ISA - 95

Introduction
International standard for the integration of enterprise and control systems  Developed for global manufacturers, so as to apply in all industries, and in all sorts of processes, like batch processes, continuous and repetitive processes.


Objectives:
To provide consistent terminology that is a foundation for supplier and manufacturer communications  To provide consistent information models  To provide consistent operations models which is a foundation for clarifying application functionality and how information is to be used.


Parts of the ISA-95 standard

ISA-95.01 Models & Terminology  ISA-95.02 Object Model Attributes  ISA-95.03 Activity Models  ISA-95.04 Object Models & Attributes  ISA-95.05 B2M Transactions


Part 1: Models & Terminology

Provides standard models and terminology for describing the interfaces between the business systems of an enterprise and its manufacturing operations and control systems  Models help define boundaries between the enterprise systems and the control systems


Part 2: Object Model Attributes

Consists of attributes for every object that is defined in part 1.  The objects and attributes of part 2 can be used for the exchange of information between different systems  Emphasize good integration practices


Benefits
 

   

Reduce users' times to reach full production levels for new products; Enable vendors to supply appropriate tools for implementing integration of control systems to enterprise systems; Enable users to better identify their needs; Reduce the costs of automating manufacturing processes; Optimize supply chains; and Reduce life-cycle engineering efforts.

Part 3: Activity Models

Defines production activities and information flows  Provides reference models for production activities, quality activities, maintenance activities and inventory activities.  It is an excellent guideline for describing and comparing the production levels of different sites in a standardized way.


Part 4: Object Models & Attributes

SP95 committee is yet developing part 4 of ISA-95 which is entitled Object models and attributes for Manufacturing Operations Management  Defines object models that determine which information is exchanged between MES activities


Part 5: B2M Transactions

Yet in development  Transactions occur at all levels within the enterprise and between enterprise partners  Defines transactions in terms of information exchanges between applications performing business and manufacturing activities associated with Levels 3 and 4.