ISA recently announced the publication of a new resource entitled "Design Patterns for Flexible Manufacturing."
Drawing from his vast experience in the development of multiple control projects and the ISA-88 batch control standards, author Dennis Brandl documents effective rules that should be used when applying the ISA-88 standard to both batch manufacturing (called the S88 design pattern) and continuous and discrete manufacturing problems (called the NS88 design pattern for non-stop production).
As the chair of the ISA-SP88 committee, Brandl developed these patterns and subsequent rules while applying the batch series in several projects. This book clearly identifies what elements are defined in the batch series and what elements make up the S88 and NS88 design patterns for flexible manufacturing.
The book also defines design patterns for control system programming, providing patterns for the organization of programmable logic controller (PLC), digital control system (DCS), and other control system application code. Automation professionals in a batch, continuous, or discrete manufacturing environment will find that the design patterns in this resource can be applied to a wide range of production systems, making systems easier to design and implement.
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