British Standards Institution

Industrial automation systems and integration - Product data representation and exchange - Part 1: Overview and fundamental principles
 N BS ISO 10303-1

Annotation

This part of ISO 10303 provides an overview of this International Standard.

This International Standard provides a representation of product information along with the necessary mechanisms and definitions to enable product data to be exchanged. The exchange is among different computer systems and environments associated with the complete product lifecycle, including product design, manufacture, use, maintenance, and final disposition of the product.

The following are within the scope of ISO 10303:

— the representation of product information, including components and assemblies;

— the exchange of product data, including storing, transferring, accessing, and archiving.

This part of ISO 10303 defines the basic principles of product information representation and exchange used in ISO 10303. It specifies the characteristics of the various series of parts of ISO 10303 and the relationships among them.

The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 10303:

— an overview of this International Standard;

— the structure of this International Standard;

— definitions of terms used throughout this International Standard;

— an overview of data specification methods used in this International Standard including the EXPRESS data specification language and graphical presentation of product information models;