Here is a download of the ISA100: Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation Standards Update Webinar presentation. It was part of Lehigh Valley ISA’s January event and was presented by Dick Caro (Certified Automation Professional, Founder and Principal of CMC Associates).
The ISA Standards and Practices Board has approved the new standard “ISA-100.11a-2009: Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications.” It is now published and can be found at http://www.isa.org/ISA100-11a.
Press release
Research Triangle Park, NC (9 Sep 2009) – The ISA Standards & Practices Board (S&P) has voted to approve the ISA-100.11a wireless standard “Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications,” thereby making it an official ISA Standard. The approval of this major new industry standard by the ISA S&P Board certifies that ISA’s accredited procedures have been followed in the development of the standard.
The ISA-100.11a standard received final approval by the ISA100 committee in July of this year with 81% of the voting members approving, before being passed along to the ISA S&P Board. With the ISA S&P Board approval, the ISA-100.11a standard will now be submitted to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for approval as an ANSI standard, and will be submitted to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for consideration as an IEC standard.
“The ISA-100.11a standard was developed by a committee consisting of over 600 end users and equipment manufacturers from around the world, and represents a truly consensus standard created in an open, unbiased forum by a global team of industry experts,” said Wayne Manges, ISA100 co-chair from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The ISA100 committee was established by ISA to address wireless manufacturing and control systems in areas including:
• the environment in which the wireless technology is deployed;
• technology and life cycle for wireless equipment and systems; and
• the application of wireless technology
“The committee has been very active in pursuing its charter and I am delighted that this initial standard has been issued,” said Manges.
The ISA-100.11a standard is intended to provide reliable and secure wireless operation for noncritical monitoring, alerting, supervisory control, open loop control, and closed loop control applications. The standard defines the protocol suite, system management, gateway, and security specifications for low-data-rate wireless connectivity with fixed, portable, and moving devices supporting very limited power consumption requirements. The application focus addresses the performance needs of applications such as monitoring and process control where latencies on the order of 100 ms can be tolerated, with optional behavior for shorter latency.
“To meet the needs of industrial wireless users and operators, the ISA-100.11a standard provides robustness in the presence of interference found in harsh industrial environments and with legacy
non-ISA-100 compliant wireless systems,” said ISA100 co-chair Pat Schweitzer of ExxonMobil. The standard addresses coexistence with other wireless devices anticipated in the industrial workspace, such as cell phones and devices based on IEEE 802.11x, IEEE 802.15x, IEEE 802.16x, and other relevant standards. Further, the standard allows for interoperability of ISA-100 devices.
The standard is available at www.isa.org/ISA100-11a. For more information on the full scope of ISA100 committee activity, visit ISA100.org or call +1-919-549-8411.
About ISA
Founded in 1945, the International Society of Automation (www.isa.org) is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting the standard for automation by helping over 30,000 worldwide members and other professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, ISA develops standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; and hosts the largest conference and exhibition for automation professionals in North America. ISA is the founding sponsor of The Automation Federation (www.automationfederation.org).
There will soon be a new cabling infrastructure standard for healthcare. TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) has proposed and started work on defining new requirements for healthcare facilities e.g. hospitals and clinics/clinical environments. The standard will target topologies for cabling, cable manufacture, distance requirements, locational/routing requirements for most healthcare systems.
Areas of focus (but not limited to) would be Patient Services, Surgery/Procedure/Operating Rooms, Emergency, Ambulatory Care, Women’s Health, Diagnostic and Treatment, Caregiver, Service/Support, Facilities, Operations, and Critical Care.
The working group has recommended that “work areas” for heathcare systems are expanded (as opposed to non-heathcare infrastructure standards) and that the required permanent links for each necessary cabling established.
The standard will also support biomedical systems (RFID, BAS, nurse call, security, access control, pharmaceutical inventory, etc.) that use, or have the potential to use, IP based infrastructure systems.
This standard is developed by the TR.42 Premises Telecommunications Cabling TR-42.1 Commercial Building Cabling Subcommittee.
ISA18, the Standard for Instrument Signals and Alarms has been around (but rather dormant) since the 2003. Saying that, the standard has experienced a revival this year… the ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 standard was finally approved on June 12, 2009 (ISA board) and June 23, 2009 (ANSI) respectively.
What is ISA18?
ISA18 is the standard and guideline for alarm systems including annunciators, process automation systems, and the general development, design, installation, and management of alarm systems in the process industries. It’s main purpose is to establish terminology and practices for alarm systems, including the definition, design, installation, operation, maintenance and modification and work processes recommended to effectively maintain an alarm system over time.
ANSI/ISA-18.1-1979(R2004), Annunciator Sequences and Specifications. This standard is primarily for use with electrical annunciators that call attention to abnormal process conditions by the use of individual illuminated visual displays and audible devices. Annunciators can range from a single annunciator cabinet, to complex annunciator systems with many lamp cabinets and remote logic cabinets. The sequence designations provided can be used to describe basic annunciator sequences and also many sequence variations.
ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009, Management of Alarm Systems in the Process Industries. This standard provides requirements and recomendations for the activities of the alarm management lifecyle. Lifecycle stages include philosophy, identification, rationalization, detail design, implementation, operation, maintenance, monitoring & assessment, management of change, and audit.
Update: For those of you who are within the Berks County and Lehigh Valley, PA area, the ISA Lehigh Valley Section is holding a free presentation of ISA18 (by Todd Stauffer, exida) on September 10th. More details on the event here. Registration is necessary; Members/ Non-members are welcome.
A major milestone announced today, the ISA100 committee has approved the wireless industrial standard ISA100.11a, “Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications.”
Before being officially published, the standard has to be further reviewed by the co-chairs (Wayne Manges of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pat Schweitzer of ExxonMobil), the ISA Standards and Practices Board and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). It is expected to be published in August.
