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This document specifies requirements and recommendations for establishing and maintaining intelligent device management (IDM) as outlined in IEC 63082-1 in an enterprise having one or more facilities. The following topics are included in the scope of this document: - optimizing functionality and performance of intelligent devices for their use, - managing information related to IDM, - integrating intelligent devices into industrial automation and control systems (IACS) in facilities, - exchanging information between stakeholders that achieve and sustain IDM, - coordinating multiple asynchronous IDM life cycles. The following topics are outside the scope of this document: - defining and determining the function and performance of intelligent devices, - defining and specifying technologies and tools that provide, preserve and manage information related to IDM such as FDT, FDI, portable on-line and off-line tools, configuration tools, historians, and maintenance planning tools, - defining and specifying technologies and tools that are used to design intelligent devices, - defining and specifying communication network architecture, communication technologies, cybersecurity requirements, and network management requirements.