Standardisation

Standardisation

Joint IEC/ISO Working Group JWG15, Meeting in Nice, France

The joint work group IEC/SC 65A - TC 184/SC 5/JWG 15 held its meeting at Nice, France, on 2003-03-24/27. Attendance was from France 4, Germany 1, Italy 1, Switzerland 1, UK 1, USA 2. The meeting objective was to resolve the comments on IEC/ISO DIS 62264-2 (Part 2 Object Model Attributes) received from the ISO and IEC member countries, the major comments coming from France, UK, Germany, US and Sweden. Issues arising from the comments that were resolved during the meeting:

The widely used definitions and the graphical representations of UML will be used as far as possible. Several inconsistencies in the document were corrected.
A more expressive way to capture the notion of time via event, ending status and duration has been introduced as attributes in the relevant object models.
Product and materials have been logically separated defining product as a business oriented item whereas material comprises the things processed and transformed in the enterprise.
Capability will have attributes the capacity and availability
A text to explain the relationships between 62264 and ISO/TC184/SC4 standards will be drafted

Most of the issues were resolved, a few have been deferred to the next meeting. The document will then be submitted for ballot to the supporting organisations by the convenor Dennis Brandl.

ISO/IEC 62264 is the first part of a set of standards in three parts, that have been developed by ISA under the name ISA–95.00.00–2000 'Enterprise-Control System Integration'. Part 1 is already FDIS, whereas Part 2 has been approved CVD as of 2003-01-10.

The next JWG15 meeting will take place on June 11/13, 2003 at BSI, London, UK. A new version of the 62264-2 document with the agreed changes will be issued by Dennis Brandl ( dennis_brandl@bellsouth.net.)

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