Defining Common Information Model (CIM) Compliance (original) (raw)

To prosper in a competitive market, utilities are forced to better integrate their systems and processes in order to reduce operating and maintenance costs as much as possible and to improve overall reliability. The Common Information Model (CIM) is designed to achieve easier interoperability between systems. However, the lack of a complete standard semantic model creates a major stumbling block for more effective and efficient integration. Since CIM is the most complete standard semantic model in utility industry, in order to promote and encourage broader use of CIM, explicit and practical rules for CIM compliant interoperability assessment are proposed here.