the creation of life cycle information models required for practical implementations of life cycle integration technologies.
The vast knowledge-base available to this project will enable rapid registration of new information models created by companies for their specific projects.

ADI’s accelerated deployment strategy is bringing the life cycle data integration capabilities required to meet the interoperability challenges cited in the 2004 NIST study, Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry. In addition to the $15.8 billion lost in annual interoperability costs quantified by the study, NIST estimates there are additional significant inefficiency and lost opportunity costs associated with interoperability problems that were beyond the scope of their analysis. "Thus, the $15.8 billion cost estimate developed in this study is likely to be a conservative figure," the report states. Specifically, additional issues raised include the interconnectedness of various forms of interoperability. "Owners and operators, in particular," the report summarizes, "were able to illustrate the challenges of information exchange and management due to their involvement in each phase of the facility life cycle. In summary, they view their interoperability costs during the operations and maintenance phase as a failure to manage activities upstream in the design and construction process.

Project Participants

Steering Committee

Bechtel Corporation, Robin Benjamins (Chair) *
Bentley Systems, Manoj Dharwadkar*
DNV, Magne Valen-Sendstad (Intelligent Data Sheets Liaison)*
Fluor Corporation, Onno Paap (ADI Project Manager)*
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Mark Palmer (AEX Liaison)*
Noumenon Consulting, Adrian Laud (XMPlant Liaison)*

Participant Activities

The ADI project requires complex input on specialized knowledge that exists with only a handful of domain experts in the world. Moreover, there are only a few consortia globally that have the know-how to handle the maintenance of a centralized WIP repository which is why FIATECH has strategically partnered with the POSC Caesar Association to capture this knowledge and leverage the know-how to achieve the deliverables in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Specifically, individuals and companies are contributing to this project by:

Coordinating efforts with POSC Caesar’s Intelligent Data Sheets (IDS) project, a $3 million/3-year project using ISO 15926. Together, the ADI and IDS projects are populating the WIP ISO 15926 repository.
Providing life cycle information models using software modules to map or translate data to the ISO-standard exchange format.
Building common software tools, educational documentation, implementation guides, and an online knowledge-base.
Planning a pilot project to solve a real business need using the WIP repository.
Writing Part 2 of the Capital Facility Information Handover Guide that will focus on handover guidelines for the process industry.
Training to be certified as a yellow or black belt WIP data modeler.

There will be an ADI Part 7 ISO voting web meeting on May 2, 2008 at 8:30 EST. Details to come soon.

"The Process Industry Data Integration Workshop was instrumental in bringing together an international group of process industry data integration experts representing owners, EPC contractors, software companies, and other interested agencies. This group committed to work together to promotea common industry solution for data integration which has resulted in several industry supported projects aimed at practical solutions, including the ADI project. FIATECH's endorsement of this effort has added credibility and promoted international cooperation."
~ Jehu T Burton, Interoperability Project Manager, DuPont

Project Status

Activity	Description	Status
ADI Executive Summary
ADI Project Plan	Provides project details and includes an architectural diagram showing the relationship between the three collaborating organizations, phases of implementation, and the division of scope.
Prelim Study on XML Mapping	Initial assessment to validate that POSC Caesar’s existing RDS reference data could be exported and transformed into the ISO 15926 Part 7 WIP façade.
FIATECH/PCA MOU	A Memorandum of Understanding between FIATECH and POSC Caesar established consensus on scope and processes between FIATECH's ADI project and POSC Caesar's IDS project.
Meeting with ISO MA	Met with ISO Maintenance Agency to establish agreements on the WIP and ISO certification scope division.
Bentley Class Editor	Bentley's Class Editor made available to ADI project members for the purpose of defining and harmonizing classes and information models.
AEX to ISO 15926 Harmonization	Documenting mappings of Automating Equipment Information Exchange (AEX) entities to ISO 15926 Part 4 reference data library (RDL).	Started
ISO 15926 Knowledge Base		Started

The diagram below shows the division of scope and how the complementary components of ISO 15926 (certified and work-in-progress) are related and organized.