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Automation systems and integration. Core vocabulary for industrial data. | Status: Current

1 Scope This document specifies a vocabulary for industrial data that defines generic terms for things that exist in more than one industrial domain. The following are within the scope of this document:

• — definition of terms for generic types of industrial thing;

  EXAMPLE 1

  Definitions of the terms “material object”, “artefact” and “product” are within the vocabulary.
• — definition of terms relevant to assemblies, systems and their breakdown structures;
• — definition of terms relevant to activities and participation in activities;
• — definition of terms relevant to positions and roles in organizations;
• — definition of terms relevant to behaviour, capability and function;
• — definition of terms relevant to state and condition;
• — definition of terms relevant to specifications, designs and plans;
• — definition of terms relevant to versions, alternatives and configurations for specifications, designs and plans;
• — definition of terms relevant to signals and other carriers of information and to devices that process signals and information;
• — definition of terms relevant to physical quantities and properties.

The following are outside the scope of this document:

• — definition of terms that are relevant to data themselves, rather than the things that data are about;

  EXAMPLE 2

  Definitions of the terms “data” and “information” are not within the vocabulary.
• — definition of terms that are relevant to representations.

  EXAMPLE 3

  Definitions of the terms “representation” and “model” are not within the vocabulary.