The IEC 61499 standard has been in the focus of several international projects. Thus the relevant expertise has developed in many academic, research and industrial institutions worldwide. The list below is by no means complete, but gives some impression where the things are being developed (the order does not reflect (almost) anything ): | |
Latest news on the industry acceptance of IEC 61499 technology from the first IEC 61499 industry day at SPS/IPC/Drives trade fair in Nuremberg, November, 2011 |
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HOLOBLOC Inc. (USA) |
Starting point. Source of latest FBDK versions and of heaps of relevant information. |
Discussion forums on FBDK and IEC 61499 at Google Groups | |
University of Auckland (NZ) J |
Relevant publications and extra information is available at this link. About 100 undergraduates of this University are actively exposed to function blocks annually. Runs a material handling model under holonic IEC 61499 control. |
University of Halle (GER) |
First testbed (model of a manufacturing process) under truly distributed IEC 61499 compliant control runs there since 2002. Deep expertise in model-based control and verification |
Technical University of Vienna (AUSTRIA) |
ACIN institute possess enormous expertise in running models of manufacturing processes under distributed IEC 61499 control. |
o3neida (Canada) |
International Community for Intelligent Industrial Automation |
University of Calgary (Canada) |
Active participant of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems projects |
University of Penza (Russia) |
Development of function block tools |
Technical University of Tampere (Finland) |
Among other things developed a function block run-time that runs on top of traditional scan-based PLCs. |
Technical University of Helsinki (Finland) |
Organizer of regular summer schools on IEC 61499, develops engineering and education methodologies |
University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) |
Model-based automation and agent based systems |
Politechnico di Milano (Italy) |
Expertise centre on advanced automation |
... | TO BE CONTINUED |
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