WS03 - Advancing Industrial Automation: Best Practices and Innovations with IEC 61499

Workshop Organized by

Alois Zoitl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Valeriy Vyatkin, LTU and Aalto University, Finland, Franco Cavadini, Gr3n, Switzerland Inna Arkhipova, UniversalAutomation.Org, Belgium.

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Focus

IEC 61499 is gaining traction in the industry, with organizations like UniversalAutomation.org and Eclipse 4diacTM driving discussions. Building on the success of the 2024 workshop in Padova, we aim to engage more industry professionals to share use cases and best practices. Our goal is to foster interaction between academia and industry, enhancing knowledge exchange on IEC 61499. This workshop will be pivotal in advancing collaboration in this field.

Topics under this session include (but not limited to):

  • Introduction of UniversalAutomation.org
  • Use of IEC 61499 in Open Process Automation Systems Applications
  • Eclipse 4diac : open-source infrastructure for Research, technology evaluation and standard development
  • Effective Engineering Practices for IEC 61499: Bridging Theory and Implementation
  • Vendor-Agnostic Commissioning – CloViC
  • Combining Event-Based Control with IEC 61499: A novel approach to industrial automation
  • Cyberphysical Systems with the IEC 61499 standard: A modular framework for Plug & Produce production
  • Enabling Plug & Produce and Low-Code Engineering with IEC 61499 and Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert Platform
  • IEC 61499 at Kongsberg Maritime