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标题：SP95 group advances MES standard efforts
期刊名称：InTech
印刷版ISSN：1538-2893
出版年度：1997
卷号：Jan 1997
出版社：The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society

SP95 group advances MES standard efforts

Research Triangle Park, N.C.-Following its first official meeting at ISA/96 Chicago, the SP95 Enterprise/Control Integration (ECI) standards committee began work on achieving an ISA standard for integrating plant-floor control systems with other enterprise computing systems.

Focusing on batch, continuous, discrete, and electric power distribution industries, the committee divided into two groups and defined part one of its multipart project. The first items up for discussion are control domain boundaries and the exchange of data types.

Chairman Bill Wray, of Arco Chemicals, was encouraged by the amount of progress the committee made. "ISA has given us an excellent set of tools on the Web sites so that development work can go on between meetings. We fully intend to use those Web tools to make the standards development happen as quickly as possible," said Wray, who predicted part one would be completed in about 18 months.

A second meeting was planned for Jan. 6-7 at Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis, Ind., where the committee will focus on electronic information exchange between the control domain and the target domain. A third meeting is tentatively scheduled March 10-12 in Wilmington, Del., hosted by DuPont.