ISO TC 184SC4 42nd Meeting, Ft Lauderdale SECRETARIAT COMMENTS

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ISO TC 184/SC442nd Meeting, Ft
LauderdaleSECRETARIATCOMMENTS

• Jerry Smith, Secretary
• Ron Kolakowski, Deputy Secretary
• Joe Brazy, SC4ONLINE Administrator

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How Healthy?

• Public Awareness?
• Marketplace Acceptance?
• Goals/ Future Prospects?
• Products?
• Work Program?
• Membership?
• Participation?

Concerns?
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What Can We Do?

• Marketing
• Collaborative Activities
• Process Enhancements
• Harvest External Work

We Need Everybodys Help!!!
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What Can We Do?

• Marketing
• Rapportuer - RICARDO GONÇALVES
• rg_at_uninova.pt
• Dictionary Task Force
• Web Page Enhancements
• Conference Presence
• Press Releases

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ACTION for ALL

• Help Make SC4ONLINE the Definitive
• Link for STEP
• Request ALL SC4 Participants
• Identify links to entities and activities of
  potential SC4 Interest and send info to
• sc4sec_at_tc184-sc4.org
• 2. Request above entities to reciprocally list
  the SC4ONLINE link on their site also.

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ACTION for ALL

• Press Releases
• Request each of you to
• draft press release
• inputs describing your
• accomplishments
• N B Delegates
• Convenors
• Project Leaders

Send to RICARDO GONÇALVES rg_at_uninova.pt
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What Can We Do?

• Collaborative Activities
• Seek New Opportunities
• E.g., Work With Other Fora
• de jure Activities, Consortia, Professional
  Societies, Industry Associations, etc.

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PREMISE Industrial Automation Will Benefit From
Collaborative Initiatives

• Cooperative, joint, and collaborative
  standardization activities offer significant
  opportunities to produce
• higher quality specifications
• with broader global acceptance
• better market penetration and wide-scale
  implementation

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OASIS Product Life Cycle TC
Continued PLCS Development via a Joint Project

• OASIS Category A Liaison to SC4
• Purpose to establish structured data exchange
  and sharing capabilities for use by industry to
  support complex engineered assets throughout
  their total life cycle
• Mission
• Defining, developing, testing and publishing of
  OASIS PLCS Data Exchange Sets (DEXs)

http//www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?w
g_abbrevplcs
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What Can We Do?
Harvest External Work

• Purpose -
• Extend Visibility and Market Acceptance of SC4
  Products
• Broaden the Range of SC4 Products That Support
  Our Industry Partners
• Establish an alternative means to keep pace with
  technology evolution, user needs and the
  marketplace
• Facilitate the recognition of externally
  developed specifications of market relevance that
  would benefit from ISO acceptance and
  accreditation

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SC4 Harvesting

• New Approach to Magnify SC4 Global Visibility
  and Influence
• Need to Make It Attractive to People Outside
  the ISO de jure Community
• Need Vigilance to Not Compromise SC4 Quality
  and Integrity

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SC4 Harvesting Projects
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Reminders

• Ballot Action Contacts
• Send all responses to
• sc4sec_at_tc184-sc4.org
• eMail Exploders
• keep your email address current!
• Click on change my info after login

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Reminders

• Project Leaders Please check SC4 DataBase to
  validate Scheduled Milestone Dates.
• Contact Joe Ron immediately!

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Reminders

• SC4 Newsletter
• Remember to send proposed
• items to be included!
• Information of interest
• Upcoming Conferences and Seminars
• Related activities

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Reminders

• Meeting Room Reservations for BATH
• Now Available
• Suggest Making the Reservation Before You Leave
  Today

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REMINDER!
The number and size of meeting rooms is a BIG
COST DRIVER for meeting hosts. Many people
unrealistically oversubscribe meeting room
needs. e.g., request for meeting room to
accommodate 20 persons but only 4 people
actually meet !
ISO
This is a Continuing Problem!!!
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