ISO 16100-3:2005规定了用于访问和编辑能力配置文件的接口服务和协议的要求，以及ISO 16100-2第5条定义的能力配置方法中使用的相关模板。 ISO 16100-3:2005中定义了访问能力配置文件并对这些配置文件执行匹配过程的详细服务。 ISO 16100-3:2005仅适用于制造领域中使用的软件单元的互操作性。有关制造软件单元互换性的担忧不在ISO 16100本部分的范围内。

ISO 16100-3:2005 specifies requirements for interface services and protocols used to access and edit capability profiles and associated templates used in the capability profiling method defined in Clause 5 of ISO 16100-2. The detailed services for accessing capability profiles and performing the matching process on these profiles are defined in ISO 16100-3:2005. ISO 16100-3:2005 is applicable only for the interoperability of software units used in the manufacturing domain. Concerns regarding interchangeability of manufacturing software units are outside the scope of this part of ISO 16100.