DIN EN 62023:2012-08

This international standard provides rules for applying a method of structuring technical information and documentation. These are based on using a main document (leading document) for the clustering of the information for each object. IEC 62023 can be seen as a bridge between system structuring principles and documentation structuring principles. For this purpose it provides: - a standardization of common practice in manufacturing industry with regard to the organization of information/documentation according to the product structure by means of a main document; - a further detailing and formalization of guidance already given in IEC 61355-1:2008, by the general establishment of the main document concept with explicit referencing to complementary documents in a document set for a technical object; and - an application of the object concept from the structuring principles of IEC 81346-1:2009 in the area of document structuring. It goes beyond the existing documents in that it shows how objects with several aspects can be kept together in a systematic way. In Product Data Management (PDM) systems the "objects" in the product structure, which are configuration controlled information objects, correspond logically to main documents. However, although they fulfil all necessary requirements for being documents, the term is sometimes not used for them. The responsible committee is K 113 "Produktdatenmodelle, Informationsstrukturen, Dokumentation und graphische Symbole" ("Product data models, information structures, documentation and graphical symbols") of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) at DIN and VDE.