IIDEAS Overview

The IIDEAS (ISO 18876) Integration of Industrial Data for Exchange, Access and Sharing initiative covers Integration of industrial data to support the reconciliation and cooperative use of industrial data from multiple sources.

The IIDEAS initiative is a multi-part standard development effort that currently includes:

1. Part 1: Architecture overview and description
2. Part 2: Mapping and integration methodology

ISO 18876 establishes an architecture, a methodology, and other specifications for the integration of industrial data for exchange, access, and sharing. The objective is to provide the following capabilities:

• integrating data from different sources, different models, perhaps written in different modelling languages;
• sharing data among applications through systems integration architectures;
• resolving conflict between models developed with different objectives;
• translating data between different encodings and models between different modelling languages.

The components that support these capabilities include:

• integration models;
• methods for creating, extending, and updating integration models;
• methods for mapping between an integration model and an application model that falls within its scope;
• encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats, such as ISO 8876 (SGML), XML, ISO 10303-11 (EXPRESS), ISO 10303-21;
• methods for integrating data sets from different sources and different models including identification mechanisms;
• appropriate modelling and mapping languages.

IIDEAS Parts:

• IIDEAS Parts: 1-99