Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solutions are growing in demand as manufacturers seek to streamline plant operations and align those operations with ever-changing supply chain processes. These manufacturers are discovering that using modern computing technology combined with continuous improvement methods dramatically accelerate time-to-benefit. Optimizing manufacturing operations requires a work process management (WPM) system to define, model and coordinate each plant’s workflows and resources across shop floor, MOM and supply chain applications. An operations workflow engine in a WPM system is the key unifying application for aligning business and plant processes for rapid response to normal and abnormal tasks and for optimizing all real-time conditions. Workflow applications drive proper notification and acknowledgement of alerts, alarms and events to trigger alternative and corrective workflows and tasks through integrated real-time transactions.
This white paper explains how to implement ISA-95 workflow applications on a manufacturing enterprise platform to execute plant tasks through the MOM and physical process levels while coordinating them with supply chain tasks. The business benefits of optimizing operations are realized by structuring the workflows in ISA-95 models as the foundation for manufacturing architecture. This enforces effective data structure, definition, integrity and governance across manufacturing applications.
This paper was produced as part of the MESA/ISA-95 Best Practices Working Group through an international peer review process involving 5 or more subject matter reviewers.
Date Published: October 2010
Authors:
- Dan Hanson, GE Intelligent Platforms
- Greg Millinger, GE Intelligent Platforms
- Nick Miller, GE Intelligent Platforms
- Kwangnam (Kevin) Cho, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Arne Svendsen, Arla Foods
- Jan Kudsk, Arla Foods
- Charlie Gifford/21CMS
- Gavan Hood/Simul-Tech Pty Ltd