Achieving Global Collaboration: Anne-Marie Walters Advises Companies to Look Carefully at How They Go About Data Sharing (Auto Id‪)‬

The global economy has created new challenges for plant owners, engineers and designers. Underpressure to reduce project timescales, slash costs and leverage all available resources, there is a drive towards global, multi-team co-operation. In many cases, the inability to effectively collaborate -- across organizations as well as disciplines -- around the world has increased the length of projects, added costs and created problems in areas of safety and maintenance. Organizations have proven the benefits of improved information sharing internally to drive down costs and shorten time to market. Now the challenge is to build on the growing global commitment to the ISO 15926 data standard to create cross-organizational collaboration. But organizations across the supply chain need to look carefully at the best way to leverage the growing commitment to the real-time, seamless sharing and interoperability of data and information across different organizations and systems, without incurring an untenable cost. Extending the Supply Chain