Abstract
The industrial and research activities around the IEC 61499 architecture for distributed automation systems are discussed by Vyatkin, (2011). Research results related to the design of this kind of systems as well as to the execution of IEC 61449 on embedded devices are reviewed. It is claimed that IEC 61499 has been developed to enable intelligent automation through the distribution of software components and that the industry will benefit through its adoption from the promise of the intelligence automation research results. In this paper, several observations are presented on the arguments that are used to prove that IEC 61499 is a solid technology for industrial automation systems development. Portability, interoperability, code modularity, reusability, and reconfigurability as well as determinism and the event-driven execution of IEC 61499 are discussed.
Highlights
In [1], the industrial and research activities around the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61499 architecture for distributed automation systems are discussed, and IEC 61499 is promoted as an enabler of distributed and intelligent automation
It is claimed that IEC 61499 has been developed to enable intelligent automation through the distribution of software components and that the industry will benefit through its adoption from the promise of the intelligence automation research results
Several observations are presented on the arguments that are used to prove that IEC 61499 is a solid technology for industrial automation systems development
Summary
In [1], the industrial and research activities around the IEC 61499 architecture for distributed automation systems are discussed, and IEC 61499 is promoted as an enabler of distributed and intelligent automation. As claimed in [2] ([1, Reference 24, Section I]), the IEC 61499 standard has “emerged in response to the technological limitations encountered in the currently dominating” standard IEC 61131, which is based on the “cyclic scan” model that “is severely inadequate to meet the current industry demands for distributed, flexible automation systems.”.
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