The Concepts of IEC 61346 Applied to a Software Architecture for Automation

The IEC 61346 standard establishes general principles for structuring the information of technical systems. The present document discusses the ideas shown in the standard, emphasizing the fact that some parts of it are ambiguous and can lead to different interpretations of the basic concepts. Consequently, we derive a concrete interpretation of the standard that tries to remove the ambiguities. We will apply this interpretation to the development of an industrial software platform for building automation applications.