Implementing ISO 15926 and iRING at Bechtel
The Power of Collaboration
Robin Benjamins
Digital Plant 2010
Houston
March 1-3, 2010
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Our Information
Landscape
Static
Requirements
Legend
Cost Data
Owner Operator
Suppliers
Corporate
Systems
Project
Commercial
Systems
Schema Configuration
Quantity Data
(Institutionalized)
JV Partners
Engineering &
Construction
Systems
Dynamic
Requirements
(Customer Driven)
Automation Investment
Always
Changing
COTS
Proprietary
Open Source
Systems &
Infrastructure
Technology
Proprietary
Public
Always
Extending
Information
Model
(ISO 15926)
Application
Mapping
Always
Compatible
Engineering
Procurement
Construction
Contracts
Project Controls
Startup
Bechtel
Standards Strategy
EDI
CIS/2 / IFC
AEX
Bank
Steel
Fabricator
Equipment
Manufacture
XMpLant
Heater
Manufacture
ISO 15926
JV
EPC
Internet
ISO 15926
“Lingua Franca”
Information Ambiguity
Greatest
Least
Compliance
Least Ambiguity
iRING 2.0
Implementation
Ambiguity Scale
ISO 15926
• Data exchanges operate
Knowledgewhen
Compliance
most successfully
ambiguity is eliminated
• Ambiguity between
exchanging partners can
require significant effort
(labor) to remove
• The higher the ambiguity, the
higher the cost to implement
effective and
efficient data
Information
exchanges
iRING 1.0
Implementation
XMpLant Schema
Implementation
Ambiguity = Cost
Comma Delimited
File
Data
Greatest Ambiguity
Robin Benjamins
Bechtel
FIATECH Technology Conference and Showcase
Las Vegas, April 6-8, 2009
Camelot Project
• To build and deploy an ISO 15926, open source
infrastructure on the internet and to show the
following capabilities:
• The use of ISO 15926 in modeling business
information
• The setup, configuration, and use of publicly
available tools to map legacy systems to ISO 15926
• The demonstration of several data exchange
scenarios between several companies using ISO
15926 over the internet
Camelot Participants
• Camelot was an industry collaboration project
( POSC Caesar/FIATECH, IDS-ADI)
• Companies that participated in Camelot:
• Bechtel
• Emerson Process
Management
• Bentley
• Fluor
• Chevron
• Hatch
• Consolidated
Contractors
• Intergraph
Company (CCC) • NRX Global
• DNV
• Tata Consultancy
• Dow
Services (TCS)
• DuPont
• Zachry
Demonstration
Landscape
PlantSpace
P&ID
Bentley
NRX
OpenPlant
Class Editor
RDS/WIP
System
Excel
Brisbane
Pune
Hatch
iRING
Web
Service
P&ID
Valve, Line, Inline Instrument,
and Vessel
Emerson
SmartPlant
Foundation
OpenPlant
PowerPID
Huntsville
ISO 15926
Information
Model
Frederick
Bechtel
Intergraph
Internet
iRING
Web
Service
Houston
RDS/WIP
Dow
C3D
Athens
SmartPlant
P&ID
Oslo
RDS/WIP
Editor
CCC
Wilmington
Email
DuPont
TCS
OpenPlant
PowerPID
Bechtel
JV Partner
Reporting Architecture
RDS/WIP
Ad-hoc
Update
Reques
t
Interoperability
Service
(ISO 15926)
PSN
Portal
PSN
Portal
Secured
Access
Control
Secured Access
Control
BizTalk
or
other
ISO
15926
Adapter
Application
(typ)
Reportin
g
Database
Web Service
SSRS
SSAS
SS..
Implementing ISO 15926 at Emerson
Collaboration is Essential
Duane Toavs
Digital Plant 2010
Houston, March 1-3, 2010
Standard Dilemma
[File Name or Event]
Emerson Confidential
27-Jun-01, Slide 12
Interoperability is the Objective
End User
Project
Deliverables
EPC
Main Contractor
EPC
Sub Contractor
[File Name or Event]
Emerson Confidential
27-Jun-01, Slide 13
Robin was right! 
Emerson
RMT PSS Fisher
Device Manager
Implementing ISO 15926 is the Solution
Internal
External
Client App
Rosemount
iRING - Adapter
Adapter – Excel
Adapter
InBox
Fisher
Adapter – Excel
Interface Service
Emerson Project Gateway
Adapter
iRing
Reference
Browser
iRING - Adapter
DeltaV
ASE
Legacy
Database
Adapter Service
Adapter Service
Adapter
InBox
Interface Service
AMS
Adapter – XML
Adapter
Emerson
Database
ISO-15926 RDF
iRING - Adapter
Interface
Data Model
Interface Service
Reference
Database
Vocabulary – RDF
Data Dictionary – ISO-15926 Part2,4,7
iRing Reference Browser
[File Name or Event]
Emerson Confidential
27-Jun-01, Slide 14
Interoperability Strategy
Bechtel
Customer,
Owner/Operator
other BSAPs
other BSAPs
other BSAPs
SP P&ID
SPI
Other apps
SP 3D
O&M
SPF
ERP
Procurement
PSN
LCIM
Construction
Portal
ECM
InfoWorks
BecGIS
PSN
2.0
Other apps
Other apps
3D
P&ID
Procurement
3D
LCIM
Procurement
ECM
GIS
ERP
Suppliers
JV Partners
ECM
JV Partners
JV Partners
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