Standards Development

Scope

This standard defines activities involved in the commissioning of electrical, instrumentation and control systems (EI&C) in the process industry. Activities of other disciplines that also occur during the commissioning of a process industry plant are provided for information only as a frame of reference.

Engineering and manufacturing activities prior to commissioning (such as FAT, FIT, SAT and SIT according to IEC 62381 as well as loop checks according to IEC 62382) and following commissioning are not covered by this document.

For applications in the pharmaceutical or other highly specialized industries, additional guidelines (for example, good automated manufacturing practice (GAMP)), definitions and stipulations apply in accordance with other applicable existing standards.

While this document mentions safety instrumented systems, it does not cover validation of a safety system. IEC 61511 provides requirements for checks and validation of Safety Instrumented Systems.

Commissioning of manufacturing execution systems (MES) is not covered by this document.

Commissioning of advanced process control (APC) is not covered by this document.While this document mentions network and system security, IEC 62443 provides requirements for automation and control systems cyber security.

User-specific procedures and requirements for commissioning are not covered by this document as they are unique to each user.

This document includes lists of commissioning documents and work by disciplines other than E&I for information only and to provide some perspective for the E&I work.