PLANT TO ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION: group's generic model to blend ISA 95, OAGIS standards

摘要

An industry coalition looking to blend two standards for the integration of plant-level data with enterprise systems will have a generic model that supports this convergence ready by May 2007. The Manufacturing Interoperability Guideline Working Group (MIGWG) looks to unite the ISA 95 standard overseen by ISA with a similar portion of the OAGIS standard from the Open Applications Group (OAGi). Speaking at the ISA show in Houston in mid-October, Keith Unger, a principal manufacturing IT consultant with Stone Technologies, a St. Louis-based systems integration firm, says ISA 95 is widely used in the process and batch industries, while OAGIS is used in discrete verticals such as automotive.