IEC 61499

The international standard IEC 61499, addressing the topic of function blocks for industrial process measurement and control systems, was initially published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 2005. The specification of IEC 61499 defines a generic model for distributed control systems and is based on the IEC 61131 standard. The concepts of IEC 61499 are also explained by Lewis and Zoitl [1] as well as Vyatkin.[2]

  1. ^ Alois Zoitl and Robert Lewis: Modelling control systems using IEC 61499. 2nd Edition, Control Engineering Series 95, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London July 2014.
  2. ^ Valeriy Vyatkin: IEC 61499 Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design, Instrumentation Society of America, USA, 2006, 2011 (second edition), 2014 (third edition in German and English)