Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Neil McPhater
Marketing Manager
AVEVA Solutions Ltd
Published April 2009
Contents
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Introduction
1. Interoperability Today
1a. Cost of inadequate Interoperability
1b. Barriers to Interoperability
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3. Business Value
3a. Digital Convergence
5 Steps to Value
3b. Potential Value from Interoperability
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Market Context
4a. Market Trends
4b. Evidence for Digital Convergence today
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7
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5. Interoperability infrastructure
5a. Engineering data standards and their
market adoption
5b. Standards-based Interoperability Layer
5c. Technology Platform
5d. Interoperability Partners
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6. Conclusion:
No Limits to value from Interoperability
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Introduction
This White Paper sets out to define and describe software
interoperability within the context of the Plant, Marine and
Building & Construction industries today and in the future. It
identifies a long-term business trend and demonstrates how the
cross-functional team acts as its agent of change. It outlines a
business model which defines both interoperability value derived
pragmatically today and the business mechanism for unlocking
value tomorrow. Finally, this paper outlines the sort of
interoperability infrastructure required to overcome the
complexities of interoperability and disentangle the spaghetti of
structured and unstructured data.
1. Interoperability Today
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3. Business Value
HIGH
Transform Market
External to
Organisation
Internal to
Organisation
Data Standards
Exploit
Single
Product
Exploit
Single
Product
LOW
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
Level of Business Transformation
Transform Market
External to
Organisation
Internal to
Organisation
LOW
LOW
HIGH
Finally, the third qualifier of business value from the network is the
number of boundaries spanned by the networked team. As
mentioned above, this can include the number of geographical sites
spanned, functions crossed, organisations covered.
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4. Market Context
Building
Design
Software
Market
ISO 15926
market (Plant)
BIM market
(Buildings)
As-built models
(scans, photos, terrain, maps)
Increasing move
towards industry
data standards away from
proprietary formats
Increasing move
to software
products with
data models
FUTURE
TOMORROW
Mechanical Equipment
TODAY
Plant
Design
Software
Market
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5. Interoperability Infrastructure
Percentage of industry
2000
8%
2010
2020
2030
...a standards-based
Interoperability Layer should act
like a multi-lane highway bridge
between the external business
environment and a Technology
Platform...
While it is important to have a clear vision for the future, it is vital
to get value from appropriate engineering data standards today.
This demands a pragmatic approach to exploiting workable
standards right now while continuing to drive the development and
acceptance of industry-wide data standards.
This leads to the need for a pragmatic, standards-based
Interoperability Layer. It must be able to deal with the spaghettilike complication of todays business environment and bring order
out of the chaos of heterogeneous information on topical industry
project and operating assets right now. It must also be able to be
extended and stretched to meet future demands for improving
existing standards or introducing new ones.
The diagram below illustrates a sub-set of an Interoperability Layer
in this instance an as-designed domain sub-set. It supports
appropriate engineering and commercial data standards in
different markets Marine, Mechanical, Plant, Building &
Construction.
Year
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Hull
Structure
Mechanical
Equipment
E&I
3D
Piping
P&ID
Schematics
3D Steel
Structure
ERP,
EDMS,
DBs, etc
DCS,
real-time,
etc
Interoperability Layer
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functions crossed
numbers of users in networked teams
sources of engineering content
organisations covered
global operation
volumes of data managed, both structured and unstructured
engineering and commercial domains spanned
...your
objective
should be to
start disentangling
the spaghetti of interoperability
right now and strive to reach the
next value Step ahead your
competitors....
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