The German Namur standards body has just published WG Position 1.4, an analysis of the use of ‘asset administration shells’ (AAS) as used in the process industry. The AAS underpins the EU Industrie 4.0 concept which rolls-up IoT and digital twins. WG 1.4 defines roles, assets, device types and instances along with the information exchange and interactions between assets. File-based engineering document exchange according to VDI 2770 from the ‘digital data chain consortium’ also ran.
A demonstration at the 2023 Digital Industries Nuremberg tradeshow had Siemens and other industrial partners leveraging the AAS to exchange data between digital twins in manufacturing. More from Siemens.
IOGP JIP36 a.k.a. Cfihos , the capital facilities information handover spec has released Cfihos version 1.5.1. This is described as a minor release of content upgrades. More in the release notes here. All Cfihos documents are available to download and use free of charge.
The IEA Greenhouse Gas unit has published Technical Report 2022-11 on ‘Applying ISO Standards to Geologic Storage and EOR Projects’. The study, performed by DNV on behalf of IEAGHG, aimed to synthesize two ISO Standards for geological storage of CO2: – ISO 27914:2017 (Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage) and ISO 27916:2019 (Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage with EOR) to provide a ‘high-level understanding of the content in an easily digestible format’. The report concluded that ‘the standards are complementary with minimal overlap, as was intended by stakeholders’. Moreover, similarity between regulatory regimes for oil and gas projects and CO2 storage projects ‘may mean that existing petroleum regimes, complemented by the ISO standards, could form a specific regulatory regime for the geological storage of CO2’.
A cryptic post by TotalEnergies’ Jean-Charles Leclerc reported on the rebranding of ISO15926-part14 which is now to be known as IDO, the Industrial Data Ontology. There is as yet nothing about the change on the ISO TC 184, (parent of ISO 15926) web page. Work on IDO is to be hosted in a new information exchange framework for Ontology Based Interoperability a.k.a. OBI.
The new ISO 19157-1 2023 standard for geographic information quality is said to establish the principles for describing the quality of geographic data. This document is applicable to data producers providing quality information to describe and assess how well a dataset conforms to its product specification and to data users attempting to determine whether or not specific geographic data are of sufficient quality for a particular application.
Report 796 from the IOGP JIP33 is an implementation guide to its standardized procurement specifications. The document describes best practices for implementing the IOGP specs across operators, EPC contractors and suppliers in the petroleum and natural gas industries. IOGP has also release the third edition of its Report 456, Process safety - recommended practice on key performance indicators. Report 456 enables companies to establish effective leading and lagging indicators that assess the health of barriers that manage the risk of process safety events, particularly those that could result in a major incident. The third edition incorporates changes from the latest version of API RP 754 to facilitate a unified approach to process safety across different sectors of the industry. The update includes the IOGP’s Well Control Incidents classification system to help members report such events more consistently. Both reports are a free download from the IOGP library.
A new framework from NIST addresses risk management in artificial intelligence applications. The Framework, AI RMF 1.0 provides guidance for voluntary use by organizations designing, developing, deploying or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of AI technologies. Development followed a direction from Congress for NIST to develop the framework in collaboration with the private and public sectors. In parallel NIST has launched the AIRC, a ‘Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center’, a ‘one-stop-shop’ for foundational content, technical documents, and toolkits to enable responsible use of Artificial Intelligence.
Addressing the advent of ChatGPT and generative AI, The Open Group has spoken on the topic of natural language generation (NLP). The pronouncement comes in the form of a blog post by TOG member Chris Harding from Lacibus. The NLP that underlies ChatGPT has huge potential for disruptive change in many areas, including standards development. Harding argues that such work should be added to the TOG’s Data Integration Work Group’s charter to research use cases and current trends in data integration and also to review the corpus of TOG standards to identify relevant clauses working with a prototype ‘Ideas Browser’ that scans web pages and generates summaries with the language model used by ChatGPT.
At The Open Group’s recent London Summit, Steve Nunn, President and CEO, announced the award of the TOG ‘most valuable contribution as an organization’ to Shell. Shell has been a TOG participant since 1990 and since has been ‘one of the most contributory energy companies’. Shell has participated in the TOG’s Customer Council, the Security, Architecture and ArchiMate Fora.
The OPC Foundation, has added a RESTful interface to its OPC UA flagship standard. The addition was requested by IT companies to allow OPC UA operational data to be used in ‘concepts’ like Data Spaces, Digital Twins and the Metaverse. Such solutions often share information using proprietary HTTP REST-Interfaces. OPC UA with REST is ‘less likely to be adopted at the field level, but in gateways and cloud services’. Cloud companies can now access standardized information and use it efficiently to optimize the business processes of their customers and ‘unlock new use cases’.
The US Government has just released its National Standards Strategy for 2023, covering critical and emerging technology (CET). The 14 page document has it that ‘Standards development underpins economic prosperity across the country and fortifies US leadership in the industries of the future’. The US has engaged in standards for many years but now, it faces challenges to its standards leadership and to the core principles of international standard. Competitors are ‘actively seeking’ to influence international standards development, particularly for CET, to ‘advance their military-industrial policies and autocratic objectives’ these include ‘blocking the free flow of information and slowing innovation in other countries, by tilting what should be a neutral playing field to their own advantage’. The US Government has China in its sights. The EU gets a more friendly treatment, through the US-EU Trade and Technology Council Strategic Standardization Information mechanism.
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