IEC PAS 61499-4:2002

Function Blocks for industrial-process measurement and control systems - Part 4: Rules for compliance profiles

General Information

• Status: Replaced
• Publication Date: 07-Jul-2002
• ICS: 25.040.40 - Industrial process measurement and control
• Technical Committee: TC 65 - Industrial-process measurement, control and automation
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Completion Date: 24-Aug-2005

Relations

• Replaced By: IEC 61499-4:2005 - Function blocks - Part 4: Rules for compliance profiles
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

IEC/PAS 61499-4
Edition 1.0
2002-07
Function blocks for industrial-process
measurement and control systems –
Part 4:
Rules for compliance profiles
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SPECIFICATION
INTERNATIONAL Reference number
ELECTROTECHNICAL
IEC/PAS 61499-4
COMMISSION
IEC/PAS 61499-4
Edition 1.0
2002-07
Function blocks for industrial-process
measurement and control systems –
Part 4:
Rules for compliance profiles
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SPECIFICATION
INTERNATIONAL Reference number
ELECTROTECHNICAL
IEC/PAS 61499-4
COMMISSION
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD .3

1 General provisions .4

1.1 Scope.4

1.2 Normative references .4

1.3 Definitions .5

2 Contents of compliance profiles.6

2.1 General provisions.6
2.1.1 Scope.6
2.1.2 Normative references .7
2.1.3 Definitions .7
2.2 Portability provisions.7
2.3 Interoperability provisions.7
2.4 Configurability provisions.7
2.5 ANNEXES.7
ANNEX A (informative) - EXAMPLE COMPLIANCE PROFILE.7
ANNEX B (informative) - EXAMPLE DEVICE CONFIGURABILITY CLASSES .8
Figure 1 – Scope of a typical compliance profile.4
Table 1 – Contents of compliance profiles .6
Table B.1 – Device configurability classes (informative).9

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FUNCTION BLOCKS FOR INDUSTRIAL-PROCESS MEASUREMENT

AND CONTROL SYSTEMS –
Part 4: Rules for compliance profiles

FOREWORD
A PAS is a technical specification not fulfilling the requirements for a standard, but made
available to the public.
IEC-PAS 61499-4 has been processed by IEC technical committee 65: Industrial-process
measurement and control.
The text of this PAS is based on the This PAS was approved for
following document: publication by the P-members of the
committee concerned as indicated in
the following document:
Draft PAS Report on voting
65/288/PAS 65/293/RVD
Following publication of this PAS, the technical committee or subcommittee concerned will
investigate the possibility of transforming the PAS into an International Standard.
This is Part 4 of a projected four-part Standard under development by Working Group 6 of
IEC Technical Committee 65. The projected Parts of the Standard are:
Part 1 – Architecture
Part 2 – Engineering task support
Part 3 – Application guidelines
Part 4 – Rules for compliance profiles
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Organization for Standardization (ISO) in accordance with conditions determined by agreement between the

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FUNCTION BLOCKS FOR INDUSTRIAL-PROCESS MEASUREMENT

AND CONTROL SYSTEMS –
Part 4: Rules for compliance profiles

1 General provisions
1.1 Scope
This document defines rules for the development of compliance profiles which specify the

features of IEC 61499-1 and IC 61499-2 to be implemented in order to promote the following
attributes of IEC 61499-based systems, devices and software tools:
– interoperability of devices from multiple suppliers;
– portability of software between software tools of multiple suppliers; and
– configurability of devices from multiple vendors by software tools of multiple suppliers.
These attributes are illustrated in Figure 1.
Scope of a typical compliance profile
portability
Software Tool 1 Software Tool 2
…other tools and devices.
configurability
interoperability
Device 1 Device 2
Sensor/ Sensor/
Actuator Actuator
Link #1 Link #2
Figure 1 – Scope of a typical compliance profile
NOTE 1 The specification of provisions for the facilitation of device interchangeability is beyond the scope of this Part.
NOTE 2 The sensor/actuator links designated #1 and #2 in Figure 1 may be non-interoperable. However, it is intended
that systems complying with a particular profile may show the transfer of events and data from sensors on one link to
actuators on another link using appropriately configured and interconnected service interface function blocks.
NOTE 3 Compliance profiles may extend their scope beyond that shown in Figure 1 to include interoperability of sensors
and actuators.
NOTE 4 Suppliers of software tools should assure that their products conform to the requirements of IEC 61499-2 as well
as any specific requirements defined in compliance profiles applicable to their particular software tools.
1.2 Normative references
The following normative documents contain provisions and references to other normative
documents which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this agreement. At
the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All normative documents are
subject to revision, and parties to this agreement are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of applying the most recent editions of the normative documents indicated below.
Members of the IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently valid International Standards.
IEC-PAS 61499-1, Edition 1.0, 2000-09, Publicly Available Specification – Function blocks for
industrial-process measurement and control systems – Part 1: Architecture
IEC 65/260/PAS, Voting Draft, IEC 61499-2: Function blocks for industrial-process measurement
and control systems – Part 2: Software tools requirements

ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 – Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards, 4th

Edition, 2001
ISO/IEC 8802-3, Information technology – Telecommunications and information exchange

between systems – Local and metropolitan area networks – Specific requirements – Part 3:

Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) access method and physical

layer specifications, December 1996

ISO/IEC TR 10000-1:1998, Information technology – Framework and taxonomy of International

Standardized Profiles – Part 1: General principles and documentation framework

ISO/DIS 15745-1.6.00, Industrial automation systems and integration – Open systems application
integration frameworks – Part 1: Generic reference description, 2000-11-02

1.3 Definitions
NOTE 1 Terms defined in this clause are italicized where they appear in the bodies of definitions.
NOTE 2 The ISO/AFNOR Dictionary of computer science and the International Electrotechnical V
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