On 9 June 2022, the International Electrotechnical Commission’s Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Technical Committee (IEC/TC65) released three international standards for intelligent manufacturing:

  • IEC TR 63283-1:2022 Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Intelligent Manufacturing Part 1: Terms and Definitions
  • IEC TR 63283-2:2022 Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Intelligent Manufacturing Part 2: Use Cases
  • IEC TR 63283-3:2022 Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Intelligent Manufacturing Part 3: Cybersecurity Challenges

The Institute of Technology and Economics of Machinery Industry Instrumentation (ITEI), i.e. the SDO holding IEC/TC65’s mirror committee in China (i.e., SAC/TC124 on Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation), played an important role in developing these standards.

Specifically, over the past four years ITEI has dispatched six experts to join IEC/TC65/WG23 (Intelligent manufacturing framework and concepts), where they contributed to several important chapters for the IEC TR 63283 serial standards, at the same time participating in more than 20 drafting working group meetings. Based on key research achievements in China, ITEI experts proposed a number of suggestions for the key terminologies, provided two typical use cases of intelligent manufacturing, and collected extensive comments from Chinese industry players on the texts of the standards. As a result, more than 30 Chinese suggestions were adopted by IEC, contributing to the improvement of these standards.

As the next step, ITEI will continue making contribution to the standardization work of IEC/TC65/WG23, including:

  • Leading the development of IEC TR 63283-4 “Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Intelligent Manufacturing Part 4: Application of New Technologies”, which is expected to enter the final vote phase in 2023;
  • Joining the formulation of IEC TR 63283-5 “Industrial Process Measurement Control and Automation Intelligent Manufacturing Part 5: Market and Development of standards Innovation Trend Analysis”.

In addition to joining the standards setting in IEC, ITEI is promoting the conversion of the achievements of their R&D projects into IEC standards. These R&D project includes “Intelligent Characteristics Evaluation in intelligent Manufacturing ” and “Intelligent Manufacturing Use Case Template”.

At present, SAC/TC124 has set to convert IEC TR 63283 series into Chinese standards.