What is BS EN 62656-5 – Parcellized Activity Model (PAM) about?
BS EN 62656-5 is the third part of the BS EN 62656 series of standards that specifies a method for representing activities and relations among the activities by a tabular ontology representation, called “parcellized activity model” or PAM for short, which is a specialized use of a generic tabular ontology data model, known as the parcellized ontology model (POM) defined in Part 1 of the IEC 62656 series. The activities that are described by BS EN 62656-5 include part or whole of an enterprise, an organization or a collection of services, a set of events or processes which interact with each other by exchanging physical or non-physical entities. BS EN 62656-5 also defines a method for uniquely identifying activities, or their homologues happenings in a certain sequence. In addition, BS EN 62656-5 identifies flows of information, objects or materials exchanged among activities, where each of the activities is represented by a class and each flow by a relation.
Who is BS EN 62656-5 - Parcellized Activity Model (PAM) for?
BS EN 62656-5 on parcellized activity model applies to:
- Software engineers
- Electrical engineer
Why should you use BS EN 62656-5 - Parcellized Activity Model (PAM)?
The parcellized activity model (PAM) is a specialized use of the parcellized ontology model (POM), for the purpose of modelling an activity or a set of activities and possible interactions among them, with the data structure provided by the latter standard.
In the PAM, activities are expressed by classes whilst the flows of information, goods, and materials among activities are expressed by functional relations, with which not just information flow but also the flow of products, materials, and personnel can be included into the scope of the model.
BS EN 62656-5 enables characterization, classification, and identification of a set of activities as part of a normalized ontology. And this enables registering of a pattern of activities as a set of metadata and uploading it onto the IEC 61360 Common Data Dictionary (CDD), maintained as an online database of the electrotechnical concepts.
BS EN 62656-5 provides a method to integrate ontologies of products and activities including services, in a single model. This means a product can be analyzed in its operational context for service. Such an integrated view will help people of different technical backgrounds to see and share knowledge about the extent of an enterprise that requires the products and services as indispensable resources.