ISO 15531-1:20 04提供了整个ISO 15531标准（指令）的概述。它规定了其范围，并根据“一般系统理论”和APICS词典中定义的概念提供了整个标准赖以建立的若干基本定义。其信息性附件描述了任务规定与其他标准（特别是ISO/TC 184标准）之间的关系，并澄清了任务规定和其他明确或隐含提及系统理论的标准中使用的“能力和能力”概念。 要求解决制造管理数据的建模，例如: 资源管理数据（资源模型）；时间相关特征（时间模型）；制造业中的流量管理数据（流量管理模型）。与STEP、PLIB和其他SC4(或非SC4)标准相关联的MANDATE可以用于处理制造管理相关信息(诸如资源管理数据、流程管理数据)的任何软件应用中。因此，该标准旨在促进软件应用之间的信息交换，例如E.R.P.、制造管理软件、维护管理软件、报价软件等。 命令已经写得很清楚了。在强制性标准的开发阶段，该标准与ISO 10303（STEP）标准的兼容性一直是彻底分析的主题。

ISO 15531-1:2004 provides a general overview of the whole ISO 15531 standard (MANDATE). It specifies its scope and provides a number of basic definitions on which the whole standard is built in accordance with the "General system theory" and the concepts defined in APICS dictionary. Its informative annexes provide a description of the relationships between MANDATE and other standards (especially ISO/TC 184 standards), as well as a clarification of the concepts of "capability and capacity" as they are used in MANDATE and other standards that refer explicitly or implicitly to the system theory. MANDATE address the modelling of manufacturing management data such as:

• Resources management data (Resource model);
• Time related features (Time model);
• Flow management data in manufacturing (Flow management model).

MANDATE, in association with STEP, PLIB and other SC 4 (or non SC 4) standards, may be used in any software application that addresses manufacturing management related information such as resources management data, flow management data. As such, the standard is intented at facilitating information exchanges between software applications such as E.R.P., manufacturing management software, maintenance management software, quotation software, etc. MANDATE has been written in EXPRESS. During the development phases of the MANDATE standard, the compatibility of the standard with the ISO 10303 (STEP) standard has been the subject of a thorough analysis.