ISO/TC 184/SC 5/WG 4 - Manufacturing software and its environment

This document specifies the search methodology from software unit catalogues for acquiring candidate capability units which satisfy the manufacturing application requirements.

This document describes an approach for using ISO 16100 to achieve cooperation between software agents by exchanging manufacturing software unit (MSU) capability profiles. The exchanged profiles among agents describe the manufacturing capabilities requested by the requester and to be fulfilled by the performer.

This document specifies a set of template definitions to describe the capability of a software unit of an automation solution that can be mapped to the functional requirements of a target manufacturing application. This document specifies how to develop and manage a software unit catalogue in terms of capability properties and defines mapping rules from capability profiles to a software unit catalogue.

This document specifies a framework for describing an automation solution in terms of a set of capabilities provided by a set of manufacturing software units. The framework also defines a set of capability elements and composition rules to represent the interoperability criteria in terms of the automation system capability requirements of an enterprise application.

This document defines the detailed interface services and protocols used in a matching method based on multiple capability class structures. This document also defines a CPTI (Capability Profile Template Interface) Service Group, an Extended CPI (Capability Profile Interface) Service Group and an Extended Matcher Interface Service Group, which is extensions of the Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 services, respectively, specified in ISO 16100-3:2005,5.4. This document also defines the CCSI (Capability Class Structure Interface) Service Group, an additional service group used to create, register, access and modify a capability class structure for the reference manufacturing domain models specified in ISO 16100-5:2009, Clause 6. This document also specifies detailed contents of the specific part of a capability profile template defined in ISO 16100-5:2009, Clause 7.

ISO 16300‑3:2017 specifies a framework for verifying and validating the interoperability of manufacturing capability units (MCUs) having a set of capabilities that meet the functional requirements of a target manufacturing application solution. The verification and validation framework describes the use of the interoperability criteria in ISO 16300‑1 and the steps to be performed.

ISO/TR 18161:2013 describes an approach for using ISO 16100 and ISO 18435 to specify information exchange requirements between applications. This approach is based on the use of ISO 18435 application integration matrix element (AIME)/application domain matrix element (ADME) templates in conjunction with ISO 16100 manufacturing software unit (MSU) capability profiles. ISO/TR 18161:2013 also provides an example approach as applied to describing the interoperability requirements of the integrated smart pump application, which comprises the pump control application and the pump diagnostics application.

ISO 16100-1:2009 specifies a framework for the interoperability of a set of software products used in the manufacturing domain and to facilitate its integration into a manufacturing application. This framework addresses information exchange models, software object models, interfaces, services, protocols, capability profiles and conformance test methods.

ISO 16100-5:2009 specifies the methods and rules for matching existing manufacturing software unit (MSU) capability profiles and required capability profiles derived from multiple capability class structures. The methods and rules allow MSUs in manufacturing applications to be evaluated for interoperability and, in some cases, for interchangeability. The following are outside the scope of ISO 16100-5:2009: services for creating, registering and accessing the various templates for the reference manufacturing domain models, the manufacturing domain data and the capability class structures; the conformance tables that reference Type 1 services defined and specified in ISO 16100-3; additional services needed for managing these templates in a database or equivalent object repository.

ISO 16100-4:2006 specifies the test method, the associated test criteria and the statement format used to evaluate and declare the degree of conformance of an implementation, i.e. a unit under test (UUT), to the requirements specified in other parts of ISO 16100. ISO 16100-4:2006 includes definitions intended to assist a manufacturer or supplier (first party), a user or purchaser (second party), or an independent body (third party) to perform the assessment for type evaluation. ISO 16100-4:2006 contains the following: an enumeration of those conformance aspects that can be used to determine whether an implementation conforms to ISO 16100; a definition of the conformance tests and statements used in declaring which aspects are met by an implementation; a description of the aspects to be included in a conformance statement; a set of rules to select valid or invalid combinations of aspects when they are combined.

ISO 16100-3:2005 specifies requirements for interface services and protocols used to access and edit capability profiles and associated templates used in the capability profiling method defined in Clause 5 of ISO 16100-2. The detailed services for accessing capability profiles and performing the matching process on these profiles are defined in ISO 16100-3:2005. ISO 16100-3:2005 is applicable only for the interoperability of software units used in the manufacturing domain. Concerns regarding interchangeability of manufacturing software units are outside the scope of this part of ISO 16100.

ISO 16100-2:2003 specifies a methodology for constructing profiles of manufacturing software capabilities, and is applicable to software products used in the manufacturing domain. It is an integral part of ISO 16100 (all parts), a series of International Standards for the computer-interpretable and human readable representation of a software capability profile. The goal of ISO 16100 (all parts) is to provide a method to represent the capability of manufacturing software relative to its role throughout the life cycle of a manufacturing application, independent of a particular system architecture or implementation platform.

The document specifies the functional architecture of MAPLE, a Manufacturing Automation Programming Environment. MAPLE is a vendor-independent neutral facility for the programming of multiple manufacturing devices and controls. For the programming of manufacturing devices and controls the following areas will be supported: Connection between various manufacturing data and manufacturing application programs; management of several manufacturing databases; sharing of manufacturing application programs and software tools.

1 Scope Part 1 of ISO 16100 specifies a framework for the interoperability of a set of software products used in the manufacturing domain and to facilitate its integration into a manufacturing application (see Annex A for a discussion of a manufacturing application). This framework addresses information exchange models, software object models, interfaces, services, protocols, capability profiles, and conformance test methods.