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News Release from: ICS Triplex | Subject: Isagraf version 5.0
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 20 December 2005
Isagraf goes IEC61499 compliant
ICS Triplex releases IEC61499-compliant version 5.0 of its Isagraf automation software.
ICS Triplex has released the IEC61499-compliant version 5.0 of its Isagraf automation software It lets users design automation controllers and devices that meet IEC61131 and IEC61499
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The technology has all the components to prototype and create a high quality control product.
It provides a combination of control engine software used by most PLC, DCS and RTU manufacturers.
A toolkit is available to adapt it to any hardware platform and operating system.
IEC61499 redefines the way to configure and program automation systems and complements the IEC61131 methodology.
The standard defines a model for splitting different parts of an industrial automation process or complex machinery control into functional modules.
These modules are graphically represented as function blocks of a shape unique to IEC61499.
The scope of the resulting function block diagram spans over multiple resources (programs) on a controller or over multiple controllers or devices (valves, meters and so on).
These function blocks can be supplied by multiple vendors.
IEC61499 also has the ability to encapsulate automation functionality such that machine builders can create IEC61499 function blocks for different components of the machine and only need to assemble them to achieve the desired operation.
It provides object-oriented programming in an environment accessible to automation engineers.
With IEC61499, legacy central control architectures are replaced by self-regulated networks of intelligent controllers, sensors and actuators, reducing complex control systems to simple and intuitive cooperating subsystems.
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