The IEEE SA announces that the IEC/IEEE 60802
project has progressed to Working Group ballot. A cooperative
IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project has been established between the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) involving experts
across the networking and industrial automation domains specifying
the use of IEEE 802.1™ Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for
industrial automation.
The IEC/IEEE 60802 project specifies profiles that
select features, options, configurations, defaults,
protocols, and procedures of bridges, end stations, and LANs to
build industrial automation networks. The profiles meet the
industrial automation market objective of converging Operations
Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) networks by
defining a common, standardized network infrastructure. This
objective is accomplished by taking advantage of the improvements
that TSN provides to IEEE 802.1™ and IEEE 802.3™ standard Ethernet
networks by delivering data transport with bounded low latency, low
latency variation, zero congestion loss for critical traffic, and
high availability.
“Ensuring a common layer 2 and thus, a common approach to management, is foundational to
the realization of the factory of the future. The progression of the profile to working group ballot
is an important step on the journey to that future” says Jordon Woods, editor of the IEC/IEEE
60802 joint project.
“The motivation of IEC 65C/WG 18 to establish a joint effort of IEC and IEEE is that we will
have the competence of IEC SC65C experts for communication systems for industrial automation
and IEEE 802 on board to specify the profile and if there will be gaps to have a short and quick
relation to amend the IEEE 802 technologies suitable for the broad IEEE 802 audience as well
as for the industrial automation industries (IT and OT) to achieve a converged network
approach versus the fieldbus specified in IEC 61784-1 and IEC 61784-2” says Ludwig Winkel
(L.A.N. Winkel consulting), convenor and chair of the IEC/IEEE 60802 joint project.
The stakeholders include developers, integrators,
industrial automation manufacturers and suppliers, test equipment
vendors, certification agencies, and users of networking services
and components for industrial automation.
Those interested in further progressing this important
work are encouraged to join the standardization process.
