The Holy Grail: Interoperability of Interoperability Standards
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The Holy Grail: interoperability of interoperability standards Neill Pawsey European Project Manager The FIATECH Consortium 4th Annual ECTP Conference Brussels, Belgium November 24-25, 2009 First, a word about FIATECH… FIATECH … … is an industry-led consortium that provides global leadership in identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration and deployment of fully integrated and automated technologies to deliver highest business value throughout the life cycle of all types of capital projects. …has developed a “Roadmap for Capital Projects” to ensure right technologies are developed in the order that delivers highest business value across all phases and processes of the capital project life cycle. FIATECH is a Consortium… FIATECH…Delivers! Life Cycle Data Management (LCDM) ¾ Industry-led, Capital Projects Technology Roadmap collaborative, AEX not-for-profit, RD&D 8 Smart Chips Reports consortium Catalogue of Emerging Construction Technologies Decision Sequence and Influence Diagrams for ¾ Mission: accelerate project planning deployment of BIM for Precast Concrete Report integration and Leveraging Technology to Increase Construction automation Productivity Report technology Automated Design Workflow Mappings Operational Facility Roadmap Directory ¾ Mechanism: Tools for streamlining the building regulatory Focused process implementation Electronic Valve Cross-reference Catalogue – Projects GVCC Report - Developing Core Technology Competencies ¾ Guide: Capital Report - attracting the next generation to industry Projects Technology Full implementation of ISO 15926 standard Roadmap FIATECH’s Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Initiative Create, maintain a technology roadmap for the capital projects industry Use it to guide investments in technology RD&D Roadmap Facts 330 pages Nine Elements 43 Focus Areas “This is not just a 161 Projects FIATECH agenda; it’s for the whole industry.” Current FIATECH Projects Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Automated Design Workflow Mapping and Checklists Global Valve Cross-Reference e-Catalog Automating Equipment Information Exchange Smart Chips (RFID) Leveraging Technology to Improve Construction Productivity Operational Facility Roadmap Directory Streamlining Building and Land Use Regulatory Processes User Acceptance of Mobile IT Attracting the Next Generation Teaching Core Technology Competencies RFID ‘Cookbook’ Accelerating Deployment of ISO 15926 Advancing Sustainability Throughout The Project Life-Cycle - Implement sustainability practices in O&M - Establish - Environmental compliance, Sustainability Vision, - Implement sustainability objectives alternate materials Objectives & throughout the supply chain - Manage energy, waste and Measurements - Evaluate suppliers & materials water - Implement Systems - Educate suppliers and contractors - Individual behaviors Approach - Integrate sustainability values into - Implement sustainability practices in design logistics, site management, - Implement sustainability approaches equipment, materials, and methods in site, building envelope, facilities, - Construction waste management – materials, wastes, energy, water, reduce, reuse and recycle ecosystems, and life cycle - Endorse commissioning Let’s talk about Interoperability, Interoperation, and Standards. The Benefits of Interoperability Increases economic competitiveness Compresses time to market Reduces infrastructure vulnerability Expands markets for companies Decreases supply chain communication costs Provides global access for software vendors “The cost of inadequate interoperability in the U.S. capital facilities industry: $15.8 billion per year.” Current Standards Landscape Roadmap Element Information UniFormat UniFormat Standards MasterFormat OmniClass Commercial & Institutional National CAD Std Buildings oBix gbXML Uniform Facility Guide Specs IAI-IFC National BIM CIS/2 (CIMSteel Integration Standards) Industrial Process cfiXML MIMOSA Facilities XMpLant ISO-15926 Open Geospatial Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geospatial and Consortium (OGC) Infrastructure Open Standards Consortium LandXML for Real Estate (OSCRE) Standards Activities in the C&B Industry FIATECH © 2004 FIATECH. All contents and rights reserved. Closer Look at Standards Activities Name Description Name Description gbXML green buildings XML (affiliated with MatML XML for construction materials aecXML aecXML Architecture engineering and NCSBCS XML for building permitting and construction XML regulatory process AEX Automating equipment information NIBS-OMSI NIBS –Operations Maintenance exchange and Support Information ASHRAE Guideline 20P ProcessML XML to support European data warehouse standards CIDX Chemical industry XML PIDX Process Industry Data eXchange CIMIS Common industry material ppdXML Physical properties XML identification standards (not XML) (DIPPR) cfiXML Capital facilities industry XML ThermoML Thermodyamic XML IFC Industry Foundation Classes - a UnitsML XML for units of measurement conceptual framework for holding building information ISA Instrumentation Systems and XMpLant XML for plant geometric Automation Society (datasheets) description A word about BIM BIM is Everywhere “Bring me back a BIM” The view from FIATECH “The vision of the future is of a highly automated and seamlessly integrated environment across all phases and processes of the capital project life cycle. All information is available to whomever needs it, whenever it’s needed, and wherever it’s needed.” Where Are We Now? WhereWhere DoDo WeWe WantWant ToTo Be?Be? How do we get there? Identify the most appropriate standards for the industry Find a way to accelerate their development and deployment Do it What standard? ISO-15926: Integration of life-cycle data for process plants, including oil and gas production facilities – A standard for explicit information integration and interoperability Standardizes – Terminology – Information organization – How systems connect and exchange information Implemented using standards from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Problem ISO 15926 has been under development for 15 years and was not expected to be completed for at least 5 more years Project requirements for data deliverables in industry were increasing in quantity and fidelity Companies couldn’t wait for ISO to complete its deliberations They needed to develop something to use now, not 5 years from now Many companies developed their own versions of the standard for internal use only Solution Work with POSC Caesar to convince ISO to release to FIATECH what it had developed Add to their results what the industry had been developing for internal use Make that available to the industry for widespread use and further development Call it ISO 15926 Work in Progress (WIP) Give it back to ISO to complete the formal standardization process Accelerating Deployment of ISO 15926 Project Goals – Accelerate deployment of a standard-based neutral platform for • exchanging • sharing • integrating • hand-over – lifecycle information between different computer systems Deliverables – Tested Open Source, compliant integration software that can be used as basis for commercial developments – Evergreen Internet-based online library providing a Single Global Source of • reference data • core classes and • object information models – Bentley Class Editor available to FIATECH project members to define/harmonize ISO 15926 classes and information models Intelligent Data Sets – Accelerating Deployment of ISO15926 ISO 15926: How it Works Internet map exchange map Company Company “EPC” “Supplier” ISO Reference Data RDL Library (RDL) ISO 15926 The WIP ISO 15926 WIP - A Living Standard ISO Industry ISO Use RDL Approve WIP RDL You Contribute WIP Roles Read-only users – Everyone Contributing users – WIP certified WIP approvers – Domain and modeling experts WIP Certification WIP organization to provide: – Training – Certification – Support Announcement: The WIP is Operational! ADI Project Sponsors/Participants Aspen Technology KBR Atomic Energy of Canada Metegrity Autodesk NIST AVEVA Noumenon Consulting Bechtel Corporation NRX Global Bentley Systems OntoConsult BP North America OnTrack Engineering COADE Oracle ConocoPhillips POSC Caesar Association Consolidated Contractors Primavera Company Procter & Gamble DNV RWTH Aachen University Dow Chemical Skire DuPont Smithsonian Institution Fluor Corporation Software Innovation Georgia Institute of Technology University of Waterloo Hatch USPI-NL Intergraph VTT “Now that this project has delivered on its promise, we want to spread the message that there is no longer any reason to wait before using it. We also want to encourage all those with whom we do business to begin the process of adopting it. In fact, each of the members of the Board of Directors is in the process of doing exactly that within our own companies: owners and contractors to require it in their contracts, and software developers to implement it. We expect that in the not-too- distant future, it will be a requirement for doing business all across the process industry.” -James B. Porter, Jr. Chief Engineer and Vice President, Engineering & Operations DuPont Going Forward - FIATECH •ADAPT Mapping our classes to ISO 15926 [ADI, IDS] •ADOPT Use Object Information Models [OIM] from ISO 15926 to match our requirements •DEMAND Demand our contractors and suppliers provide us data in ISO 15926 Manage data independent from native applications © Chevron 2008 36 Bechtel’s Strategy