The ISA-95 standard has been in place for over 20 years, and
recent progress in operations management transformation and Cloud adoption have
triggered questions about this standard.
The author offers an observation:
- ISA-95 is also essential for radical technology transformation using Cloud.
Currently, there is a lot of hype and misinformation about
Cloud, especially for industrial operations.
3 patterns appear from this marketing activity:
How can architecture decisions be made? Consider the following information model in
light of the 3 implementation options summarized above:
Wherever these functions are implemented in different
locations (with or without Cloud), what mechanisms are necessary for requirements
such as “business continuity”, “access control” etc.? How much context must be exchanged between
sites and the Cloud to recover from network and Cloud outages? Only an appropriately detailed and
standardized information model can help.
ISA-95 focuses on the functions of operations management; it
is independent of the implementation, including technology and location. It is the foundation for designing,
implementing and evolving architectures for operations management
transformation, especially when Cloud is adopted.
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