This book by Bianca Scholten provides an excellent explanation of the standards and a tutorial that intertwines definitions, end user quotes, and real integration project stories. This book will allow you to understand many of the complex concepts in the ISA-95 standard using simple examples and step-by-step plans for integration projects. This will provide invaluable help to any ERP-to-shop floor integration project. […] Like any standard, the ISA-95 standard and IEC 62264, the international version, was a consensus document. It reflects the experience of hundreds of experts from dozens of companies and countries. Because of this diversity of backgrounds and depth of experience we were not able to capture in the standard all of the knowledge shared in the meetings. We knew that the best methods to apply the standards also needed to be refined and documented. Bianca’s book is an important supplement to the standards, capturing in tutorial format what we were unable to put into the standards.  I hope that you learn as much from reading this book as I did, the comments and quotes from the early adopters of the standards provide valuable lessons for anyone starting an ERP-to-shop floor integration or MES project.  

If you want your MES and ERP integration projects to work, and get you promoted, you need to read Bianca Scholten's book. Not only do you need to read it, but you need to apply its lessons carefully and thoughtfully in your enterprise.
I recommend this book highly.

Beside our boring (yet efficient!) standard, Bianca Scholten's book is particularly legible, quite practical and I would recommend it as a first reading before tackling to the standard itself. ‘All models are wrong, but some are useful’: this applies to ISA-95 as well. The chapter 3 on the object model gives the essential to make it relevant for integration. Bianca depicts each object using clear examples and proposing relevant "good practices". The Masterfoods [...]  case study shows an interesting detail scheduling at the segment level, proving that the ISA-95 models aiming at level 3-4 information exchange can fit to more specific intra level 3 information flows, which is good for the coming part 4.

Within Philips Lighting we use the ANSI/ISA-95 standard as a reference to discuss functionalities per manufacturing IT application, as a tool for setting up User Requirement Specifications for MES applications and as a reference for decisions on SAP-MES integration. I see this book as a comprehensive user guide for the practical use of the ISA-95 standard. Philips Lighting successfully applied the ISA-95 standard as an analysis tool before starting MES implementations. With this book Bianca Scholten proves to be the leading lady on bringing ISA-95 knowledge into practice.

The book is well structured and clearly written. I can advise it to anyone who is active in the automation of factories, but is not yet familiar with the ISA-95 standard. The comparison to the Babylonian confusion of tongues in the first chapter was well chosen and it explains the standard in a good way. By the way objects of arts are used as a metaphor in every chapter. Also people who already have experience with the ISA-95 standard will be able to learn a lot from this book. Not only companies that need an interface between the enterprise and the shop floor systems, but also system integrators and software developers that act in this field can learn from it. The book contains interviews with many different people, who were willing to share their experiences. Bianca’s personal touch transforms the abstract subjects and processes into every day reality. […] The book is a ‘must read’ for every automation professional.

Willem van der Bijl, Chief editor of the Dutch trade magazine Automatie

Twee dames met een behoorlijk cv vonden het tijd worden voor een boek over respectievelijk ERP en de integratie van ERP met Manufacturing Execution Systems. Waar de eerste de plank misslaat is de tweede een schot in de roos [...] Veel toegankelijker is het Engelstalige boek 'The Road to Integration' van Bianca Scholten, een autoriteit op het gebied van integratie en partner bij Ordina. Voor haar boek is geen enkele voorkennis nodig van de ISA95 standaard. Het nodigt uit tot lezen en staat vol met praktische tips, zelfs hoe je zaken moet formuleren in documenten zodat niets aan de interpretatie wordt overgelaten. Dit maakt het boek geschikt voor beginners, maar ook als naslagwerk voor ervaren managers. [...], heeft Scholten leuke interviews gedaan met verschillende bedrijven. 

Supply Chain Magazine nr.9, 2007