CWA 16180-2:2010

The CEN ORCHID Roadmap Standardising Information Across the Plant Engineering Supply Chain - Part 2: Implementation Guide

Scope

1.1 General
This document is part of a family of standards consisting of

- CWA 16180-1. CEN ORCHID Roadmap: Direction and Framework
- CWA 16180-2. CEN ORCHID Roadmap: Implementation Guide (this document)
- CWA 16180-3. CEN ORCHID Roadmap: Standards Landscape


1.2 Scope of the whole family of standards
The scope of the CEN OPRCHID WS project is defined by:

- Stakeholders
- The process industry supply chain i.e.: plant owners, EPC contractors, equipment vendors, software vendors, standardisation consortia, trade associations
- Authorities, regulatory bodies

- Standards
- Standards that are relevant for the implementation of the Roadmap in practice.
- The standards landscape report lists those.

• Timeframe
- The timeframe covered by the Roadmap
o Up till now covers from about 1994 – 2010
o From 2010 – 2020

- Not in scope
- Real time DCS information
- Smart equipment
- Part of transition standards
- The business process used by supply chain participants to create and use information


1.3 Scope of this document

Within the scope of the whole family of standards the following topics are in scope of this document:
- Guidance for stakeholders from process industry of the actions required to solve the interoperability problem in the context of a plant engineering supply chain
- Introduction to successful example implementations of the principles for standardising and sharing plant life-cycle information.

The following topics are out of scope for this document:
- Normative definition of an implementation process for the principles and actions defined in this document
- Timing requirements on the process industry or any other industry segment with regard to the implementations and actions defined in this document.