More About the PERA Enterprise Integration Web Site

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More About the PERA Enterprise Integration Web Site

MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide a reference site for PERA materials, and a forum for sharing information on Enterprise Master Planning and Systems Integration.

OBJECTIVES:

Our objectives in establishing this web site include the following:

Provide PERA educational and reference documentation.
Demonstrate how PERA may be applied in many industries.
Provide an overview of Master Planning and Enterprise Integration standards and technology.
Demonstrate PERA by using it to structure an index of Enterprise Integration products.
Provide a forum for discussion of Enterprise Integration topics.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:

This web site is meant for:

Automation and Control Systems (ACS) Engineers
including Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and Industrial Network Engineers.

Computer and Information Technology (IT) Professionals
including Commercial Telecom and Computer Network Specialists.

Operational Technology (OT) specialists
applying combined ACS and IT technologies in control and optimization systems.

Project Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Personnel
Designing Facilities and supporting ACS Engineers and IT specialists in Enterprise Engineering.

Enterprise Corporate and Plant Management
including Corporate "C-suite", Division and Plant Management.

Plant Engineering and Maintenance Personnel
inclding Process Operations and Maintenance Management.

While this website focusses on the Control and Information Systems component of PERA, it is also relevant to all other management and engineering groups since it relates all three components of an enterprise:

People
Control and Information Systems
Production Facilities

Thus, the PERA concepts described on this site can equally well be used by Process Engineers to understand how plant facilities interface with Control and Information Systems, or by Plant Management to define interfaces between People, Information Systems and Production Facilities.

HISTORY:

This website was initially established by:

Ted Williams Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, and.
Gary Rathwell, President of Enterprise Consultants.

It is based on principles established by PLAIC (Purdue Laboratory for Applied Integration and Control) and several major studies and reports which you will find in the PERA Documents section of this website.

When Ted retired and PLAIC was disbanded, Gary Rathwell, Hong Li, and many other practicioners who had participated in the original PERA development, continued to apply and develop the Enterprise Integration material which you will find described here.

Through Enteprise Consultants, Gary Rathwell, Frank Stieglitz, Bill Bosler, Bridget Rathwell, and Bob Sherman implemented more than a dozen Enterprise Master Planning projects, many of which were overseas. At the same time, Shelby Laurents and his EICS Team at Fluor implemented many more Oil Refining Enterprise Integration projects here in the United States, and Hong Li implemented PERA projects in China.

During this time, Bill Bosler, Shelby Laurents, Leon Steinocher and Gary Rathwell participated in development of the ISA 95 Enterprise Integration standard, which builds upon PERA architecture and concepts.

There have been so many contributors to this work, that it is not practical to list them all here; however some of the most important have been listed in the "Credits" and this list continues to grow.

We are proponents of the Stone Soup school of technology development, so we welcome your suggestions to improve this site, and encourage you to sent us (or let us point to) reference material you would like to share. Just drop us an email or call our implementation and support team at Enterprise Consultants .

We welcome your comments

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