What is BS EN 61968-6- Interfaces for maintenance and construction about?
BS EN 61968-6 is a safety standard on application integration at electric utilities.
BS EN 61968-6 specifies the information content of a set of message types that can be used to support business functions related to Maintenance and Construction.
Typical uses of the message types defined in BS EN 61968-6 include planned maintenance, unplanned maintenance, conditional maintenance, work management, new service requests, etc.
Note: Message types defined in other parts of IEC 61968 may also be relevant to these use cases.
Who is BS EN 61968-6- Interfaces for maintenance and construction for?
BS EN 61968-6 on interfaces for maintenance and construction is relevant to:
- Interface project managers
- Electrical engineers
- Electricians
- Contractors
- Local community groups and regulatory bodies
- Electrical distribution networks and management
Why should you use BS EN 61968-6- Interfaces for maintenance and construction?
The IEC 61968 standard, taken as a whole, defines interfaces for the major elements of an interface architecture for Distribution Management Systems (DMS).
IEC 61968-3 to 9 define interfaces relevant to each of the major business functions described by the Interface Reference Model. As used in IEC 61968, a DMS consists of various distributed application components for the utility to manage electrical distribution networks. These capabilities include monitoring and control of equipment for power delivery, management processes to ensure system reliability, voltage management, demand-side management, outage management, work management, automated mapping, and facilities management.
The purpose of BS EN 61968-6 is to define a standard for the integration of Maintenance and Construction Systems (MC), which would include Work Management Systems, with other systems and business functions within the scope of IEC 61968.
The scope of BS EN 61968-6 is the exchange of information between Maintenance and Construction Systems and other systems within the utility enterprise.
BS EN 61968-6 recognizes and models the general capabilities that can be potentially provided by maintenance and construction systems including planned, unplanned, and conditional maintenance. In this way, BS EN 61968-6 will not be impacted by the specification, development, and deployment of next-generation maintenance systems, either using standards or proprietary means.
The IEC 61968 standards are intended to assist inter-application rather than intra-application integration. In contrast, IEC 61968 is designed to help a utility organisation integrate various programmes produced or acquired, each supported by a different runtime environment. Languages, operating systems, protocols, and management tools vary widely in loosely connected applications. Applications that need to share data every few seconds, minutes, or hours can use this set of standards. This set of standards will complement, not replace, utility data warehouses, database gateways, and operational stores. DMSs are used in IEC 61968 to control electrical distribution networks. These capabilities include monitoring and controlling power supply equipment, managing system dependability, managing voltage, managing demand, managing outages, managing work, automating mapping, and managing facilities.
Overall, BS EN 61968-6 is useful as it assists with intra-application integration which is aimed at programs in the same application system, usually communicating with each other using middleware that is embedded in their underlying runtime environment, and tends to be optimized for close, real-time, synchronous connections and interactive request/reply or conversation communication models.
