Same Thing, Eleven Times: IEC 61987 and the Common Data Dictionary

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 4m

One pressure transmitter, eleven documents, four different ranges. Part one of The Deep End's Engineering Data series follows commissioning manager Rafa Ortega and data architect Leila Darwish at the Al Sahil Gas Complex as they trace how instrument data drifts, and how IEC 61987 and the IEC Common Data Dictionary let an instrument be described once, by identifier, from requisition to maintenance.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold open: the instrument that was described eleven times

00:02:45 A new series

00:04:29 What a property is

00:06:41 The Common Data Dictionary

00:08:42 The structure of IEC 61987…