Should Operators Speak ISA-95?
Bianca Scholten
Ordina Technical Automation
Presenter
• Bianca Scholten
• Fellow
• Ordina Technical Automation
• IT company, > 5000 employees
• Author of “The Road to Integration;
A Guide to Applying the ISA-95 Standard in Manufacturing”
• Co-author of “The hitchhiker’s guide to Manufacturing
• Voting member of SP95
Agenda
• Typical technician’s interface
• Babylonian confusion of tongues
• The perfect world: speak the same language
• Advantages
• Feasibility of ISA-95 as a standard language
• The road to integration
• So, should operators speak ISA-95?
Advantages
• ISA-88 has proven advantages
• Faster and easier integration
• Improved communication with external parties
• Less errors, shorter projects
• Improved basis for benchmarking
• Improved internal communication (people + systems)
• Faster integration of newly bought production facilities
• Easier management of data in separate systems
Feasibility
• Applicability of ISA-95 during…
• Preparation
• Functional specifications
• Data management
• Vertical integration
The road to integration
• Management choice
• Basic training course
• Company specific workshop
• Process modelling
• Training of people involved
• Templates for documents, specs
• Speak ’95 with external parties
• Use ’95 object models for custom software
• ’95 compliance as a selection criterium
• Train system’s end users
So, should operators speak ISA-95?
• Yes!
• But don’t go scheduling training courses for next week!
• Top down approach
• Systems first, users will follow naturally
• Long term advantages, strong management needed
Questions?
