Commission Electrotechnique Internationale International Electrotechnical Commission Международная Электротехническая Комиссия How to apply industrial applications in conjunction with the dictionary content of IEC 61360-4 DB Blank detail specification Fritz Reuter Berlin, Germany, 2006-09-25 Reasons for setting up the project How to guide a user when writing product/item descriptions? No guiding document known neither in ISO/IEC for such item nor elsewhere Setting up of manual or computer-interpretable product descriptions involves enormous amount of time and money Required by industry What is required? Writing (manual or computer-interpretable) product/item descriptions requires information about Knowledge about methods available and applicable within this area Product/item class-independent items Product/item class-dependent items Process-related items Business-case dependent items Life-cycle dependent items Predefined data element types … What to do? - Step 1-1 Define a predefined structure independent of a product/item class with the intention to provide an industrial user with the information what a product/item related description should contain Define what kind of information to be provided within the specified structure Known structural input available from EN 45510 and IEC 61987 Step 1-2 Provide generic methods and principles to apply existing data element types of the IEC 61360-DB Reference Component Dictionary (IEC-RCD) without redefinition covering life-cycle requirements; process-depending generation of values; tracing of values assigned to DET‘s over life cycle; Include resulting DETs in the IEC RCD Step 1-3 Assign existing predefined data element types (DETs) to the structural clauses which are independent of a product class Make missing DETs available in the IEC-RCD Reference such DETs in the related structural elements Step 2 Provide generic mechanism, e.g. XML template, for product/item description serving the industrial user to apply the generic structure as the underlying basis for the design of a specific product/item class description Applicable by industrial user, consortia or product committee within IEC or ISO Technical committees may provide Standardized Blank detail Specifications Step 3 The generic specification template for product/item description can be applied as underlying basis for the design of a specific product/item class description; e.g . produced by industrial user or consortia Technical committees may provide Standardized Blank detail Specifications for specific product classes Step 4 Such (standardized) Blank detail specification of a specific product/item class (BDS) can be used between industrial partners in business transactions along life-cycle Recommended to make standardized BDS available for download at IEC TC3 web page for industrial use NWI Blank Detail Specification IEC 6xxxx consists of the following parts under the general title Blank detail specifications: Part 1: Generic specification structure , methods and principles Part 2: Generic specification template Part x: Electronic resource template for generic blank detail specification Part x: Blank detail specifications – Application examples Generic Specification template Qualifier of Values XMLModel for BDS Standardized Blank Detail Specification Blank Detail Specification * Guide for Exchange (filled-in) Detail Specification Supplier exchange Manufacturer NWI on Blank Detail Specification Reference Dictionary Instance Exchange e.g. PLIBOTD UN/FACT DET DET DET IEC 61360 Blank Detail Specification - Architecture Term: Generic Specification Template Generic Specification Template (Document): Provides Structure of Blank Detail Specification Description of the structured generic specification Made by standardization group Used for definition of Blank Detail Specifications • Note 1: Currently a document, shall become Computer sensible, e.g. XML-Schema Term: blank detail specification blank detail specification: structured generic specification of the set of properties needed to describe an object type referenced from a reference dictionary Note 1: Currently a document, shall become Computer sensible, e.g. XML-Schema Note 2: Context can be a business process Note 3: Defined by Standardization Group Note 4: Implemented in Exchange between systems of industrial users Term: detail specification detail specification, functional specification: blank detail specification with filled-in values Note: Currently foreseen as document, shall also become computer sensible, e.g. XML-Schema Term: Guide for Exchange Guide for Exchange (BDS formally specified) Kind of Standardized Blank Detail Specification Made by communication partner Used for specialization of Standardized Blank Detail Specifications Thank you for your attention