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Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of ISO15926Primer_History_ExchangePlantInformation

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8	8	== Abstract ==
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10		Most plant engineers are familiar with the issue of transferring the contents of a CAD drawing from one authoring system to another. (In North America the two dominant CAD systems are AutoCAD and !MicroStation.) But this is not a new issue at all. It goes back several decades to when we first used computers in engineering, and affects every industry that requires engineering, which is to say, pretty much everything we can see and touch.
	10	Most plant engineers are familiar with the issue of transferring the contents of a CAD drawing from one authoring system to another. But this is not a new issue at all; it goes back several decades to when we first used computers in engineering. The huge demand for free and easy exchange of plant, and other, information has spawned a number of initiatives.
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12		The huge demand for free and easy exchange of plant, and other, information has spawned a great many initiatives. Some of these initiatives deliberately build on prior work; others have sprung up ignorance, only finding out about others after they start work.
	12	ISO 15926 builds directly on many of these prior initiatives.
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14		~~ISO 15926 is a direct result of many prior initiatives.~~
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