The Holy Grail: interoperability of interoperability standards

Neill PawseyEuropean Project ManagerThe FIATECH Consortium

4th Annual ECTP ConferenceBrussels, BelgiumNovember 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!

Industry-led, collaborative, not-for-profit, RD&D consortium

Mission: accelerate deployment of integration and automation technology

Mechanism: Focused implementation Projects

Guide: Capital Projects Technology Roadmap

Life Cycle Data Management (LCDM) Capital Projects Technology Roadmap AEX 8 Smart Chips ReportsCatalogue of Emerging Construction TechnologiesDecision Sequence and Influence Diagrams for project planning BIM for Precast Concrete Report Leveraging Technology to Increase Construction Productivity Report Automated Design Workflow Mappings Operational Facility Roadmap DirectoryTools for streamlining the building regulatory process Electronic Valve Cross-reference Catalogue –GVCC Report - Developing Core Technology Competencies Report - attracting the next generation to industry Full implementation of ISO 15926 standard

FIATECH’s Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Initiative

Create, maintaina technologyroadmap for the capital projectsindustry Use it to guide investments in technologyRD&D

RoadmapFacts

330 pagesNine Elements43 Focus Areas161 Projects

“This is not just a FIATECH agenda; it’s for the whole

industry.”

Current FIATECH Projects

Capital Projects Technology RoadmapAutomated Design Workflow Mapping and Checklists Global Valve Cross-Reference e-Catalog Automating Equipment Information Exchange Smart Chips (RFID)Leveraging Technology to Improve Construction ProductivityOperational Facility Roadmap Directory Streamlining Building and Land Use Regulatory ProcessesUser Acceptance of Mobile IT Attracting the Next Generation Teaching Core Technology CompetenciesRFID ‘Cookbook’Accelerating Deployment of ISO 15926

Advancing Sustainability Throughout The Project Life-Cycle

- Establish Sustainability Vision, Objectives & Measurements

- Implement Systems Approach

- Integrate sustainability values into design

- Implement sustainability approaches in site, building envelope, facilities, materials, wastes, energy, water, ecosystems, and life cycle

- Implement sustainability practices in logistics, site management, equipment, materials, and methods

- Construction waste management –reduce, reuse and recycle

- Endorse commissioning

- Implement sustainability objectives throughout the supply chain

- Evaluate suppliers & materials- Educate suppliers and contractors

- Implement sustainability practices in O&M

- Environmental compliance, alternate materials

- Manage energy, waste and water

- Individual behaviors

Let’s talk about Interoperability, Interoperation, and Standards.

The Benefits of Interoperability

Increases economic competitivenessCompresses time to marketReduces infrastructure vulnerabilityExpands markets for companiesDecreases 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

Commercial & Institutional Buildings

Industrial Process Facilities

Geospatial and Infrastructure

Roadmap Element

UniFormatInformation Standards

UniFormat

MasterFormat

OmniClass

IAI-IFC

National BIM

National CAD Std

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Uniform Facility Guide Specs

ISO-15926

MIMOSA

LandXML

gbXMLoBix

CIS/2 (CIMSteel Integration Standards)

cfiXML

XMpLant

FIATECH

Standards Activities in the C&B Industry

© 2004 FIATECH. All contents and rights reserved.

Closer Look at Standards ActivitiesName Description Name Description

gbXML green buildings XML (affiliated with aecXML

MatML XML for construction materials

aecXML Architecture engineering and construction XML

NCSBCS XML for building permitting and regulatory process

AEX Automating equipment information exchange

NIBS-OMSI NIBS –Operations Maintenance 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 identification standards (not XML)

ppdXML Physical properties XML(DIPPR)

cfiXML Capital facilities industry XML ThermoML Thermodyamic XML

IFC Industry Foundation Classes - a conceptual framework for holding building information

UnitsML XML for units of measurement

ISA Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society (datasheets)

XMpLant XML for plant geometric 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 whereverit’s needed.”

Where Are We Now?

Where Do We Want To Be?Where Do We Want To Be?

How do we get there?

Identify the most appropriate standards for the industryFind a way to accelerate their development and deploymentDo 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 interoperabilityStandardizes– 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 yearsProject requirements for data deliverables in industry were increasing in quantity and fidelityCompanies couldn’t wait for ISO to complete its deliberationsThey 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 developedAdd to their results what the industry had been developing for internal useMake that available to the industry for widespread use and further developmentCall 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 systemsDeliverables– 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

ISORDL

ISO 15926

Company “EPC”

Company “Supplier”

Reference Data Library (RDL)

exchangemap map

Internet

The WIP

ISO 15926 WIP - A Living Standard

Use

ContributeYou

Approve

ISORDL

WIPRDL

ISO Industry

WIP RolesRead-only users– Everyone

Contributing users– WIP certified

WIP approvers– Domain and modeling experts

WIP CertificationWIP organization to provide:– Training– Certification– Support

Announcement:

The WIP is Operational!

ADI Project Sponsors/Participants

Aspen TechnologyAtomic Energy of CanadaAutodesk AVEVABechtel CorporationBentley SystemsBP North America COADEConocoPhillipsConsolidated Contractors CompanyDNVDow ChemicalDuPont Fluor CorporationGeorgia Institute of TechnologyHatchIntergraph

KBRMetegrityNIST Noumenon ConsultingNRX GlobalOntoConsultOnTrack EngineeringOracle POSC Caesar AssociationPrimaveraProcter & GambleRWTH Aachen UniversitySkireSmithsonian Institution Software Innovation University of Waterloo USPI-NLVTT

“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 & OperationsDuPont

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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

Intelligent Data Sets – Accelerating Deployment of ISO15926

BSAPBSAP

BSAPBSAPBSAPBSAP

web service

WIP

WCF / WF/SSIS

ProjectWise”Vortex”

StagingTableStaging

Table

ISO 15926Information Models

DataBrokerSmartPlantFoundation

ProjectWiseLifecycle

Server

XMpLantcXML AEX / GVCC(ifcXML)EDI

BizTalkServer

StagingTable

FinancialSystems

(Oracle 11i)

BSAPBSAP

BSAP

T T T T

TTT T

Bec

htel

Inte

rnet

SPSP

SP

SQL ServerReporting

Service(SSRS)

ISO 15926Reference Data

SharePointProject Portal

CIS/2 / IFC

T

T

T

ISO 15926

Asset Hub

T

ISO 15926

Bechtel

Microsoft

Intergraph

Bentley

Noumenon

T Adapter (SOA)

Legend

Standard

NRX Global

Bechtel’s Strategy for Interoperability

ISO 15926 for Bentley

• Phase 1 – Interoperability• Phase 2 – Intra- operations• Phase 3 – Persistence

39© 2008. Intergraph Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

StandardsExchange Standards

– CIMsteel, PKPM (Chinese Structure)– XMPlant, ISO 15926– CAD/Graphics (IGES, STEP, CCITT Group IV, CGM)

Content Standards– Reference Data: ISO, DIN, JIS, PIP, ANSI, ISA, BSI, KKS,

Foundation Fieldbus, ProfiBus– Datasheet standards: ISA, API, Norsok– Noise calculation: ISA, IEC

"De Facto" File Format Standards– CAD & Bitmap formats (DXF, DWG, DGN, GIF, JPG, CGM,

CAL, BMP, RLE, PCX, TIFF)– Office formats (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project)– Report formats PDF, XML, HTML, Word, CSV, Excel– Import formats XML, CSV, XLS, various forms of ASCII (TXT) load files– RAD formats (IGR, PID, SPE, )– Model formats: SAT, DGN, – Manufacturing (ISOGEN .INF/.PCF)– Analysis interfaces (CAESAR II, GT STRUDL, STAAD)– Hundreds of file types through SmartPlant Markup

Direct Interfaces (API’s)– Open .NET/ActiveX Interfaces– Direct Interfaces (DCS, Laser Scanning, Premavera)– Middleware (Netweaver, BizTalk)

Alliances– SmartPlant Alliance program– SAP– Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa– AspenTech

ISO 15926 References

IDS – ADI http://ids-adi.org• IDS Project

http://projects.dnv.com/IDS

• ADI Project http://www.fiatech.org/projects/idim/iso15926.html

• ISO 15926 Technical Information www.infowebml.ws• ISO 15926 Knowledge Base www.15926.org

• Contact Robin Benjamins to get engaged! rxbenjam@bechtel.com

Camelot Objectives

• To build and deploy an ISO 15926 open source infrastructure on the internet and to show the following capabilities:

• The use of ISO 15926 in modeling business information• The setup, configuration, and use of publicly available tools to

map legacy systems to ISO 15926• The demonstration of several data exchange scenarios between

several companies using ISO 15926 over the internet

… and make all of the deliverables available in the public domain, ready for business use by May 29th

2009

ISO 15926 Realtime Interoperability Network Grid

Avalon: scaling up and opening up

Proteus: 17 business-driven projects from software developers

<interoperability standard>“Lingua Franca”

XMpLantcXML AEX / GVCC(cfiXML)EDI

Your Company

Inte

rnet

CIS/2 / IFC ISO 15926

Taming of the Standards

Bank TelecomsSupplier

SteelFabricator

EquipmentManufacturer

HeaterManufacturer EPC

Engineering Procurement Construction Project Controls Contracts Finance

Select your preferred standard

Identify which standards you require

Current StateFuture State

Mapping between standardsWIP

Sharing Information - ISO 15926 Web Infrastructure

WIP

XMpLant

cXML

AEX / GVCC(cfiXML)

EDI

Reference Data

CIS/2 / IFC

ISO 15926

F

BA

C

D

E

A

B

C

D

F

E

G

(Native to ISO 15926)

Noumenon / POSC Caesar

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / MIMOSA / POSC Caesar / BuildingSMART

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Sponsoring Organizations

Standards Harmonization

WIP

XMpLant

cXML

AEX / GVCC(cfiXML)

EDI

Reference Data

CIS/2 / IFC

ISO 15926

F

BA

C

D

E

A

B

C

D

F

E

G

(Native to ISO 15926)

Noumenon / POSC Caesar

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / MIMOSA / POSC Caesar / BuildingSMART

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Sponsoring Organizations

Standards Harmonization

WIP

XMpLant

cXML

AEX / GVCC(cfiXML)

EDI

Reference Data

CIS/2 / IFC

ISO 15926

F

BA

C

D

E

A

B

C

D

F

E

G

(Native to ISO 15926)

Noumenon / POSC Caesar

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / POSC Caesar / PIP

FIATECH / MIMOSA / POSC Caesar / BuildingSMART

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Bechtel / POSC Caesar

Sponsoring Organizations

Standards Interconnectivity

FIATECH Interoperability Strategy

Align FIATECH projects (harmonize semantics and data structures)Extend ISO15926 and AEX to power plants (EPRI)Bring in permitting and regulatory ( Bob Wible)Harmonize with National BIM Standard (IFCs)Harmonize with operations (MIMOSA, COBIE)Harmonize with geospatial (OGC)Harmonize with real estate (OSCRE)…

Thus achieving interoperabilityof

Interoperability standards

The Four Principles of Wikinomics

OpennessPeeringSharingActing global

“Flickr, Second Life, YouTube, MySpace, Linux,

InnoCentive, Wikipedia, Human Genome.”

The Planets are Aligned

Business drivers are compellingTechnology now available to enable interoperabilityUsers can describe requirements more clearlyVendors recognize interoperability opens new markets

…then why aren’t we changing faster?

Top Ten Reasons for NotChanging

1. “Lawyers.”2. “Lawyers.”3. “Introducing technology introduces liability.”4. “I don’t have time to try something new.”5. “I don’t understand it, so I don’t want to try it.”6. “I’m not comfortable with new technology.”7. “Most of this stuff doesn’t work.”8. “I tried that once, and got burned.”9. “Technology costs: people, time, money.”

10. “Change is risky.”

“Too busy” maybe isn’t a good reason…

Top Ten Reasons to Change

Source: J.D. Edwards ad in Businesseek

Innovateor

Evaporate

“We will either find a way or make one!”

…Hannibal

FIATECHNeill Pawsey

European Project Manager

Unit 3 Chapel Lane

Sudbury SUFFOLK, UK

CO10 0PB

+44 1787 269084 (o)+44 7792 074163 (m)

pawsey@fiatech.org

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