This ISA-95 Part 5 standard defines transactions in terms of information exchanges between applications performing business and manufacturing activities between Levels 3 and 4, and within Level 3. The exchanges are intended to enable information collection, retrieval, transfer and storage in support of enterprise-control system integration. This Part 5 is consistent with the ISA-95 Part 2 and Part 4 object models. This Part 5 also defines transactions that specify how to exchange the objects defined in Part 2, Part 4, and this Part 5. Other uses of the transaction model are not defined in this Part 5 standard.

The models covered in this standard are: Personnel Model, Equipment Model, Physical Asset Model, Material Model, Process Segment Model, Operations Capability Model, Operations Definition Model, Operations Schedule Model, Operations Performance Model, Resource Relationship Network Model, Work Capability Model, Work Definition Model, Work Schedule Model, Job List Model, Work Performance Model, Workflow Specification Model, and Work Alert Model.