defines “the elements to use when producing an enterprise model, concepts for life-cycle phases, and how these models describe hierarchy, structure, and behavior”. Also contains guidelines and constraints for relating the real world to enterprise models through views. This latter concept is equivalent to the views of CEN ENV 40 003. As a result of a recent systematic review ballot, this standard is scheduled for withdrawal when a systematic review revision of ISO 15704 occurs. Intended audience: Standards makers and enterprise modelers.

specifies a framework of three dimensions (modeling phase for different life-cycle stages, generic concepts that are then specialized to a particular industry sector and then to a specific enterprise, and views that classify concepts by four areas of concern or modeler viewpoint) “that serves as a common basis to identify and coordinate standards development for modeling enterprises, emphasizing, but not restricted to, computer integrated manufacturing. The standard serves as the basis for further standards for the development of models that will be computer- enactable and enable business process model-based decision support leading to model-based operation, monitoring and control.” Intended audience: Developers of models intended to be executable in an operational domain.

"...identifies operational levels of enterprises in which interoperability needs are envisaged. It then identifies concerns (business, process, services, data) and barriers (conceptual, technology, oganizational) to interoperability and specifies approaches (integrated, unified, federated) to overcome these barriers. Normative requirements for potential solutions to those barriers will be presented in additional parts of this standard." "The focus is on enabling the communication rather than defining the communication itself, and is thus independent of specific technologies. The proposal is based on work from the European projects ATHENA, INTEROP and others." This project and its various parts use the acronym MEPI (Manufacturing-Enterprise Process Interoperability) Intended audience: Application integrators, enterprise software vendors, and enterprise refurbishers.

“…specifies a manufacturing information model that characterizes software-interfacing requirements… 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." Intended audience: Developers of software tools and application software for manufacturing.

“… defines elements and rules that facilitate – the systematic organization and representation of the application integration requirements using integration models; - the development of interface specifications in the form of application interoperability profiles (AIPs) that enable both selection of suitable resources and the documentation of the ‘as built’ application.” Intended audience: Developers of AIPs for manufacturing systems.

“specifies a language for the representation of process information, which is a process specification language. It is composed of a lexicon, an ontology, and a grammar for process descriptions. (ISO 18629) describes what elements inter-operable systems should encompass, but not how a specific application implements these elements.”

Collection and analysis of terms used in SC5 standards. Study provides a listing of defined term, a proposed taxonomy for term use, and guidance for term's use and definition.

Edited by Richard A. Martin, convener: ISO TC184 SC5 WG1, richardm@tinwisle.com with text from David Shorter, convener: CEN TC310 WG10, david.itfocus@zen.co.uk and Jim Nell, past convener ISO TC184 SC5 WG1. Several of this working group’s products are initiated by CEN TC310 WG10 under the terms of the ISO/CEN Vienna Agreement – CEN Lead (available on SDIS portion of www.iso.ch under Basic Procedures.)