Enterprise Integration Standards

The following are a number of Key Enterprise Integration Standards. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to describe some of the more important standards, and to direct the reader to additional information on each. The Standards are presented alphabetically, according to the Standards body responsible for writing and maintaining these standards.

For more a more detaild list of relevant Enterprise Integration standards, see The PERA User Guide for your industry (e.g., chemical industry) and Principal Role (e.g., Owner/Operator or Vendor). Standards in the User Guides are organized according to the Discipline (Professional Role) responsible for implementing that standard. For Enterprise Integration, the main Professional Roles) are: 770-Control Systems, 780-Industrial Computing (including MES), and 790-Industrial Telecom.

ASCM - Association for Supply Chain Management
is a "not-for-profit" membership group serving industry with supply chain and operations management educational and reference materials as well as courses and workshops.

• The ASCM Dictionary is referenced in the PERA Dictionary of Enterprise Integration and we usually treat its supply chain definitions on as authorative.
• ASCM also offer a Downloadable Dictionay App Note that this may require setting up a (free) ASCM membership account.

• 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. TC310 has primarily focused on discrete manufacturing.
• CEN work is coordinated with ISO TC184/SC5/WG1 (see below) under the Vienna agreement.

• Press Release announcing the release of the Draft of Cybersecurity Risk Management Process (RMP) Guideline for Public Comment

• IEC 61131-3 Industrial Control Programming Standards including:

Sequential Function Charts Ladder Diagrams Function Block Diagrams

Instruction Lists Structured Text

• IEC 61804-2 FDI Field Device Integration
  brings Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) and Field Device Tool (FDT) standards together. The evolution of this standard from the Hart EDDL and Profibus FDT is described in this Fieldbus Foundation slideshare presentation.

• ISA 50 Fieldbus Industrial Data Highway Standard. Also published as IEC 61150-2
• This was created as an answer to the Profibus standard after many years of committee discussion.
• ISA-88 Batch Control Standard.
  This standard covers a wide range of control and data issues associated with batch process plants.
  • Batch Control Part 1 Covers Models and terminology of the standard
  • Batch Control Part 2 Covers Data Structures and Language Guidelines
• ISA-95 Enterprise to Control System Integration
  • ISA-95 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-99 - 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)
• ISA-100 Wireless Networking Standard
  • ISA100 (IEC 62734) is an international, industrial wireless networking standard engineered to serve the needs of process industries.
  • With native IPv6 networking, ISA100 Wireless extends the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) to wireless.
  • The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute was established to certify vendor implementations of this standard.
• ISA-108 Intelligent Device Managment Standard
  • Part 1 - This standard provides concepts and terminology for use of intelligent instrumentation and other industrial devices that are capable of configuration, communication and internal diagnostics.
  • This presentation explains what ISA-108 is about, and why it is important.
  • See EI Developments for more information on the development of Parts 2, 3, and 4 of this standard.

• 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"
• ISO 15000 Electronic Business eXtensible Markup Language, or ebXML
• ISO 15926 Defines an Enterprise Life Cycle Data Exchange standard which is coordinated with ISO 14224 in the Reference Domain, and ISO 18435 & 13374 in the Execution Environment.
• ISO 55000 Asset Management Systems
  • ISO 55000 provides an overview of asset management and asset management systems
  • ISO 55001 specifies requirements for an asset management system
  • ISO 55003 defines sector-specific, asset-specific or activity-specific technical requirements for an asset management system

MIMOSA - Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance
MIMOSA is a non-profit industry association, focused on enabling solutions leveraging supplier neutral, open standards, to establish an interoperable industrial ecosystem for Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions. Standards include:

• MIMOSA CCOM provides a Conceptual Common Object Model and canonical XML representation of that model, that addresses manufacturing, fleet, and facility environments
• Open O&M is an initiative of multiple industry standards organizations to provide a harmonized set of standards for the exchange of Operations and Maintenance data and the associated context.
• MIMOSA OSA-EAI provides asset management-related information standards, and
• The Manufacturing and Facilities Joint Working Groups offer end users a harmonized set of data exchange standards avoiding duplication of work.

NAMUR is a membership-only organization of users of automation in process industries. NAMUR Standards include:

• NA 01 (1967): Noncontacting Initiators and amplifiers - Characteristics proximity switches (IEC 60947-5-6 Current ranges for signal levels of digital transmitters )
• NE 43: Standardization of the Signal Level for Failure Information (Discrimination between process and failure information, also µP based devices
• NE 105: Specifications for Integrating Fieldbus Devices in Engineering Tools for Field Devices.
• NE 131: NAMUR Standard Device Field Device Requirements for Standard Applications (80% of application cases).
• NE 132: Coriolis Mass Meters including "Weights and Measures" approval
• NE 107: Self-Monitoring and Diagnosis of Field Devices

• Content work defining business processes, their messages and the data dictionary.
• Technical work comprised of XML design, development, UML repository work, and application architecture.

• 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.

OPC Foundation is a cooperative industry body that develops royalty-free electronic business standards for trading partners within the Global Energy Industry. This includes data acquisition and transport standards.

• Standards library of electronic forms and EDI documents for the petroleum and pipeline industry
• OPC UA is a platform-independant service-oriented architecture specification that integrates all functionality from existing "classic" OPC specifications. Its 19 parts cover topics including: Security Model, Address Space Model, Services, Information Model, Mappings, Profiles, Data Access, Alarms and Conditions, Programs, Historical Access, Discovery, Aggregates, Architecture for Analyzers, PLCs, FDI, and Devices, as well as an ISA-95 Common Object Model.

PIDX International is an industry body that develops royalty-free electronic business standards for trading partners with the Global Energy Industry.

• Standards library of electronic forms and EDI documents for the petroleum and pipeline industry

• Process Control and
• P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams).

Profibus and Profinet International provides standards and testing for Profibus hardware and software including the PROFIBUS Industrial Data Highway Standard.

• XML is the universal format for structured documents on the web.
• XML is a subset of SGML which was developed by IBM. XML was issued 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. including BPMN and B2MML

TIA / EIA Telecommunications Industry Association / Electronic Industries Association.

• The TIA/EIA 568 TIA/EIA 568 Commercial Building Telecommunication standard was jointly developed by TIA and EIA.
• The ISO/IEC-11801 Generic Customer Premises Cabling standard is an international cabling standard, based on the ANSI/TIA/EIA-568, that may be used for industrial control systems and premises cabling.
• The TIA/EIA 568 TIA/EIA 568 structured cabling standards define how to design, build, and manage a Structured Cabling System (SCS). An SCS has specific performance characteristics at each hierarchical level. For example, a workgroup LAN haslower-performance requirements than the building backbone network, which may in turn connect to a high speed single or multimode fiber-optic network.
• Category 5 TIA/EIA 568A and 568B Configuration is not an enterprise integration standard, but very handy if you need to make an ethernet cable to connect something ! )

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs about Enterprise Integration Standards and Models.

General Standards References

Tech Street Industry Standards Page This site provides listing and archives of many standards. They provide a video about how to use their online standards. They will even send a notice that standards you purchased have changed. Tech Street is not limited to enterprise integration standards and addresses a huge set of standards bodies from around the world.

Computers and Comunication Standards and Cross References page is a good standards resource with a target audience of IT and telecommunications professionals (Disciplines 780 and 784). It includes links to many relevant standards homepages.