ISA-95 gets a lot of critique. People say the standard is outdated, complicated, impossibly abstract, rigid, inflexible, and applicable only to narrow problems in niche industries. These opinions are so well-known that you don’t even need to read the standard to hold them! But such critiques seem strange when we consider Rhize’s customers, a diverse, […]
“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates Bad inputs create bad outputs. This fact applies to all automation systems. With the amount of hype around AI right now, it seems everyone is asking, “How can I get AI?” Yet no one is asking whether their data is good enough […]
Contextualization is an enduring goal for people who work with manufacturing data. As with anything, a manufacturing object or measurement makes sense only when we can know its origin and can compare it to other values. Given its importance to all human experience, however, the way that manufacturers and vendors typically think of context is […]
This blog provides a quick introduction to the tradeoffs between industrial historians and time-series databases from a practical, manufacturing-centered perspective. Why are we writing this? If you search the internet, you’ll find no shortage of blog posts about this topic. But, as it turns out, these posts are usually written by vendors of historians and […]
Single points, graphs, rows, and columns.
You don’t need to model everything. You only need to model what’s enough for your use case.
How do you remove legacy systems without ripping and replacing or waiting until the hardware fails? Through integration, decoupling, and incremental change.
This article reframes the debate around ISA-95 and explores how the right architecture enables a viable application of the standard.
The Manufacturing Data Hub (MDH) presents a sea-change in how manufacturers use their data. This article compares the MDH to a data lake many manufacturers use for data management and analysis.
What Is ISA-95? Manufacturing Data & the Importance of a Single Ontology
Meta Description: ISA-95 offers manufacturers a way to standardize data under a single ontology. Here’s why it makes sense and what it means for governance.
