DEXPI Welcomes Three New Members
In June 2026, DEXPI e.V. welcomed ExxonMobil, SIMACRO, and deeplify as new members, further strengthening its industry-driven initiative for open, standardized data exchange in the process industry.
ExxonMobil, headquartered in Houston, Texas, contributes extensive operator experience from global energy and chemical operations. SIMACRO, a process digital twin technology company with headquarters in Boston and Seoul, adds expertise in simulation, engineering, and AI-enabled operations. deeplify, an AI startup based in Düsseldorf, Germany, contributes new perspectives on data-driven industrial inspection and asset integrity.
Together, these new members broaden the DEXPI community across operations, engineering, and industrial AI, reinforcing the importance of semantic interoperability throughout lifecycle phases.
Learn more about the companies on their respective websites:
DEXPI Showcases fPVN Results at the Industrial Semantic Interoperability Summit 2026
From June 9–11, 2026, DEXPI e.V. participated in the Industrial Semantic Interoperability Summit at DNV headquarters in Høvik, Norway. Andreas Neumann and Heiner Temmen presented results from fPVN Work Package 3 at the Demonstration Marketplace, focusing on standardized industrial data models, guidelines, and modeling patterns published on the PCA Documentation Hub.
The contribution addressed semantic interfaces between ISO 10303, IDO, CFIHOS, and DEXPI standards, reflecting cross-organizational collaboration between TC 184 SC 4 WG 26 (IDO Core Team), PCA, CFIHOS, TBH Konsult, and DEXPI.
Visit the PCA Documentation Hub for detailed guidelines and modeling patterns supporting semantic interoperability across the plant lifecycle:
https://docs.posccaesar.org/libraries-and-standards/
In addition, DEXPI members Semantum and CADMATIC, together with organizations such as TBHK and SEIIA, presented results from Work Package 9. In this work, DEXPI served as the basis for creating a Digital Twin of the Stora Enso paper mill, with very positive results.
DEXPI Contributes to ARC European Industry Leadership Forum 2026
From May 4–6, 2026, DEXPI participated in the ARC European Industry Leadership Forum in Sitges, Spain, where resilient operations through AI, digitalization, and sustainability were discussed. DEXPI contributed two presentations highlighting the value of standardized data exchange for industrial AI and process safety.
Michael Wiedau, Evonik/DEXPI Chairman of the Board, presented how DEXPI provides the data foundation for industrial-grade AI by enabling structured, vendor-independent, and semantically rich engineering information.
The forum also highlighted the emerging need for a governed semantic foundation to safely scale industrial AI.
Contributions from Johan Immerzeel (Shell, DEXPI Board Member) on AI risk and guardrails reinforced how DEXPI standards (ISO 15926 alignment, DEXPI P&IDs, CFIHOS integration) form a critical enabler for future AI supported process safety workflows, including AI augmented HAZOP.
Artur Schweidtmann and Michael Wiedau joined a panel on AI-driven HAZOP and process safety, showing how semantic interoperability supports cross-disciplinary collaboration in safety-critical workflows.
DEXPI was also joined by Semantum and Graph-Co, whose contributions demonstrated practical pathways for the use of interoperable engineering data:
Semantum presented its Model Broker solution, showing how legacy engineering diagrams can be converted into DEXPI files and knowledge graphs. This enables the structured use of existing data and the application of P&ID data in AI-driven use cases.
Graph-Co presented its approach for converting brownfield P&IDs into DEXPI-XML formats 2.0, 1.4, and 1.3. At the innovation pitches, the company also highlighted its graph-based model and its contribution to a higher degree of interoperability through holistic verification of essential 2D data.
https://www.arcweb.com/events/arc-industry-leadership-forum-europe
DEXPI Annual General Meeting 2026
From Specification to Impact: DEXPI’s 2025 Highlights
What happens when a growing community turns ideas into working standards? At the DEXPI General Meeting on 24 June 2026, our members looked back at a busy 2025 and ahead to the next steps in 2026.
A Milestone Year
The headline achievement was the publication of DEXPI 2.0. This major specification update brings together advances from DEXPI Plant and DEXPI Process and introduces DEXPI XML as a standardized exchange format for P&IDs, PFDs, and BFDs.
But the year was about much more than one release:
- The first version of the DEXPI Specificator was completed.
- The Scientific Advisory Board became active.
- Project steering and governance were strengthened.
- Work on asset lifecycle information management and interoperable digital twins progressed.
- DEXPI gained greater visibility across industry, research, and the international standards community.
Our community grew as well. We were pleased to welcome Draga, Graph-Co, and Aker ASA as new members in 2025. Each brings new experience, fresh perspectives, and additional momentum to our shared mission: making engineering data truly interoperable.
DEXPI on the Road
DEXPI was present wherever the future of engineering data was being discussed. Our representatives contributed to Future Digital Twin & AI in Amsterdam, the CAPE-OPEN Annual Meeting in Ghent, the ADIF Workshop at Texas A&M University, PEMT in Frankfurt, and Asset Performance in Antwerp.
We also started an exciting collaboration with RWTH Aachen. The aim is to explore its modular pilot plant as an open reference implementation for DEXPI-based engineering, connecting specifications with practical use cases involving process data, 3D models, knowledge graphs, HAZOP, and AI.
Decisions and the Road Ahead
Tax Advisor Lucas Goth from Kanzlei Leu presented the 2025 financial report. The members then voted to discharge the Executive Board for the year 2025.
Markus Herrmann, the Executive Board member responsible for finances, presented the budget and planned activities for 2026. The direction is clear: bring the specifications into wider practical use, advance the project portfolio, strengthen collaboration across the Special Interest Groups, and continue growing the international DEXPI community.
Thank you to everyone who contributed code, specifications, ideas, presentations, reviews, project work, and many hours of discussion. DEXPI’s progress is a community effort, and 2025 showed what this community can deliver.