An IEC61499 Execution Environment for an aJile-based Field Device

The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are between the most important requirements. Development environments that will demonstrate the applicability of this standard in industrial environments are still missing. In this paper an approach that allows the execution of IEC61499 based control applications on an industrial field device is presented. This approach allows the control engineer to design the control application in terms of function block network diagrams, and subsequently exploit the model-driven development paradigm to run the control application on a single-chip real-time Java microcontroller especially designed for real-time embedded applications.