ISA TR106.00.01-2013

This technical report provides an overview of the benefits, best practices, and language, including terms and definitions, for applying procedure automation across the continuous process industries. In agreement with the scope of the ISA106 Committee, this technical report focuses on automation procedures that primarily reside on systems within the supervisory control, monitoring, and automated process control section (as defined by ISA-95 functional levels 1 and 2) of a production process (as defined by ISA-95 functional level 0). It was not the intent of the committee to have this technical report focus on procedure execution at the operations management functional level (as defined by ISA-95 level 3). The interaction with manual procedures is within the scope, but manual procedures are outside the scope of this technical report.