ISO 16300-2:2019

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 16300-2
First edition
2019-04
Automation systems and
integration — Interoperability of
capability units for manufacturing
application solutions —
Part 2:
Capability templates and software unit
cataloguing
Systèmes d'automatisation et intégration — Interopérabilité des
unités de capacité pour les solutions d'applications industrielles —
Partie 2: Modèles de capacités et cataloguage des unités logicielles
Reference number
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ISO 2019
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Overview of software unit catalogue . 3
4.1 Capability profiling defined in the ISO 16100 series . 3
4.2 Objectives of the software unit catalogue . 5
5 Software unit catalogue and software capability description dictionary .7
6 Procedure for software unit cataloguing . 8
6.1 Overall procedure of software unit cataloguing . 8
6.2 Capability profiling using software unit catalogue . 9
Annex A (informative) Capability element template .13
Bibliography .15
Foreword
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Introduction
The ISO 16300 series addresses requirements of users and suppliers of manufacturing software
regarding the interoperability of software in the area of industrial automation.
User interoperability requirements include:
— integrating an automation application system by combining capabilities of a set of software
components provided by various sources;
— integrating the capability of a software unit from one resource system platform to another platform;
— validating and verifying the capability of a software unit to meet the automation application system
requirements.
Supplier requirements include:
— representing the set of capabilities provided by a software component used in a software unit;
— verifying software component capability as a part of a required software unit capability;
— cataloguing a software unit in terms of its capability for interoperability in an automation application
system to support wide distribution.
The ISO 16300 series also addresses software interoperability services, which include:
— access to the description of a software capability to enable interoperability assessment;
— enabling the search and location of candidate software units and components, preferably
automatically, using search engines;
— representing the dependencies between software components for an automation application hosted
on a particular system platform.
Software capability is first defined as a set of functions and services with a set of criteria for evaluating
the performance of a capability provider. It is then expressed and represented as facts about the software,
how and what it can do. The ISO 16100 series, which deals with manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability, was developed with the aim of providing a standardized method to describe
capabilities of manufacturing software in terms of the Manufacturing Software Unit (MSU) capability
profile. In the ISO 16100 series, the software component is included in the MSU. The ISO 16100 series also
provides a way to exchange an MSU’s capability as information by means of a capability profile. Software
capability profiling is the basis for providing the above-mentioned software interoperability services.
The ISO 16100 series is used and applied as the foundation for the ISO 16300 series.
To establish the ISO 16300 series, a number of steps were required. The initial step shows what
interoperability services are enabled by using software capability profiles. The subsequent steps
develop concrete methods and mechanisms to provide these interoperability services. The resulting
output from ISO 16300 is divided into the following parts.
— ISO 16300-1 specifies a framework for describing an automation solution in terms of a set of
capabilities provided by a set of MSUs. 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 (ISO 16300-2) specifies the template definition 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 also specifies mapping rules for composing the
contents of a software unit catalogue item in terms of the properties of the capability.
— ISO 16300-3 specifies the framework for verifying interoperability of capability units associated
with application requirements and system solutions.
— ISO 16300-4 specifies the search methodology for acquiring candidate capability units which satisfy
the manufacturing application requirements from the software unit catalogues. It also describes
the structure of the report.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 16300-2:2019(E)
Automation systems and integration — Interoperability of
capability units for manufacturing application solutions —
Part 2:
Capability templates and software unit cataloguing
1 Scope
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.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 16100-1:2009, Industrial automation systems and integration — Manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability — Part 1: Framework
ISO 16100-2, Industrial automation systems and integration — Manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability — Part 2: Profiling methodology
ISO 16100-3, Industrial automation systems and integration — Manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability — Part 3: Interface services, protocols and capability templates
ISO 16100-5:2009, Industrial automation systems and integration — Manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability — Part 5: Methodology for profile matching using multiple capability class
structures
ISO 16100-6:2018, Industrial automation systems and integration — Manufacturing software capability
profiling for interoperability — Part 6: Interface services and protocols for matching profiles based on
multiple capability class structures
ISO 16300-3, Automation systems and integration — Interoperability of capability units for manufacturing
application solutions — Part 3: Verification and validation of interoperability among capability units
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 16100-1, ISO 16100-6 and
ISO 16300-3 and the following apply.
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3.1
capability
set of functions and services with a set of criteria for evaluating the performance of a
capability provider
Note 1 to entry: This definition differs from that given in ISO 15531-1 and ISO 19439, where capability is defined
as the quality of being able to perform a given activity. See IEC 62264-1 for a general definition of capability.
[SOURCE: ISO 16100-1:2009, 3.4]
3.2
capability profile
instance of a capability template (3.6) filled with the values corresponding to the target manufacturing
software unit (3.8)
[SOURCE: ISO 16300-1:2018, 3.4]
3.3
capability profiling
selection of a set of offered services defined by a particular interface within a software interoperability
framework
[SOURCE: ISO 16100-1:2009, 3.5]
3.4
capability class
element within the capability profiling (3.3) method that represents capabilities (3.1) with regard to the
software unit’s role in a manufacturing activity
3.5
capability class structure
CCS
hierarchy of capability classes (3.4)
Note 1 to entry: This structure is intended for modelling capability aggregation hierarchies in the target domains
of ISO 16100-1:2009, Figure 2.
[SOURCE: ISO 16100-6:2018, 3.2, modified — The abbreviated term "CCS" has been added.]
3.6
capability template
template
schema representing a capability class (3.4)
[SOURCE: ISO 16300-1:2018, 3.6]
3.7
capability template repository
database to store capability templates (3.6)
3.8
manufacturing software unit
MSU
class of software resource, consisting of one or more manufacturing software components, performing
a definite function or role within a manufacturing activity while supporting a common information
exchange mechanism with other units
Note 1 to entry:
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