This paper presents one perspective on recent developments related to software
engineering in the industrial automation sector that spans from manufacturing factory …

This review paper discusses the industrial and research activities around the IEC 61499
architecture for distributed automation systems. IEC 61499 has been developed to enable …

Universal, intelligent, and multifunctional devices controlling power distribution and
measurement will become the enabling technology of the Smart Grid ICT. In this paper, we …

Research, the universal pursuit of new knowledge, is embarking on a fresh journey into
artificial intelligence (AI). ature reports that AI arose nine places to the fourth-most popular …

The IEC 61499 standard was proposed for distributed architecture design of industrial
automation systems to support portability, interoperability, and configurability. Compared …

The way machining operations have been running has changed over the years. Nowadays,
machine utilization and availability monitoring are becoming increasingly important for the …

A traditional power transmission system (TPTS) is composed of many electrical substations
(ESs) and transmission lines. When the latter meet faults, the output of the ESs may be …

There is no doubt that the rapid development in robotics technology has dramatically
changed the interaction model between the Industrial Robot (IR) and the worker. As the …

The IEC 61499 modeling language pursues a component-based approach with modular
building blocks coupled by ports and arranged in a hierarchical manner. Like similar …

The IEC 61499 Function Block architecture is considered as the next generation of
programmable control technology promoting distributed control in automation. In this paper …