Euromind (2009)
Creating an innovative European Open Maritime Industry through facilitating integration of standards into new business practices & services.
Creating an innovative European Open Maritime Industry through facilitating integration of standards into new business practices & services.
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European Commission<br />
Directorate-General for Enterprise & Industry<br />
6. Conclusions and recommendations<br />
A good standard is a standard that is in use by many organisations. Relevant standards for digital information exchange<br />
are available in industry sectors similar to the shipbuilding industry. Instead of developing new standards<br />
for the shipbuilding industry, EUROMIND recommends the implementation of standards available in electrotechnical<br />
contractor industry, in building and construction, and in offshore industries.<br />
Together with these standards, results from recent shipbuilding research and development projects in the area<br />
of digital information exchange can be used to tailor standards to the shipbuilding industry. The standards themselves<br />
offer the shipbuilding industry the structure (proven designs) and the projects offer parts of the content<br />
to fill these structures.<br />
EUROMIND proposes to use existing standards used in shipbuilding-like industries and add shipbuilding content<br />
to them as follows:<br />
• use ETIM / eCl@ss originating from the electrotechnical contractor industry<br />
• use IFC originating from the building and construction industry<br />
• use ISO15926 as used in the offshore industry.<br />
EUROMIND proposes to use the results of the following shipbuilding projects aimed at solving problems in the area<br />
of digital information exchange:<br />
• project Open Mind from the Netherlands<br />
• project Net-S from Germany<br />
• project Unitbase from the Netherlands.<br />
Results of these projects offer valuable information to fill the structure of the proposed standards with the needed<br />
shipbuilding content.<br />
The solution proposed by EUROMIND is a reference standard. It is an ensemble of standards which functions as an<br />
intermediary language between all software applications and data structures in the shipbuilding industry. Through<br />
this intermediary language based on the standards and projects mentioned earlier, digital information can be exchanged<br />
without loss of information.<br />
Foreword Introduction Issues faced by the<br />
European shipbuilding<br />
industry<br />
Inventory of standards<br />
supporting interoperability<br />
in shipbuilding<br />
Standards related<br />
to problem areas in<br />
shipbuilding<br />
Recommended<br />
good practices for<br />
shipbuilding<br />
Conclusions and<br />
recommendations<br />
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