News | January 13, 2005

RealityWave And Noumenon Announce XMpLant Partnership

Enabling companies to work on huge projects, with multiple systems, throughout the lifecycle, over the web

Cambridge, MA, and Cambridge, UK – RealityWave Inc., developer of the leading technology platform for lifecycle information management and enterprise collaboration, including the access, visualization, and integration of 3D Mega-Data Models and other Industrial Data; and Noumenon Consulting Ltd, a consultancy company specializing in information integration, with a particular focus on process plant information, today announced that they have entered into a partnership that integrates their unique world-class technologies, RealityWave's VizStream®, and Noumenon's XMpLant®, into a complete solution for collaborating with large project databases, throughout the project's lifecycle.

"I am tremendously excited about the work that Noumenon and RealityWave are doing to optimize the speed, performance, and ability of companies to access, manage, and collaborate with large plant databases", said Adrian Laud, CEO and founder of Noumenon. "Being able to work with data from any source, throughout the lifecycle of a plant, will revolutionize how organizations use the information that is currently locked up in the disparate systems and databases that they use today."

XMpLant is a generic converter for intelligent process plant information, mapping information from one proprietary system to a neutral model and then out to another. XMpLant uses the models of ISO 15926 and ISO 10303 to deliver the neutral process plant model in XML, enabling downstream access to engineering information. There are interfaces to and from the major process plant applications enabling, exchange and integration of information across these applications. The use of ISO 10303 by XMpLant also enables the full geometric definition of plant models to be included, enabling XMpLant XML files to be used for long-term archive of plant models and related information.

"This collaboration between our two companies provides unparalleled capabilities to the plant industry," said Bard Salmon, CEO and Founder of RealityWave. "Throughout the typical plant lifecycle, the number of people who need to use design information, the "Information Consumers", outnumber the "Information Creators" by around 50 to 1. Combining the capabilities of XMpLant with RealityWave's best of breed industry collaboration and visualization solutions will allow all users, whether Creators or Consumers, to access all the information they need."

Using VizStream and XMpLant, Companies are able to:

  • Display Mega-3D Models, combined from data from different systems, over the Web.
  • See their complete product model - maybe for the first time.
  • Identify, annotate and measure objects within large models.
  • Access associated documents and data.
  • Collaborate on a single integrated model, from any number of remote sites all over the world.
  • Usable from anywhere, anytime, and over any bandwidth connection.

About Noumenon Consulting Ltd
Noumenon Consulting Ltd specializes in information integration, with a particular focus on process plant information. It delivers pragmatic solutions using innovative technology based on the open international standards of ISO 10303, ISO 15926 and XML. It is in partnership with some of the major players in the process industry. Key is that Noumenon is independent of the vendors of the systems for design and operation of process plant, while also having a close relationship with many of the major ones. This enables Noumenon to be able to work with competing companies, so that issues that arise in integrating the information of these systems can be resolved. XMpLant, was conceived and developed by Noumenon to provide a leading edge integration environment for intelligent process plant models. A world first was achieved in 1999, using XMpLant to convert an intelligent process plant model for BAE Systems. A massive scope for XMpLant with Owner Operators is to facilitate the conversion of information ("handover") from the engineering systems to operations and maintenance. Noumenon's client list is extensive, and includes AVEVA (formerly Cadcentre), BAE Systems Ltd, Bentley Systems, CEA Systems, Design Power, BP, Foster Wheeler, INOVx, Intergraph, ORACLE, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), and Shell. The Schema of the model of XMpLant is in the public domain and more than 60 companies have subscribed to the XMpLant group at: http://groups.msn.com/XMpLant. Visit the Noumenon web site at: http://www.noumenon.co.uk.

About RealityWave Inc.
RealityWave develops the leading Internet-architected platform powering Industrial Data Collaboration for PLM, plant/product/process/project lifecycle information management. RealityWave's patented VizStream® Platform enables the access, visualization, integration, and collaboration of Industrial Data, including complex 3D mega-data models, for web-based collaboration and communication applications. VizStream® enables hierarchical streaming, allowing 3D graphics and models to be viewed, animated, refined, and configured, fast and efficiently, over any network connection. RealityWave's technology and products empower thousands of users worldwide to develop and use next-generation web-based Industrial Data Collaboration tools and services. Visit the RealityWave web site at www.realitywave.com, or call (617) 864-5010.

Source: RealityWave Inc. and Noumenon Consulting Ltd