Standards for Control Engineering

Covers Standards (and the organisations that promote them) for all levels and applications of control engineering.

Intenational Standards Organisations

Specific Control Related Standards

• http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/IEC/home.html - home page for IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) that issues many of the relevant Intenational Standards

• IEC 6 1131-part 3 "PLC-Programming languages"
• www.plcopen.org - the PLC open site gives a good overview of this standard, including benefits of using this Standard and areas for further information.
• ftp://ftp.cle.ab.com/stds/iec/sc65bwg7tf3/html/toc.htm - Allen Bradley ftp server - this is where the IEC working groups exchange their ideas
• IEC 848 "Sequential Function Charts"
• IEC 61499
• ANSI/ISA S5.1 "Instrumentation Symbols and Identification" - covers P&ID naming conventions etc.
• http://www.isa.org/reference1/pub-dtal.cfm?T=PS&ID=0-87664-844-8&DO=0 - link to ISA publication on this