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ISA-95 Business Case Evolves Through Applications and Methodologies

Business-to-manufacturing (B2M) data exchange applications and system life cycle methods are being developed from ANSI/ISA95, Enterprise-Control System Integration Standard, to adapt and optimize manufacturing in the 21st Century "Pull" marketplace. The MESA/ISA95 Best Practices Working Group shall publish an annual ISA Technical Report to document these evolving applications and methods with an explanation of ISA95 business case.

White Paper Abstract

The business case centers on:
  • Lowering life cycle cost of B2M interfaces and manufacturing operations applications
  • Constructing the flexible Manufacturing Application Framework (MAF) to optimize B2M interoperability and production (capability) flexibility through B2M functional segregation for optimized production workflow

The standard practically addresses today's B2M language (terminology and schema) requirement for an application-to-framework (A2F) data exchange using Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Utilizing ISA95 schema foundation, applications, methods, and business cases are established through a structured MAF consisting of 1) work flow function organization, 2) transformation best practices for operations applications and 3) their transactional interfaces.

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