CAPE-OPEN UPDATE, Volume 11

CAPE-OPEN UPDATE is a publication of the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN), a non-profit consortium for the development of the CAPE-OPEN standard.

EDITORIAL

CAPE-OPEN in Cannes

Each year, the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN) conducts its Annual Meeting, with several goals in mind. This year's meeting in Cannes, France was no exception! On March 9 and 10, the CO-LaN Management Board held its 2006 CAPE-OPEN Interoperability Showcase and Workshop events in conjunction with the CO-LaN Annual General Meeting. More than 50 people attended these events.

Feedback from those in attendance shows the very high value of meetings like this - our survey shows that participants gained a lot of insight and value from the presentations and workshops. The Interoperability Showcase is always a popular segment of CO-LaN meetings, and the Cannes session was (again) no exception. Discussions covered the full range of implementation including user examples, newly compliant software, and standards extension across the range of project types, users, and industrial segments. The application of CO compliant software continues to expand.

The CO-LaN Special Interest Groups (SIGs) reported their progress (details later in this issue) and a new REACTOR SIG is forming to work on this key area. Those interested in participating should contact Ignasi Palou-Rivera (ignasi.palou-rivera@bp.com), or Ray Dickinson (Ray.Dickinson@shell.com).

Another highlight of the Cannes meeting was the recognition of Fernando Aguirre, Heat Transfer Research, Inc, with the CAPE-OPEN Award for 2005. HRTI implemented the CAPE-OPEN Unit interface in their specialized engineering software suite - a globally used software package.

On a personal note, this will be my last issue as editor of the CO Update. I first became involved in CAPE-OPEN in 1998/99, when approached by Peter Edwards (DuPont) on the importance of Dow joining the Global CAPE-OPEN project (GCO). With Werner Merk's encouragement, I became Dow's representative for GCO, and following on, became editor of the CO Update for the CO-LaN. Since my retirement from Dow in 2004, I have continued in this role as a personal commitment to my CO-LaN colleagues. With time, however, my contact with the process world has become more distant, and so in the natural course of things my relevance has declined! So, I have taken the decision that CO Update needs an editor who is more active in CAPE and the CO effort. I've enjoyed bringing the news of CAPE-OPEN to you all, and I hope you have found it useful. I'm confident that the CO-LaN will continue to drive forward, bringing the best of interoperability to the CAPE community. Cheers to all!

Kerry Irons, Editor

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