This part of IEC 62264 defines transactions in terms of information exchanges between applications performing business and manufacturing activities associated with Levels 3 and 4. The exchanges are intended to enable information collection, retrieval, transfer and storage in support of Enterprise-Control system integration. This part of IEC 62264 is consistent with the IEC 62264-1 models and terminology and IEC 62264-2 object model attributes. This standard also defines transactions that specify how to exchange the objects defined in IEC 62264-1, Clause 7, IEC 62264-2 and this standard. Other uses of the transaction model are not defined in this part.

The models covered in this standard are: Personnel Model, Equipment Model, Maintenance Model, Material Model, Process Segment Model, Production Capability Model, Product Definition Model, Production Schedule Model, and Production Performance Model.