Most manufacturing environments are federated systems. In manufacturing, the term federation describes a collection of devices and software from multiple vendors that must work together to support ...

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Rich Carpenter, chief technology officer, software, at GE Intelligent Platforms. There are many reasons that major automation software and systems providers lean on ISA-95 for all or part of their ...

While the ISA-88 standard has been widely accepted for some years in standardizing automated information within the plant batch automation systems, the ISA-95 standard has only recently gained ...