Asset Data Interoperability

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.

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 2 nd 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…

Topics covered

  • asset data
  • interoperability
  • process manufacturing
  • engineering data
  • standards

Keywords

  • Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem
  • OIIE
  • ADIF Workshop
  • Texas A&M University

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The ISA-95 was

Places: Barrington, IL

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