The advent of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology has significantly optimized the industrial operations management by connecting industrial assets with information systems and, hence, with business processes. The IIoT forms the backbone for materializing the Industry 4.0 initiative. Actionable insights obtained from industrial analytics are one of the pivotal means for achieving intelligent operations and maintenance. Intelligence refers to making optimal decisions for both automated and human-in-the-loop decision making. Condition-based predictive maintenance (CBPdM), also known as Maintenance 4.0, is among the major focus points of the Industry 4.0 and IIoT.

The industry is moving forward at a fast pace to reap the benefits of the Industry 4.0 revolution, but unfortunately standards bodies have not been able to keep up with this pace. Standards form the basis for introducing new technologies and innovations, ensuring that the products, components and services supplied by different companies are mutually compatible. Open standards are publicly available standards which are easy to adopt and improve upon. Even after the wider adoption of CBPdM in industry, to the best of our knowledge there does not exist any standard framework or reference architecture for it.

The research team at University of South Australia along with MIMOSA has published a research paper discussing the existing standards related to condition-based maintenance and the potential of the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE), a MIMOSA led initiative, as a framework which extends previous open standards for achieving CBPdM. MIMOSA has a history of developing and publishing open systems architecture for condition-based maintenance (CBM) and enterprise application integration (EAI). The OIIE framework for CBPdM is built upon these well-adopted open-standards and extends them to utilize the potential offered by IIoT and Industry 4.0.

Read the complete research paper here to know how the OIIE framework addresses the requirements of Industry 4.0 and CBPdM.

MIMOSA and the OPC Foundation have announced a joint working group to develop a companion specification for MIMOSA’s CCOM standard and OPC UA.

OPC Foundation is a not-for-profit association dedicated to providing the interoperability standard for the secure and reliable exchange of data in the industrial automation space and in other industries. The OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is platform independent and ensures the seamless flow of information among devices from multiple vendors.

The OPC UA standard is a series of specifications developed by industry vendors, end-users and software developers. These specifications define the interface between Clients and Servers, as well as Servers and Servers, including secure access to real-time data, monitoring of alarms and events, access to historical data and other applications. The standard includes the ability to securely transport any information model between the systems. It is a key standard for Industry 4.0.

The joint MIMOSA and OPC Foundation CCOM OPC UA Working Group will develop an OPC UA Information Model for CCOM. The information model specified by CCOM will be defined in a UA companion specification using OPC UA constructs for the purpose of exposing CCOM information to OPC UA applications, with an initial focus on existing Use Cases relating to information exchange to and from the control system.  This will combine existing strengths of each organization for some near-term wins, where OPC UA is used to bring information from the factory floor and where MIMOSA plays its traditional role in Asset Management.

 The working group will deliver the following:

• OPC UA Information Model for CCOM (Standard OPC UA companion specification, Nodeset file and prototype implementation)
• A write up for the OPC Wiki describing the Companion specification
• Trade show demonstration and information material

Anyone who would like to contribute to this industry specification please contact Alan Johnston.

MIMOSA is hosting an OpenO&M Joint Working Group to update the OpenO&M ISBM Specification, which was developed under the umbrella of the OpenO&M Initiative.  This work is being done in coordination with the ISA-95 and IEC 62264 MSM Specifications, with the intent of maintaining alignment, while also addressing new functional and non-functional requirements being introduced by the on-going OIIE OGI Pilot.  The objective is sustaining a consistent IT connectivity specification for key intra and inter-enterprise asset life-cycle management activities included in the OIIE.  While the original specifications largely focused on SOAP and XML, OIIE Use Cases are now beginning to incorporate RESTful architecture, other data formats such as JSON and additional protocols. Interested parties should contact Alan Johnston.

MIMOSA announces that it has started the planning process for the 2017 Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE) and Oil and Gas Interoperability (OGI) PoC.  This PoC will continue to build on the prior iterations of the OGI Pilot, adding to the existing OGI Pilot engineering and asset data set, while also extending to more fully cover the full asset life-cycle (adding OEMs and Procurement along with Remove/Replace).  Participants will benefit from mutually beneficial cooperation while developing and demonstrating solutions properly supporting OIIE Use Cases.  Interested parties should contact Alan Johnston gro.a1732452812somim1732452812@nhoj1732452812ta1732452812.

Version 1.0 of the PCA-MIMOSA Reference Architecture Framework has been published by PCA-MIMOSA Joint IT Architecture Special Interest Group. The document is available for download here.

Transferring P&IDs from three separate engineering design systems to provision O&M systems.

Presenters:

• Alan Johnston, OpenO&M / MIMOSA
• Cormac Ryan, WorleyParsons
• Jim Klein, AVEVA
• Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia
• Ken Bever, Assetricity
• Bruce Hyre, IBM

HOUSTON, TX – (Marketwire – Jul 3, 2012) – On June 28, 2012 senior executives from nine leading standards bodies associated with the oil and gas industry hosted the inaugural Standards Leadership Council Forum to encourage collaboration on open standards for the benefit of the upstream industry. Over 125 industry members attended the all-day event at the Marriott Westchase Hotel in Houston, Texas, hosted by BP, geoLOGIC, Halliburton and Oracle.

The Standards Leadership Council (SLC) was formed in February of this year to avoid duplication in standards development projects and to address mutual challenges like determining business value metrics for standards adoption, enhancing membership benefits and maintaining financial sustainability. In addition, the SLC is planning additional joint industry events to deliver its standards adoption message across the industry.

The SLC Forum was keynoted by Derek Mathieson, President, Western Hemisphere Operations of Baker Hughes, who described the importance of adopting and implementing open standards as key to the digital oilfield. Mathieson encouraged the delegates to increase industry collaboration for standards and to participate in the development process.

Duncan Junor, Vice President, Halliburton and the Energistics’ Board Chair, formally closed the forum by saying, “Without question this initial forum was a huge success. Just to have all nine standards organizations in the same room is a huge accomplishment, to say nothing of the more than 125 attendees. It was a sold out event, which speaks volumes to the dedication and passion of this industry to work together to adopt and implement standards.”

Jim Crompton, Chevron Senior Advisor Global Upstream and a Chevron Fellow remarked, “For me this is a very significant meeting. While I recognize that this isn’t the first time that the standards groups have convened to discuss joint responsibilities, for years these meetings have been effective primarily on a tactical one-on-one level. This meeting is a symbolic milestone, a lot like the now famous handshake that happened recently in Belfast between Queen Elizabeth II of England and former IRA chief Martin McGuinness, bringing together the last 20 years of effort as well as the promise of the next 20 years as the needs for standards to continue to grow.”

The participating standards organizations and leaders at the forum were: Energistics (Jerry Hubbard), MIMOSA (Alan Johnston), Open Geospatial Consortium (Carl Reed), OPC Foundation (Tom Burke), PIDX International (Tony Aming), PODS (Janet Sinclair), POSC Caesar Association (Nils Sandsmark), PPDM Association (Trudy Curtis), and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (Jill Lewis).

Energistics serves as facilitator, custodian and advocate for the development and adoption of technical open data exchange standards in the upstream industry. www.energistics.org

MIMOSA, an operations and maintenance open systems alliance, 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. www.mimosa.org

PIDX International provides a global forum for delivering the process, information and technology standards that facilitates seamless, efficient electronic business within the oil and natural gas industry and its trading community. www.pidx.org

POSC Caesar Association (PCA) is an independent, global member organisation developing, enhancing, and promoting methodology, technology and solutions for data interoperability with special focus on ISO 15926 and W3C recommendations. www.posccaesar.org

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of over 450 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial encoding and interface standards. www.opengeospatial.org

The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. www.opcfoundation.org

The Pipeline Open Data Standard Association (PODS) was created to develop and support open data storage and interchange standards to meet the specific data management needs of pipeline companies www.pods.org

The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) is a global not-for-profit organization within the petroleum industry to promote professional petroleum data management through the development and dissemination of best practices www.ppdm.org

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the science of applied geophysics and the education of geophysicists. The Society fulfills its mission through its publications, conferences, forums, web sites, and educational opportunities. www.seg.org

MIMOSA is pleased to announce the public release of V3.2.3 of the MIMOSA Open System Architecture for Enterprise Application Integration (OSA-EAI) specification. MIMOSA thanks all of our member bodies who have contributed to this final version over the past 18 months and have had helped to shape the final version. All MIMOSA specifications are provided under the MIMOSA Intellectual Property Rights Policy.

The OSA-EAI V3.2.3 release adds a complete UML model and XML schema implementation (CCOM-ML) for the Common Conceptual Object Model (CCOM) in addition to continued support and updates for CRIS (Common Relational Information Schema). The MIMOSA Technical Committee is now working to provide CCOM-ML OAGIS 9.5.1-compliant Business Object Documents (BODs) to support the Phase 1 pilot. MIMOSA members will have access to working drafts of these BODs and are encouraged to provide expertise to the MIMOSA Technical Committee as these specifications are finalized. Find out more on how your organization can become a MIMOSA member today.

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.