OMAC Overview and Future

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Title: OMAC Overview and Future

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OMAC Overview and Future

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OMAC Overview

OMAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
development and use of open, interoperable
control and automation systems technologies for
end users, technology providers, and OEMs.
OMAC has about 500 member representatives from
end-user companies, OEM's, and technology
providers and integrator companies. These members
include companies with vested interest in
developing and implementing open control
technologies for manufacturing applications.

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OMAC Scope

The OMAC Users Group was formed in 1994 as an
organization for companies to work together and
Collectively derive common solutions for both
technical and non-technical issues in the
development, implementation, and
commercialization of open, modular architecture
control (OMAC) technologies.
Promote OMAC development among control technology
providers and OMAC adoption among end users,
OEMs, and system integrators.
Act as a repository for OMAC requirements and
operating experience from users, software
developers, hardware builders and OEMs in
manufacturing applications.
Facilitate the accelerated development and
convergence of industry- and government-developed
technology guidelines to one set that satisfies
common use requirements.
Collaborate with users groups around the world in
pursuit of common international technology
guidelines.

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Working Groups

Working Groups
Packaging Machinery
Manufacturing Infrastructure
Machine Tool
Produce consensus guidelines to improve
flexibility, improve capability, and reduce
system integration costs.
Improve the automation industrys capabilities by
defining the educational and training needs of
our community.

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Packaging Workgroup

Business Objective
Maximize the business value of packaging
machinery by improving automation guidelines
leading to improved flexibility, improved
capability, and reduced system integration costs.
Strategy Overview
To maximize end-user and OEM machine automation
choices and flexibility through greater industry
openness and interoperability. This will enable
end users to connect-and-pack different
technology solutions to meet the business need.
To have automation suppliers, OEMs, and trade
groups worldwide supporting connect-and-pack
guidelines through products and practices.
To improve industry machine automation capability
by defining the educational and training needs of
the community.
To create a win-win-win between end-users,
technology providers, and OEMs.
To work with industry groups and standards bodies
to move the connect-and-pack guidelines to
industry standards.
To develop connect-and-pack guidelines that
provide easier integration horizontally (process
to packaging) and vertically (packaging to ERP
systems).

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Packaging Machinery Sub Groups

PackSoft - developing guidelines for machinery
programming languages to ease learning, support
transportability of software across platforms,
and allow continuing innovation
PackConnect - defining the control architecture
platforms and connectivity requirements for
packaging automation systems
PackAdvantage - Identify and communicate to the
packaging industry the Benefits/Results of using
connect pack guidelines for packaging
automation systems
PackML naming convention guidelines for
communications between production machinery
within the packaging industry.
PackLearn - promotes awareness of Group
initiatives by defining, and developing programs
to meet, the educational and training needs of
the industry

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Manufacturing Infrastructure Working Group

Business Objective
Maximize the business benefits of manufacturing
systems by developing common guidelines and
solutions for architecture and software usage
issues when implementing and integrating
manufacturing systems.
Strategy Overview
Promote the open systems available in
manufacturing control systems and plant floor
systems that support manufacturing operations.
Identify areas where open system standards are
lacking in manufacturing control systems and
charter subgroups to address these areas.
To develop best practices to aid in the use of
Microsoft operating systems in manufacturing
environment.
To provide input to Microsoft on the operating
system needs in the manufacturing environment.
To influence the software suppliers in the
manufacturing sector to insure they are
supporting the best practices published by the MS
MUG.
To provide user input to the OPC Foundation on
the needed changes/improvements to OPC.

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Manufacturing Infrastructure Sub Groups

OMAC Architecture Group
Microsoft Manufacturing Users Group
MUGSecure focused on increasing Windows
operating system reliability and security by
developing Best Practices for configuring Windows
in a control system environment.
MUGPatch concentrates on best practices for
upgrade validation with OS patches
MUGOPC concentrates on the expanding need to
update user issues into OPC standards

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Machine Tool Working Group

Business Objective
Maximize the business value of discrete part
machinery by providing automation guidelines,
developing best practices and assisting in
international standards development leading to
improved flexibility, improved capability, and
reduced system integration costs.
Strategy Overview
To maximize end-user and OEM machine automation
choices and flexibility through greater industry
openness and interoperability.
To have CNC controller vendors, CAD/CAM suppliers
and CNC OEMs supporting OMAC endorsed
open-architecture specifications, including
STEP-NC, OPC, and other best practices
technologies, through products and practices.
To improve industry machine automation capability
by defining the educational and training needs of
the community.
To create a WIN FOR ALL between end-users,
technology providers, and OEMs.

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Machine ToolSub Groups

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OMAC Documents - Examples

OMAC Guidelines
Guidelines for Packaging Machinery Automation
V3.0
MS MUG Recommendations for Licensing
MS MUG Best Practices V1.0
OMAC Baseline Architecture V1.0
MSMUG Endorses Designed for Windows XP Logo
Program for Plant Floor Software
Business Justification of Open Architecture
Control White Paper V1.0
OMAC Technical Documents
Windows CE Evaluation Report Test Plan and
Preliminary Results
Hard Real-time Extensions of Windows NT
Evaluation Report Test Plan and Phase 1 2
Results
Open, Modular Architecture Controls at GM
Powertrain
OMAC Requirements Document V1.1
Applications of OMAC Guidelines
Improving Productivity and OEE Utilizing
Real-Time Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions -
John Cavalenes (CiTect)
Siemens OMAC Standards Usage - Bill Henderson
(Siemens)
Integrated Architecture for Process and Discrete
Automation - Adam Maki (Rockwell)
OPC Unified Architecture - Tom Burke (OPC
Foundation)
PCN/SCADA Security - Rich Clark (Wonderware)