Machine Information Management Open Systems Alliance - MIMOSA
Data Exchange Standards Activity

Ongoing Operations
Building Control Systems MIMOSA is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance and Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management in commercial and military applications. MIMOSA is composed of progressive process and discrete manufacturing corporations, facility management companies, military organizations, capital equipment OEMs, and suppliers of asset management software systems including Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Plant Asset Management (PAM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM/CMMS) systems, Operational Data Historian Systems (ODHS), and Condition Monitoring (CM) systems.

The MIMOSA Mission
To develop and encourage adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and collaborative asset lifecycle management (CALM).

The MIMOSA Objectives
  • Publish open specifications for robust Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Condition-based Maintenance (CBM). These XML-based specifications will enable end-to-end, vertical & horizontal information integration.
  • As a trade association, promote cooperative O&M and CALM market development
  • Provide a forum for the O&M and CALM Industry, bringing together subject matter experts in cross-disciplinary technologies, products and services to enable complex O&M and CALM solutions for:
    • Equipment Operators & Maintainers
    • Equipment OEM's
    • Fleet Managers
    • HMI Industry
    • EAM Industry
    • PAM Industry
    • ODHS Industry
    • MES Industry
    • CM Industry
    • Equipment Operators & Maintainers
  • Be an O&M industry advocate for the capture, use & reuse of consistently defined O&M information in collaborative asset lifecycle management (CALM).