Enterprise control is the ability to combine control, intelligence and
process management to enable business optimization that is inclusive of business and production operations. It combines the strength of both business processes and production operations processes. It is the deliberate act of synchronizing
business strategy
In the field of management, strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's managers on behalf of stakeholders, based on consideration of resources and an assessmen ...
with operational execution in real-time to enable closed loop
business control across an enterprise.
Key elements
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Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of Business management tools, business management ...
(ERP)
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Supply chain
In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, acti ...
* Environment and safety systems
* Assets
* People
Interoperating enterprise and industrial
service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...
s (SOA) provide industrial companies with the potential for problem solutions that cover entire plants and entire industrial enterprises. This enterprise-wide system can be developed using systems and technologies previously installed. The resulting system, consisting of multiple vendor products acquired over many years working as a single system, is what is referred to as an enterprise control system.
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The enterprise control strategy is built around the premise that manufacturing needs an enterprise control system to integrate business systems and manufacturing in real-time. The concept of the enterprise control system encompasses everything from sensors and people in manufacturing to the ERP system.
An enterprise control system is the
open architecture
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other computers easy. For example, the IBM PC, Amiga 500 and Apple IIe have an open architecture support ...
framework to integrate control systems with the enterprise while adding functions to improve business performance including MES, optimization, workflow, quality management, and asset management.
[Bill Lydon, Automation.com]
History
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distributed control system
A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerised control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers are distributed throughout the system, but there is no central operator supervisory contro ...
gave way to process automation systems which lead the way for the concept of collaborative automation process systems developed by ARC Advisory Group
Later, enterprise control systems became key terminology in the marketplace.
ANSI/ISA-95 Enterprise-Control System Integration, or
ISA-95
ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of Automation for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems. This standard has been developed for g ...
(known internationally as
IEC 62264
IEC 62264 is an international standard for enterprise control system integration. This standard is based upon ANSI/ISA-95
ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of ...
) is an international standard for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems. This standard has been developed for global manufacturers. There are five levels and It was developed to be applied in all industries, and in all sorts of processes, like batch processes, continuous and repetitive processes.
ISA95 “levels” for enterprise integration
Purdue Reference Model, “95” provides a model that end users, integrators and vendors can share in integrating applications at key layers in the enterprise. This model influenced the ISA-95 (International Society of Automation) enterprise-control integration standards, which expanded on the terms of the Purdue Reference Model and describes the interface between enterprise and control systems.
*Level 0 — The physical process — Defines the physical environment. Represent the physical production process and where the collection of data begins.
*Level 1 — Intelligent devices — Sensing and manipulating the physical processes. Process *sensors, analyzers, actuators and related instrumentation.
*Level 2 — Control systems — Supervising, monitoring and controlling the physical processes. Real-time controls and software;
DCS,
human-machine interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fr ...
(HMI); supervisory and data acquisition (
SCADA
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. It also covers sensors and ...
) software.
*Level 3 — Manufacturing operations systems — Managing production work flow to produce the desired products. Batch management; manufacturing execution/operations management systems (
MES /
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); laboratory, maintenance and plant performance management systems; data historians and related middleware. Time frame: shifts, hours, minutes, seconds.
*Level 4 —
Business logistics
Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...
systems — Managing the business-related activities of the manufacturing operation. ERP is the primary system; establishes the basic plant production schedule, material use, shipping and inventory levels. Time frame: months, weeks, days, shifts.
*Level 5 — Business-to-Manufacturing Transactions — Transactions are defined in terms of the information exchanged between applications performing business and manufacturing activities associated with Levels 3 and 4. These exchanges are meant to enable the collection, retrieval, transfer and storage of information in support of enterprise-control system integration.
See also
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Workflow
A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a sequence of ...
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IEC 62264
IEC 62264 is an international standard for enterprise control system integration. This standard is based upon ANSI/ISA-95
ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of ...
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Control system
A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial c ...
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Manufacturing execution system
Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how curr ...
References
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External links
ISA-95Businesses & Services ReviewHow Can Augmented Reality Benefit Business?ISA-95 Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Standards
Business process management