Peter Welander of Control Engineering magazine interviewed Herman Storey and myself about ISA108 after our face to face meeting at the ARC Orlando Forum the week of February 11. We talk about some of the reasoning behind ISA 108, particularly the need for some coherent and easily shared work processes that can help end users take advantage of the diagnostic data coming from the huge installed base of intelligent field devices. Remember, you cannot get the full lifecycle benefit out of intelligent devices unless you implement the right work processes!
Peter Welander Interview with Herman Storey and Larry O'Brien on ISA108
ISA Charters New Committee on Intelligent Device Management
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Thursday, August 16, 2012
ISA 108 Standard is Launched
You may have noticed that ISA has launched a new standards committee, of which I have the privilege of being a member. The ISA108 Intelligent Device Management standards committee "will define standard templates of best practices and work processes for design, development, installation and use of diagnostic and other information provided by intelligent field devices in the process industries."
Let me be clear that this is not a FOUNDATION fieldbus-centric standard. This standard applies to anyone who is using intelligent field devices on any network. In many cases, the promise of intelligent field devices in process plants remains unrealized. This is not so much a technology issue as a people or work process issue. Too many users are employing old maintenance work processes with new technology. The new devices and applications are installed, but the operators and technicians stick to their old way of doing things, their old preventative or routine maintenance practices, and never really take advantage of the huge amount of information that is available to them. It seems clear that the process industries would benefit from a standard set of work processes and best practices for intelligent device management. This would give end users an effective blueprint for achieving the significant economic lifecycle benefits associated with intelligent devices.
ISA Charters New Standards Committee on Intelligent Device Management
Let me be clear that this is not a FOUNDATION fieldbus-centric standard. This standard applies to anyone who is using intelligent field devices on any network. In many cases, the promise of intelligent field devices in process plants remains unrealized. This is not so much a technology issue as a people or work process issue. Too many users are employing old maintenance work processes with new technology. The new devices and applications are installed, but the operators and technicians stick to their old way of doing things, their old preventative or routine maintenance practices, and never really take advantage of the huge amount of information that is available to them. It seems clear that the process industries would benefit from a standard set of work processes and best practices for intelligent device management. This would give end users an effective blueprint for achieving the significant economic lifecycle benefits associated with intelligent devices.
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