This document provides requirements, specifications and guidance for an architecture of a supplierneutral
industrial digital ecosystem. It includes a standardized connectivity and services architecture,
and a standardized use case architecture with methods to specify atomically re-usable scenarios and
events, which can be used to specify the characteristics of standardized industry use cases.
NOTE 1 Examples of standard industry use cases included in the secondary business process are included in
Annex A along with standardized use case architecture.
This document gives:
— guidance for an architecture applicable to the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, public
utilities and other asset-intensive industries;
— requirements for interoperability among systems of systems, systems (including hardware and
software) and components included in the secondary business process of a plant, platform or
facility at any given time;
— guidance on how these interoperability requirements are to be achieved and sustained in support
of operations in the same plant, platform or facility;
— specifications enabling the specialization of a digital ecosystem concept for the requirements of the
secondary business process in included industries;
— guidance to industry participants, including owner/operators and their product and services
suppliers, to support their secondary business process requirements using products, which
interoperate based on the specifications included in this document.
NOTE 2 This document is focused on interoperability requirements for systems which play roles in the
secondary business process, including those in domains identified in Figure 7.