Overview
EN ISO 19439:2006 - Enterprise integration - Framework for enterprise modelling (ISO 19439:2006) specifies a generic framework for developing enterprise models that conform to the requirements of ISO 15704. The standard provides a common conceptual basis to coordinate standards development and tool support for enterprise modelling, with emphasis on - but not limited to - computer-integrated manufacturing. It also sets the foundation for creating computer-enactable models that enable model-based decision support, operation, monitoring and control.
Key topics and technical requirements
- Framework structure: Defines a structured framework expressed through diagrams, text and formal rules to relate modelling components.
- Model dimensions: Introduces key modelling dimensions such as:
- Phase dimension (life‑cycle phases of a model) - examples referenced in the standard include domain identification, concept definition, design specification, domain operation and decommission definition.
- View dimension - selective representations of an enterprise model to emphasize particular aspects.
- Genericity dimension - levels from specific to generic abstractions.
- Enterprise model views: The framework defines four enterprise model views (the standard explicitly references views such as the Function View, Organization View and Resource View) and allows generation of additional views for particular user concerns (additional views are identified in ISO 15704).
- Terminology and concepts: Provides comprehensive terms and definitions (enterprise, enterprise model, enterprise operation, business process, capability, enactment, etc.) to ensure consistent interpretation.
- Requirements on models and methodologies: Clause 6 specifies requirements that enterprise models and modelling methodologies must meet to support interoperability, consistency and enaction (computer execution) of models.
- Support for enactment: Specifies concepts to enable models to be computer-enactable for monitoring, control and decision support.
Applications
- Developing consistent enterprise architecture and enterprise models for manufacturing, supply chain and service operations.
- Enabling model-based decision support, simulation and performance monitoring.
- Guiding development of modelling tools and repositories that require interoperability and standardized model views.
- Supporting enterprise integration projects and model-driven automation (workflow, control, operations monitoring).
Who should use this standard
- Enterprise architects and systems engineers
- Industrial automation and integration specialists
- Enterprise modelling consultancies and tool vendors
- Manufacturing IT and operations managers
- Standards developers aligning modelling languages and tools
Related standards
- ISO 15704:2000 - Requirements for enterprise-reference architectures and methodologies (normative reference)
- EN/ENV documents superseded or referenced in the framework (e.g., ENV 40003)
Keywords: enterprise integration, enterprise modelling, ISO 19439, enterprise model framework, model-based decision support, computer-enactable models, enterprise architecture, ISO 15704.