Tutorials

Take advantage of focused instruction by some of the world’s leading automation authorities. Scheduled for Monday, April 30, these two hour tutorials provide you with concentrated overviews of, and implementation information for, principal automation standards. Register for two 2-hour tutorials and save as much as $60.

All tutorials take place on Monday, April 30

Understanding the ISA-88.01 Standard
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Instructor: Lynn Craig, Former Chairman of ISA-88 Committee

This tutorial is an overview of the standard and its application. The primary emphasis will be on the fundamental principles of automation for batch and other process manufacturing as elaborated in Part 1 of the ISA-88 standard. This will include an explanation of terminology and models from the standard as well as recipes and the concept of separating a recipe from manufacturing equipment to gain flexibility.

Attendees will learn:
• The basics of the broadly accepted standard for manufacturing process automation;
• How to use the standard as a tool to define and communicate the optimum way a plant should operate;
• How the standard can be used to significantly reduce the cost of automation and operations;

Implementing Manufacturing Operations Management & Business Integration Using ISA-95
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Instructor: Dennis Brandl, President, BR&L Consulting

This tutorial will cover practical implementations of Manufacturing Operations Management Systems, including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and methods for integrating these systems into corporate business systems, using the models and methods from the ANSI/ISA-95 Enterprise/Control System Integration standards. The ANSI/ISA-95 standard provides a definition of the activities of MES and manufacturing operations, integration between the shop floor and business applications, and a formal definition of the information that must flow between those two realms. The class has been expanded to cover Manufacturing Operations opportunities in production, quality, inventory, and maintenance, the specification of systems, standard terminologies for IT and shop floor personnel, and integration implementations using standard XML technologies.

The ANSI/ISA-95 models are currently being used by leading-edge companies to improve their manufacturing operations and integration of business systems to shop floor systems. The class will discuss actual implementations, where they have succeeded and where they have failed.

Attendees will learn:
• The basics of the broadly accepted standard for business to manufacturing integration;
• How to use the standard as a tool to define and communicate the best methods for integration;
• How the standard can be used to specify and compare different MES and other Manufacturing Operations Management Systems;
• How to decide where MES should be applied in Manufacturing Operations Management.

B2MML
2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Instructor: Dennis Brandl, President, BR&L Consulting

This tutorial will cover the extensions to B2MML to support the ISA-95 Part 5 standards, UN/CEFACT core components, and OAGiS style transaction messages. B2MML is the WBF developed XML schema standard that is an implementation of the ANSI/ISA-95 standard. B2MML is a widely used integration standard for ERP to shop floor integration. The new capabilities, defined in the B2MML V04 version, provide significant enhancements in business to manufacturing integration. The tutorial will cover the new capabilities and other extensions in the B2MML V04 version, by one of the authors of the schema standard.

Tips and Tricks to Applying S88 Batch Standards to Chemical Plant Batch Systems
2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Instructor: P. Hunter Vegas, Avid Solutions Inc.

While the ISA-88 Batch standard adequately addresses the mechanics of batch automation, there are several areas where proper application of the standard can be subject to interpretation and differences of opinion. One area in particular is the design details at the phase level of batch programming.

In many cases a process knowledgeable team member will assign the process tasks and lay out the initial batch phase and unit operation structure. This structure is then passed to the programmer or systems integrator who converts it into the batch code that runs the plant. However the initial selection and grouping of tasks can have a profound impact on the ease of project execution and ultimate control system performance. If the task assignments do not consider the programming ramifications and particulars of the hardware platform, the resulting system is often unstable, unwieldy, and difficult if not impossible to maintain.

As veterans of a number of batch automation projects, we have found several tips and tricks that can help insure the success of a batch implementation. We have also witnessed pitfalls that can doom a batch project from the start. This tutorial will discuss these issues and help attendees understand the ramifications of their initial batch structure decisions. The tutorial will also provide techniques that can help attendees make those choices wisely.