Workshop Invitation: The Future of IEC 61499 - Open Discussion on the 2nd Edition

The IEC 61499 standard for distributed control systems has been available since 2005. The IEC policy requires maintaining IEC standards every five years.

The fifth anniversary of the IEC 61499 standard occurs next year. The reason for the maintenance is to eliminate errors and to improve the standard.

Therefore the Vienna University of Technology, the Automation and Control Institute and the PROFACTOR GmbH as active members of the IEC 61499 standardisation group are organising a workshop together with the automation network O³neida at this year's SPS/IPC/Drives 2009 to collect feedback and comments for the 2nd Edition of the IEC 61499.

We are kindly inviting you to this workshop since we think that industrial feedback for the further development of the IEC 61499 is very important.

The workshop will take place in the Zürich room (CCN West, Level 2, Exhibition Centre Nuremberg) on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 between 3 and 6pm. Please register for the event with our Sales Assistant Angelika Hofer (angelika.hofer@profactor.at) on or before 18.11.2009.