Alan T.

Johnston, President
MIMOSA
Tel: 205 553-8104 or
atjohn@mimosa.org
Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation President
Phone: 440 646 7727; E-mail:
thomas.burke@opcfoundation.org;
www.opcfoundation.org
Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Chair
Office 678 482 1866
Mobile: 678 296 5017
jkunger@ra.rockwell.com

JONT WORKNG GROUP WHTE PAPER D8CU88E8
CONDTON BA8ED OPERATON8 FOR MANUFACTURNG

ISA, MIMOSA and OPC Foundation Enable Condition Based Operations (CBO)

Houston, October 5
th
, 2004: The OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group
announce a collaborative publication entitled Condition Based Operations For
Manufacturing. The paper defines their shared vision for Condition Based Operations
(CBO). In manufacturing, CBO enables operational planning and scheduling to be
accomplished in conjunction with a forecast of actual availability and capability of assets
in the critical path. This enables production planners and operations staff to establish
economically optimal production plans, empowering them to directly contribute to the
economic goals of the enterprise.

The OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group, formed by the Instrumentation
Systems and Automation Society (ISA), MIMOSA (An Operations and Maintenance
Open Systems Alliance) and OPC Foundation (OPC) announced its formation at ISA
EXPO 2003. The mission of the joint working group is to enable open and interoperable
O&M solutions spanning from the factory floor through the enterprise. The OpenO&M
For Manufacturing Joint Working Group will harmonize standards from participating
organizations enabling practical interoperability amongst the many required devices,
tools and systems in a vendor, product and platform neutral basis.

While the Joint Working Group anticipates a broad range of valuable by-products from
the collaboration, this initial white paper focuses on CBO for manufacturing that requires
the effective integration of a broad variety of O&M information. The human analogy is
the need to know the health prognosis of specific individuals, not just averages for
humans of a similar age. A human that is considered to be in the critical path for many
important activities will normally have comprehensive and continuous efforts to monitor

their health, prognose it and risk manage it through a variety of forms of insurance,
redundancies or other compensating strategies that are now taken for granted. CBO
enables a similar discipline for critical path assets in all types of asset intensive
applications including manufacturing. It requires the near real-time fusion of large
amounts of data, information and knowledge from a wide variety of dissimilar multi-
vendor systems. This type of complex and dynamic systems integration is best
facilitated through the use of open information standards such as those being
harmonized by the OpenO&M For Manufacturing Joint Working Group.

Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: "I am extremely pleased that this
collaborative effort has finished the first deliverable. The SP95 committee is just
beginning its work on Part 4 of the ANSI/ISA S95 standard and I expect the SP95
committee will be able to build on the OpenO&M initiative and complete the standard
effort much more quickly then we would have by working alone."

Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation President and Executive Director said: The OPC
Foundation is excited to be part of this joint working group. OPC is the process industry
open standard for accessing real-time plant floor information from a wide variety of
measurement and control systems. This collaboration is key to delivering seamless
integration of operations and asset management information from the plant across the
enterprise.

Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: "I am excited to see this first deliverable
expressing a joint vision for CBO in manufacturing, but I am even more pleased to see
the associated standards harmonization work that will enable the development of CBO
and other O&M solutions based on our open information standards. The collaborative
development of reference implementation models leveraging our harmonized standards
is a key step in the process of establishing systems that provide more effective
enterprise integration spanning from the factory floor to the boardroom.

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