Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs about Enterprise Integration Standards and Models.

The following are "Open" Enterprise Integration Standards from various industry and government groups. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather is intended to direct the reader towards the most important standards.

• APICS American Production and Inventory Control Society
  is a "not-for-profit" membership group serving the MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) industry. It provides educational and reference materials as well as courses and workshops
  • The APICS Dictionary is referenced in the PERA Dictionary of Enterprise Integration and we usually treat its MES definitions on as authorative.
  • APICS Online Bookstore offers many reference books on ERP, SCM, JIT, Quality Management and other Manufacturing topics.
  • Scanned Slides from API proposal meeting about standardized XML across the petroleum and pipeline industry.

• CEN TC310 WG1 is the working group that deals with Enterprise Modelling for Computer Integrated Manufacturing within TC310, the technical committee for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.
  • CEN is the European Committee for Standardization, located in Brussels.
  • TC310 has primarily focused on discrete manufacturing.
  • CEN work is coordinated with ISO TC184/SC5/WG1 (see below) under the "Vienna agreement".

• Department of Energy Press Release announcing the release of the Draft of Cybersecurity Risk Management Process (RMP) Guideline for Public Comment
• IDEF Structured Systems Analysis Diagrams.

  IDEF 0 - Function Modelling IDEF 1 - Information Modelling IDEF 1X - Data Modelling

  IDEF 3 - Process Modelling IDEF 4 - Object Oriented Design IDEF 5 - Ontology Description

• IEC 61131-3 Industrial Control Programming Standards including:

  Sequential Function Charts Ladder Diagrams Function Block Diagrams

  Instruction Lists Structured Text

• IFIP and IFAC Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration.

• ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society
  • ISA-S95 Enterprise to Control System Integration
    This standard addresses the exchange of data between Control Systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). It contains many PERA concepts and references. This presentation gives an introduction to S95
  • ISA-S88 Batch Control Standard.
    This is an excellent standard which covers a wide range of control and data issues associated with batch process plants. Both Parts 1 and two are now available.
    • Batch Control Part 1 Covers Models and terminology of the standard
    • Batch Control Part 2 Covers Data Structures and Language Guidelines
  • Fieldbus Industrial Data Highway Standard.
    This was created as an answer to the Profibus standard after many years of committee discussion.
  • ISA-S99 - Security standard offering guidance documents and standards on IT security to existing industrial control and automation Systems
  • Part 1 – defines terms and models used in automation security
  • Part 2 – establishing Cyber Security Management Systems
  • This presentation discusses Industrial Systems Security in general, as well as addressing the implications of S99 and IEC 62443 (see here for handout version)
  • General ISA Standards
    ISA offers a large number of instrumentation and control standards which may be downloaded individually, or purchased as a CD containing the full set.

• ISO TC184 SC5 WG1 Enterprise Modelling and Architecture
  • Supported by NIST (US National Institute of Standards & Technology)
  • Coordinated with CEN TC310 WG1 (see above) under the "Brussels Agreement"
• OAG Open Applications Group
  is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process-based XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration. OAG projects include:
  • Content work defining business processes, their messages and the data dictionary.
  • Technical work comprised of XML design, development, UML repository work, and application architecture.

• OMG Object Management Group
  is dedicated to setting vendor-neutral software standards, and enabling distributed enterprise-wide interoperability. OMG standards include:
  • UML Unified Modelling Language
    An object-oriented graphical language standard for expressing program design. Includes Class and Object diagrams, Structure diagrams, and Use Case diagrams.
  • MOF Meta-Object Facility
    Defines a standardized repository for meta-data such as definitions of data types or UML models.
  • XMI XML Metadata Interchange
    A format for interchange of meta-data such as transferring the model to the next step in a design process.
  • CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
    A vendor-independant specification of a way for computer applications to work together over networks. It includes an Interface Definition Language (IDL), and the GIOP and IIOP protocols. CORBA provides a standard way for applications in any language, on any operating system, or network to communicate with applications in any other language, on any other operating system, or network.
  • CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel
    This specification describes metadata interchange among data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies.
  • MDA Model Driven Architecture
    An open, vendor-neutral approach to system development based on UML, XMI, CWM and CORBA.

• PIP Process Industry Practices
  is an initiative of CII the Construction Industry Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin. PIP provides standards which are "harmonized" from engineering company standards in many disciplines including:
  • Process Control and
  • P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams).

• The PROFIBUS Industrial Data Highway Standard
  is provided by the PROFIBUS Consortium.

• STEP STandard for Exchange of Product Data
  This standard is achieving wide international acceptance and is now required on all large US government projects.

• XML EXtensibleMarkup Language
  "XML is the universal format for structured documents on the web" -- .
  XML is a subset of SGML which was developed by the W3C Consortium in 1998. It is has received rapid acceptance at all levels in the enterprise architecture for exchanging information between applications. It is also the basis for many related standards.

• Wiring Protocols
  • Category 5 TIA/EIA 568A and 568B Configuration
    • 568A vs 568B

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General Standards References

Tech Street Industry Standards PageThis site is a professional-style listing and archive of many standards. Neat that they will tell you if the standards change, but services and texts are mostly for sale by Tech Street. It is not limited to enterprise integration standards, but addresses many standards.

Computers and Comunication Standards and Cross Referencespage is a good standards resource with a target audience of IT professionals. Links to many relevant standards homepages, some dead links.

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