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ABB urges Smart Grid Standards...but where is ISA?

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 20:32.

In the gold rush to Smart Grid, it's easy to get left out. In the last several major press releases about Smart Grid I've seen, one standards body has been conspicuous by its absence. That, of course would be ISA. Even though ISA has launched a full-court press to transform itself from a member style educational foundation into a workforce development and standards body (which I believe is the future of the Society--- and I've been saying so since 1998)-- it seems to have been left at the altar for Smart Grid.

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Support your local standards organization...they make our lives easier

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 14:36.

I received a news release from Tom Clary at Invensys this morning that got me thinking. It announced that IPS was hosting the ISA95 standard meetings next week:

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) is hosting an international meeting of enterprise integration standards experts at its headquarters in Plano, Texas, January 27-30, 2009.

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WirelessHART wins IEC ballot-- now IEC/PAS 62591 Ed. 1

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 21:34.

65C/506A/PAS Project: IEC/PAS 62591 Ed.1 IEC/PAS 62591: Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus spec

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ISO/IEC ratifies Open XML after all...

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 17:56.

David Mitchell, SVP IT Research at Ovum, comments on:


The Open XML standards decision
 

It emerged yesterday that ISO/IEC DIS 29500 should gain formal ratification as an ISO standard for documents, following the Ballot Resolution Process (BRM) meeting. This reverses the previous rejection of the standard in September 2007. The standard was originally submitted by Microsoft to ECMA, and was a...

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Live from WBF 2008: Session 1--Battling Batch Diseases Worldwide

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 15:49.

Chris Monchinski, from Automation Control Concepts introduced the WBF "Center for Batch Disease Control" (Dennis Brandl, Charlie Gifford, Paul Nowicki, Dave Chappell, Lynn Craig, Randy Dwiggins) to reduce the incidence of BBCS (Bad Batch Control Systems) and BOMS (Bad Operations and Management Systems) which is also sometimes called MESses.

Nowicki gave the update of ISA88 part 1-- we thought we got all the diseases, but obviously there were a few remaining. The standard was reaffirmed in 2006,...

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Standards Issues

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Submitted by nbartels on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 22:55.

The late morning session was opened by Rockwell's CTO, Sujeet Chand TCO and four big guns from the World of Standards. Joe Bhatia, president of ANSI, Frank Kitzantides, VP of IEC, James Lovegrove, managing director of the American Electronics Association, Europe, and Keith Williams, president and CEO of Underwriters Laboratories, presented their views on the current state of manufacturing standards and drew a vision of the convergence of standards over time to the point where and industry-led...

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