Interoperability is defined as the ability to manage and communicate electronic product and project data between collaborating firms' and within individual companies' design, construction, maintenance, and business process systems. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication GCR 04-867 is the report that resulted from a study to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the US capital facilities industry caused by inadequate interoperability.
The estimated efficiency losses came in at a staggering $15.8 billion per year. To help rein in this waste, Hydraulic Institute has developed HI 50.7-2010, Standard for Electronic Data Exchange for Pumping Equipment. This standard builds upon the FIATECH project known as the Automating Equipment Information Exchange (AEX) and is one of the components you must have to improve interoperability when bidding, quoting and purchasing pumping equipment for capital facilities.
Executable documents — that's what you get when companies implement EDE. Data will move from Company A to Company B and back again in neutral xml files. Data is entered once in Company A software, exported to xml, imported through an xml interface to Company B software, processed, then exported to xml and on to the next party in the bidding, quoting or purchasing process. If you've specified the suction connection rating at 1500, it won't get mistyped as 2500 when another person touches the data.
Take the lead — Electronic Data Exchange will become the norm. If you doubt this fact, simply take a look at your smartphone to remind yourself how far communications have come in a very short time. Managing your capital facilities supply chain without full interoperability will soon be archaic. Delaying the inevitable will continue to add to your supply chain costs. The time has come to take the first step toward full interoperability — no more paper, no more "electronic" documents.
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