MIMOSA, CIEAM, FIATECH and POSC Caesar Association are co-sponsoring and hosting a multi-supplier interoperability demonstration at the Digital Plant 2011 Expo and Conference scheduled for Dec 5-7 at the Houston Marriott Westchase in Houston, Texas. The demonstration will focus on OpenO&M Use Cases 1 and 10, which define the O&M oriented requirements for Digital Handover and Provisioning of an interoperable owner/operator O&M system of systems environment based on information supplied by the EPC community. Since this information could originate from multiple EPCs using multiple design engineering tools as well as their own procurement and construction management systems, open standards-based interoperability is a critical part of making solutions of this nature practical and sustainable.

The demonstration will use a downstream oriented test data set (a debutanizer tower) being developed by the Joint MIMOSA/PCA O&M SIG. This demonstration will be the initial public use of the test data set, but the objective is to continue to incrementally expand it in both scope and detail on an owner/operator priority driven basis until O&M oriented handover of an entire virtual refinery is deemed to be validated by the demo. This data set will thus become a critical component in the required conformance testing process. The core value proposition of this effort is to provide a business value-oriented focal point (owner/operator O&M requirements) for prioritized development in the key standards and supplier provided solutions addressing properly documented (via Use Cases) business requirements. An upstream oriented asset will begin to be modeled in a similar fashion next year in order to address interoperability demonstration and conformance requirements.

In addition to the demonstration itself, two other closely related activities will take place at the Digital Plant 2011 Expo and Conference. Cliff Pedersen (CIO of NWR Partnership) will speak in a special conference wide session discussing why this industry standards based initiative is critical to owner/operators who wish to base their near-term projects on the standards and compliant solutions. Then, an associated Roundtable entitled ‘Implementing Industry Standards Based Interoperability’ will include a discussion about lessons learned thus far in this process and discuss issues requiring prioritized attention in order to meet owner/operator identified and prioritize requirements.

Key suppliers participating in the demo include IBM (which is acting as the systems integrator and IT host) along with AVEVA and Bentley, who will each provide P&ID outputs from their systems. AVEVA will provide an XMpLant output, while Bentley will provide an ISO 15926 Part 8 compliant output along with additional data that is required to support the handover of owner/operator identified and prioritized information. This information will then be transformed into a MIMOSA CCOM data structure in order to properly provision the O&M systems. The final steps will show the provisioning of the IBM IIC environment and a plant data historian.

Our next MIMOSA Technical Committee will be on held on Wednesday, October 5 in the Duke Energy Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio — the same venue as the World Congress on Engineering Asset Management which is running its main sessions on October 2-4. A MIMOSA Board meeting will be held the evening of October 5 with a full MIMOSA annual meeting with annual elections being held on October 6 at the University of Cincinnati Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center

Additional registration details will be published soon.

MIMOSA is going to begin hosting the OpenO&M Owner-Operator Leadership Council. MIMOSA membership is NOT required in order to participate in this forum. The NWRP CIO, Cliff Pedersen has agreed to serve as the acting chair. Those who are interested need to self register on this website and then submit their application to this page.

OpenO&M/MIMOSA and PCA hosted the OpenO&M/MIMOSA and PCA Forum – Americas 2011. The PCA Forum was hosted by Chevron at Chevron Office, Briar Park office in west Houston, February 22nd through Feb 24th, 2011.

The Forum featured presentations and discussion from both owner/operators and suppliers identifying key business requirements and solutions leveraging open, supplier neutral standards, with a focus on the benefits of using OpenO&M and ISO 15926 in coordinated fashion.

Key themes:

• An integrated approach Operations and Maintenance Management incorporating Management of Change and Operational Risk Management
• Perspectives on Sustainable Interoperability and Life-cycle Engineering
• The roles of key standards – ISO 15926 and OpenO&M/MIMOSA usage and implementation

Engineering Software Reliability Group (ESRG), provider of leading-edge data analysis and remote monitoring technology for the US Navy and commercial industry, today announced that OstiaEdgeTM Central Edition (CE) is compatible with MIMOSA OpenO&M standards. OstiaEdgeTM CE provides onsite and remote engineers, operators, and maintenance personnel the ability to qualify data based on machine state and process condition based rules to assess and report equipment health. OstiaEdgeTM CE includes fleet level monitoring views that provide single-screen comparisons of machine-to-fleet health.

The inclusion of MIMOSA OpenO&M standards and the MIMOSA CRIS 3.2 database within the OstiaEdgeTM CE product enables simple integration with Distributed Control Systems, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Reliability Software, and other enterprise software applications. This facilitates interoperability among plant systems and streamlines integration thus reducing installation cost.

Shrinking workforces and the rising cost of employees have forced many companies to reduce onsite personnel and utilize corporate locations to perform analysis historically done at the plant level. This forces the onsite staff to focus on alarming and immediate actions which can consume nearly 100% of available time. Because of this, centralized engineering analysis is more important now than ever to ensure plant reliability and availability does not suffer. Interoperability between corporate CMMS systems, and condition monitoring software is essential for providing ‘Reverse Distance Support’ capability. This enables remote personnel to support plant personnel with condition based operations and data driven maintenance decisions.

“ESRG has been incorporating MIMOSA OpenO&M standards into their government remote monitoring products in support of the US Navy since 2005, so it is with great pleasure to our organization to see that they have incorporated these standards into the OstiaEdge product line as well. As active members of the MIMOSA Technical Board, ESRG has a strong commitment to OpenO&M standards and utilizes these standards as foundations for all future products” said Alan Johnson, MIMOSA President.

About MIMOSA

MIMOSA is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards in manufacturing, fleet, and facility environments – information standards which enable collaborative asset lifecycle management. MIMOSA members come from process and discrete manufacturing companies, facility management companies, military organizations, capital equipment OEMs, and suppliers of asset management software systems.

About ESRG

Established in 2000, ESRG provides leading-edge data analysis and remote monitoring technology for the US Navy and commercial industry. ESRG is the data analytics leader for the US Navy surface fleet remote monitoring program providing a fleet-wide service of performance reports on gas turbines, diesel engines, and balance of plant equipment. Commercial users and US Navy fleet support teams turn to ESRG for their technology and expertise in reporting, dashboards, data integration and data analysis as well as their ability to utilize in-house subject matter experts to write diagnostic and anomaly detection rules.

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Matrikon Inc. (TSX: MTK) the world’s largest developer of standards-based OPC software, today announced the release of ProcessMonitor™ MIMOSA. With ProcessMonitor MIMOSA, Enterprise Decisions Support Systems (DSS) can access real-time and historical data and disseminate this information for Condition Based Maintenance, Maintenance & Production Planning and other maintenance and operational tactical purposes.

ProcessMonitor MIMOSA is standards-based software, enabling interoperability between process control, maintenance management (CMMS), condition monitoring, reliability and other enterprise software systems from different vendors.

Dynamic market influences such as production commitments, energy usage contracts and pipeline capacity leases force business decisions on production targets to be taken on a daily basis. These business decisions are made at the enterprise level with little or no consideration on whether or not the plant process equipment has the capacity and availability to meet this demand, leading to production target misses or even contractual penalties. Productivity is frequently hampered by equipment breakdown, causing unplanned downtime, or simply due to poor maintenance planning. Incorporating this real-time information in the decision making process increases productivity, lowers operational and maintenance costs and increasing asset lifetime.

“I am genuinely excited about the ProcessMonitor MIMOSA product announcement from Matrikon. I see it as another tangible expression of their commitment to open standards-based interoperability. By developing products incorporating both MIMOSA and OPC Foundation standards, they are demonstrating their active support of the OpenO&M Initiative™, which enables and promotes open-standards-based interoperability in the Operations and Maintenance domain for plants, fleets and facilities” said Alan T. Johnston, MIMOSA President.

About MIMOSA

MIMOSA is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance in manufacturing, fleet, and facility environments. MIMOSA’s open standards enable collaborative asset lifecycle management in both commercial and military applications. MIMOSA is composed of progressive process and discrete manufacturing corporations, facility management companies, military organizations, capital equipment OEMs, and suppliers of asset management software systems including Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Plant Asset Management (PAM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM/CMMS) systems, Operational Data Historian Systems (ODHS), and Condition Monitoring (CM) systems.

About Matrikon

Matrikon is a leading provider of industrial intelligence solutions that enable manufacturing plants to achieve operational excellence by transforming production data into knowledge to predict and prevent problems and optimize operations. Matrikon’s customers achieve agile operations through the combination of external market and plant data to make informed, intelligent decisions in real-time. With offices in major cities throughout North America, Australia, Europe and the Middle East and a global client base including industry leaders in a wide range of process industries, Matrikon’s reach is global. For more information visit the Matrikon website

Matrikon and ProcessMonitor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Matrikon Inc.

For more information contact:

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Matrikon Inc.
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MIMOSA standards were inserted as mandated standards in the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Technology Standards Registry (DISR) Baseline Release 06-1.0 on 21 February 2006.

Mandated standards are standards deemed essential for providing interoperability and net centric services across the DoD enterprise. They are the minimum set of standards for the acquisition of all DoD systems that produce, use, or exchange information and, when implemented, facilitate the flow of information to the warfighter. These standards are mandated for the management, development, and acquisition of new or improved systems throughout the DoD.

“Insertion of the MIMOSA standards into the Defense Information Standards Registry as mandated standards further supports the DoD mandate to utilize open, industry developed standards,” said Dr. William Craig, Director of the Software Engineering Directorate (SED), U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center .

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) performs communications, combat support computing, information assurance, joint command and control, and joint interoperability support core mission areas. These core missions provide integrated command, control, communications, and computing warfighting capabilities in support of the President, the Secretary of Defense, and other Department of Defense components in peace and at war. In support of these missions, DISA maintains the DISR.

The SED has established a MIMOSA Center of Excellence to assist DoD organizations in the implementation of the MIMOSA standards. The Center will model, describe, transfer, store, and provide query-response services for DoD MIMOSA data and information. SED personnel are also playing key roles in organizing the OpenO&M™ Military Joint Working Group, which provides a collaborative forum to help enable standards-based interoperability in the Joint Military Services.

“This is an important Milestone for MIMOSA adoption in the U. S. military services. The MIMOSA open standards enable platform and vendor neutral platform information management solutions in support of Joint Focused Logistics and I look forward to continuing collaboration with SED in the OpenO&M™ Military Working Group,” said Alan T. Johnston, MIMOSA President.

MIMOSA, the industry trade association providing open information standards for Operations and Maintenance (O&M), is pleased to acknowledge the announcement by Invensys of its new InFusion product line. Invensys, a leading industrial automation supplier and a leader in industrial asset performance management has affirmed its commitment to the OpenO&M initiative by incorporating OpenO&M capabilities, including MIMOSA standards, into the recently introduced InFusion enterprise control system (ECS). The InFusion ECS leverages MIMOSA and other open standards organizations involved in the OpenO&M™ Initiative and is focused on achieving shop floor to enterprise integration within the manufacturing industry.

MIMOSA, a founding member and maintainer of the OpenO&M Initiative, sees this announcement as another validation of the purpose, vision and practical benefits being experienced from the initiative. Some standards organizations seek to impose the views of a single community of interest on all industry participants, while the OpenO&M Initiative seeks to harmonize standards which individually represent the best efforts from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints. Active participants include MIMOSA, OPC Foundation, ISA, WBF and OAG. Collectively, these standards enable a federated model of distributed information which can be managed in a coordinated fashion, meeting the requirements of many types of vendors, integrators and endusers of industrial systems, applications, tools and technology. This program provides an efficient model for achieving open standards-based interoperability while leveraging existing open standards, and minimizes duplicate efforts through an open, collaborative approach. Significant O&M requirements in manufacturing, fleet, and facilities management, are addressed in collaboration with major private and public sector end-users Page 2 MIMOSA Recognizes Invensys more through a series of Joint Working Groups. Membership in the OpenO&M Initiative is free and other appropriate organizations are encouraged to join and participate in this important industry activity.

According to Peter Martin, vice president of performance management at Foxboro, Mass.-based Invensys Process Systems: “Invensys is extending our current S95./B2MML and OPC functionality to include MIMOSA based connectivity. This is incorporated in products and deliverables that are currently being tested and evaluated at several key customer sites. With these new InFusion capabilities, Invensys will become the first major automation vendor to offer full OpenO&M compliance. This type of standards-based interoperability is an essential element of the InFusion enterprise control system and is widely recognized as key to achieving the agility required to compete in today’s business climate.”

Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President, commented, “I applaud the Invensys move to broadly adopt the open standards developed by the organizations participating in the OpenO&M Initiative, including the maintenance and reliability management standards developed by MIMOSA. Open standards-based interoperability is a critical enabler to efficiently span the existing information gaps, both between the shop floor and the enterprise and between interrelated sites, enterprises and industry groups. Product announcements such as this one confirm that open standards-based interoperability is no longer just an academic or corporate research topic. The OpenO&M Initiative participants open standards turn this task into a practical engineering exercise.”

About MIMOSA

MIMOSA, a non-profit organization, has worked with the maintenance and reliability management community since 1993. The MIMOSA efforts relate to physical asset management, both through developing open standards and by identifying synergies with related industry groups. MIMOSA maintains a wide range of collaborative relationships including those with OpenO&M Initiative participants, as well as with formal standards bodies such as ISO and ANSI. The Condition Based Operations (CBO) concepts that MIMOSA supports in the OpenO&M Initiative help maintenance and reliability professionals participate as a full peer partners in achieving and sustaining operational excellence. Core elements of the MIMOSA open standards support multi-site, multi-enterprise, multi-industry maintenance and reliability management, meeting the increasingly complex asset management requirements of private organizations and the public sector, including the military service branches.

About OpenO&M

The formal association of several industry standards organizations, including the OPC Foundation, the World Batch Forum (WBF), ISA, OAGi, and MIMOSA, who have agreed to work together to provide a common, harmonized set of information standards for the convenient exchange of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) data.

MIMOSA, the industry trade association providing open information standards for Operations and Maintenance (O&M), is pleased to acknowledge the announcement by Invensys of its new InFusion product line. Invensys, a leading industrial automation supplier and a leader in industrial asset performance management has affirmed its commitment to the OpenO&M initiative by incorporating OpenO&M capabilities, including MIMOSA standards, into the recently introduced InFusion enterprise control system (ECS). The InFusion ECS leverages MIMOSA and other open standards organizations involved in the OpenO&M™ Initiative and is focused on achieving shop floor to enterprise integration within the manufacturing industry.
MIMOSA, a founding member and maintainer of the OpenO&M Initiative, sees this announcement as another validation of the purpose, vision and practical benefits being experienced from the initiative. Some standards organizations seek to impose the views of a single community of interest on all industry participants, while the OpenO&M Initiative seeks to harmonize standards which individually represent the best efforts from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints. Active participants include MIMOSA, OPC Foundation, ISA, WBF and OAG. Collectively, these standards enable a federated model of distributed information which can be managed in a coordinated fashion, meeting the requirements of many types of vendors, integrators and endusers of industrial systems, applications, tools and technology. This program provides an efficient model for achieving open standards-based interoperability while leveraging existing open standards, and minimizes duplicate efforts through an open, collaborative approach. Significant O&M requirements in manufacturing, fleet, and facilities management, are addressed in collaboration with major private and public sector end-users Page 2 MIMOSA Recognizes Invensys more through a series of Joint Working Groups. Membership in the OpenO&M Initiative is free and other appropriate organizations are encouraged to join and participate in this important industry activity.
According to Peter Martin, vice president of performance management at Foxboro, Mass.-based Invensys Process Systems: “Invensys is extending our current S95./B2MML and OPC functionality to include MIMOSA based connectivity. This is incorporated in products and deliverables that are currently being tested and evaluated at several key customer sites. With these new InFusion capabilities, Invensys will become the first major automation vendor to offer full OpenO&M compliance. This type of standards-based interoperability is an essential element of the InFusion enterprise control system and is widely recognized as key to achieving the agility required to compete in today’s business climate.”
Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President, commented, “I applaud the Invensys move to broadly adopt the open standards developed by the organizations participating in the OpenO&M Initiative, including the maintenance and reliability management standards developed by MIMOSA. Open standards-based interoperability is a critical enabler to efficiently span the existing information gaps, both between the shop floor and the enterprise and between interrelated sites, enterprises and industry groups. Product announcements such as this one confirm that open standards-based interoperability is no longer just an academic or corporate research topic. The OpenO&M Initiative participants open standards turn this task into a practical engineering exercise.”
About MIMOSA
MIMOSA, a non-profit organization, has worked with the maintenance and reliability management community since 1993. The MIMOSA efforts relate to physical asset management, both through developing open standards and by identifying synergies with related industry groups. MIMOSA maintains a wide range of collaborative relationships including those with OpenO&M Initiative participants, as well as with formal standards bodies such as ISO and ANSI. The Condition Based Operations (CBO) concepts that MIMOSA supports in the OpenO&M Initiative help maintenance and reliability professionals participate as a full peer partners in achieving and sustaining operational excellence. Core elements of the MIMOSA open standards support multi-site, multi-enterprise, multi-industry maintenance and reliability management, meeting the increasingly complex asset management requirements of private organizations and the public sector, including the military service branches.
About OpenO&M
The formal association of several industry standards organizations, including the OPC Foundation, the World Batch Forum (WBF), ISA, OAGi, and MIMOSA, who have agreed to work together to provide a common, harmonized set of information standards for the convenient exchange of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) data.

The creation of the Manufacturing Interoperability Guideline Working Group, a collaborative venture of ISA, MIMOSA, OAGi, OPC, and WBF, was announced today. The Working Group is the next step in the previous announcement by the Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 to converge their standards for manufacturing interoperability by working to support the OpenO&MTM Initiative. This group will develop an industry guideline that defines generic business process models between the operations management and business layers of the manufacturing support system.

The guideline will be applicable to process, discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturers. It will reflect a convergence of the manufacturing interoperability standards work underway within ISA SP95, OAGi, WBF, MIMOSA, and OPC. The guideline will facilitate development of reusable integration software components for processes in the form of web services in an open standard XML format.

“Many enterprises today are struggling with the myriad of standards available to them and often do not know which standards they should be using,” said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications Group. “Many of our OAGIS users are using both ISA-95 and OAGIS and we are excited to participate in this initiative that will simplify their efforts and provide our customers with a common solution.”

“Delivery of the ISA-95 set of standards will be greatly accelerated by the customer driven requirements of this collaboration,” said Keith Unger, of Stone Technologies and chair of the ISA-SP95 enterprise -control system integration committee. “We want to leverage our best contributors from all of these relevant efforts and provide a better standard for our customers.”

“In establishing this working group, we are pledging to collaborate in manufacturing interoperability standards development efforts and apply the resources of our respective organizations toward a common goal,” said Maurice Wilkins, Chairman of WBF.

In order to assure that the working group addresses issues that reflect market need, a Customer Advisory Council has been created. The council will be composed of representatives from end-user companies in process, discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturing. The council will collaborate and agree upon a recommended, prioritized list of business processes (scenarios) to be addressed by the working group. These business processes will be documented as simple interface data flows and prioritized by the council to provide guidance and support to the working group. The council will identify industry specific needs and business scenarios with areas of overlap across industries. The group will work to classify the underlying technologies to support deployment of standards based software components as Web Services. It will also explore interoperability standards and guidelines and software deployment strategies to ensure a viable and unified market opportunity is available to the software suppliers.

“Broad based support is needed among manufacturing customer organizations to support standards development and deployment activities,” said Gary Sullivan of BWXT and chair of the customer advisory council. “The success of this effort and future development of standards based software components is dependent upon demonstrating a strong market need and customer commitment.”

“This end user customer guidance and support is critical, because it can lead to suppliers implementing the guideline in the form of a commercial product,” said Greg Gorbach, Vice President, ARC Advisory Group, who facilitated the creation of the customer council. “It is also important that the working group leverage the customer advisory council to establish appropriate linkages with vertical industry groups so that the initiative reaches broad industry segments.”

At this time, ISA, MIMOSA, OAGi, OPC, and WBF are the principal member organizations of the working group. The initial guideline will be reflect convergence of the work of ISA, OAGi, and WBF and will be the basis for future alignment with the OPC Unified Architecture model, the MIMOSA open systems architecture, and the PackML work of OMAC.

“We look forward to contributing to the work of this group to help enable standards-based interoperability for operations and maintenance related applications, including the ultimate alignment with our work on open system architectures for enterprise application integration,” said MIMOSA President Alan Johnston. Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President, added, “This working group epitomizes our mission of ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications.”

The Working Group will meet initially in April, and is striving to issue interim schemas in 2006 and the guideline by mid-2007. The completed guideline will be jointly copyrighted by the member organizations, but will be made available for public use royalty free.

About MIMOSA

MIMOSA, a non-profit organization, has worked with the maintenance and reliability management community since 1993. The MIMOSA efforts relate to physical asset management, both through developing open standards and by identifying synergies with related industry groups. MIMOSA maintains a wide range of collaborative relationships including those with OpenO&M Initiative participants, as well as with formal standards bodies such as ISO and ANSI. The Condition Based Operations (CBO) concepts that MIMOSA supports in the OpenO&M Initiative help maintenance and reliability professionals participate as a full peer partners in achieving and sustaining operational excellence. Core elements of the MIMOSA open standards support multi-site, multi-enterprise, multi-industry maintenance and reliability management, meeting the increasingly complex asset management requirements of private organizations and the public sector, including the military service branches.

About OpenO&M

The formal association of several industry standards organizations, including the OPC Foundation, the World Batch Forum (WBF), ISA, OAGi, and MIMOSA, who have agreed to work together to provide a common, harmonized set of information standards for the convenient exchange of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) data.

The OpenO&M™ For Manufacturing Joint Working Group announce a collaborative publication entitled Condition Based Operations For Manufacturing. The paper defines their shared vision for Condition Based Operations (CBO). In manufacturing, CBO enables operational planning and scheduling to be accomplished in conjunction with a forecast of actual availability and capability of assets in the critical path. This enables production planners and operations staff to establish economically optimal production plans, empowering them to directly contribute to the economic goals of the enterprise.

The OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group, formed by the Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society (ISA), MIMOSA (An Operations and Maintenance Open Systems Alliance) and OPC Foundation (OPC) announced its formation at ISA EXPO 2003. The mission of the joint working group is to enable open and interoperable O&M solutions spanning from the factory floor through the enterprise. The OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group will harmonize standards from participating organizations enabling practical interoperability amongst the many required devices, tools and systems in a vendor, product and platform neutral basis.

While the Joint Working Group anticipates a broad range of valuable by-products from the collaboration, this initial white paper focuses on CBO for manufacturing that requires the effective integration of a broad variety of O&M information. The human analogy is the need to know the health prognosis of specific individuals, not just averages for humans of a similar age. A human that is considered to be in the critical path for many important activities will normally have comprehensive and continuous efforts to monitor their health, prognoses it and risk manage it through a variety of forms of insurance, redundancies or other compensating strategies that are now taken for granted. CBO enables a similar discipline for critical path assets in all types of asset intensive applications including manufacturing. It requires the near real-time fusion of large amounts of data, information and knowledge from a wide variety of dissimilar multivendor systems. This type of complex and dynamic systems integration is best facilitated through the use of open information standards such as those being harmonized by the OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group.

Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: “I am extremely pleased that this collaborative effort has finished the first deliverable. The SP95 committee is just beginning its work on Part 4 of the ANSI/ISA S95 standard and I expect the SP95 committee will be able to build on the OpenO&M™ initiative and complete the standard effort much more quickly then we would have by working alone.”

Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation President and Executive Director said: “The OPC Foundation is excited to be part of this joint working group. OPC is the process industry open standard for accessing real-time plant floor information from a wide variety of measurement and control systems. This collaboration is key to delivering seamless integration of operations and asset management information from the plant across the enterprise.”

Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: “I am excited to see this first deliverable expressing a joint vision for CBO in manufacturing, but I am even more pleased to see the associated standards harmonization work that will enable the development of CBO and other O&M solutions based on our open information standards. The collaborative development of reference implementation models leveraging our harmonized standards is a key step in the process of establishing systems that provide more effective enterprise integration spanning from the factory floor to the boardroom.”