Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of ISO15926Primer_GettingStarted_Individual
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v10 v11 72 72 To most people, including plant engineers, this is a silly question. Of course pressure is analog, because it is infinity variable from a full vacuum to more-or-less infinity. But when you zoom in to the atomic level, pressure is one molecule of a fluid impinging on one molecule of a container. Pressure is digital after all! 73 73 74 The sixty-four dollar question is "Who cares?" Plant engineers certainly don't care. But what if your organization employs scientists to do basic research? Do you think some of them might care? And if they do, don't you think that some engineering applications might want to exchange information with scientific applications? If so, you certainly don't want to treat all instances of "pressure" equally.74 The sixty-four dollar question is "Who cares?" Plant engineers, in their normal day-to-day work, certainly don't care. But what if your organization employs scientists to do basic research? Do you think some of them might care? And if they do, don't you think that some engineering applications might want to exchange information with scientific applications? If so, you certainly don't want to treat all instances of "pressure" equally. 75 75 76 There are a number of large organizations that employ a great many engineers and a great many scientists. Your humble author, talking to one such organization, was told that it had over two hundred fifty software applications that had to exchange information. Of course all two hundred fifty don't have to exchange information with every one of the other two hundred forty-nine, but if you were to connect the appropriate applications together, they would make one contiguous network.76 There are a number of large organizations that employ a great many engineers and a great many scientists. Your humble author, talking to one such organization, was told that it had over two hundred fifty software applications that had to exchange information. Of course all of the two hundred fifty don't have to exchange information with every one of the other two hundred forty-nine, but if you were to connect the appropriate applications together, they would make one contiguous network. 77 77 78 78 So when an organization implements ISO 15926, the most important people on the team will be those who know the meaning of all the data values. … … 80 80 == Where to Start == 81 81 82 The first step is to learn what ISO 15926 is, and the best way to do this is to read the Primer. (Well, actually, you're already reading it.) But in case you linked directly to this page, start at the beginning. )Select the "Primer Introduction" link in the big green box in the upper right hand corner of this page.82 The first step is to learn what ISO 15926 is, and the best way to do this is to read the Primer. (Well, actually, you're already reading it.) But in case you linked directly to this page, start at the beginning. Select the "Primer Introduction" link in the big green box in the upper right hand corner of this page. 83 83 84 84 It is important to understand that ISO 15926 is a fundamentally different approach to making machines able to talk to each other and convey meaning. In the past we've viewed machine-to-machine communication as a technology problem, building more powerful processors, or writing more artful code. But we ran into the wall of not knowing how to handle the information. ISO 15926 sidesteps the powerful chips and Machiavellian code and focuses on modeling information.
