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A question came up today in the ISA-95 Committee meeting about good scheduling companies. Someone asked if the group new about any good scheduling companies.

Some of these companies (and legacies) came up. This is my no means a comprehensive list of APS companies.

http://www.taylor.com/
http://www.preactor.com/
http://www.jda.com/ - formerly Manugistics
http://www.i2.com/
FactoryTalk Scheduler - formerly from System Modeling Corporation
Visiprise also bought RSS in 2006, but I could not find it on their website. Read Article.

The Cox family also started a new company in 2007 - Dynafact.

It is great to be involved in the January meeting of the ISA S95 committee hosted by Charlie Gifford in Hailey, Idaho. There are some great people involved with this standard development including the attendees for this meeting:

 

Dennis Brandl - http://www.brlconsulting.com/

Dave Emerson - http://www.yokogawa.com/us/

Em G Delahostria - http://www.rockwellautomation.com/

Ron West - http://www.entegreat.com/

Michael Bachelor - http://www.bachelorcontrols.com/

Keith Unger - http://www.stonetek.com/

Aaron Mual - http://www.serra.com/

Rod Parry - http://www.factoryiq.com/

Scott Whitlock - http://www.flexwareinnovation.com/

Charlie Gifford - charlie.gifford@cox.net

Paulo Fontanot - http://www.siemens.com

 

 

Some relevant sites helpful to learn about ISA S95 are:

http://www.isa.org/

http://www.isa-95.com/

 

 

A view from on top of Baldy Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve always wondered what all of these links are. I’m beginning to understand many of the features of blogging, but have yet to understand how all of this works together.