ISO/TR 12186:1993 PDF

The scope of the MAPLE covers the areas of Product Design, Product Production, and Management and Control for discrete parts manufacturing.

This covers a wide variety of manufacturing data and languages such as, for example, STEP (Express) in the product design area, the ANSI Input Language, CLData, IRData and Communication Protocols in the product manufacturing area and Function Blocks and Ladder Diagrams in the control area.

Many programs like CAD/CAM compilers, interpreters, data conversion and/or manipulation programs will be used. While the MAPLE will support the use and execution of such programs, the development, test and maintenance of such programs are to be outside of the current scope of MAPLE.

Within this domain the MAPLE should support the economic installation, integration and use of manufacturing automation software packages by providing:

• logical positioning of major manufacturing related software functions within the architecture developed in ISO 10314-1 (the reference model for shop floor production standards);
• interface specifications for data transfer between elements in the architecture;
• data storage specifications for data held and shared by applications in the architecture;
• user interface specifications which will reduce the unnecessary, and confusing, differences between applications and support their “transparent” integration, as perceived by the manufacturing user.

Since the requirements are complex and vary depending on the views of different users, this document will provide a broad requirements overview for MAPLE from which requirements for specific subjects and users can be developed in detail in future documents.