ISA95 for Beginners

Industrial organisations frequently struggle because production, planning, quality, maintenance, and enterprise systems describe the same operation in different ways. ISA-95 offers a common framework for thinking about these layers, their responsibilities, and the information that must move between them.

This book is intended for readers who want to understand the standard without beginning with the dense formal language of the standard. It provides a foundation for later work in manufacturing integration, MES and ERP relationships, operational data models, and industrial digital twins.