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Plant Management

Manage operations. Structure production.
Connect the enterprise.

Build practical capabilities in alarm management, batch processes, and factory-to-enterprise integration.

ISA-18.2 ISA-88 ISA-95

3complementary
courses

48training hours
across all three courses

Operations Engineering Integration

From plant operations to business decisions

A shared language for better plant management.

Connect operational priorities, structured production models, and enterprise information through three focused courses.

Respond effectively

Apply structured practices to manage alarms and support operator response.

Model production

Use standard models to structure and document batch processes.

Integrate information

Connect plant operations with enterprise systems through common information models.

Explore the training program

Three courses. One operational perspective.

1810

Alarm Management

ISA-18.2 16 hours

Apply the alarm management lifecycle to philosophy, rationalization, design, monitoring, and change management.

  • Alarm philosophy and identification
  • Prioritization and rationalization
  • Alarm design and HMI
  • Performance and change management
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8810

Batch Management & Process Modeling

ISA-88 16 hours

Apply physical, procedural, process, and recipe models to structure industrial automation projects.

  • Physical and procedural models
  • Process modeling and recipes
  • BatchML and control activities
  • Practical modeling exercises
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9510

Factory-to-Enterprise Integration

ISA-95 16 hours

Understand the models and information structures that connect manufacturing operations with enterprise systems.

  • Equipment and functional hierarchies
  • Information flows and object models
  • B2MML schemas
  • Manufacturing operations management
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Choose courses according to your role and project needs.

Industrial engineer reviewing a process facility from a control workstation

Learning that connects with your work

Turn standards into practical capabilities.

  • Develop a structured alarm philosophy.
  • Document production with consistent models.
  • Understand manufacturing-to-business information flows.

Learning across your organization

Who should attend?

  • Automation & control engineers
  • Process & operations teams
  • Plant managers
  • Manufacturing & integration specialists

Meet your instructor

Oscar Amaury Rojas Alvarado

Electronic Engineer · Industrial Informatics Specialist · M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, Industrial Automation.

Industrial automation and production process consultant, with an academic background in teaching and research.

A closer look

What each course covers.

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1810 — Alarm Management 16 hours
  1. Introduction

    Alarm system design over time; lessons from accidents; the importance of alarm management; principles, guides, standards, and good practices; the ISA-18.2-2016 alarm management lifecycle.

  2. Alarm philosophy and identification

    Developing an alarm philosophy and identifying alarms.

  3. Alarm rationalization

    Preparation, alarm justification, prioritization, and classification.

  4. Alarm design

    Alarm states and types, configuration and deadband, timing, and alarm messages.

  5. Alarm system implementation

    HMI design, alarm displays, available alarm management solutions, and successful application examples.

  6. Operations and maintenance

    Operational and maintenance considerations for alarm systems.

Learning approach: Concepts and models support the development of alarm philosophy, rationalization, basic and advanced alarm design, HMI design, performance monitoring, and management of change.

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8810 — Batch Management & Process Modeling 16 hours
  1. Introduction

    Enterprise integration concepts; definition and objectives of industrial automation; automation levels in an industrial process.

  2. Physical model

    Purpose of ISA-88, the physical model, application examples, practical exercise, and discussion.

  3. Procedural control model

    ISA-88 procedural control model, application examples, practical exercise, and discussion.

  4. Process model

    Process model, application examples, practical exercise, discussion, and specification of SCADA components using ISA-88 models.

  5. Recipe model

    Recipe concepts and types, recipe data structures, and BatchML.

  6. Control activity model

    Control activities, software architectures and functional specifications, and integration with manufacturing operations management and logistics.

Learning approach: Models are progressively applied to a production unit through practical exercises and discussion.

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9510 — Factory-to-Enterprise Integration 16 hours
  1. Introduction

    Enterprise integration concepts; purpose of ISA-95; basic terminology.

  2. Hierarchical and functional models

    Overview of ISA-95; equipment hierarchy; functional hierarchy; functional data flow model.

  3. Object models

    ISA-95 object models and B2MML schemas.

  4. Manufacturing operations management

    Purpose and general structure of ISA-95 Part 3 and its generic activity model.

Learning approach: Concepts, models, and discussion explore the flexibility of ISA-95 principles and their application in enterprise integration projects.

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