SCADA architecture: a design guide from field to control room
Design SCADA systems that scale — field layer, communications, servers, redundancy, and alarming — without painting the project into a corner.
ISA-18.2
Standard lifecycle for rational, actionable process alarms.
ISA-18.2, the process-industry alarm management standard, defines a lifecycle from identification and rationalization through design, implementation, operation, monitoring, maintenance, and change. It emphasizes alarms that require a timely operator response.
See also: Alarm management · HMI · SCADA
Use the concept: Industrial automation fundamentals · PLC FAT & SAT checklist template · OT backup & restore test template
In depth
PLC FAT and SAT checklist: test behavior and handover evidence
Plan factory and site acceptance around requirements, observable results, failure states, approved changes and recoverable project files.
OT backup and restore testing: prove the recovery path
Inventory the files and dependencies needed to recover a control system, set recovery objectives, and test restoration on an isolated target.