Friday, July 10, 2009

New Collaboration Initiatives

We have a couple of collaborations to talk about today.

Manufacturing Process Collaboration
I just wrote a letter endorsing CAM-I’s proposal “Semantic Manufacturing Interoperability for Lifecycle Engineering & Sustainability (SMILES)” to the NIST Recovery Act Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Program.

OAGi works closely with NIST researchers, and other standards organizations such as PDES Inc. to harmonize overlapping standards. In particular, the OAGIS-STEP harmonization joint working group has done some initial semantic mappings between OAGIS and OMG PLM Services which are partly based on STEP AP214.

The SMILES proposal would build on this initial success and extend this effort to include manufacturing process information and web services.

We are looking forward to the SMILES team to further advance manufacturing system interoperability with engineering and lifecycle modeling applications.

AgGateway
In addition, it looks like we are on the verge of signing an MOU with AgGateway. We are discussing their joining our Chemical Industry Council.

I will write more on this and on AgGateway when the MOU is finialized.

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