OMAC standards yield operational savings

The Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) Users Group's guidelines and initiatives can deliver more than 50% savings according to end-users at OMAC's meeting on Feb. 3-4. These savings involve software security, machine tool efficiencies, and more flexible packaging equipment. For example, bottom-line benefits to corporations from good software security, best practices, a...

By Staff March 1, 2005

The Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) Users Group’s guidelines and initiatives can deliver more than 50% savings according to end-users at OMAC’s meeting on Feb. 3-4. These savings involve software security, machine tool efficiencies, and more flexible packaging equipment.

For example, bottom-line benefits to corporations from good software security, best practices, and patch management total $5-20 million per year for large corporations and $1-5 million for smaller companies, according to an estimate from Ashok Nangia, chair of OMAC’s Microsoft Manufacturing User Group (MS MUG), who also works for 3M.

In addition, the meeting covered a cooperative effort, Make2Pack, involving World Batch Forum, OMAC, and ISA S88, which aims to streamline the production of products through packaging, as the name implies, by combining conventions from both making and packing used in the ISA S88 Parts 1, 2, and 3, and the current PackML model.