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Concerned about your manufacturing operations? Looking to improve process efficiency and productivity? Let the four books in the new WBF Series show you how to apply the ISA-88 and ISA-95 standards.
This first volume, ISA-88 Implementation Experiences, addresses the ISA-88 series of protocols : what they are and how they have been used in real industrial practice. ISA-88 was created in 1988 by the ISA (International Society for Automation) Standards and Practices Board. WBF was subsequently formed to help more widely disseminate this and other similar process control standards. WBF provides a forum for control experts to present and share their knowledge and to demonstrate, through real projects, the advantages of using the ISA-88 models. In the twenty-two chapters in this first published volume, readers will find guidance and valuable information in chapters such as
- How a Flexible Batch Application Can Save Costs
- Applying ISA-88.01 to Small, Simple Processes
- Applying ISA-88 : The Human Factor
- Control Room Information for Batch Processes
- Monitoring Multi-recipe Batch Manufacturing Performance
- Applying ISA-88.01 to Polyethylene Production
- Case Study of Upgrading and Adding ISA-88.01 Features to a Legacy System
- Design of a Batch Process Control Tool on the Programmable Logic Controller Platform
- Traveling with ISA-88.01 : Leveraging the Standard in a Complex Assembly Process
- Quest for the Perfect Batch : A Batch Distillation Real Life Case
- Applying ISA-88.01 to Software Migration Engineering
Many believe that ISA-88 only applies to automation engineers. This is not true. It actually lays out the design process for recipe-driven manufacturing. While that was the initial focus of the ISA-88 committee, the resultant work has been effectively applied in non-process industries and discrete and continuous processes. The ISA-88 standard can be applied to any process where procedural control is needed. While this is most common in batch processes, it is also used in startup, shutdown, exception handling, and switchovers in all manufacturing processes. The chapters in this book describe projects that converted the ISA concepts into reality. They represent a common body of knowledge about how to apply the ISA-88 standard in all aspects of a project—from concept to design, implementation, maintenance, and upgrades.
