Overview
ISO 19439:2006 - Enterprise integration - Framework for enterprise modelling - defines a generic framework for creating consistent, interoperable enterprise models. Conforming to the requirements of ISO 15704, the standard provides a common conceptual basis to coordinate standards development for modelling enterprises (with emphasis on, but not restricted to, computer‑integrated manufacturing). It supports the development of computer‑enactable models to enable model‑based decision support, enactment, monitoring and control.
Key topics
- Framework structure and concepts: generic modelling concepts, modelling language constructs, and guidance on using the framework to create enterprise models.
- Four model views: the framework defines four principal enterprise model views (commonly applied as Function View, Information View, Organization View and Resource View) to represent processes, data, roles/structure and operational resources. Additional user‑specific views may be derived (not part of the standard).
- Model dimensions:
- Enterprise model phases (life‑cycle phases such as domain identification, concept definition, design specification, implementation description, domain operation and decommission definition).
- Model view dimension (selective representation of aspects of the enterprise).
- Genericity dimension (generic, partial and particular levels of model detail).
- Graphical representation guidance for visualizing the framework.
- Requirements on models and methodologies: Clause 6 sets requirements to ensure enterprise models meet ISO 15704 objectives and are suitable for tool support and enactment.
- Enactment and computability: definitions and intent for models that can be processed by software to support monitoring, control and decision support.
Applications
ISO 19439 is practical for:
- Enterprise architects and systems integrators standardizing cross‑functional models across business and manufacturing domains.
- Tool vendors and modelling platform developers building modelling languages, repositories and enactment engines.
- Consultancies delivering enterprise modelling, process re‑engineering, simulation and digital‑factory projects.
- Manufacturing and industrial automation teams implementing model‑based operation, workflow control, and performance monitoring.
Benefits include improved model consistency, interoperability between tools and teams, and a structured path toward computer‑enactable enterprise models that support model‑based decision making.
Related standards
- ISO 15704:2000 - Industrial automation systems - Requirements for enterprise‑reference architectures and methodologies (normative reference cited by ISO 19439).
- Other standards and domain references for modelling languages and industrial automation (see Annex A and bibliography of ISO 19439).
Keywords: ISO 19439, enterprise modelling, enterprise integration, framework for enterprise modelling, ISO 15704, model‑based decision support, computer‑enactable models, function view, information view, organization view, resource view.