ISA says ANSI/ISA-112.00.01-2025 is available for purchase and included with member access.
The International Society of Automation (ISA), a professional society for automation, has published ANSI/ISA-112.00.01-2025, SCADA Systems – Part 1: SCADA Lifecycle, Diagrams and Terminology. The standard is available for purchase at isa.org and is accessible to ISA members as a membership benefit.
This is important for Control Engineering subscribers because supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are part of controls systems that monitor and control critical industrial and other assets.
SCADA is an automated control system architecture commonly used in industrial, utility and manufacturing environments. ISA-112 Part 1 provides a framework for managing SCADA systems and modernization projects across vendors and technologies. It covers the ISA-112 SCADA lifecycle, diagrams and terminology. The standard applies across multiple industries, including municipal water and wastewater, oil and gas, pipelines, dam and irrigation systems, electricity transmission and distribution, railways, highways, bridges and tunnels, airports, civil infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, defense and remote monitoring. Additional parts addressing lifecycle review processes and architectures are planned.
ISA-112 Part 1 is intended for companies, utilities, system integrators and other organizations involved in SCADA projects, whether they are designing a new SCADA system or upgrading legacy systems to address current security and connectivity requirements. An ANSI-approved standard, ISA-112 Part 1 includes a functional architecture model and lifecycle framework intended for use across a range of SCADA projects in different industries, geographic locations, technologies and regulatory environments.
The standard covers end-user SCADA systems standards, management and operational processes, and workflows for designing, building, operating, maintaining, expanding and auditing SCADA systems.
The ISA112 committee was formed by participants from the oil and gas, pipeline and municipal water and wastewater sectors to develop a standardized framework for managing, designing, building and pricing SCADA systems. The committee now includes more than 350 volunteers from multiple industries.
“The ISA-112 Part 1 standard has been developed to make it easier for end users to organize their SCADA system standards and communicate to others what their needs and wishes are. The standard also gives system integrators, vendors and consultants a standardized way to execute the design, implementation and ongoing enhancements to SCADA systems,” said Graham Nasby, founding co-chair of the ISA112 committee and systems lead – Eastern Canada at PBX Engineering Ltd. “ISA-112 Part 1 is a testament to ISA’s proven approach to developing consensus-based, vendor-neutral technical standards.”
For information about the ISA112 committee and participation in future SCADA standards work, visit isa.org/standards.
Edited by Puja Mitra, WTWH Media, for Control Engineering, from an International Society of Automation news release.
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