prBAS ISO/TS 23164:2026

This document specifies a vocabulary for industrial data that defines generic terms for things that exist in more than one industrial domain. The following are within the scope of this document: —     definition of terms for generic types of industrial thing; EXAMPLE 1         Definitions of the terms “material object”, “artefact” and “product” are within the vocabulary. —     definition of terms relevant to assemblies, systems and their breakdown structures; —     definition of terms relevant to activities and participation in activities; —     definition of terms relevant to positions and roles in organizations; —     definition of terms relevant to behaviour, capability and function; —     definition of terms relevant to state and condition; —     definition of terms relevant to specifications, designs and plans; —     definition of terms relevant to versions, alternatives and configurations for specifications, designs and plans; —     definition of terms relevant to signals and other carriers of information and to devices that process signals and information; —     definition of terms relevant to physical quantities and properties. The following are outside the scope of this document: —     definition of terms that are relevant to data themselves, rather than the things that data are about; EXAMPLE 2         Definitions of the terms “data” and “information” are not within the vocabulary. —     definition of terms that are relevant to representations. EXAMPLE 3         Definitions of the terms “representation” and “model” are not within the vocabulary.