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ISA-SP95 and The Open Applications Group Join Standards

The Open Applications Group and ISA are joining forces to decrease redundancy and converge their work. The groups are collaborating on development of integration standards for process, discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturers. ISA-SP95 has initiated this effort by including a portion of the OAGIS? standard in its ANSI/ISA-95 Part 5 - Business to Manufacturing Transactions standard.

`We don`t think it makes sense to re-invent work that others have completed and proven in the field,` said Keith Unger, Chairman of the ISA-SP95 committee. `We want to leverage our best contributors from both efforts and provide a better standard for our customers. Delivery of the ISA-95 Part 4 - Object Models and Attributes of Manufacturing Operations Management standard will be greatly accelerated by leveraging the work of OAGi, and the other OpenO&M Initiative members.`

`Many enterprises today are struggling with the myriad of standards available to them and often don?t know which standards they should be using,` said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications Group. `Many of our OAGIS? users are using both ISA-95 and OAGIS? and we want to cooperate in order to simplify their efforts and provide our customers with a common solution.`