To: SP77_40wg1@isa-online.org cc: Subject: Functional Diagram Usage Second Message SP77.40 WG1 Members Hello!

Thanks for your reply to Februarys questionnaire and introduction. I have summarized your feedback in the February minutes and have posted the minutes on the SP77.40 WG1 committee achieves. I will work to keep everyone informed despite different revisions of software we currently use. I know Loanna only recently got our committee archive link working so I hope you had a chance to view the SP77.40 WG1 bulletin board. The purpose of our second correspondence is to provide members with background information, reference material, and consider the technical report outline. I have prepared two action items under reference material and report outline. BACKGROUND INFORMATION In the early 1990s, Scientific Apparatus Makers Association (SAMA) as a society folded. Its popular standard Functional Diagramming of Instrument and Control Systems (PMC 22.11981) is now being distributed by ISA as a service to the industry for historical purposes and general information. Per SP77 (Fossil Power Plant) committees request, ISAs S5.1 committee agreed to include relative content of PMC 22.1 into the next release of S5.1 (Instrumentation Symbols and Identification). Since then, the S77 committee has participated on S5.1 to insure the relative content is incorporated into S5.1, However, S5.1 committee has been inactive. The last S5.1 draft (#4) was issued 10/2000. In recent correspondence with the S5.1 chair, draft #5 should be distributed the second quarter of 03. Due to SP77 committees efforts to integrate PMC 22.1 into S5.1, some of the major agreements to date include: 1) ISA S5.1 has included application software as a term to identify user applications that is configurable. This term is consistent with the definition use in ISA S84. Functional diagramming is a means of documentation application software. 2) ISAs S5.0 series has a standard for regulatory (S5.1) and binary (S5.2) symbols whereas; SAMA (PMC 22.1) standard has regulatory and binary symbols in one document. ISA S5.1 agreed to include binary symbols and will withdrawn S5.2 standard when the new S5.1 is release. 3) The S5.1 scope will include the symbols and identification for all devices and functions. Technical reports will be prepared to expand on the work of S5.1 and include examples on how to use the symbols and identification of S5.1 4) SP77 committee has comments extensively to S5.1 draft #4 with one rebuttal correspondence with the chair. SP77 committee waits for draft #5 to see what comments the chair included.

To start drafting a technical report, the SP77 committee submitted a scope and purpose to the S5.1 Committee chair for a new Technical Report on Functional Diagrams Usage. Unfortunately, the scope and purpose was not acceptable to the S5.1 chair and correspondence has yet been able to reach a compromise. Since, the S5.1 committee has not hold a meeting in several years, there has not been a dialog within the S5.1 committee on approving this scope and purpose. Thus, the SP77 committee felt that a new S77 working group should be form to prepare a technical report on functional diagrams. For those of you who get ISA magazine INTECH, there is an article in February issue on our committee. REFERENCE MATERIAL I have forward the following references to Loanna for submittal to our committee archive. Draft 4 of ISA S5.1 is presently in the archive however; the other two documents should be available later this week (3/14/03). SAMA (PMC 22.1-1981), Functional Diagramming of Instrument and Control System (SAMA PMC22-1.pdf) ISA S5.1 Draft 4 10/2000, Instrumentation Symbols and Identification (Clause xx.pdf) NEM-tronic (1KZ08.02/03.01), Standard Specification for Functional Control Diagrams (SPECFCD 1KUZ08.02-03 Rev-0.pdf) Note: I like to thank Nem-tronics for use of their document as a reference. ACTION: Please review the reference material. If you have other material that is relevant to this committee and wish to distribute, then please forward to Loanna for submittal to the committee archives. REPORT OUTLINE ISAs Style Guide requires a technical report to have the following outline: Preface Forward Abstract Key Words Scope Purpose Definitions Nomenclature Body Annexes References

ACTION: The bodys content is where we need to prepare our text. If you have some recommendation on the material that needs to be included in the body, please forward them to me. For example, please note that S5.1 and PMC 22.1 original content describes the functions found with electric-analog system of the 70s. With todays microprocessor technology, functions within function blocks have grown. Thus, I hope our committee can expand on the legacy symbols and discuss symbols for: Advanced controller Discrete Device Driver Status Digital transfers Hand/Auto Station variation Mathematical expressions Special filter Functions outside transfer block For the April message, I will expand further on the outline and content of our technical report. Thanks