Report from Chairman

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Report from Chairman

• One piece of sad news
• News from ISO
• Structure of the meeting
• Progress against targets
• Work Programme
• Points to note
• ISO changes
• TC184 report
• Liaison opportunities
• Vacancies
• Challenges for the week

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ISO 2001 publication statistics

• SC4 output - 27 Standards-type documents
  representing 15308 pages in English
• Total ISO output - 813 documents comprising 49795
  pages, in both English and French
• SC4 was therefore responsible for
• 3.3 of the total number of documents
• 30.75 of the total number of pages
• 38 of the total number of English pages
• 42 of the number of technical pages in English
• of total ISO output in 2001
• Was this what the world wanted?

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Structure of the week

• Status documents available in advance
• Lists of publications and ballots
• Status of parts
• National reports by request only
• Liaison arrangements
• Brief reports on Monday
• Longer presentations on Wednesday
• SC4 plenary on Friday
• Closing technical plenary 0800-1000
• SC4 meeting 1045

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Challenges from Fukuoka

• Release 2 publication - 1, 518 ready, 204 FDIS
• PDM modules ballot - completed
• Part 28 - complete and sent for publication
• NWI proposal for XML conformance testing - no
  response to WG11 call - need wider call
• Manufacturing Task Force - comments received
• Recommendations on harvesting ATA and IAI
  specifications - reports later
• EXPRESS 2.0 impact statement and recommendations
  - WG11 to discuss further
• HTML Guidelines and procedures - draft Wednesday
• Updates to Handbook for new ISO Directives - PPC

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Work Programme

• Major documents completed for Release 2
• Parts 24, 209 published
• Part 204 at ISO for FDIS
• Part 518 ready for publication
• Part 1 ready for review
• 13584 - Part 25 out for DIS
• 15926 - DIS passed, but not 100
• 18876 - Part 2 needs work for consensus
• 20542 - new number for Systems Engineering PAS

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Project Management

• Still no target publication dates for many
  projects
• Some missing dates for projects
• ISO will not accept registration of projects
  without target dates.
• Cancellations made end Oct under 7 year rule
• 221, 226
• No cancellations due before June
• Some standards have no progress for two years
• Chris Kreiler to take over database for the week

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ISO Changes

• New Directives - Impact on Handbook, SD
• Parts 1, 2 and Supplement
• New electronic ballot comment form (13B)
• New ISO Word template
• Electronic balloting using the ISO templates now
  mandatory for DIS/FDIS ballots - paper ignored
• HTML - awaiting comments from ISO production
• Technical Corrigenda process clarified
• SVAT still being reviewed - votes take precedence
• ISO Strategies 2002-4

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Technical Corrigenda

• Technical Corrigendum (correcting errors, short)
• SC4 publish on SOLIS
• ISO publish via webstore, and on paper
• Minor amendment
• either
• handle as TC (above) with FDIS ballot
• or
• update document
• ballot as minor revision
• ISO publish as new edition on CD-ROM and webstore

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ISO TC184 Coordination Proposals

• SC4/WG3/T8 to review development work on ISO
  13374 for machine condition monitoring
• SC4 Manufacturing to review SP.95 work on
  Enterprise-Control System Integration for
  conflict
• WG2 and WG3 to engage in PWI process for TC37
  work on classification schemes
• WG11 to confirm ISO 10646 UTF-8 as the sole
  method of encoding characters is acceptable
• SC4 to review ASAM ODS proposal on receipt
• PPC to review SC5 collaboration matrices
• TC184 Advisory Group to meet in Stockholm 7-8
  June to discuss restructuring

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ISO TC184 Actions

• SC4 invited to
• provide representative definitions for prototype
  BSR tool trial
• consult the prototype BSR tool in creating
  definitions for draft standards
• SC4 invited to note, and exploit the new link to
  work with OASIS under the MoU/MG
• ISO/IEC/ITU/CEFACT MoU to be used as framework
  for dictionary discussions
• MoU/MG Business Object Summit/XML Summit set for
  December 2002 - updates to BOS website sought

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ISO TC184 news

• Business Plan approved
• AP212 used by NOAH project to model connectors to
  IEC 61158 Fieldbus standard (8-in-1)
• Promotional events encouraged
• The German symposium on TC184 work, held after
  the TC184 meeting
• The presentation of STEP to the Japanese
  construction industry following the Fukuoka
  meeting
• The continuing promotions by individual STEP
  Centres
• The STEP trifold brochure produced by the STEP
  Centres
• Presentations of STEP-NC in the Hanover Fair
• The SEDRES-2 presentation at Warton

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Liaison opportunities

• SC1
• STEP-NC
• DMIS (ISO 22093) - ballot resolution 19 March
• Scope relative to SC4
• OMG - Evan Wallace/Peter Denno not available
• UML/EXPRESS opportunities
• TC211
• BSR
• IEC TC93 work programme
• TC10 - Railways - Technical drawings - data
  exchange

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Convenor Other Vacancies

• Convenors for WG10, WG11
• Deputies for WG3, JWG9
• Deputy QC Coordinator
• Leader for Industrial data on the Web
• Module harmonisation team (and leader)
• Participants for WG3/T19 - AP203 ed2 and AP214

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The major challenge remains.

• Growing the base of implementation
• Throughout the supply chain
• Across multiple sectors
• Delivering capability to projects
• Proven processes
• Proven products
• Open to all sizes of company
• Consideration of deliverables required by
  industry
• New approaches?
• Marketing - ISC

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Challenges for the week

• PDM module comment resolution/EXPRESS 2
• Harvesting - IAI and ATA proposals
• Manufacturing strategy and organisation
• SP.95 relationship
• WG10 future work programme
• Part 28 Ed 2
• Implications of new version of EXPRESS in Parts
  2x
• HTML Guidelines
• Updates to Handbook for new ISO Directives
• Operational procedures for the Secretariat
• Project target dates