MESA and ISA Call for White Papers

Hello All,

First, I want to wish all of you a happy and highly productive New Year.

MESA and ISA are currently soliciting technical and methodology white papers. Accepted white papers will appear in the ISA-95 Best Practices Book 2.0 and will be individually co-branded white papers with MESA. Authors and reviewers are needed to participate on the new white paper committees.

If you are interested, please contact me at charlie.gifford@ge.com with an abstract and outline by March 1.

All abstracts are reviewed by the Editorial Advisory Board of the ISA-95/MESA Best Practices Working Group. Papers should support the manufacturing application framework 1.0 (MAF) or propose changes to the updated framework.
MAF 1.0
Class #1: ISA-95 Technical Applications for Improving B2M Interface Interoperability
Class #2: ISA-95 Transformation Methodology for Improving Operations Interoperability
Step 1: Train Staff and Benchmark Technical Applications to Improve B2M Interface Interoperability (Define)
Step 2: Structured Mfg. Operations Assessment and Schema Migration Plan (Define, Measure, Analyze)
Step 3: Accelerated MOM Implementation and Transformation (Analyze, Improve, Control)
Step 4: Life Cycle Management of MOM Application, Interfaces & Metrics (Analyze, Improve, Control)

As the Chair of the ISA-95/MESA Best Practices Working Group, I had the honor of working with nine white paper committees over the last year and half to put together the first collection of ISA-95 best practices white papers. These white paper committees were comprised of members (authors and reviewers) from 23 companies and 11 countries.

The ISA-95 Best Practices Working Group's goal is to create a public forum to publish current ISA-95 technical and methodology applications within the evolving framework defined in White Paper #1 on an annual basis. This provides a vehicle for the ISA-95 based manufacturing application framework and best practices to evolve and be documented efficiently and openly. As such, our goal is to provide public methodologies for manufacturing operations management. The result also provides a vehicle to document how the ISA-95 standard needs a correction to function better as a real world application. The ISA-95 Best Practices Working Group is supported by both ISA and MESA International, and is a high priority for each of these organizations.

The Very Good News: ISA is publishing our first ISA-95 Best Practices Working Group yearly collection as an ISA Book through ISA Publications.

Here is a preview of what will be included in the ISA-95 Best Practices Book 1.0
1. ISA-95 Best Practices and Business Case Evolve Through Manufacturing Application
2. An Overview and Comparison of ISA-95 and OAGIS (Standards for Manufacturing Systems Integration: ISA-95 and OAGIS White Paper Series, White Paper #1)
3. Related Manufacturing Integration Standards, A Survey (Standards for Manufacturing Systems Integration: ISA-95 and OAGIS White Paper Series, White Paper #2)
4. ISA-95 As Is/To Be Study Method
5. Manufacturing Information Systems - ISA-88/95 Based Functional Definition
6. Workflow Descriptions Using B2MML
7. ISA-95 Based Operations and KPI Metrics Assessment and Analysis
8. ISA-95: The (SAP) Enterprise-Plant Link to Achieve Adaptive Manufacturing
9. ISA-95 Based Change Management

The book will be completed by the end of February 2007 and both organizations will be selling the book on their websites shortly thereafter.

Sincerely Yours,

Charlie Gifford
ISA-95/MESA Best Practices Working Group Chair
GE Fanuc Automation Americas
charlie.gifford@ge.com
P: (208) 788-5434