ISA-95
The complexity of industrial and other forms of manufacturing is considerable. It takes engineers years to design machines and factories that can efficiently process millions of products. The machinery requires advanced computer systems and special programs. Furthermore there are extremely complicated hierarchies of systems that have to be identified and understood. Few of us realize just how complicated it is to make all of the parts and to organize them appropriately. In the recent past it became necessary to come up with a system to organize and name all of the parts of the systems. When something broke it made it that much easier to figure out what was wrong. One of the great international standards that was invented is the ANSI/SA-95 which provides a complicated hierarchy of details and terms to use in manufacturing processes such as continuous, repetitive, and batch processes.
IEC-62264
One of the reasons why industry functions as well as it does these days is that there is a system of international standards. Few of us can imagine what it would be like to run a manufacturing business without some sort of universal standard. Standards are used to keep controls operating in manufacturing businesses. They also help to organize systems and facillitate communications between them. The complexity of manufacturing systems is such that such standards are absolutely necessary, both for producers and suppliers. Without them industries would be working according to their own standards and would be unable to communicate with each other. IEC stands for International Electrotechnical Commission. It relates to the enterprise control system integration, meaning that the control systems in the process need to work together and exchange information. In much manufacturing there are several controls system that are monitored by central electronic systems.
A control system is the means by which a manufacturing business can monitor itself. Think of a control system as being something like a thermostat.
