The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society’s ISA-SP88 committee has announced it is beginning work on Part 5 of the widely used ISA-88 series of batch control standards. The Part 5 standard, ...

ISA-88.00.03-2003 standardizes equipment-independent batch recipes for consistent manufacturing, integration and efficient process control.

Larry Balcom, process control technology leader at DuPont Performance Coatings, in Front Royal, Va., was facing a problem. When he looked at issues in his manufacturing process that were inhibiting ...

Due to hardware and software limitations, batch control systems have evolved as two distinct parts: equipment control in the distributed control system (DCS) or programmable logic controller (PLC), ...