Implementing Manufacturing Message Specification services and protocol using ISO Development Environment

The Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS) is an OSI application layer standard designed to support messaging communications to and from programmable devices in a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment. This paper describes how the ISO Development Environment (ISODE) can be employed to implement MMS. ISODE is a non-proprietary implementation of the upper layers of the OSI protocol suite. The experience should be useful to those contemplating using ISODE to implement OSI application entities and application programs.<>