# Presentation: 379437

## STEP

_***ST***_andard for the _***E***_xchange of _***P***_roduct model data

## STEP WORKSHOP - PURPOSE

- Present status of current Application Protocols (AP’s) key to the Process/Power industry
- successes
- issues
- Open panel discussion to ask questions, present views, and invite participation

## WORKSHOP AGENDA

- Introduction - J. Howard Todd, DuPont
- Overview of STEP Activity - Mark Palmer, NIST
- PlantSTEP - Pepi Edlinger, Bechtel
- PDXI - Joe Halford, DuPont
- SPI-NL Consortium - Hans Teijgeler, Fluor-Daniel
- Panel Discussion - Moderator, Pepi Edlinger
- Ed Seufert, Eastman Chemical Co.
- Karan Sorensen, Merck & Co., Inc.
- Hans Teijgeler, Fluor-Daniel and SPI-NL
- Neculai Tutos, Dassault Systems of America
- John Voeller, Black & Veatch

## CHALLENGES FOR GLOBAL COMPANIES

- Renewal
- Growth
- organization
- work processes
- Environmental Stewardship
- Asset Productivity
- Infrastructure Cost

## CHALLENGES - ASSET PRODUCTIVITY

- Continually improve operations, more with less!
- Build lowest cost facilities!
- Reduce cycle time, in **EVERYTHING**!
- Accept nothing but the highest quality!
- Leverage non-differentiating work processes!
- Manage facilities data for “life”!

## CHALLENGES - INFRASTRUCTURE COST

- Simplify, standardize support processes
- Improve information systems
- Share global resources
- Leverage Plant-to-plant
- process designs
- training and development
- maintenance practices and systems
- regionalized materials and stores
- Move toward a “virtual environment”

## VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

- An environment in which work is done and managed independently of physical location of resources and the entity to be served.  It enables highest value, most competitive support to the business and the Corporation.
- Realization involves:
- shared/leveraged support groups that are interdependent and networked
- improved utilization and renewal of functional expertise
- standardized communications and networking technologies to reduce response time

## A BELIEF.......

-    From an owner’s perspective, engineering competitiveness will be defined by the ability to share knowledge electronically, “real time”, in a global network with information systems that are fully integrated with those of suppliers and contractors.  Managing engineering data, electronically, over a facility’s lifetime will enable industry to overcome many of the challenges faced by global businesses!

## SOME PROBLEMS......

- Information technology changes rapidly
- Software “types” are incompatible, e.g. plant design
- Translators are expensive
- Owners must “own” the systems which is very expensive
- “Futureproofing” is extremely difficult

## PART OF THE SOLUTION....

## STEP......and related data standards!!!!

## THE COMMITMENT.......

- AP’s won’t be developed unless major companies participate; standards won’t be implemented until they are demanded; Standards won’t be maintained unless we all use them!!

## For further information or to join the global standards activity call....

- Pepi Edlinger, PlantSTEP, 415-768-3246
- Curt Fisher, PlantSTEP, 302-774-2653
- John Baldwin, PDXI, 409-690-7225
- Marilyn Williams, PDXI, 212-705-7332
- Hans Teijgeler, SPI-NL, 31-23-543-2323