PAS 7040:2019

This standard PAS 7040:2019 Digital manufacturing. Trustworthiness and precision of networked sensors. Guide is classified in these ICS categories:

• 35.240.50 IT applications in industry
• 25.040.01 Industrial automation systems in general

This PAS gives guidance on the quality and security plans for measurements generated by network sensors and transmitted over a network, in a manufacturing production line, or associated servitization. It includes guidance on how to assure measurements and support the process of adoption within key industry stakeholders.

It covers:

1. determining the need for a sensor, or sensors, and assessing the functional and non-functional requirements (i.e. the physical need and informational aspects are understood);

2. precision of sensor measurements in a production environment for a standard set of metrics delivered in a secure network;

3. identification of sensor entities and associated measurements;

4. origin of the data transmitted and received in a production environment;

5. relationship with internet of things (IoT)/industrial internet of things (IIoT) catalogues;

6. security of Internet communication between a sensor and dependent components within a protected firewall/secure network (barrier to cyber-attack);

7. methods for mitigating operational ambiguity and security threats to data, information, physical components, technical systems, and associated processes that might affect the people who use (directly or indirectly, work with, handle, or are nearby) products that rely upon measurements from sensors;

8. measures to handle the normal operational tolerances of sensors, as well as to deter and/or disrupt hostile, malicious, fraudulent and criminal behaviours or activities that are directly associated with such measurements;

9. technological aspects including safety, authenticity, availability (including reliability), confidentiality, integrity, possession, resilience and utility (including precision/accuracy); and

10. accuracy and authenticity of calibration of sensors, over a secure Internet /intranet.

    It does not cover:

    1. independent validation of measurement assurance;

    2. sensing outside of a manufacturing or a process control sector.

The target audience for this PAS is organizations that design, build, sell and maintain networked sensors for digital manufacturing applications and that acquire, integrate and maintain them in operational deployments.