There are too much info in there. Anyone who is familiar with this MIMOSA matter wants to summarize the key requirements to be met for the "OpenO&M"?

Looks like it's quite related to IT stuffs. I only grasped on first reading that there is a convention to be followed for numbering or tagging of vibration point. Btw, I still can't read what does "OPC" stand for which is quoted repeatedly in there?

Josh,

OPC stands for; OLE for Process Control draws a line between hardware providers and software developers. It provides a mechanism to provide data from a data source and communicate the data to any client application in a standard way. A vendor can now develop a reusable, highly optimized server to communicate to the data source, and maintain the mechanism to access data from the data source/device efficiently. Providing the server with an OPC interface allows any client to access their devices.

For more information check out this link:
http://www.opcfoundation.org/Archive/878577d6-d877-43ed...0Overview%201.00.pdf

For a system integrator that tries to incorporate data from many systems, like process and machine controls as well as Pdm technologies and turn it into useful actionable information OPC and MIMOSA are critcal.

I agree with the Virginia Beach guy on process parameters, and gave a paper or two at the MFPT Society conf there in 1998 on that very topic. (How is Mt Trashmore going?)

Email me next week when I am back in office and I wil send you some papers.

ray.beebe@eng.monash.edu