At the Industrial AI Research Centre, University of South Australia (UniSA), we are embarking on an exciting research project to support collaboration among organisations within business clusters in a digital environment. Our goal is to improve the efficiency of how your organisation collaborates within your business network to create value by developing and piloting a framework that facilitates interoperability of IT resources and secure information sharing among businesses that is reusable, repeatable, and scalable.

We value your experience and insights as an industry practitioner. To this end, we are reaching out to business, engineering, and IT managers from various industry sectors (such as asset-intensive and process-centric industries) to provide their perspectives in an online survey, which will take approximately 15-20 minutes. The survey will investigate the challenges and priorities of businesses involved in inter-dependant business networks or clusters. Your input will be important in identifying key business requirements, challenges, and potential support mechanisms for setting up interoperable digital environments for the business network.

Your participation is entirely voluntary, and your responses will remain confidential. You may also opt-in for a follow-up interview if you are interested in contributing further. The Participant Information Sheet provides further details on the project and your participation in the research, should you choose to contribute. The findings of this survey will be published in academic and industry venues, or shared with you on request, helping you identify and leverage collaborative opportunities with your business network.

To access the survey, please click the link below:

https://research.unisa.edu.au/redcap/surveys/?s=RW84DHXYRE7R8KYF

This project has been approved by the University of South Australia’s Human Research Ethics Committee (Ethics Protocol 206204). If you have any questions or require further information, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your time and valuable insights.

Project team at Industrial AI Centre, University of South Australia

Dr Karamjit Kaur, Dr Matt Selway, A/Prof. Nina Evans, Prof. Markus Stumptner

And the Future Energy Exports CRC Limited (FEnEx CRC), Australia.

Contact Email: ua.ud1772855774e.asi1772855774nu@ru1772855774aK.ti1772855774jmara1772855774K1772855774

The OIIE Specifications are being put into use in Queensland, Australia, by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) in order to achieve interoperability for their asset management systems. Read the full the media release at the Asset Institute website.

UniSA researchers compared the AECO and Oil & Gas sectors to reveal insights for the improvement of interoperability in the AECO sector across domains, building lifecycles, software systems and the web. The findings and insights indicate that the AECO sector may benefit from principles and initiatives of the Oil & Gas sector, such as event-driven, object-based exchanges and the OIIE specifications. The application of these principles to BIM could benefit the AECO sector, especially in the context of digital twins and smart cities. The findings of the research are submitted to CIB W78 2021 conference. The preprint of the research paper is made available for wider visibility, comments and feedback.

CII and MIMOSA sign MOU to use the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE) as the interoperability framework for CII best practices

July 1, 2020 – CII and MIMOSA announce their collaboration to adopt and progress the standards for an open, vendor neutral digital ecosystem supporting data and systems interoperability in capital projects, operations and maintenance enabling digital transformation of the full asset lifecycle. The MOU establishes the basis for a CII/MIMOSA Joint Working Group to develop best practices for standards based interoperability in capital projects leveraging the organizations combined strengths. It will develop formal OIIE Use Cases for capital projects based on Industry Functional Requirements developed by CII, starting with those associated with Advanced Work Packaging (AWP). These OIIE Use Cases will be validated in the OIIE Oil and Gas Interoperability (OGI) Pilot before they are published and licensed for use on a world-wide royalty free basis. Once the jointly developed OIIE Use Cases are validated in the pilot, CII and MIMOSA intend to submit them to ISO TC 184/WG 6 for inclusion in future parts of ISO 18101.

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The MIMOSA/OpenO&M RESTful Services Working Group has released the ISBM 2.0 specification which incorporates new REST/JSON interfaces to complement the original SOAP-based Web Services. To ease implementation, an OpenAPI definition of the RESTful services accompanies the specification alongside the (updated) SOAP WSDL descriptions.

Apart from a slight name change (formerly ‘ws-ISBM’, the ‘ws’ was dropped as it is historically related to SOAP Web Services), other new features include:

• new configuration service to allow querying of configuration parameters to ensure clients can communicate with an ISBM instance correctly; and
• a more detailed look at security considerations, laying the groundwork for future revisions of the specification which will focus on improving the configuration and implementation of inter-enterprise connections.

The new specification is published by the OpenO&M initiative (under the MIMOSA license agreement) and is available at OpenOAndM.org .

The slide decks for the presentations given during MIMOSA’s 2019 Open Meeting, held in December, are now available for download.

They can be accessed through the Presentations page.

MIMOSA, its members, and OIIE OGI Pilot participants recently celebrated the success of Phase 3.1 of the OIIE OGI Pilot. Phase 3.1 expanded the scope of previous Pilot phases dramatically, covering OIIE Use Cases from a range of activities across CAPEX and OPEX. A video demonstration of the pilot is available on YouTube and Vimeo.

Presenters (in order of appearance):

• Alan Johnston, MIMOSA / OpenO&M
• Matt Selway, University of South Australia
• Jim Purvis, Advisian Digital / Worley
• Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia
• Sandra Fabiano, Yokogawa
• Masa Ishii, Yokogawa
• Pak Wong, PdMA Corporation
• Noah Bethel , PdMA Corporation
• Karamjit Kaur, University of South Australia
• Anne-Marie Walters, Bentley Systems
• Ken Dunn, BP

MIMOSA presented at the first NIST Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit event held on June 3rd and 4th, 2019. The presentations are available from the presentations listing and include: an overview of MIMOSA including its collaboration with OAGI (who also participated in the event), an overview of the OIIE Architecture, and an update on the OIIE OGI Pilot Phase 3.1 demonstrating the Condition-Based Maintenance use cases included in the Pilot.

The first part of the ISO 18101 Technical Specification has now been published by ISO. Developed by ISO Technical Committee 184/Working Group 6, ISO/TS 18101 describes how to utilize a portfolio of existing standards to achieve systems of systems interoperability in the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, public utilities and other asset-intensive industries. It incorporates the use of a standardized connectivity architecture and a use case architecture to describe a supplier-neutral open industrial digital ecosystem and the interoperability requirements of standardized industry use cases. The foreword stipulates that:

Future parts of the ISO 18101 series will be developed including sets of industry developed use cases, once the use cases have been documented using the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE) use case architecture and validated using the OIIE Oil and Gas Interoperability (OGI) Pilot, with the results captured in Technical Reports.

The slide decks for the presentations given during MIMOSA’s 2018 Open Meeting, held in December, are now available for download.

They can be accessed through the Presentations page.