The Fall meeting of ISO/TC 184/SC 4 - Industrial Data will bring digital transformation to the front and center in Industrial Data Standards.
From the Chairman's post in ISO/TC 184/SC 4, I want to welcome you to our fall 2019 publication of the SC 4 Newsletter! As we prepare for our 78th meeting in Marina del Rey, I want to share some exciting news regarding our Committee and share with you some developments since the last time we met in Toulouse. It has been an active summer to be sure! I begin with an amazing accomplishment that everyone in SC 4 should be proud of. After more than four years of development, some interesting diversions, and a concerted team effort at the finish line, ISO 10303-242 ed. 2 passed its 2nd DIS ballot on 3 October with no negative votes! We are free to move directly to International Standard and the project team is hard at work putting the package together to proceed to publication. Holding to our schedule and working the issues as they emerge in real time has resulted in the product industry has been asking of us and for that I want to thank each of you.
In addition, we were able to avoid using some of those resolutions from Toulouse where we thought some drastic measures were going to be necessary in order to reset the work program. I am pleased that ISO CS worked with us in avoiding the cancellation of ISO 8000-63 and to the project team for coming together and driving that project to conclusion. Digital Twin Manufacturing Framework made rapid progress through the CD phase and many other projects advanced as well. Speaking of Digital Twin, we were able to share our perspective on a definition with our parent committee, ISO JTC 1 and IEC/ISO JWG 21 where a task force has launched to carry the conversation forward in concert with the Smart Manufacturing Reference Model.
Turning back to the Marina del Rey, we have a full agenda for the week. ISO and SC 4 will be conducting a workshop on a revised approach to delivering the SMRL that promises to unlock productivity for the development team and improve quality for our stakeholders. The Open Technical Forum will see a report out of this workshop and a conversation on establishing a centralized repository of reusable components for the SC. Ontology, terms, languages, and data dictionaries that are managed across the SC are topics for discussion. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts, please get in touch with me.
Industry Day is going to be an exciting day and I want to thank the delegation from the United States for developing a robust agenda for the day that will include keynotes from Dr. Micheal Grieves of the Florida Institute of Technology, Dr. John Dong of Boeing,and Marion Toussaint of NIST. We will have a panel session from across industry and we will also be holding a mini-workshop laying out a roadmap for the Digital Twin in Standards. I am looking forward to the collective learning from the team and using the result to chart the course from our committee outward through our extensive relationships to other standards organization and industry stakeholders.
Safe travels and see you in Marina del Rey.
Kenny Swope
Chair, ISO/TC 184/SC 4