The fieldbus war: history or short break between battles?

Author

Felser, Max ; Sauter, Thilo

Author_Institution

Departement of Technol. & Informatics, Univ. of Appl. Sci., Bern, Switzerland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

80

Abstract

Understanding the structure of fieldbus standards means knowing their history. This paper reviews the evolution of international fieldbus standards in the area of industrial automation and demonstrates how the present situation of the IEC 61158 standard with its 18 different fieldbus systems came about. While the fieldbus standards seem to have reached a stable state, the upcoming application of Ethernet in the field of automation might create a similar conflict potential. We discuss the current status of Industrial Ethernet and the related standardization efforts.

Keywords

IEC standards; field buses; industrial control; local area networks; standardisation; telecommunication standards; IEC 61158 standard; Industrial Ethernet; history; industrial automation; industrial control systems; international fieldbus standards; standardization; Automation; Communication standards; Ethernet networks; Field buses; History; IEC standards; Informatics; Object oriented modeling; Standardization; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems, 2002. 4th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7586-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.2002.1159702

Filename

1159702