Asset Data Interoperability
From Gary On Manufacturing - Gary Mintchell by Gary Mintchell
November 17, 2025 · 24 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the future of asset data and systems interoperability in process manufacturing, highlighting a recent workshop and the development of the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem.
We met in a conference room at an office in Barrington, IL. A place where sometime later a couple guys thought they'd screw me in a business deal. I came out ahead in the end, but the place has mixed memories. This meeting involved thinking about the future of asset data and systems interoperability. We had a system diagram. The idea was to solve a huge problem for owner/operators of process manufacturing enterprises—flowing engineering data into other software systems for operations, maintenance, and enterprise. The incumbent system was a morass of paper (or pdf documents which was much the same thing). We did trademark searches and domain name searches and eventually settled on the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem—OIIE. I plot this history for context for the conference I attended recently—the 2nd ADIF Workshop at Texas A&M University dubbed Driving Asset Data and Systems Interoperability Toward an Open and Neutral Data Ecosystem. This workshop brought together owner/operators, EPCs, System Integrators, university researchers, standards organizations, and software vendors. Each group conducted a panel discussion of its needs and successes. I was there for a short…
People in this episode
Host: Gary Mintchell
Topics covered
- asset data interoperability
- process manufacturing
- engineering data
- software systems
- standards panel
- conference discussions
Keywords
- asset data
- interoperability
- process manufacturing
- engineering data
- software systems
- standards
- workshop
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Texas A&M University, Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem
Places: Barrington, IL
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