Smart Manufacturers: Provide Your Input to ISA

July 17, 2017

As part of the ISA-95 Committee’s work to update the standard, input from the smart manufacturing community is actively being sought.

David Greenfield, editor in chief

Smart Manufacturers: Provide Your Input to ISA

Over the last three-and-a-half years, the ISA-95 Committee has been working with corporate partners that have invested over $2 million to drive Smart Manufacturing updates to the standard. These updates are being made to meet ISA-95’s manufacturing and supply chain operations information modeling requirements for the standard’s Industrie 4.0 initiatives related to integration and Big Data analysis.

Having completed a number of working drafts, the voting drafts for ISA-95 Part 2 and Part 4 CVD01 (L3-L4 exchange objects and L3-L3 exchange objects, respectively) are now released for vote and comment. Part 5 (MOM Transactions), Part 8 (MOM Exchange Profiles and Specification) and Part 9 (Common MOM Event Transactions) are in working draft.

To help familiarize all interested parties on these parts of the standard a three-part webcast series will be conducted. The series will take place twice in two global time zones during July and August. All Smart Manufacturing and MES/MOM professionals are welcome to attend these webcasts.

Voting drafts will then be reviewed at the Joint ISA-95/JWG5 meeting in Boston on September 18-21, 2017, with the goal being to resolve all comments prior to release of the final versions of Parts 2 and 4.

The webcast sessions are as follows (all times listed as Eastern Standard):

Session 1: New Information Models
Monday, July 31—9:30-11 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 2—8:30-10 p.m.

Session 2: New Interactive Operations Methods
Wednesday, July 19—8:30-10 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 7 —9:30-11 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 9 —8:30-10 p.m.

Session 3: Updated Information Models, Part 5 Updates, New Part 8 and Part 9
Monday, July 24—9:30-11 a.m.
Wednesday, July 26—8:30-10 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 14—09:30-11 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 16—8:30-10 p.m.

Use this link to view the webcasts from your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/362573709

About the Author

David Greenfield, editor in chief | Editor in Chief

David Greenfield joined Automation World in June 2011. Bringing a wealth of industry knowledge and media experience to his position, David’s contributions can be found in AW’s print and online editions and custom projects. Earlier in his career, David was Editorial Director of Design News at UBM Electronics, and prior to joining UBM, he was Editorial Director of Control Engineering at Reed Business Information, where he also worked on Manufacturing Business Technology as Publisher.