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ENIEC81346-1 (2022) e Codified
ENIEC81346-1 (2022) e Codified
05/2022
ILNAS-EN IEC 81346-1:2022
National Foreword
https://portail-qualite.public.lu/fr/normes-normalisation/participer-normalisation.html
English Version
Systèmes industriels, installations et appareils, et produits Industrielle Systeme, Anlagen und Ausrüstungen und
industriels - Principes de structuration et désignations de Industrieprodukte - Strukturierungsprinzipien und
référence - Partie 1: Règles de base Referenzkennzeichnung - Teil 1: Allgemeine Regeln
(IEC 81346-1:2022) (IEC 81346-1:2022)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2022-05-04. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
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European foreword
The text of document 3/1541/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 81346-1, prepared by IEC/TC 3
"Documentation, graphical symbols and representations of technical information" was submitted to the
IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 81346-1:2022.
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2023-02-04
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2025-05-04
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 81346-1:2009 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
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Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national committee. A
complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CENELEC website.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 81346-1:2022 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
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Annex ZA
(normative)
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the
relevant EN/HD applies.
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NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available
here: www.cenelec.eu.
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ILNAS-EN IEC 81346-1:2022
IEC 81346-1
Edition 2.0 2022-03
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
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HORIZONTAL PUBLICATION
PUBLICATION HORIZONTALE
CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 8
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 11
1 Scope ............................................................................................................................ 13
2 Normative references .................................................................................................... 13
3 Terms and definitions .................................................................................................... 14
4 Concepts ....................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 Object ................................................................................................................... 16
4.2 Aspect .................................................................................................................. 17
4.3 Systems ................................................................................................................ 19
4.4 Structuring ............................................................................................................ 19
4.5 Function ................................................................................................................ 19
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Figure H.2 – Overview diagram of part of the process system (=V1) and part of the
power supply system (=Q1)................................................................................................... 89
Figure H.3 – Structure tree for parts of the material handling plant ....................................... 90
Figure H.4 – Layout drawing of the components of the MCC =Q1=W1 .................................. 91
Figure H.5 – Layout drawing indicating the location of the MCC ............................................ 91
Figure H.6 – Layout drawing of the locations of the MCC =Q1=W1 ....................................... 92
Figure H.7 – Motor starter ..................................................................................................... 92
Figure H.8 – Product- and location-oriented structure trees for the MCC ............................... 93
Figure I.1 – Structure of a relation designation ...................................................................... 95
Figure J.1 – International Standard 81346 framework – An EXPRESS-G model .................... 98
Figure N.1 – Principle of document designation .................................................................. 113
Figure N.2 – Signal designation and signal connection identification ................................... 114
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Table 1 – Identification of types, occurrences and individuals within different contexts ......... 23
Table 2 – Examples of single-level reference designations ................................................... 35
Table 3 – Examples of multi-level reference designations with multiple prefix signs .............. 37
Table 4 – Examples of presentations of multi-level reference designations ........................... 42
Table 5 – Presentation of reference designations of a reference designation set .................. 43
Table C.1 – Possible reference designation sets ................................................................... 70
Table G.1 – Reference designations in the receiver's design ................................................ 87
Table H.1 – Reference designation set for the constituents of the products MCC and
motor starter ......................................................................................................................... 93
Table I.1 – Example of classification scheme for associative relations .................................. 96
Table I.2 – Examples of relation designations ....................................................................... 96
Table K.1 – Metadata elements for reference designation systems ..................................... 104
Table L.1 – Documentation on the application of the rules .................................................. 105