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This document specifies a vocabulary for industrial data that defines generic terms for things that exist in more than one industrial domain.The following are within the scope of this document:— definition of terms for generic types of industrial thing;EXAMPLE 1 Definitions of the terms “material object”, “artefact” and “product” are within the vocabulary.— definition of terms relevant to assemblies, systems and their breakdown structures;— definition of terms relevant to activities and participation in activities;— definition of terms relevant to positions and roles in organizations;— definition of terms relevant to behaviour, capability and function;— definition of terms relevant to state and condition;— definition of terms relevant to specifications, designs and plans;— definition of terms relevant to versions, alternatives and configurations for specifications, designs and plans;— definition of terms relevant to signals and other carriers of information and to devices that process signals and information;— definition of terms relevant to physical quantities and properties.The following are outside the scope of this document:— definition of terms that are relevant to data themselves, rather than the things that data are about;EXAMPLE 2 Definitions of the terms “data” and “information” are not within the vocabulary.— definition of terms that are relevant to representations.EXAMPLE 3 Definitions of the terms “representation” and “model” are not within the vocabulary.