SP95 - Enterprise Integration of Control Systems

Enterprise Integration of Control Systems - Competency Skills for Asset Management: Introducing SP95 is a one day seminar event from IET

On Thursday 23 November 2006, at the University of Warwick, the Control and Automation Network in IET will organise a seminar event called 'Enterprise Integration of Control Systems - Competency Skills for Asset Management: Introducing SP95 and its Advantages in Business and Manufacturing'.

As more and more organisations recognise the strategic importance of data, there is growing interest and investment in methods to derive business value by exchanging data between control systems and the rest of the business.

However, business and manufacturing or production have very different perspectives on the data, different time horizons, different expectations of data quality, and often different names for the same elements and the same name for different elements.

This problem leads to bespoke implementation of integration projects and, almost inevitably, compromise in the balance of cost, budget and functionality.

Flexibility and interoperability are often sacrificed in favour of cost and delivery.

The two worlds speak completely different languages.

This where S95 fits in as it defines a standardised vocabulary and a set of conceptual models which allows business information to be exchanged with manufacturing and production systems.

Supply chain demand data can automatically drive production or manufacturing schedules.

Production data on capability and capacity is able to flow up to the enterprise to ultimately improve business efficiency and customer service.

S95 is the parent standard in 4 parts, it has been formally recognised as an ISO/IEC standard ISO 62264.

B2MLL is an associated XML based Mark-up language for direct interfacing of business systems with production automation.

Both will be referenced extensively by the speakers.

In the Pharmaceutical, Life Science and other aseptic industry sectors, a far greater demand is being made for tighter integration between the real time manufacturing domain and the transactional Enterprise world of ERP and Supply Chain applications.

The regulatory and validation compliance requirements are particularly onerous and rely on highly automated processes to reach necessary global compliance specifications.

The capability to access and manage data across a plethora of platforms and applications provides the opportunity to create new information and, more importantly, build valuable knowledge capital.

As a result, higher levels of inter-operability, inter-connectivity and functional performance are required throughout the enterprise.

This demands not only the software tools and IT platforms, which are readily available, but there also needs to be a holistic project approach.

Such an approach takes into account the technology potential as well as considers the people and change management implications, since the greatest challenge is to deliver the integration in a non-disruptive manner whilst ensuring future interoperability within budget.

This seminar will provide an overview and update on the S95 standards, and then through end-user and vendor case studies, will present a practical illustration and opportunity to understand how the standard can be applied in many different types and size of business.

Dennis Brandl, Editor ISA-95 commented that: "This seminar will provide immediate benefits to anyone struggling to tie their ERP systems to their shop floor.

It will show how leading companies are solving difficult integration problems".

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