Automating Equipment Information eXchange AEX

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Automating Equipment Information eXchange (AEX)

• FIATECH Members Meeting
• October 22, 2002

Theresa Gaskamp, Bechtel Patty Olwell,
Citadon Tom Teague, ePlantData Mark Palmer,
NIST Brett Phillips, SB Engineering
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FIATECH Vision
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Software and Information Flows
Owner
EPC
Supplier
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Lack of Interoperability

• NIST auto industry study finding 1 Billion per
  year loss
• Construction industry estimates higher cost
  impact
• Longer cycle times impact schedules
• Electronic data not effectively reused, leveraged
  or archived

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Interoperable Future VisionData is available to
anyone, wherever, and whenever its needed
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Benefits of Interoperability
More than 1 B estimated annual savings

• Reduce supply chain friction
• Reduce capital costs
• Reuse data over facility life cycle
• Reduce cost and implementation time for
  multi-vendor software integration

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AEX Project

• Objective
• Automate equipment design and delivery work
  processes through software interoperability
• Approach
• Focus on solving problems that deliver high
  benefits
• Demonstrate incremental working solutions
• Deploy in months, not years
• Promote broad-industry acceptance by
  collaborating with other industry groups and
  stakeholders

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AEX Phase 1 Scope

• Demonstrate success on small scope
• Basic information model for all equipment
• Detailed information models for
• centrifugal pumps
• shell and tube heat exchangers
• Equipment data sheets and equipment lists
• Transactions
• RFQ, Quote, PO, As-built, BOM
• Participants
• Owners, EPCs, Software Suppliers
• Related industry groups

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Phase 1 Goals

• Identify high-value opportunities
• Develop practical analysis and development
  methodology
• Produce robust equipment information models using
  XML
• Software demonstrations
• Obtain broad industry support
• Publish XML Specifications and Guidelines

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Phase 1 Results

• Mapped equipment information flows and data
  elements
• Identified high value transactions
• Investigated and leveraged related efforts
• Horizontal ebXML, OAGIS, UBL
• Vertical PIDX, PlantData XML, RosettaNet
• Worked with related industry groups
• ASHRAE, CII, DIPPR, NIBS/OM, PDAC, PIDX, PIP,
  PlantSTEP
• Developed XML specifications for common elements,
  pumps and heat exchangers

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Phase 1 Industry Uptake

• Draft XML specifications reviewed
• Additional reviews planned for November
• Openly available
• Invite anyone planning XML software
  implementations to review draft specs now
• Software implementations are starting
• Project results published early next year

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AEX Phase 2

• Expand scope to 40-60 equipment types
• Provide equipment list summary for all common
  equipment types
• Investigate adding commissioning operations
  information
• Deploy in multiple software systems
• Promote broad deployment

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Benefits to Owners
Improved competitiveness in global market

• Reduce capital project costs and schedules
• Archive and reuse electronic information over
  facility life cycle
• Continued use of preferred software
• Partners continue to use their own preferred
  software

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Benefits to EPCs
Improved competitiveness in global market

• Enhance delivered value to customers
• Reduce costs and schedule
• Streamline interactions with suppliers and
  subcontractors
• Continued use of preferred software
• Partners continue to use their own preferred
  software

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Benefits to Software Suppliers
Improved competitiveness in global market

• Enhance value to customers through reuse of data
  captured in other systems
• Retain focus on core capabilities
• Reduce integration costs for customers
• Build and maintain one standard data interface,
  not many

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Benefits to AEX Sponsors

• It wont happen without YOU!
• Pushes industry closer to true interoperability
  FASTER!
• Influence scope of each development phase
• Reduce risks through industry collaboration
• Improve competitiveness through early deployment

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Panelists

• Theresa Gaskamp, Bechtel
• Patty Olwell, Citadon
• Tom Teague, ePlantData
• Mark Palmer, NIST

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AEX Project Organization
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Software Usage Survey

• Process Simulator
• Aspen Tech/Hyprotech, SimSci, Chemstations, BRE
• Equipment Design
• Flowserve, Goulds, Sulzer, Engineered Software,
  Sundyne, Ebara, HTRI, AspenTech/Hyprotech, Coade,
  Codeware
• Datasheet
• In-house, AspenTech/Hyprotech, Intergraph,
  Cadcentre
• Equipment Instrument List
• In-house, AspenTech, Cadcentre, Intergraph,
  Bentley/Rebis
• Intelligent PID
• In-house (AutoCAD/Microstation), Bentley/Rebis,
  Cadcentre, Intergraph, Plant4D
• Cost Estimating
• In-house, AspenTech, Process Plant Estimating
• Procurement
• In-house, Marian/Intergraph, SAP

• Bid Tabulation
• In-house (EXCEL and Web Site)
• Order Entry Tracking
• In-house, Marian/Intergraph, SAP
• Collaboration
• Citadon, e-Builder, Skire
• E-Marketplace
• Trade-Ranger, ProcureZone, Pantellos
• Plan, Schedule Track
• Primavera, Microsoft, Meridian
• ERP Asset Management
• SAP
• Maintenance Management
• MRO Software, Meridium, SAP, JD Edwards
• Integration / Middleware
• Impress
• Data Warehouse
• EPM, ESSI, Intergraph

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Status of Deliverables

• Initial draft XML Schemas completed August 2002
• Currently seeking broad industry review/comment
• September-November 2002
• Meetings, e.g., with PIDX, PIP, API, POSC Caesar
  9/26/02
• Web-based reviews
• Incorporating industry feedback
• Initiate activity to build software
  implementations
• November 2002
• Incorporate feedback from software demos
• Publish XML Schemas and Guidelines
• January 2003

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Review of eBus Frameworks and Specs (incomplete)