S95 General Information Different languages All over the world, every manufacturing company is organized differently, and uses different automation systems. There are no companies with exactly the same names for departments, activities and functions. The information that is exchanges also has different names in different companies and automation systems.
One company speaks of charges, the other company will call the same thing a batch or a production run. And even within one company you could say that at the office people speak ‘a different language’ than people at the shop floor. They also use different automation systems that each have their own terminology.
Information Exchange Although they speak different languages, both levels will have to communicate with each other. The office will have to provide information about new customer orders, raw materials that have been ordered, specific customer demands for products, and so on. The shop floor will also have to send information to the office. For example information about the status of orders, about the exact amounts of raw materials that were used in the production process and so on.
Automated interfaces With the appearance of new technologies, it is getting easier to automate the exchange of information between the office and the shopfloor. An automated interface between enterprise and control systems can lead to a lot of advantages. Important information will become accessable at the right time and the right place. The enterprise will have access to real time information such as information about raw materials and end products which enables optimum usage of storage capacity. There are a lot more advantages of automated interfaces between enterprise and control systems.
The solution There has been developed a standard solution especially for the problems you will encounter developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems: the international standard S95. This standard has been developed for every kind of manufacturing company, all over the world. It can be applied in all industries, and in all sorts of processes, like batch processes, continuous and repetitive processes.
S95 part 1, 2 and 3 There are 3 parts of the S95 standard. Part 1 consists of standard terminology and object models, which can be used to decide which information should be exchanged. Part 2 consists of attributes for every object that is defined in part 1. The objects and attributes of part 2 can be used for the exchange of information between different systems, but these objects and attributes can also be used as the basis for relational databases. Part 3 focuses on the functions and activities at level 3 (Production / MES layer). It is an excellent guideline for describing and comparing the production levels of different sites in a standardized way. Would you like to know more about S95? Read ISA S95 Seminar and ISA S95 Training course. © Copyright 2004- TWP training & consultancy - www.twptraining.info