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OAGIS Building Business Object Documents in Collaboration with ISA and WBF

Research Triangle Park, NC (12 September 2007) -- OAGIS will be building
ISA-95 based Business Object Documents in collaboration with ISA95Standards Committee on Enterprise-Control Integration and WBF's XMLWorking Group. The goal of the documents is to ensure that no matterwhich standard a customer or vendor implements, the two standards willinteroperate.

"We've been listening to customers' needs for years, and the ISA95content is very important to all of the manufacturing end users I havespoken with," said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications Group.
"Our work to create these documents brings real solutions to the end user."

The decision, made during a mid-August OAGi Manufacturing WorkingGroup meeting involving representatives from IBM, Yokogawa, iBASEt,Boeing, Infor, ISA and WBF and others, reflects ongoing collaborationbetween ISA, WBF, and OAGi through the OpenO&M Initiative. TheOpenO&M Initiative is a venture of ISA, MIMOSA, OAGi, OPC, and WBF,and supports development of business process models for data exchangebetween manufacturing operations management and business supportsystems.

The Open Applications Group is a not-for-profit open standardsdevelopment organization building a standard called the OpenApplications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS). The OAGISstandard covers data exchange requirements for business systems andapplications, including manufacturing and operations managementsystems. The Open Applications Group Board of Directors voted earlierin the year to express the work of the ISA95 working group in OAGIS,providing the end user a world class XML solution based on the popularand respected standard.

"The documents that will come from our collaboration with ISA andWBF will be the industry guidelines that customers need," said GarySullivan of iBASEt. "Harmonizing standards is important work, and theindustry will benefit from this ongoing collaboration."

With the new initiative, ISA95 will remain the foundation for thedocuments with OAGIS and B2MML sharing each other's extensions andcollaborating on the standards. OAGi and WBF will sign a Memorandum ofUnderstanding, and ISA and WBF will be invited to join the OAGi PartnerCouncil when it is formed. OAGi will also have a representative on the
ISA95 committee.

"ISA95 has contributed significant data exchange content and modelssupporting the manufacturing industry," said ISA Director of StandardsServices T.S. "Chip" Lee. "Since our standard has historically beenused in process manufacturing, and the OAGIS standard is typically usedin discrete manufacturing, our collaboration enables the furtherdevelopment of both standards. WBF's XML Working Group's Business toManufacturing Markup Language (B2MML) completes the package for the enduser."

WBF's XMLWorking Group recently released V0400 of B2MML. Theenhancements in this version of the documentation include support for
ISA95 Part 5 Transactions, OAGIS messages, and UN/CEFACT corecomponents, while still maintaining backward compatibility to V0300.

"The work that the WBF XML Working Group has done, and especiallytheir efforts to incorporate the work of ISA95 and OAGIS into B2MML,makes the inclusion of these schemas a great fit for these OAGISdocuments," said WBF Chairman Maurice Wilkins.

For more information about the OpenO&M Initiative, visit www.openoandm.org.

About ISA

Founded in 1945, ISA (www.isa.org)is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting thestandard for automation by helping over 30,000 worldwide members andother professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancingtheir leadership and personal career capabilities. Based in ResearchTriangle Park, North Carolina, ISA develops standards; certifiesindustry professionals; provides education and training; publishesbooks and technical articles; and hosts the largest conference andexhibition for automation professionals in the Western Hemisphere. ISAis the founding sponsor of The Automation Federation (www.automationfederation.org).