1. Technical Committee 3
INFORMATION STRUCTURES, DOCUMENTATION AND GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS

2. Per-Åke Svensson 3WS(Prague/Secretariat)4
IEC/ISO Documentation system TC3 Workshop – Prague, Czech Republic
Per-Åke Svensson
3WS(Prague/Secretariat)4

3. Contents
Background
Present situation
Proposal
Discussion

4. Contents
Background
Present situation
Proposal
Discussion

5. Background
Background
Idea first time presented at the TC3 Workshop in Cape Town 2005
Promotion of the “systems approach”
Need for realistic examples of application of IEC
Registered as Stage 0 work
1st draft outlined
Effort to co-ordinate with ISO/TC10 was positively met 2006
2nd draft prepared
Then no real activity

6. The system and its environment
Background
The system and its environment

7. Contents
Background
Present situation
Proposal
Discussion

8. Present situation
Present situation
Discussed at the TC3 meeting in Paris 2007 and it was decided to keep it, but postpone it because of lack of resources
Elaboration of more complete examples has appeared also in the revision of IEC 81346

9. Present situation
Present situation
An overview of the entire documentation system would be useful for the definition of the scopes and the relations of standards to being revised and developed
Revision of IEC to be started
Relation of IEC to IEC (BDS)
Relation of IEC to IEC 61360

10. Contents
Background
Present situation
Proposal
Discussion

11. Proposal
Publication series
Elaborate a series of publications on the “IEC-ISO Documentation System” in co-operation with ISO/TC10
Part 1: Overview and general description of the system
Part 2: Application example for XYZ products
Part 3: Application example for PQR plants
Part n: Etc.
The publications are likely to be reports, not standards

12. Proposal
Project Team and task
Set up a formal Project Team for the development of the stage 0 project
Tasks:
To elaborate on the structure for the series of publications
To develop part 1 to a state where it can be appended to a formal new work item proposal
To propose product/plants for which application examples could be prepared (These examples should then preferably be developed by specific teams with the appropriate application knowledge)

13. Proposal
Rationale and usage
Help users to use the full potential of the documentation system
Help users to broaden their view and/or to see the place of their documentation in a bigger context
Increase the quality of the technical documentation generally
Help users to understand how IEC and ISO standards supplement each other
Help schools and academia to teach use of standards in the documentation area

14. Proposal
Rationale and usage
Especially useful for Small and Medium size Enterprises and organizations that have limited resources for the study of standards …

15. It is a demanding task, even if the publications are just reports!

16. Contents
Background
Present situation
Proposal
Discussion

17. Discussion Is there a need or just “nice to have”? Can we manage?
On the market?
In IEC for other TCs?
In our own TC?
Can we manage?
Can we find resources?

18. Thank you!