IEC 61987-100:2025
(Main)Industrial-process measurement and control – Data structures and elements in process equipment catalogues – Part 100: Data base standard for process measurement, control and automation equipment
Industrial-process measurement and control – Data structures and elements in process equipment catalogues – Part 100: Data base standard for process measurement, control and automation equipment
IEC 61987-100:2025 provides the semantics of the data needed for the area of process automation, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and smart manufacturing. Classification and description of products with classes and properties for future objects within the scope of TC 65 (Industrial-process measurement, control and automation) will be developed as IEC 61987 DB standard and published via IEC CDD data dictionary IEC 61987.
Mesure et commande dans les processus industriels – Eléments et structures de données dans les catalogues d'équipements de processus – Partie 100: Norme de base de données des équipements de mesure, de commande et d'automation pour les processus
IEC 61987-100:2025 donne la sémantique des données nécessaire pour le domaine de l'automation dans les processus, de l'Internet Industriel des Objets (IIdO) et de la fabrication intelligente. La classification et la description des produits au moyen de classes et de propriétés pour de futurs objets dans le domaine d'activité du CE 65 (Mesure, commande et automation dans les processus industriels) seront développées dans le cadre de la norme IEC 61987 DB et publiées dans le dictionnaire de données commun de l'IEC (IEC CDD) sous la référence IEC 61987.
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INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Industrial-process measurement and control – Data structures and elements in
process equipment catalogues –
Part 100: Data base standard for process measurement, control and automation
equipment
Mesure et commande dans les processus industriels – Eléments et structures de
données dans les catalogues d'équipements de processus –
Partie 100: Norme de base de données des équipements de mesure,de
commande et d'automation pour les processus
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IEC 61987-100 ®
Edition 1.0 2025-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Industrial-process measurement and control – Data structures and elements in
process equipment catalogues –
Part 100: Data base standard for process measurement, control and automation
equipment
Mesure et commande dans les processus industriels – Eléments et structures
de données dans les catalogues d'équipements de processus –
Partie 100: Norme de base de données des équipements de mesure,de
commande et d'automation pour les processus
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 25.040.40, 35.240.50 ISBN 978-2-8327-0146-1
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 7
3.1 Terms and definitions . 7
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 7
4 Development and maintenance of IEC 61987 data dictionary . 7
4.1 Overview of the generic structures . 7
4.2 Further development and maintenance of the IEC 61987 series . 8
Bibliography . 9
Figure 1 – Screenshot of the current content of the IEC 61987 public domain . 6
Figure 2 – Screenshot of the generic structures of IEC 61987 in IEC CDD . 8
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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INDUSTRIAL-PROCESS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL –
DATA STRUCTURES AND ELEMENTS IN PROCESS
EQUIPMENT CATALOGUES –
Part 100: Data base standard for process measurement,
control and automation equipment
FOREWORD
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IEC 61987-100 has been prepared by subcommittee SC 65E: Devices and integration in
enterprise systems, of IEC technical committee TC 65: Industrial-process measurement, control
and automation. It is an International Standard.
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The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
Draft Report on voting
65E/1089/CDV 65E/1145/RVC
Full information on the voting for its approval can be found in the report on voting indicated in
the above table.
The language used for the development of this International Standard is English.
A list of all parts in the IEC 61987, published under the general title Industrial-process
measurement and control – Data structures and elements in process equipment catalogues,
can be found on the IEC website.
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INTRODUCTION
IEC common data dictionary (CDD – https://cdd.iec.ch) provides classifications and descriptions
of products to enable unambitious electronic data exchange for e-commerce and business
opportunities along the product life cycle.
Several IEC standards for classifying and describing products with classes and properties have
been developed as database standards (DB standards) and published via IEC CDD, e.g.
IEC 62683 and IEC 63213. Today, numerous parts of IEC 61987, which also classify and
describe products with classes and properties, have already been created and published via
IEC CDD.
With IEC 61987 DB, IEC responds to the rising market needs to support machine-sensible
communication for e-commerce, engineering, maintenance and Smart Manufacturing.
The IEC CDD (common data dictionary) is an IEC-hosted system that includes a common
repository with data dictionaries for all ISO and IEC industrial/technical related-domains and
that complies with the data model for data dictionaries defined in IEC 61360-2/ISO 13584-42
with an enhancement of its modelling capability adopted from IEC 62656-1.
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