The ISA-88 series of standards, also known as batch process control standards, bring clarity, structure and consistency to batch processing in pharmaceuticals, food and beverage industries, chemicals ...

Modern batch processing relies on flexible ISA-88–based software that streamlines recipe creation, coordinates tasks across multiple units and enables efficient execution of multistage production ...

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are in a race against time when it comes to getting new medicine from the lab into the hands of the consumer—a process that can take upwards of 10 years. Although ...

Due to hardware and software limitations, batch control systems have evolved as two distinct parts: equipment control in the distributed control system (DCS) or programmable logic controller (PLC), ...

A working group sponsored by the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society’s (ISA, www.isa.org) ISA SP-88 committee and the World Batch Forum (WBF, www.wbf.org) is undertaking a new initiative ...