This presentation shows the challenges a large engineering contractor has with the diversity of the data handled in constructing process plants. Fluor discusses how they have joined a cooperation of 80 companies to design a data model, and to help author an ISO standard based on semantic web technologies. It clearly shows the advantages of semantic web over relational databases, the innovation involved, and the lessons learned. Possibilities are listed that offers opportunity for open source and commercial software companies.
FLUOR
http://www.fluor.com/
Onno Paap is an experienced engineer and software developer, who was involved in innovative engineering software projects for his entire career. Within the Fluor company he is the Fellow in Semantic Technologies and Data Interoperability. He has led software teams for in-house development of all engineering disciplines.
