European foreword

This document (EN 15016‑4:2023) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 256 “Railway applications”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by December 2023, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by December 2023.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 15016‑4:2006.

The main changes compared to the previous edition are listed below:

— The scope has been changed to rolling stock because this is the typical application field.
— The data model has been completely revised to simplify the data exchange by focusing on the necessary data. Data tables for additional data have been introduced to enable a scalable use of the data model.
— The purpose of the data model is the structured exchange of item data. The same data model now also supports the structured exchange of technical document data.
— Rules have been specified to ensure and to check the consistency of the data model.
— A detailed application guide has been incorporated to ensure an easy implementation.
— Because the data exchange is handled by data processing systems an example for layout for a table of documents and an example for entries in a table of documents is superfluous and has therefore been deleted.

This document is part of the standard series “Railway applications — Technical documents”, which consists of the following parts:

— EN 15016‑1 : General principles;
— EN 15016‑2 : Parts lists;
— EN 15016‑3 : Handling of modifications of technical documents;
— EN 15016‑4 : Data exchange.

This document has been prepared under a Standardization Request given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 15016-4:2023

Railway applications. Technical documents - Data exchange

Current

Published:

30 Jun 2023