(141a) Automation of Batch and Procedural Control through Standards Based Design

Traditionally; Batch processes are built to meet very flexible manufacturing requirements. Often, it has been difficult to automate a batch process and to keep its flexibility. Developed and refined for the past 20 years, the ISA Batch Standard (ISA-88) has become a commonly understood method to communicate batch system requirements across research, process development, and automation control disciplines, and enabled manufactures to build flexible and highly automated batch systems. This paper will outline the basics of the ISA-88 standard, show the benefits in different process industries, and how the standard is beginning to be applied in continuous and discrete applications.