The Road to Integration

The Road to Integration: A Guide to Applying the ISA-95 Standards in Manufacturing, 2nd Edition To run efficiently and cost effectively as well as produce quality products, manufacturing control systems on the plant floor must be able to communicate with the enterprise systems. Materials must be purchased and delivered on time, personnel must be scheduled, equipment must be available and operating properly, recipes must be precise, processes must be tracked, and product quality must be monitored so that changes can be made—all in real time. The problem is this: each system in the process speaks a different language. The ISA-95 Enterprise Control System Integration series of standards is a guide for creating…