IEC 61131 as enabler of OO and MDD in industrial automation

Author

Thramboulidis, Kleanthis

Author_Institution

Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 July 2012

Firstpage

425

Lastpage

430

Abstract

The IEC 61131 standard has accepted high criticism last years regarding its compliance with state of the art software engineering practices and concepts. A new version of the standard with main focus on an Object Oriented (OO) extension is under development. In this paper, a different point of view of the IEC 61131 is presented. It is claimed that 61131 already supports basic concepts of the OO programming paradigm and it has already introduced in the industrial automation domain the Model Driven development paradigm that is widely accepted in software and system engineering. Extensions are proposed to improve the standard´s support to the model driven development paradigm and mainly the platform independent modeling.

Keywords

IEC standards; object-oriented programming; production engineering computing; IEC 61131 standard; MDD; OO programming paradigm; industrial automation; model driven development paradigm; object oriented extension; software engineering practices; system engineering; Automation; Control systems; IEC standards; Object oriented modeling; Software; Unified modeling language; IEC 61131; MDD; PIM; industrial automation systems; meta modeling; model driven development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2012 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0312-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2012.6300918

Filename

6300918