Start date: May 2009
End date: November 2010
The Orchid (Orchestration of Industrial Data) group is a network of European Companies and consortia dedicated to standardising information across the process industry engineering supply chain to build competitive advantage. Its goal is to progress the industry toward interoperability.
The process and plant industry needs to overcome significant barriers to standardization including large volume of complex information, large number of companies working across a fragmented plant engineering supply chain and more than 50 conventions and standards used in the process industry.
The CEN Workshop ORCHID - set up in 2009 - was the platform for the ORCHID group to discuss these issues and agree on a roadmap towards interoperability at European level. The Workshop was chaired by Dalip Sud, Shell.
The CWAs are summarised in three brochures:
The CEN ORCHID Roadmap - Implementation Guide
The CEN ORCHID Roadmap - Direction & Framework
ORCHID - Orchestrating Industrial Data - Workshop overview