ISO 16100-2:2003 specifies a methodology for constructing profiles of manufacturing software capabilities, and is applicable to software products used in the manufacturing domain. It is an integral part of ISO 16100 (all parts), a series of International Standards for the computer-interpretable and human readable representation of a software capability profile. The goal of ISO 16100 (all parts) is to provide a method to represent the capability of manufacturing software relative to its role throughout the life cycle of a manufacturing application, independent of a particular system architecture or implementation platform.