Sponsors

FIATECH -  AEX Project

FIATECH (Fully Integrated and Automated TECHnology) is an industry-led, collaborative, not-for-profit research consortium serving the construction industry, from asset creation through operation and maintenance. It currently has 42 member organizations representing owners, engineering procurement and construction contractors, technology suppliers, equipment suppliers, universities and research organizations.

The Automating Equipment information eXchange (AEX) project, which initiated in 2002, produces XML schemas to support the equipment design, procurement, delivery, operation and maintenance life cycle.

DIPPR 991 Project (ppdXML)

DIPPR® (the Design Institute for Physical Property Data) is a joint industry sponsored research effort, organized under the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).  DIPPR provides high quality material physical property data to satisfy the needs of its 23 sponsoring organizations.  These organizations represent chemical, petroleum, biochemical, pharmaceutical, and allied industries environmental companies; engineering contractors, consultants, and specialty firms; government agencies; academic institutions; and consortia. Effective liaison is maintained with other organizations involved in producing data and making data useful.

The DIPPR 991 project was initiated in 1999 to develop a common industry solution to electronic exchange of material physical property data from multiple industry database and application software programs that are commonly used in the industry.

ePlantData, Inc.

ePlantData connects software for the process industry.  ePlantData is a technical services company, formed in 2001 with a number of process industry user and software provider clients interested in XML based electronic data exchange for shell and tube exchangers.  ePlantData contributed the PlantDataXML schemas which it originally developed from industry draft STEP standards as the starting basis for subsequent work with the FIATECH -  AEX Project for equipment and for the DIPPR 991 project for materials and physical properties.  ePlantData has served as lead technical investigator for both of these industry projects.  The result of these collaborations over the past 2 years is the initial set of cfiXML schemas presented on this cfiXML web site.

Working Groups

cfiXML core reusable schemas across multiple subject areas
(AEX, ePlantData, DIPPR-ppdx)

AEX equipment schemas
(Autodesk, Aveva, Becthel, Big Machines, Citadon, ePlantData, Flowserve, Goulds, Grundfos, HTRI, Hydraulics Institute, Impress, Intelliquip, Jacobs, KBR, NIST, PlantSTEP, Process Industry Practices, Smithsonian Institute, Xynchron)

PPDX materials and properties
(DIPPR - ConocoPhillips, Shell Oil Chemicals, EPCON International, ePlantData, Chemstations, and others)