I find it sort of amazing that the head of product development at the manufacturing company where I was working in a position sort of like a combination of manufacturing engineering and materials management plucked me out of the factory to assume a role a manager of data.
That was 1976. The problems I attempted to solve 50 years ago are the same problems (albeit on a much larger scale) that executives face today. Multiple silos of proprietary data. Insufficient insight into the company’s operational health. Buried risks to enterprise decision-making.
Next week (Nov. 5-6), Texas A&M Department of Construction Science ADIF Working Group hosts its 2nd ADIF workshop.
ADIF (Asset Data Interoperability Framework) working group is a dedicated research group of industry experts and academia that is committed to fostering open, vendor-neutral, and standards-based solutions for achieving data and systems interoperability for assets intensive industries.
I will be in College Station next week to moderate a panel discussion on standards—perhaps discussing how so many standards can work together. The panel includes luminaries Markus Stumptner, University South Australia, Alan Johnston, MIMOSA, Micheal Wiedau and Reiner Meyer-Rossl, DEXPI, Peter Townson, CHIFOS, and Chris Monchinski, ISA 95.
There is still time to register and come. I will probably have some live reports for those who cannot make it.
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