SP95 brings manufacturing relief. "THE scariest thing a manufacturer can hear is, 'We've just started a job to integrate ERP systems into the factory,'" said Dennis Brandl, president of BR&L Consulting in Cary, N.C., and chairman of ISA's SP95 standards committee, Enterprise/Control Integration. It's scary because enterprise resource planning (ERP) is tricky business, especially when manufacturers have multiple plants whose processes change continuously. But standardizing the formats and language that surround the conglomeration of data needed to run the process is one way to make life easier for the manufacturing side of the enterprise—so it doesn't have to worry about the business aspect of the ERP systems.
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