S88, shorthand for ANSI/ISA88, is a standard addressing batch process control.
It is not a standard for software and is equally applicable to manual processes.
The current parts of the S88 standard include: S88 provides a consistent set of standards and terminology for batch control and defines the physical model, procedures, and recipes.
The standard sought to address the following problems: lack of a universal model for batch control, difficulty in communicating user requirement, integration among batch automation suppliers, and difficulty in batch-control configuration.
Recipes can have the following types: general, site, master, control.