This ISA-95 Part 5 standard 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 5 standard is consistent with the Part 1 models and terminology and Part 2 object model attributes. This standard defines transactions that specify how to exchange the objects defined in Part 1 Clause 7 and Part 2.

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.