Implementing IEC 61499 communication with the CIP protocol

IEC 61499 is introduced as a new standard for Industrial Process Measurement and Control System. Communication function blocks are however, only loosely defined as they are implementation dependant. This paper presents the definition of communication function blocks for the CIP protocol which is a well established standard in industry and describes a pilot implementation demonstrating that the standard and the protocol integrate well. Performance results are given which show that the system works properly.