ISA Releases 3rd ISA-95 Enterprise-Control System Integration Standard
July 13, 2005
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The enterprise-control system integration committee of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA) completed the third ISA-95 standard.
ISA-95 Part 3 provides models and terminology for defining the activities of manufacturing operations management. According to ISA, the models and terminology:
- Emphasize good practices of manufacturing operations.
- May be used to improve existing manufacturing operations systems.
- May be applied regardless of the degree of automation.
The two previously released ISA-95 standards are Part 1 - Models and terminology and Part 2 - Object models and attributes.
Additional standards in the ISA-95 series now in development focus on business-to-manufacturing transactions and object models, and attributes of manufacturing operations management.
Microsoft Corp.'s announcement earlier this year of its support of the ISA-95 series as a key element in its plant-to-enterprise interoperability initiative, following a similar announcement of support by SAP in 2004, underscored the widespread and growing recognition and use of the ISA-95 standards across the manufacturing industries, said ISA.
According to the group, the ISA-95 standards help to reduce the risk, cost and errors associated with implementing enterprise systems and manufacturing operations systems in such a way that they interoperate and easily integrate. They may also be used to reduce the effort associated with implementing new product offerings.
Source: Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA).