White Paper: IEC 61499: The Industrial Automation Standard for Portability that Unleashes Industry 4.0

The benefits of Industry 4.0 and IIoT use cases for the industry are well documented. But, failure to adopt digital age industrial automation standards that are truly open is costly on all fronts: unnecessary expense, delays in rolling out innovative manufacturing plant designs, and lost business opportunity. The IEC 61499 standard sets a foundation for industrial automation application portability that creates wide-ranging benefits, including easy IT/OT system convergence, improved return-on-investment on software applications that can run independent of any hardware platform, and engineering design efficiency that radically speeds up new product time-to-market.