DCCC: Searching and finding process data
Together with the Digital Data Chain Consortium, VEGA wants to further advance the digital twin of its instruments
Transparent data exchange between manufacturers and users is an almost limitless topic, also in the process industry. To make progress in this area, many individual solutions, including some proprietary ones, have to be brought together under one roof. The Digital Data Chain Consortium, with VEGA as a founding member, wants to make documents and data accessible to all by means of a digital type label.
Many different manufacturers
What looks like a complete system out on the factory floor rarely turns out to be a unified whole when viewed up close: In every production system there are mechanical, electrical, electronic and software components from many different manufacturers. A complex multiplicity that makes itself felt particularly when things are not running smoothly. For example when a sensor needs to be re-parameterised, a valve sealed or a fuse replaced. How efficiently a machine or even an entire system can be repaired or serviced depends largely on how quickly the necessary data is available. Do the relevant documents first have to be laboriously searched for in a folder buried under stacks of papers, is the manual locked away in a dusty cabinet somewhere, or is there a PC database where information on the component in question is stored – hopefully up-to-date – and readily retrievable?
One goal, all companies
As a manufacturer of level and pressure instrumentation and founding member of the Digital Data Chain Consortium (or DDCC for short), VEGA developed the new “DIN SPEC 91406” standard together with well-known process automation companies.
The aim of the proposed standards is to make equipment management easier by using distinct and unambiguous digital type labels. Users should benefit just as much as manufacturers, who can thus perform faster updates with far less printed material.
