MESA White Paper # 61: Industry Cybersecurity, Improving Our Response
The industrial cybersecurity market is facing rapid changes as more threats are discovered, more impact is felt by end users, ICS attack tools become readily available...
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MESA White Paper #60: Smart Manufacturing and Cloud Computing
This paper will explore how Cloud Computing can help achieve the Smart Manufacturing goals to optimize processes inside the factory, as well as across the supply...
MESA White Paper #58: The Importance of Standards in Smart Manufacturing
The economies of scale obtained through standardization of utilities and transportation infrastructure, and the success of commercial manufacturing equipment...
MESA White Paper #41: ISA-95 for the Continuous Process Industries
This whitepaper explains how ISA-95 can be applied in the Continuous Process Industries (CPI).
MESA White Paper #33: Scheduling Integration Using an ISA-95 Application in a Steel Plant
The integration of a scheduling solution for a steel plant using the ISA-95 standard is described. The application shows one way of benefiting from the already...
MESA White Paper #28: Lifecycle of Service Creation Using ISA-95 Manufacturing Operation Management (MOM)
The white paper details the lifecycle of MOM Service creation using the ISA-95 MOM standard for services oriented architectures (SOA) for manufacturing. It discusses...
MESA White Paper #26: Related Manufacturing Integration Standards, A Survey
Manufacturing organizations attempting to integrate the plant floor with ERP, supply chain, scheduling, quality, and other systems in their enterprises today have...
MESA White Paper #25: An Overview and Comparison of ISA-95 and OAGIS (Standards for Mfg. Systems Integration, White Paper Series, White Paper #1)
This comparison paper is White Paper #1 of the ISA-95 and OAGIS Manufacturing Integration Standards White Paper Series. White Paper #2: OAGIS, ISA-95 and Related...
MESA White Paper #24: ISA-95-Based Operations and KPI Metrics Assessment and Analysis
ISA-95 Part 2 and Part 3 provide a valuable data definition framework when applying best practices for managing operations and related key performance indicators...
MESA White Paper #22: Manufacturing Information Systems - ISA88/95 Based Functional Definition
Manufacturing plants control encompasses many tactical and operational functions, addressing several types of manufacturing related operations from receipt of raw...
MESA White Paper #20: ISA-95 Based Change Management
Change is a fundamental reality of the manufacturing environment. Shortened product life-cycles, the trend towards mass customization, the move away from the...
MESA White Paper #21 ISA-95 Implementation Best Practices: Workflow Descriptions Using B2MML
This whitepaper focuses on the best practices to describe Workflows using B2MML Applications based on the ISA-95 Standards. ISA-95 and B2MML, like any standards, are...
MESA White Paper #17: ISA-95 Business Case Evolves Through Applications and Methodologies
Business-to-manufacturing (B2M) data exchange applications and system life cycle methods are being developed from ANSI/ISA95, Enterprise-Control System Integration...
MESA White Paper #16: ISA-95: The Enterprise-Plant Link to Achieve Adaptive Manufacturing
Adaptive manufacturing flexibly develops, produces, and delivers demand-driven products, while optimally leveraging existing resources. However, in order for adaptive...
ISA-88 for Beginners, End Users, Sales People and More
Are you interested in or curious about Batch Control, ISA S88, and/or Plant Automation in general, then these white papers are for you.