Joint Working Group to Promote Open Enterprise Integation Standards for Operations and Maintenance Holds Formative Meeting

February 12, 2004 - 03:38

The three organizations originally announced their intent to form a JWG in a press release from the ISA EXPO 2003 on October 22, 2003. In addition to establishing the organizational structure and protocols for the JWG, the group developed a technical strategy including objectives and deliverables.

Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: “I am amazed at the energy and enthusiasm generated during this initial meeting. The group was able to outline common goals and establish a base of understanding on how these standards will collaborate. The integrated efforts of all three organizations will result in vendors building products for superior open solutions addressing the needs of all of manufacturing.”

OPC Foundation President Tom Burke said: “I am very excited about the collaboration and team work that was demonstrated at the OPC/MIMOSA/ISA SP95 JWG Meeting. The team is composed of vendors from each of the respective organizations. The team quickly came to consensus on a strategy for interoperability. We are rapidly unifying the terminology and models and we will be providing the documents and sample code to jump-start the vendors” adoption of the standards. The JWG is focused on enabling vendors to build products that end-users will be able to deploy into open solutions for Operations, Maintenance & Beyond.

Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: “I am extremely pleased by the amount of progress we made at the first JWG Meeting. Too frequently, organizations talk about collaboration, but fail to deliver useful and timely results, either by design or by default. We are already seeing significant benefits from our continuing collaboration with OPC to enable the real-time enterprise in a variety of vertical industry sectors through our OpenO&M™ initiative. Collaborating with the ISA SP95 Committee in our new JWG is the obvious way to accelerate the development and adoption of open standards applicable to the manufacturing sector.”

Costantino Pipero, Manager, Global Solutions Invensys and the JWG Coordinator said: “We are doing this right when the technology is mature enough to address a screaming market demand for consistency: demand from the users to bridge their operational islands, and demand from the solutions providers to define and pinpoint customers’ requirements. And we want to do it fast.”

The Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society (ISA) SP95 Committee, MIMOSA (An Operations and Maintenance Open Systems Alliance) and OPC Foundation (OPC) held the initial meeting of their Joint Working Group (JWG). The objective is to simplify the development and integration of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) systems, equipment and software enabling practical interoperability with each other and with other enterprise systems. In support of this objective, the JWG will provide coordination for the standards under development by ISA SP95, MIMOSA and OPC.
The three organizations originally announced their intent to form a JWG in a press release from the ISA EXPO 2003 on October 22, 2003. In addition to establishing the organizational structure and protocols for the JWG, the group developed a technical strategy including objectives and deliverables.
Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: “I am amazed at the energy and enthusiasm generated during this initial meeting. The group was able to outline common goals and establish a base of understanding on how these standards will collaborate. The integrated efforts of all three organizations will result in vendors building products for superior open solutions addressing the needs of all of manufacturing.”
OPC Foundation President Tom Burke said: “I am very excited about the collaboration and team work that was demonstrated at the OPC/MIMOSA/ISA SP95 JWG Meeting. The team is composed of vendors from each of the respective organizations. The team quickly came to consensus on a strategy for interoperability. We are rapidly unifying the terminology and models and we will be providing the documents and sample code to jump-start the vendors” adoption of the standards. The JWG is focused on enabling vendors to build products that end-users will be able to deploy into open solutions for Operations, Maintenance & Beyond.
Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: “I am extremely pleased by the amount of progress we made at the first JWG Meeting. Too frequently, organizations talk about collaboration, but fail to deliver useful and timely results, either by design or by default. We are already seeing significant benefits from our continuing collaboration with OPC to enable the real-time enterprise in a variety of vertical industry sectors through our OpenO&M™ initiative. Collaborating with the ISA SP95 Committee in our new JWG is the obvious way to accelerate the development and adoption of open standards applicable to the manufacturing sector.”
Costantino Pipero, Manager, Global Solutions Invensys and the JWG Coordinator said: “We are doing this right when the technology is mature enough to address a screaming market demand for consistency: demand from the users to bridge their operational islands, and demand from the solutions providers to define and pinpoint customers’ requirements. And we want to do it fast.”

Joint Working Group Boosts Open Enterprise Integration Standards for Operations and Maintenance Applications

October 23, 2003 - 03:37

The three organizations have agreed to establish a Joint Working Group tasked with determining how to co-ordinate their various standards development efforts. The objective is to simplify the development of interoperable Operations & Maintenance (O&M) systems, equipment and software incorporating productized integration with each other and with other enterprise systems. Open integration requirements for applications such as Manufacturing Execution Systems, Operations Data Historians, Human Machine Interfaces, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and Condition Based Maintenance will be addressed by the effort. Manufacturers, integrators and end-users of such systems are all expected to benefit from this collaboration.

Until now, the three organizations have been working independently to help establish consensus-driven standards with some informal interaction between their various members. Recently, OPC and MIMOSA formalized their collaboration, resulting in this week’s OpenO&M industry initiative being demonstrated for the first time at ISA EXPO 2003 in the OPC foundation booth.

The collaboration will help vendors to successfully use the existing standards of MIMOSA, ISA and OPC to build more comprehensive interoperable products. The joint working group will also establish a basis for coordinating on-going and future standards development efforts, enabling end-users to build systems that exchange data transformed into “information” between the factory floor and the enterprise. MIMOSA and ISA SP95 define information and process models for information flow, essentially defining the “what”, while OPC defines the “how” to move the data and information.

Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: “Establishing this collaborative effort will help suppliers and end users by reducing the time it takes to establish open standards in integration between operations, maintenance and the overall enterprise. I look forward to working with OPC and MIMOSA to rapidly establish an effective and open integration standard.”

OPC Foundation President Tom Burke said: “We’ve come a long way since OPC was just a way for HMI to see into someone else’s system. Today, not only do we have OPC solutions for just about any automation application, but we’ve moved into services-based connectivity founded on our unified architecture. Our latest XML-enabled solutions allow equipment and systems to be monitored over the Internet as information rather than raw data, facilitating easier Operations and Maintenance Management across the global environment. We can provide the ‘how’ for this increasingly sophisticated marketplace in support of the ‘what’ being defined by MIMOSA and ISA SP95.”

Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: “I am really excited about this opportunity to improve the standards development process for our industry. While there are many separate groups seeking to establish standards, I believe collaboration is the key to being effective. By working together, I believe our three organizations can help each other to develop and propagate more useful consensus standards that will interoperate by design.”

The Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society (ISA), MIMOSA (An Operations and Maintenance Open Systems Alliance) and OPC Foundation (OPC) announce a significant new collaboration to develop interoperable open solutions spanning from the factory floor through the enterprise.
The three organizations have agreed to establish a Joint Working Group tasked with determining how to co-ordinate their various standards development efforts. The objective is to simplify the development of interoperable Operations & Maintenance (O&M) systems, equipment and software incorporating productized integration with each other and with other enterprise systems. Open integration requirements for applications such as Manufacturing Execution Systems, Operations Data Historians, Human Machine Interfaces, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and Condition Based Maintenance will be addressed by the effort. Manufacturers, integrators and end-users of such systems are all expected to benefit from this collaboration.
Until now, the three organizations have been working independently to help establish consensus-driven standards with some informal interaction between their various members. Recently, OPC and MIMOSA formalized their collaboration, resulting in this week’s OpenO&M industry initiative being demonstrated for the first time at ISA EXPO 2003 in the OPC foundation booth.
The collaboration will help vendors to successfully use the existing standards of MIMOSA, ISA and OPC to build more comprehensive interoperable products. The joint working group will also establish a basis for coordinating on-going and future standards development efforts, enabling end-users to build systems that exchange data transformed into “information” between the factory floor and the enterprise. MIMOSA and ISA SP95 define information and process models for information flow, essentially defining the “what”, while OPC defines the “how” to move the data and information.
Keith Unger, ISA SP95 Committee Chair said: “Establishing this collaborative effort will help suppliers and end users by reducing the time it takes to establish open standards in integration between operations, maintenance and the overall enterprise. I look forward to working with OPC and MIMOSA to rapidly establish an effective and open integration standard.”
OPC Foundation President Tom Burke said: “We’ve come a long way since OPC was just a way for HMI to see into someone else’s system. Today, not only do we have OPC solutions for just about any automation application, but we’ve moved into services-based connectivity founded on our unified architecture. Our latest XML-enabled solutions allow equipment and systems to be monitored over the Internet as information rather than raw data, facilitating easier Operations and Maintenance Management across the global environment. We can provide the ‘how’ for this increasingly sophisticated marketplace in support of the ‘what’ being defined by MIMOSA and ISA SP95.”
Alan Johnston, MIMOSA President said: “I am really excited about this opportunity to improve the standards development process for our industry. While there are many separate groups seeking to establish standards, I believe collaboration is the key to being effective. By working together, I believe our three organizations can help each other to develop and propagate more useful consensus standards that will interoperate by design.”

Collaboration To Create Open Industrial Information Standards

November 29, 2001 - 05:38

OPC and MIMOSA believe this is an important opportunity to establish a coordinated family of industry accepted information standards as the preferred alternative to multiple independent and potentially incompatible standards. In addition to technical collaboration, the organizations will pursue joint marketing activities to support their common vision of open interoperability and the continuing commercial adoption of their consortia standards along with the development of compatible formal standards. Further information is available in a Memorandum of Understanding published on both organizations’ websites: www.opcfoundation.org and www.mimosa.org.

MIMOSA President Alan T. Johnston says: “This effort is an important model for industry, because it quickly enables open MRO related business collaboration by leveraging existing consensus-based specifications, rather than requiring duplicative effort.”

Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President stated: “Collaboration between MIMOSA and the OPC Foundation will extend the reach of both standards, allowing MRO applications to have open, industry standard access to condition monitoring, diagnostic and asset management information from monitoring and control systems.”

OPC Foundation is the management organization for OPC (Originally OLE for Process Control), an open and interoperable interface standard, that fosters greater interoperability between automation/control applications, field systems/devices, and business/office applications. It was created with the collaboration of leading worldwide automation and hardware software suppliers working in cooperation with Microsoft. Further information can be obtained from Don Holley, OPC Marketing Director (*protected email*) or from the OPC Foundation website www.opcfoundation.org.

MIMOSA, a trade association for the MRO solutions industry, advocates and develops information integration specifications to enable open industry-driven integrated solutions for managing complex highvalue assets. Membership includes technology suppliers and industry, government, and military users of MRO information. Further information can be obtained from MIMOSA President Alan T. Johnston (*protected email*) or from the MIMOSA website www.mimosa.org.

The Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA) and the OPC Foundation (OPC) announce a significant collaboration to produce Consensus-Based Industrial Standards for Maintenance, Repair and Operating (MRO) Information. Initial efforts will leverage existing eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based specifications previously developed by OPC and MIMOSA respectively.
OPC and MIMOSA believe this is an important opportunity to establish a coordinated family of industry accepted information standards as the preferred alternative to multiple independent and potentially incompatible standards. In addition to technical collaboration, the organizations will pursue joint marketing activities to support their common vision of open interoperability and the continuing commercial adoption of their consortia standards along with the development of compatible formal standards. Further information is available in a Memorandum of Understanding published on both organizations’ websites: www.opcfoundation.org and www.mimosa.org.
MIMOSA President Alan T. Johnston says: “This effort is an important model for industry, because it quickly enables open MRO related business collaboration by leveraging existing consensus-based specifications, rather than requiring duplicative effort.”
Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President stated: “Collaboration between MIMOSA and the OPC Foundation will extend the reach of both standards, allowing MRO applications to have open, industry standard access to condition monitoring, diagnostic and asset management information from monitoring and control systems.”
OPC Foundation is the management organization for OPC (Originally OLE for Process Control), an open and interoperable interface standard, that fosters greater interoperability between automation/control applications, field systems/devices, and business/office applications. It was created with the collaboration of leading worldwide automation and hardware software suppliers working in cooperation with Microsoft. Further information can be obtained from Don Holley, OPC Marketing Director (moc.i1743780651n@yel1743780651loh.n1743780651od1743780651) or from the OPC Foundation website www.opcfoundation.org.
MIMOSA, a trade association for the MRO solutions industry, advocates and develops information integration specifications to enable open industry-driven integrated solutions for managing complex highvalue assets. Membership includes technology suppliers and industry, government, and military users of MRO information. Further information can be obtained from MIMOSA President Alan T. Johnston (gro.a1743780651somim1743780651@nhoj1743780651ta1743780651) or from the MIMOSA website www.mimosa.org.

Army to use MIMOSA Specifications in Equipment Diagnostics Program

August 2, 2001 - 03:40

The Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA) announces a major commitment by the U.S. Army Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment Program Management Office (PM-TMDE) to the MIMOSA open, industry-driven specifications for maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) information integration.

The military group has officially committed to using MIMOSA based specifications when developing its future At-Platform Maintenance Information Interfaces. Patrick J. Stevens, PM-TMDE Deputy Product Manager, made the official commitment at the Army Diagnostic Improvement Program Integrated Process Team (ADIP-IPT) Meeting #16 held in Warren, Michigan on July 17, 2001.

The At-Platform Maintenance Information Interface is the data interface between Army equipment (tanks, helicopters, etc.) and any device or system directly communicating with it for the exchange of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) related information.

In order to fulfil this commitment, PM-TMDE and its interface implementation contractor(s) will partner with MIMOSA to develop a set of MIMOSA Compliant interface specifications that are optimized for a mobile/fleet management environment. The PM-TMDE has established an Army MIMOSA Implementation Integrated Program Team as an internal coordinating body for Army program offices and support contractors. MIMOSA will establish an appropriate sub-committee to facilitate broad industry participation in the effort. The Army is targeting a one-year time frame for initial operational capability. The resulting set of interface specifications will become part of the growing MIMOSA family of asset management related information integration specifications.

PM-TMDE, the organization responsible for management of the Army’s Diagnostics Improvement Program (ADIP), is responsible for developing the On-Platform and Near-Platform Diagnostic and Prognostic Information Technology solutions for the Army. In making the official announcement, Stevens stated that PM-TMDE had elected to utilize the MIMOSA based approach after searching for their best option to enable an open, industry-driven solution for their information integration needs.

MIMOSA, a trade association for the MRO solutions industry, advocates and develops information integration specifications to enable open, industry-driven, integrated solutions for managing complex, high-value assets. Further information can be obtained from MIMOSA President Alan T. Johnston (*protected email*) or from the association’s web site www.mimosa.org.