SC4 Maintenance Agency

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SC4 Maintenance Agency

• Business Case
• SC4 Hershey Meeting

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Table of Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Customers and Stakeholders
• 3 Views and Objectives
• 4 Products and Services
• 5 Marketing Plan
• 6 Initial Budget
• 7 Additional Streams of Revenue - Subscriptions
• 8 Additional Streams of Revenue - Training and
  Conferences
• 9 Benefits and Use Cases
• 10 Summary
• 11 TC 184/SC4 MA ad hoc Committee

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Business Case Criteria

• Free-of-charge, global access, 24-7 availability,
  quality assured, controlled, electronically
  maintained and internationally standardized
  product reference data
• Intellectual property rights belongs with ISO
• Begin with normative, standardized, core,
  de-facto, standard- and commodity classes
• Outstanding issues (not addressed)
• Managing proprietary product reference data and
  reference it with standardized classes
• Managing of non ISO IPRs
• Licensing (how reference data is prized, how data
  (or links to the database) is expected to be
  used, third party copy and distribution, who is
  responsible for what)
• Subscription fees for customers
• Benefits to free access
• Wider adoption of standard/s, quicker development
  of tools and services
• Standard/s evolve based on hands-on experiences,
  arguments and business cases will also evolve,
  based on actual use cases and necessities
• Build on information developed by SC4 ad hoc
  Committee looking into making the case for free
  distribution of standards

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MA concerns..
MA
Customers/Stakeholders Finding unified and
standardized reference data Interoperability,
integration, management.. Will eventually fund
the MA
ISO SC4 Community/Stakeholders Better way
managing electronic stds Efficiency,
effectiveness, saving resources Will initially
fund the MA
How can they be part of the SC4 community?
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Customers and Stakeholders

• Who are the Maintenance Agencys (MA) potential
  customers?
• All national and international companies,
  government organizations and other users that
  seek an electronically maintained and quality
  assured standard definition and representation of
  product/system reference data. In addition,
  companies and industry associations within
  industry domains that use the ISO 10303 and ISO
  15926 standards are prime TC 184/SC4 MA marketing
  targets.
• Who are the initial stakeholders?
• Customers, who seek practical, efficient and
  cost-effective solutions to the problem of
  managing corporate meta- or reference data and
  making a quality assured, controlled and
  internationally accepted standard definitions
  available for partners, allies, subcontractors,
  suppliers and vendors.
• Customers, who seek these solutions in order to
  develop, market and sell mapping-, rule sets-,
  quality control- and other services, functions
  and applications, used to support
  interoperability and data quality within and
  between larger information systems, i.e. supply
  chain.
• The SC4 Standardization Community understands
  that there is no other way to efficiently manage
  and maintain standard product/system reference
  data.
• Other standard organizations, communities and
  committees (e.g. ISO TC 67), that find the scope
  of reference data or the methodology or the
  practical solution of maintaining reference data
  useful.

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Products and Services

• A. User services (information and advice), the TC
  184/SC4 MA Staff shall
• A1. Maintain an Internet based Portal, from where
  users can search, retrieve and download Reference
  Data.
• A2. Snapshots of the MA Reference Data Library
  database(s) will be published on the SC4 website
  two times per year.
• A3. Provide advisory services to support and
  inform users on how make the best use of the
  Portal, periodicity of reference data updates,
  setting up automated links, etc.
• A4. Provide advice and support to users on the
  scope of standards, alternative choices, tools
  for managing local product information.
• A5. Set up and conduct training in managing and
  making use of the Reference Data Library.
• A6. Arrange meetings and seminars, to inform how
  Reference Data can be used and invite speakers to
  present lessons-learned.
• B. Administrative tasks and services, the MA
  Staff shall
• B1. Report on the resource allocation, usage and
  limitations, Reference Data Library (RDL) status,
  plans and progress, closed open actions,
  current and anticipated problems, administer
  working groups and supporting the national
  experts in their work.
• B2. Prepare and conduct briefings for
  Stakeholders, Customers and for the
  TC 184/SC4Maintenance Agency Advisory Group
  (MAAG).
• C. Reference Data Library (RDL) Product, the MA
  Staff shall
• C1. Develop, manage and maintain a Reference Data
  Library, and applications to simplify the
  maintenance of reference data.
• C2. Develop, manage and maintain an Internet
  based User Portal, for users to learn about,
  search, retrieve and comment upon stored
  Reference Data. This is a separate system, to
  avoid having users making changes into the sharp
  RDL environment.
• D. RDL Maintenance Services, the MA experts
  shall
• D1. Add, eliminate or assign reference data items
  as needed, in accordance with the rules provided
  in the standard(s)
• D2. Advise users regarding the application of the
  standard(s)
• D3. Update and disseminate lists of items,
  reference data items and their definitions
• D4. Maintain configuration of all items and
  reference data items used and their period of
  use
• D5. Issue announcements for changes to reference
  data and reference data standard(s)

Database for free.!!
Pay to understand and use it.!!
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Initial Budget 1(2)
Initial calculus by Chris Kreiler and Jarl S
Magnusson
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Initial Budget 2(2)
Initial calculus by Chris Kreiler and Jarl S
Magnusson
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Funding

• Funding will be an issue. The SC4 MA and MAAG
  must identify potential streams of financial and
  labor support that can sustain the operation of
  the SC4 MA. Some potential funding methods are
• Operational Fees. Every member of the SC4 MA
  organization is required to pay an operational
  fee, to cover the costs. This fee represents the
  basic funding for the SC4 MA Organization. With
  10 members and without any other funding, the
  first year would cost each participating
  organization 50,000 and 260 hours of
  labor-in-kind contributions.
• Sponsor contributions. Each member of the MAAG is
  required to identify at least two national and/or
  organizational sponsors to provide financial
  support. These sponsors can be concerned
  customers and/or stakeholders that are planning
  to and will make use of the Reference Data
  library for their own benefits. The financial
  support can exceed the budgeted cost, which will
  give MAAG the opportunity to expand its services
  and products.
• Fee based services. With time, the MA will
  support users with practical advice, information,
  directions and training (See Table 1), in order
  for them to best utilize the reference data
  resource.

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Fee based Services
Is really MA going to provide this, or should it
be through commercial enterprises? MA might be
reimbursed through as a royalty or fee-based
license.
A3. Provide advisory services to support and
inform users on how make the best use of the
Portal, periodicity of reference data updates,
setting up automated links, etc. The MA should
also assist users with advice to propose feedback
back into the maintenance agency. A Wikipedia
type of interface could be considered. A4.
Provide advice and support to users on the scope
of standards, alternative choices, tools for
managing local product information. A5. Set up
and conduct training in managing and making use
of the Reference Data Library. A6. Arrange
meetings and seminars, to inform how Reference
Data can be used and invite speakers to present
lessons-learned.
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Thanks!!
Questions..
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ISO TC184 / SC4 MA Organization
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ISO 15926 Reference Data Library (RDL)
Property classes Activity classes Physical Object
classes
Data ModelStandardized inISO 15926-2 IS
Common Technologies Standardized inISO 15926-4 CD
STD CORE CLASSES
Standardized by ISO/IEC,ANSI, BS, DIN,
etc.Represented by usingISO 15926
STANDARD ANDDE FACTO CLASSES
COMMODITY, PROPRIETARY AND MANUFACTURED ITEM
CLASSES
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RDL Business Case example
Voluntary efforts
Thing
Product
STD CORE CLASSES
Traceability Maintainability Accessibility One
Architecture One Source RDL Semantic Web OWL Web
Services Internet access
Mechanical
Pumps
STANDARD ANDDE FACTO CLASSES
Pneumatic
Siemens
COMMODITY, PROPRIETARY AND MANUFACTURED ITEM
CLASSES
SP 5543
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RDL Business Case example
The Maintenance Agency shall not maintain any
data that is encumbered by intellectual property
rights. TMB Report
Maintenance Agency Setup Free of Charge Internet
available 24-7 IPR belongs with ISO Volunteer
driven Sponsored RDL System Admin. Sponsors are
advisors to MAAG
STD CORE CLASSES
STANDARD ANDDE FACTO CLASSES

• Proprietary Data Setup
• Charge for input of new proprietary data
• Internet available 24-7
• ISO retains IPR for submitted data
• ISO Right to Use
• Data Providers Ownership
• Financial support by Data Providers
• Administration by the MA
• Data Providers to follow MA Guidelines

COMMODITY, PROPRIETARY AND MANUFACTURED ITEM
CLASSES