Randy Dwiggins, ISA-88 Chairman and also Principal Automation Engineer at NNE Pharmaplan, recently announced that the second edition of ISA-TR88.00.02-Ed.2-CDV2, Machine and Unit States, was approved by the ISA88 Committee and that final approval by the ISA Standards & Practices Board is expected in early summer of this year.
“Users were finding the first version too long and complicated, making it difficult to understand how it should be applied,” says Dwiggins. “So in this revised version it’s been simplified, and some of the optional information has been removed. OEE [Overall Equipment Effectiveness] strategies, for example are still under development, so some of that was removed. The idea was to make it easier for people to use and apply the spec.”
