Description

A new concept for distributed control systems based on the new IEC 61499 standard is tested in this work in cooperation with LAE
Engineering GmbH, a medium-sized company. Based on a catalogue of requirements, a customer-related testbed is developed. In
the following this testbed is used as a reference to realise an IEC 61499 compliant-distributed control system based on PC technics.
By doing this, rules are defined to convert user-owned IEC 61131 function blocks to IEC 61499 compliant function blocks. Concluding,
some trends for IEC 61499-based distributed control systems will be summarised.