Industry Alliances

ISA

Founded in 1945, ISA 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.

The ISA100 Committee will establish standards, recommended practices, technical reports, and related information that will define procedures for implementing wireless systems in the automation and control environment with a focus on the field level (Level 0). Guidance is directed towards those responsible for the complete life cycle including the designing, implementing, on-going maintenance, scalability or managing manufacturing and control systems, and shall apply to users, system integrators, practitioners, and control systems manufacturers and vendors.

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HART

The HART Communication Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing worldwide support for application of the HART Protocol. Established in 1993, the Foundation is the technology owner and standards setting body for the HART Protocol.

The Foundation manages the Protocol standards, ensures the technology is openly available for the benefit of the industry and educates users by providing vendor-neutral training and support for application of the HART Protocol.

Major instrumentation manufacturers and users around the world support the Foundation. Membership is open anyone interested in the use of HART technology.

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WINA

The Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA) has been in existence since 2002 and serves as a coalition of industrial end-user companies, technology suppliers, industry organizations, software developers, system integrators, and others interested in the advancement of wireless solutions for industry. Our mission is to promote the adoption of wireless technologies and solutions that improve the efficiencies, production and safety of industrial manufacturing and processes.

WINA’s core competencies and initiatives are driven by the organizational mission and charter correlating specifically to educating and training the industry on the benefits of Wireless Technology and associated applications by better understanding the benefits of using wireless in industrial applications, improving industry confidence in wireless technology and access to solutions, and focusing on the end user.

Through this approach, WINA is dedicated to influence and support the development of applicable standards, develop user-friendly information materials, form industry partnerships to sponsor wireless plant demonstrations, support Web-based education and demonstration projects, participate in certifying systems in specific applications, demonstrate robustness and reliability, reduce operating costs, define essential requirements and work with industry alliances and standards bodies to achieve them.

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OPC

The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. Production devices include sensors, instruments, PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, HMIs, historians, trending subsystems, alarm subsystems, and more as used in the process industry, manufacturing, and in acquiring and transporting oil, gas, and minerals.

The vision of OPC is to be the foundation for INTEROPERABILITY for moving information vertically from the factory floor through the enterprise of multi-vendor systems as well as providing INTEROPERABILITY between devices on different industrial networks from different vendors.

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