The mission of the Manufacturing Infrastructure Working Group (MIWG) is to 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 and ensuring architecture consistency.
We aim to become the leading advocacy group for resolving manufacturing system implementation and integration issues and defining common manufacturing architecture and software usage guidelines, resulting in business benefits to end users, technology suppliers, and machine builders.
Currently, there is a subgroup under this working group:
Our mission is to define the concept of Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) and associated high-level control system architectures for discrete, hybrid, and continuous manufacturing systems. The goal of the OMAC architecture is to reduce the total life cycle cost associated with manufacturing control systems by leveraging systems built on “open” and “de facto” standards and commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software components.
To this end, we will promote the open systems available in manufacturing control systems and plant floor systems that support manufacturing operations; and identify areas where open system standards are lacking in manufacturing control systems and address them.
The Microsoft Manufacturing User Group is now a working group within The Automation Federation.