Equipmnent Manufacturer Case Study #1

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Contents

1. Company Description
2. Buisness Case
3. Step One: Examine the System Landscape
4. Scope
5. Project Description
6. Developing the Information Asset
7. Significance of this Project to ISO 15926
8. Project Execution
   1. Resources
   2. Training Required
   3. Step One
   4. Step Two

Company Description

This Company (The Company) is one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial instruments. It owns several international brands of industrial measurement and control equipment. In addition it provides software and services to optimize the return from plant assets.

In 2008, The Company launched an internal project to implement ISO 15926. When the project is finished, The Company will be able to communicate directly with the engineering and asset management systems of any customer who uses ISO 15926-enabled tools.

Buisness Case

Summary: To make the exchange of information about complex plant instrumentation and services trivial.

At the beginning of a project, a large effort is required to simply agree on terms. This is true regardless of how sophisticated the customer is, or whether the customer is an EPC or Owner. Even for seemingly simple instruments there still needs to be discussion about terms and the number of properties to define.

One would think that experienced instrumentation engineers would have solved this. For instance, in North America we have the Instrument Society of America, which publishes recommended data sheets for almost every kind of instrument that exists. Other countries have similar standards. But most engineers an owners have particular needs that require solutions which involve tweaking the standards. No one wants to deliver a product and find out that certain terms have been understood differently.

The Company wanted to use ISO 15926 so that this time-consuming task could be done easier, quicker, and more reliably. Instead of being a major task, information exchange about instruments would happen in the background.

Step One: Examine the System Landscape

The Company

Scope

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Project Description

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Developing the Information Asset

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Significance of this Project to ISO 15926

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Project Execution

Resources

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• Hardware
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• Databases
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Training Required

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Step One

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Step Two

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