UNE-EN IEC 62714-5:2022

Engineering processes of technical systems and their embedded automation systems have tobe executed with increasing efficiency and quality. Especially since the project duration tendsto increase as the complexity of the engineered system increases. To solve this problem, theengineering process is more often being executed by exploiting software based engineeringtools exchanging engineering information and artefacts along the engineering process related tool chain.Communication systems establish an important part of modern technical systems and,especially, of automation systems embedded within them. Following the increasingdecentralisation of automation systems and the application of fieldbus and Ethernet technologyconnecting automation devices and further interacting entities have to fulfil special requirementson communication quality, safety and security. Thus, within the engineering process of moderntechnical systems, engineering information and artefacts relating to communication systemsalso have to be exchanged along the engineering process tool chain.In each phase of the engineering process of technical systems, communication system relatedinformation can be created which can be consumed in later engineering phases. A typicalapplication case is the creation of configuration information for communication components ofautomation devices including communication addresses and communication packagestructuring within controller programming devices during the control programming phase andits use in a device configuration tool. Another typical application case is the transmission ofcommunication device configurations to virtual commissioning tools, to documentation tools, orto diagnosis tools.At present, the consistent and lossless transfer of communication system engineeringinformation along the complete engineering chain of technical systems is unsolved. While userorganisations and companies have provided data exchange formats for parts of the relevantinformation like FDCML, EDDL, and GSD the above named application cases cannot be coveredby a data exchange format. Notably the networking related information describingcommunication relations and their properties and qualities cannot be modelled by a data exchange format.