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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 7:01:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | OAGi and ISA-SP95 announce way for process and discrete manufacturers -- as well as their vendors -- to enable tighter business and business systems interoperability. |
The Open Applications Group Inc. (OAGi) and the ISA-SP95 working group, standards organizations that focus on the discrete and process sectors respectively, are cooperating to rationalize the multiplicity of standards that vendors and manufacturers must support to enable enterprise and plant-floor application integration. OAGi, an 11-year-old, not-for-profit independent standards group, has promulgated a standard called OAGIS that uses XML and Web services to enable business applications to interoperate with manufacturing processes in discrete verticals such as aerospace and automotive. ISA-95, another non-profit, has put forth a multi-part standard that defines the fundamental elements of a production process, including people, equipment, and materials -- a standard that has been heavily adopted by process manufacturers. Under Part 5 of ISA-95, currently in draft form, the ISA-SP95 working group will incorporate a subset of the language used in OAGIS to fill out what it calls the Business to Manufacturing Transactions Standard. [Click to continue] |
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