Technical Committee 3 INFORMATION STRUCTURES, DOCUMENTATION AND GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS

Technical Committee 3INFORMATION STRUCTURES, DOCUMENTATION AND GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS

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IEC/ISO Documentation system

TC3 Workshop – Prague, Czech Republic 2008-10-08

Per-Åke Svensson

3WS(Prague/Secretariat)4

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Background

Idea first time presented at the TC3 Workshop in Cape Town 2005 Promotion of the “systems approach” Need for realistic examples of application of

IEC 61082-1

Registered as Stage 0 work 1st draft outlined Effort to co-ordinate with ISO/TC10 was positively

met 2006 2nd draft prepared

Then no real activity

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The system and its environment

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Present situation

Discussed at the TC3 meeting in Paris 2007 and it was decided to keep it, but postpone it because of lack of resources

Elaboration of more complete examples has appeared also in the revision of IEC 81346

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Present situation

An overview of the entire documentation system would be useful for the definition of the scopes and the relations of standards to being revised and developed Revision of IEC 62023 to be started Relation of IEC 62023 to IEC 62569 (BDS) Relation of IEC 62569 to IEC 61360

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Publication series

Elaborate a series of publications on the “IEC-ISO Documentation System” in co-operation with ISO/TC10 Part 1: Overview and general description of the

system Part 2: Application example for XYZ products Part 3: Application example for PQR plants Part n: Etc.

The publications are likely to be reports, not standards

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Project Team and task

Set up a formal Project Team for the development of the stage 0 project

Tasks: To elaborate on the structure for the series of

publications To develop part 1 to a state where it can be appended

to a formal new work item proposal To propose product/plants for which application

examples could be prepared (These examples should then preferably be developed by specific teams with the appropriate application knowledge)

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Rationale and usage

Help users to use the full potential of the documentation system

Help users to broaden their view and/or to see the place of their documentation in a bigger context

Increase the quality of the technical documentation generally

Help users to understand how IEC and ISO standards supplement each other

Help schools and academia to teach use of standards in the documentation area

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Rationale and usage

Especially useful for Small and Medium size Enterprises and organizations that have limited resources for the study of standards

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It is a demanding task, even if the publications are just reports!

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Discussion

Is there a need or just “nice to have”? On the market? In IEC for other TCs? In our own TC?

Can we manage? Can we find resources?

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Thank you!