制造消息规范是一种应用层标准，旨在支持计算机集成制造（CIM）环境中可编程设备之间的消息通信。该环境在本标准中称为制造环境。本标准未规定设备远程编程的完整服务集，尽管此类服务集的提供可能会受到未来标准化工作的影响。

The Manufacturing Message Specification is an application layer standard designed to support messaging communications to and from programmable devices in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. This environment is referred to in this standard as the manufacturing environment. This standard does not specify a complete set of services for remote programming of devices, although provision or such a set of services may be subject of future standardization efforts.