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author: Hans Teijgeler
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein
| revised 20211219 | revised 20210815 |
| Tutorial, detailing 'ISO 15926 on a page' |
| Portal |
Latest update |
| ISO 15926 Portal- An overview with references to topics below (and others) | 11 Jan 2021 |
| Management Summary | |
| Management Summary about ISO 15926 - A summary in 644 words, highlighting what it is about |
3 April 2019 |
| Data and Information- How data are being grouped to represent information | 25 Dec 2020 |
| Data Model | |
| ISO 15926-2 Foundation Model - an ISO-standard, highly generic, data model with 201 entity types that is the Top Level Ontology of ISO 15926 | 6 Feb 2015 |
| ISO 15926-2 Model in Turtle format - where the Foundation Model is in Express format, here is the result of a mapping to Turtle | 7 Nov 2016 |
| ISO 15926-2 Foundation Model in FOL - a First-Order Logic rendering of the Part 2 model | 28 Nov 2019 |
| ISO 15926-2 model extensions - some entity types, like Person,
Organization, were not listed in ISO 15926-2 because of space reasons and are added here |
25 Sept 2022 |
| ISO 15926-2 cheat sheet - another presentation of the ISO 15926-2 data model, inclusive the proposed extensions thereof |
25 Sept 2022 |
| Possible Worlds - how modal logic is avoided, an essential prerequisite for a Digital Twin | 26 April 2018 |
| Temporal Parts - a cornerstone of ISO 15926 for life-cycle information integration | 25 April 2022 |
| About Cardinalities - The difference in cardinality definition is explained and how this is has been "repaired" | 12 April 2022 |
| Ontologies - There are three locations in the ISO 15926 stack where an ontology can be built, as an extension of the two ISO 15926-2 Upper Ontologies | 25 April 2022 |
| Templates as ontologies - templates are small ontologies, based on the Upper Ontology defined in ISO 15926-2 - from concept to implementation | 25 April 2022 |
| Object Models and the RDL - An example of how to build object models in the RDL (this has not been done so far) | 7 Jan 2019 |
| Life cycle of a Class- where a Class is eternal, its applicability is not always that, a way to describe the "life cycle" of a (Part 2) Class | 11 Jan 2021 |
| Reference Data | |
| Reference Data - overview - The Reference Data Library, based on ISO 15926-4, stores concepts that are widely used in the user community. | 6 Nov 2019 |
| How does pump P-101 fit in? - An example of how the proverbial pump P-101 fits in ISO 15926-2, -4. and -7. | 11 Jan 2021 |
| How do Instruments and Controls fit in? - Instrumentation has many functions; this topic shows how this is handled in the RDL (needs rework) | 19 July 2020 |
| Templates | |
| Templates - an introduction - the concept of templates, as defined in ISO 15926-7 and -8, is discussed briefly | 9 Nov 2019 |
| Symbols for graphs - the symbols, as used in the Template Specifications, are explained here. | 8 April 2013 |
| Redefinition of the Template Model - a proposal for the replacement of the flawed template model in ISO 15926-8. | 8 Feb 2020 |
| Methodology for Template Selection - a decision tree for an SME (Subject Matter Expert) to select the applicable ISO 15926 template. | 26 Mar 2015 |
| ISO 15926-7 Proto-templates - Proto-templates provide a layer of abstraction above the relational entity types of ISO 15926-2 by hiding the reified relationships of ISO 15926-2. | 14 Nov 2013 |
| Templates for Activity - activity models are used to describe processes and also human activities | 11 April 2022 |
| Templates for Documents - a set of templates that cover the many variables related to modeling documents and information | 14 Nov 2019 |
| TIPs - Templates of Information Pattern - a TIP helps in directly mapping a data field in a data base table, spreadsheet, intelligent diagram, etc to an ISO 15926-8 exchange file | 22 Dec 2018 |
| Modeling | |
| Process Design - the "cradle" of the plant life cycle. |
22 Sept 2022 |
| Plant Life-cycle Model - a "back bone" model of all typical placeholders of plant life-cycle information | 10 April 2021 |
| LSN (Life-cycle Stages Network)
- a representation of the Plant Life-cycle Model in ISO 15926-7/8
templates. This is, for each plant item, the skeleton for its
life-cycle information | 21 Aug. 2022 |
| The role of functional objects - the rationale for having them as intended and not as pseudo-physical-objects. | 9 July 2017 |
| Functional vs Physical Object - how a physical object gets its function defined. | 31 Mar 2019 |
| Document Types and DocumentDefinition - with a DocumentDefinition the required contents type can be defined for one or more Document Types (=ClassOfInformationObject) | 1 April 2019 |
| Breakdown Structures - Activity Breakdown Structure (ABS), Function Breakdown Structure (FBS), Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS). | 9 July 2017 |
| Catalog options - in product catalogs we often see "options" | 4 Aug 2021 |
| Equations and Variables - detailed explanation about how an equation for a Unit Operation can be modeled and how data can be linked to variables in that equation. | 11 Nov 2018 |
| 2D and 3D symbols on documents - a way to represent a document, that contains 2D or 3D symbols, with templates | 25 Nov 2014 |
| Mapping | |
| Temporal parts and Predicates - A mapping where temporal parts involved in user-defined Predicates that are subProperties of standardized Predicates |
20 Sept 2022 |
| About Addresses - Some thoughts about addressing plant items | 12 April 2022 |
| Mapping of a P&ID - Piping & Instrument Diagrams are the core documents of any plant; the mapping of an example is discussed | 26 June 2018 |
| Mapping of a P&ID - Alternative Method - The same example P&ID is mapped to an alternative method described here.
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19 Sept 2022 |
| Mapping of a functional design of a control loop - functional design of a control loop is based on instances of FunctionalObject that are indirectly connected by signals. | 23 June 2018 |
| Mapping of a Line List - using a number of templates a complete mapping of a Line List has been detailed. | 1 June 2019 |
| Mapping of a Line List - Alternative Method - The same example Line List is mapped to an alternative method described here. |
19 Sept 2022 |
| Mapping of structured documents - a document model is completely detailed. | 12 Sept 2017 |
| The role of the (Asset) Requirements Class - All requirements are classes of which the TAG is a member and of which the implementing real-world EQUIPMENT shall be a member | 13 May 2022 |
| Mixing data and documents - this topic gives, at a conceptual level, a solution for the integration of data, that are being mapped, and documents. | 25 Oct 2016 |
| Mapping provenance data - this topic shows how meta information can be mapped to object properties in lifted templates or in templates about lowered templates. | 15 Oct 2014 |
| Background Information | |
| Part 8 compliance - this topic shows that the implementation of ISO 15926-8, as set forth in the Topics on this website, is in line with same Part 8. | 25 Oct 2016 |
| Inverse properties for inheritance and performance - the advantages of adding InverseProperties are being discussed | 8 May 2018 |
| Acronyms for Part 2 entity types - although not much in use anymore, here they are for the tenacious few | 19 May 2015 |
| Implementation | |
| Declaring an object - It is mandatory to declare all things, except Literals, in this part of ISO 15926. This is telling how | 6 Jan 2020 |
| Data Integration - a way to achieve life-cycle data integration (needs rework) | 5 Nov 2019 |
| Effectivity and Deprecation - shows how the beginning and ending of the validity of information is implemented. | 8 May 2018 |
| Querying with SPARQL - in this topic a number of queries will be demonstrated. | 20 April 2014 |
| Information Sets - sets of templates represent information for a certain purpose, including the information content of a document is some revision | 21 Dec 2018 |
| A scenario for Lifecycle Information Integration - the aim of ISO 15926 is "Integration, sharing, exchange, and hand-over of distributed Plant Lifecycle Information."; this topic gives a possible scenario | 21 Dec 2018 |
| Validating RDF data with SHACL - A first attempt to apply the new W3C Recommendation "Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)", dated 20 July 2017 to ISO 15926-7/8 data | 21 Dec 2018 |
| CFIHOS life-cycle data model - a recommendation for a data model that is easier to map to ISO 15926 | 10 Mar 2021 |
| CFIHOS Data Model and Reference Data - turned into a data base (needs rework) | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Mapping CFIHOS data model -1 - first a rendering to RDF, and from then a mapping to ISO 15927-7/8 templates | 30 Jan 2021 |
| Mapping CFIHOS data model-2 - all details for an ETL-based mapping. | 16 Feb 2021 |