theEXPRESSway 9 - 1/2006

Published by Jotne EPM Technology
Issued: April 2006 / Circulation: 2,500

Are products and services designed, manufactured and operated according to defined quality standads? This vital question is addressed every day by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) all over the world. It is DNV’s objective to ensure the quality of information describing products and the way they should be operated and maintained.

“What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”

InteliGrid is a co-operative European research project developing grid technologies to provide an interoperability platform to engineering.

The building industry is moving rapidly towards the adoption of the IFC building models. The industry is also exploring building information management using advanced database technology to support contractual data interchange. These are important, innovative process improvements that are not only enhancing communication and cooperation but also proving very cost effective.

"Research has shown that the same data is entered into a computer program at least seven times during a building project. We have also seen that as much as 30% of typical costs are related to non-building activities.”

Graphisoft is working with a consortium of application partners to implement Jotne EPM Technology’s EDMserver™ as a virtual building repository. The EDMserver™ is possibly the most innovative technical approach to the future of Building Information Modeling (BIM), enabling any user to share and exchange building data with anyone anywhere.

“buildingSMART” is a term that is rapidly coming to have significant meaning within the building construction industry worldwide. Originally adopted by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) as an easier way to describe its objectives, and even as an alternative name to IAI, it is very quickly coming to represent a whole class of technology and solutions which the industry sees as its future.

To cut costs and to better simulate and test new military equipment, the armed forces and the ministries of defense of three NATO countries have initiated an extensive research and technology project called SIMBASE. The collaborating countries are Norway, Italy and the United Kingdom. From each nation a single industrial partner has been selected to participate. Jotne EPM Technology, the representative from Norway, is joined in this venture by Datamat from Italy, and the LSC Group from the UK.

EDMvisualExpress™ is being used to develop Shell’s downstream data model. When it is finished, the data model will serve as the specification for Shell’s information requirements for all downstream business worldwide relating to the distribution, marketing and sales of energy and petrochemical products.

TC184/SC4 Industrial Data is a subcommittee of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO). SC4 is developing standards
which provide capabilities to describe and manage industrial
product data throughout the life of the product.

Representatives of building organizations in Norway and the Netherlands recently decided to join forces to develop an international data reference library for the construction and building industries.

Reducing time-to-market and lowering production costs are goals for all successful manufacturing companies. Ensuring that Airbus achieves these goals is essential to its strategy for future growth and is the driving force for Airbus’ cooperative project “Value Improvement through Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise” (VIVACE).

The impending delivery of the first of five Fridtjof Nansen frigates represents an important milestone in Norway’s defense history.

The European Space Agency, ESA, is currently using the new generation Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) to plan several future space missions. Jotne EPM Technology is going to be involved in the upcoming activity related to the creation of an Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS).

As a major governmental-building construction client, investor and property owner Statsbygg has been investigating the possibilities for using an open building information model for planning, designing, constructing and operating a pilot project building.

After four months in development, ByggSøk was officially launched in summer 2003 and implemented by Jotne EPM Technology as a fixed price contract. According to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, ByggSøk has an enormous cost-saving potential.