The Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 announce intent to converge standards

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(2006), "The Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 announce intent to converge standards", Assembly Automation, Vol. 26 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2006.03326bab.006

The Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 announce intent to converge standards

The Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 announce intent to converge standards

Keywords: Network operating systems, Assembly

Working in support of the OpenO&MTM Initiative, the Open Applications Group and ISA-SP95 have announced their intent to converge standards for manufacturing interoperability. The groups are collaborating on development of integration standards for process, discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturers. ISA-SP95 has started this effort by including a portion of the OAGIS(r) standard in its soon to be published ANSI/ISA-95 Part 5 – Business to Manufacturing Transactions standard.

“Many enterprises today are struggling with the myriad of standards available to them and often don’t know which standards they should be using,” said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications Group. “Many of our OAGIS(r) users are using both ISA-95 and OAGIS(r) and we want to cooperate in order to simplify their efforts and provide our customers with a common solution.”

“We don’t think it makes sense to re-invent work that others have completed and proven in the field,” said Keith Unger, Chairman of the ISA-SP95 committee. “We want to leverage our best contributors from both efforts and provide a better standard for our customers. Delivery of the ISA-95 Part 4 – Object Models and Attributes of Manufacturing Operations Management standard will be greatly accelerated by leveraging the work of OAGi, and the other OpenO&MTM Initiative members.”

Bob Mick, ARC Advisory Group comments: “Interoperability in the plant to business (P2B) domain has been underserved for years with only ISA and OAGi addressing the standards needed to take this issue off the table. Only a small fraction of the work has been done and an alignment between these two organizations is one of the most significant events to happen in this area. The alignment of ISA-95 Part 5 with OAGIS has been a pilot and has proven that alignment can accelerate the standards development process. What we need now is for the end users to step up and help ISA and OAGi plan deeper alignment to make P2B real interoperability a reality.”

The details and timing of the convergence efforts are under discussion now and more details will be announced as they are developed.

For further information, please visit the web sites: www.openapplications.org; www.isa.org and www.mimosa.org