IEC 61850 Edition 2.1 of Core Documents Published

The other day IEC TC 57 has published five more parts as Edition 2.1 - it took several years to get there! But finally it was successful.

I would call these Edition 2.1 documents simply the real Edition 2 documents.

First of all, what does Edition 2.1 mean?

The original edition 2 documents needed some corrections and updates. All crucial corrections et cetera have been documented in the Tissue Database (https://iec61850.tissue-db.com/default.mspx). The solutions provided on the Tissue Database have been used as input to the standardization process and led to amendments number 1 of the corresponding parts. These amendments have been commented and balloted officially by the members of TC 57. These amendments 1 are now the official documents that are amending the edition 2 documents (both are valid for the next years).

In order to make the "edition 2.1" more readable and understandable, there are other documents available: The consolidated parts 2.1 ... comprising the "old" stuff, the fixes and the extensions.




Consolidated Version of part 7-2: https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/66525 :



So: This consolidated version consists of the second edition (2010) and its amendment 1 (2020). Therefore, no need to order the amendment in addition to this publication.

Note: The first Tissues for edition 2.1 have already be posted, e.g., for part 7-2 Edition 2.1:



The following Previews for edition 2.1 consolidated versions are available:

Preview IEC 61850-6 Edition 2.1
Preview IEC 61850-7-2 Edition 2.1
Preview IEC 61850-7-3 Edition 2.1
Preview IEC 61850-7-4 Edition 2.1
Preview IEC 61850-8-1 Edition 2.1
Preview IEC 61850-9-2 Edition 2.1

Note: The name spaces (code components) for the edition 2.1 parts will be available soon - I hope:
Click HERE for the list of available name spaces (code components).

Many IEC 61850 Projects Under Progress

37 new parts and parts under revision are under progress as listed in the following table:

As you can see here: IEC 61850 is a bit more than another protocol.

Other parts are published already (some of them are under revision - see above):
https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/6028



Unfortunately many "grey-hair experts" with a lot of experience regarding IEC 61850 have been retired and a lot of experience has been wasted ... politics cares more about wasting food than wasting "experience" good for human survival! It's really a pity when we take into account that the comprehensiveness and complexity of IEC 61850 is growing so fast ...

IEC 61850 Series is Growing Very Fast: 50+ parts soon

The standard series IEC 61850 (Communication networks and systems for power utility automation) is growing faster than expected some years ago. Currently the series comprises 50+ parts published, under revision or new content:
























Klick on picture to magnify.
Enjoy!

First Document of Series IEC 61850 Published as Edition 2.1 FDIS

IEC TC 57 has just published the FDIS of IEC 61850-6/AMD1 ED2:

Amendment 1 – Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 6: Configuration description language for communication in power utility automation systems related to IEDs

The voting ends: 2017-10-27

Amendment 1 means finally Part 6 Edition 2.1:

The present FDIS reflects amendment 1 to IEC 61850-6 Ed. 2. TC 57 WG 10 has also developed a so-called consolidated edition 2.1 based on the present amendment and the existing Edition 2. The consolidated edition is circulated in parallel under reference 57/1919/INF, so that national committees can see the implementation of the amendment in the existing edition.
Once the present FDIS is approved, the consolidated edition will be published together with the amendment under reference IEC 61850-6 Ed. 2.1.

Machine processable Schema available!!

Note that the Schemata for Edition 1 and 2 of part 6 could be downloaded from the IEC Website:



The availability of the machine readable schemata is a very great progress in getting IEC 61850 applied in more and new application domains. More to come.

Congratulation!

IEC 61850 Tissue Database is Crucial for Improving the Quality of IEC 61850

The Tissue (technical issues) Database is one of the most important means to improve the quality of the standard series IEC 61850.
When IEC published the first parts of the series in 2004 the editors used a Word document to keep track of technical issues reported to the key experts and the results of their discussions. NettedAutomation developed the Tissue Database to offer a public tool to support the standardization and quality assurance process.

The following parts have an entry in the Database:



We just added an entry to part 90-2 (Substation to Control Center communication).
Please note that the almost 1,500 entries play a crucial role in the latest parts published and in the UCAIUG testing specification. Excerpt of IEC 61850-6 Amendment 1 to Edition 2:



This list has 50+ entries referring to the Tissue Database.

Products that claim conformance with IEC 61850 have to be accompanied by the so-called "TICS" Technical Issues Conformance Statement. This is a list that describes which Technical Issues have been implemented in a specific product. It is quite important to understand, that a specific Technical Issue that has an impact on client and server (publisher and subscriber) has to be implemented on both sides!!

The test labs for IEC 61850 have to test Technical Issues - when required by the testcase. The UCAIUG maintains a list of all "green" Tissues that are integral part of UCAIUG Testing requirements.

If you have an issue with IEC 61850 I recommend to check the Database and search for the topic you are looking for. Maybe your concern has already been solved ... you find a lot of good discussions in many tissues.

NetteAutomation will continue to offer the Tissue Database for the next parts to be published, e.g., Edition 2.1 of the core documents.

Enjoy the Database.

IEC-61850-Hands-On-Training in Deutsch in Karlsruhe (Dezember 2017 und Mai 2018)

NettedAutomation GmbH bietet zwei IEC-61850 Hands-On-Trainingskurse zu unschlagbar günstigen Preisen in Deutsch in Karlsruhe an:

05.-08. Dezember 2017 
14.-17. Mai 2018
04.-07. Dezember 2018

NEU: Zusätzlicher Schwerpunkt wird das Thema "Sicherheitsanforderungen" (BDEW White Paper, ...) für die Energieversorgung sein.
Die drei (3) Blöcke (1 Tag + 2 Tage + 1 Tag) können einzeln oder in Kombination gebucht werden. Sie entscheiden selbst, ob Sie nur einen Tag von Ihrem Arbeitsplatz fern bleiben möchten oder zwei, drei oder vier. Je nachdem, wieviel Zeit Sie investieren wollen oder können und welchen Bedarf Sie haben.

Lernen Sie, wie über 4.300 Teilnehmer vor Ihnen, was IEC 61850 und andere Normen wie IEC 60870-5-10x oder IEC 62351 (Security) bedeuten. Gewinnen Sie einen Einblick in relevante Realisierungen wie die FNN-Steuerbox oder VHPready, die auf IEC 61850 aufbauen. Verstehen Sie, wie Feldbusse (Profibus, Profinet, Modbus, ...) über lostengünstige Gateways in die Anlagen eingebunden werden können.

Im Hands-On-Training lernen Sie die wesentlichen Konzepte der Normenreihe praktisch kennen. Die umfangreiche Trainings-Software dürfen Sie behalten und weiterhin nutzen!


Copyright, 2017-07, Michael Hüter

Der Kurs ist für alle geeignet, die mehr über IEC 61850 erfahren wollen.

HIER klicken, um zur Beschreibung und den Anmeldeunterlagen zu gelangen [pdf, 430 KB].

Beachten Sie auch, dass die meisten Seminare als Inhouse-Kurse stattfinden! Falls Sie Interesse an einem Inhouse-Kurs (in deutsch, englisch, italienisch oder schwedisch) haben sollten kontaktieren Sie uns bitte!

Updated IEC 61850 Roadmap - What is going on?

The following 40 (!!) documents are in the process of revision or definition:




































What else are you looking for? Several other documents have already been officially published.

IEC TC 57 Published IEC 61850 Roadmap and Schedule

IEC TC 57 just published a new IEC 61850 Roadmap and Schedule to give an update on the ongoing work (57/1882/INF).

The following 35 (!!) parts are in the process of revision respectively under preparation:

General Topics
5 / 7-1 / 7-2 7-3 / 7-4 8-1 / 9-2
62361-104-10
Communication
8-2
80-5
90-4, 90-12, 90-13
90-20
Modeling
7-410
7-420
7-5
7-510 7-520
90-6 / 90-9 / 90-14 90-15 / 90-21
90-10 / 90-18
90-19
7-6
7-7
Engineering
4
6
6-100
6-2
90-11
Testing
10-3

The years 2017/2018 will bring more stable documents than ever before! The major step forward is the use of a formal UML modelling tool (Enterprise Architect) to keep the consistency very high level.
Any question? Let us know.

Wind Energy Generation Systems: Edition 2 Drafts of IEC 61400-25 Published

IEC TC 88 has published recently the following draft documents for the edition 2 of the corresponding parts:

IEC 61400-25-1: Wind energy generation systems -
Part 25-1: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -
Overall description of principles and models
(88/587/CDV)

IEC 61400-25-4: Wind energy generation systems -
Part 25-4: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -
Mapping to communication profile
(88/600/FDIS)

IEC 61400-25-5: Wind energy generation systems -
Part 25-5: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -
Conformance testing
(88/589/CDV)

IEC 61400-25-6: Wind power generation systems -
Part 25-6: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -
Logical node classes and data classes for condition monitoring
(88/606/FDIS)

Note 1: The title of TC 88 was changed in 2015 from Wind turbines to Wind energy generation systems
Note 2: Please note the tissue database for the whole standards series:
http://tissue.iec61400-25.com/default.mspx

Major Changes in these documents:

IEC 61400-25-1:
Changes compared to Edition 1:
• General harmonization of text and overview models with the other parts of the IEC
61400-25 series
• Harmonization of definitions in other related standards
The users of IEC 61400-25 have formed a community, USE61400-25. For further information
see http://www.use61400-25.com.

IEC 61400-25-4:
A lot of modifications have been implemented in order to harmonize with other parts of the series IEC 61400-25 as well as with IEC 61850. Note that a mapping to OPC UA is not part of this
second edition of IEC 61400-25-4

IEC 61400-25-5:
The scope of revision includes:
• Harmonization with test cases in IEC61850-10 Edition 2.0
• The use of SCL in the conformance testing process is out of the scope for Ed2, but will be considered for Edition 3.
• Reduction of overlap between standards and simplification by increased referencing to the IEC 61850 standard series
The following main revisions have been made compared to Edition 1.0:
• The complete document has been restructured in order to match the structure of IEC 61850-10 Edition 2.0.
• All test cases applying SCL files are still not a part of the present document as the SCL specifications for wind power domain are still pending to be published.

IEC 61400-25-6:
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) Major restructuring of the data model to accommodate needed flexibility.
b) UFF58 format is no longer used.
c) Access to data is now using the standard reporting and logging functions.
d) Recommendations for creating data names to accommodate needed flexibility have been
defined.

New Flyer for IEC 61850 Training conducted by FMTP and NettedAutomation

FMTP (Uppsala, Sweden) and NettedAutomation (Karlsruhe, Germany) designed a new flyer for IEC 61850 training courses:


The flyer lists all crucial topics that are comprised by the various training opportunities: public or in-house, 3, 4, or 5 days ... or as many days you (our customer) want.

In some cases we offered a 1 day introduction course - the maximum number of training days was 11 days (in three sessions) for a big transmission utility in Europe. Another training took 10 days in one block. The maximum number of attendees was 350 for 3 days:

Click HERE for a brief report of the Bangalore event.

You get whatever you need - 
wherever you are, 
whenever you are prepared to get it.
Talk to your management or HR - to get it.
You deserve it!


Click HERE for the new 2 page flyer [pdf, 1. MB]

I look forward to meeting you some time down the street.

Neues IEC-61850-Seminar in Deutsch – Karlsruhe (7.-9.12.2016)

Sie haben jetzt wieder die Möglichkeit, ein dreitägiges (deutschsprachiges!) Intensivseminar
mit Theorie und viel Praxis in Karlsruhe zu einem
***unschlagbar günstigen Preis*** von NUR 790,- Euro (netto) zu buchen!
07.-09. Dezember 2016 (Karlsruhe)

Die NettedAutomation GmbH hat seit 2003 weltweit über 200 Seminare (mit mehr als 4.000 Teilnehmern) für IEC 61850 und IEC 60870-5-104 durchgeführt.
Das Interesse an Seminaren und Trainingskursen im deutschsprachigen Raum ist so groß,
dass NettedAutomation im Dezember 2016 einen weiteren Trainingskurs in Deutsch anbietet.
Am ersten Tag wird ein Überblick über das Normungsumfeld und die einzelnen Normen
gegeben (Edition 1, 2, 2.1). Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die grundlegenden Eigenschaften und Bedeutung der Normenreihe IEC 61850 für Engineering, Datenmodellierung, Datenmodelle,
Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, Sicherheitslösungen sowie deren internationale Umsetzung
und Akzeptanz.
Am zweiten und dritten Tag werden Details behandelt und mit praktischen Übungen an
realen Geräten begleitet. Ein Teil der eingesetzten Lösungen und Werkzeuge können auch
nach dem Training weiter verwendet werden. Es wird vor allem die Frage behandelt: Was
bedeutet der Einsatz dieser Normen für Hersteller von Geräten und Systemen, für die
Systemintegratoren und für die Anwender?

Hier CLICKEN (Email schreiben), wenn Sie Interesse haben.

IEC Committee Draft (CD) 61850-7-420 Ed. 2.0 just published

IEC TC 57 has just published the 57/1655/CD:

IEC CD 61850-7-420 Ed. 2.0: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation -
Part 7-420: Basic communication structure - Distributed energy resources logical nodes

Commenting closes 2016-04-08.

Attention is drawn to document 57/1658/DC which is circulated in parallel and which reflects a draft IEC TR 61850-7-520 and which contains the main guidelines on how to use the data models contained in the present CD.
.
Since both documents are closely linked IEC national committees are invited to develop their comments in parallel on the present CD and on 57/1658/DC.

The major technical changes with regard to the previous edition are as follows:

• Corrections and clarifications according to information letter "IEC 61850-technical issues by the IEC TC 57” (see document 57/963/INF, 2008-07-18);
• Extensions regarding IEC 61850-90-7 (object models for converters in distributed energy resources (DER) systems);
• Some logical nodes in IEC 61850-7-420:2009 that were not specific to distributed energy resources have been transferred to IEC 61850-7-4 Ed. 2.1 and have been removed from this edition of IEC 61850-7-420 (see also Annex A);
• The definitions of logical nodes in this edition of IEC 61850-7-420 have been updated using the table format introduced in IEC 61850-7-4 Ed. 2.1;
• Most of the modelling examples and background information that was included in IEC 61850-7-420:2009 has been transferred to IEC 61850-7-520

This CD is not available publicly as a CDV. The CDV may be available later this year. 

Stay tuned to this blog.

IEC CDV 61850-7-4 Ed.2.0 Amendment 1 just pulished

IEC TC 57 has just published a 269 page CDV that reflects the first amendment to IEC 61850-7-4 Ed.2.0:

IEC 61850-7-4 Ed.2.0 Amd.1: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 7-4: Basic communication structure – Compatible logical node classes and data object classes

Everybody can read the CDV and comment online (see details below).

The commenting period closes 2016-04-15.

Compared to the second edition, this first revision of the second edition:

• Provides clarifications and corrections to the second edition of IEC 61850-7-4, based on the tissues = { 650, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 677, 679, 680, 682, 683, 685, 686, 689, 693, 694, 695, 696, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 722, 724, 725, 726, 727, 732, 734, 735, 736, 742, 743, 744, 748, 749, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 800, 802, 808, 819, 830, 831, 835, 838, 842, 843, 844, 849, 871, 877, 878, 879, 881, 882, 902, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 913, 920, 928, 932, 933, 937, 939, 940, 952, 967, 991, 1007, 1029, 1044, 1046, 1071, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1081, 1086, 1117, 1119, 1128, 1137, 1139, 1176, 1177, 1190, 1191, 1203, 1205, 1229, 1235, 1236, 1244, 1250, 1256, 1258, 1259, ... }
• Adds to each functional LN group a parent abstract Logical node where the functional nodes are children from (full object oriented model). Since all abstract LNs are in together in a common clause, the relative position of the functional LNs is not changed within their clause
• Adds new abbreviated terms
• Has extension of the list of abbreviate terms to be used for object names
• Has more precise combination rules for abbreviated terms to object names
• Has extensions by new logical nodes mainly from power quality domains and others
• Has corrections of editorial errors.

Please note that this CDV is available to the public for comments (yes: everybody can sign in and get access for personal comments!!):

Click HERE to register for public access and comments.

This allows everybody to ready the content and comment online.

Click HERE to visit the Tissue Database.

This CDV is the result of several years of key editors to reach a very high level of completeness and consistency of the information models throughout the various domains.

Note that the final result will be a new edition of 7-4: Edition 2.1 !! (not 3.0).

Congratulation to the editors for this great work!!

The First Official IEC 61850 Edition 2 Client Certificate Goes to? - Siemens

Siemens is the first company in the world to receive an IEC 61850 Edition 2 client certificate, issued by DNV GL on behalf of the UCA International User Group (UCA), for their SICAM PAS/PQS system (basically a PC application that acts as a 61850 client).

Click HERE for the news.

There are other vendors underway to get an IEC 61850 Edition 2 client certificate. TÜV SÜD (Munich) has also been accredited for testing conformance of Edition 2 clients.

More to come. Stay tuned.

Status of IEC 61400-25 Communications for Wind Turbines

The IEC TC 88 JWG 25 has published several draft documents for the second edition of IEC 61400-25:

• Part 25-1: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Overall description of principles and models
• Part 25-2: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Information models
• Part 25-3: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Information exchange models
• Part 25-4: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Mapping to communication profile
• Part 25-5: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Conformance testing
• Part 25-6: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants -Logical node classes and data classes for condition monitoring

Here are the latest news on IEC 61400-25:

1. New Convenor

Dr Nicholas Etherden from Vattenfall, Sweden is the new Convenor of IEC TC 88 JWG 25 (following Anders Johnsson, Vattenfall).

2. Status of Edition 2 of the different parts

IEC 61400-25-1 CDV in November 2015.

88/539/FDIS
IEC 61400-25-2 Ed.2: Wind turbines - Part 25-2: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants - Information models
Approved

88/540/FDIS
IEC 61400-25-3 Ed.2: Wind turbines - Part 25-3: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants - Information exchange models
Approved

88/536/CDV
IEC 61400-25-4 Ed.2: Wind turbines - Part 25-4: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants - Mapping to communication profile
Approved

IEC 61400-25-5 CDV End of 2015.

IEC 61400-25-6 CDV End of 2015.

88/549/NP(Mai 2015)
Wind turbines - Part 25-41: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants - Mapping to communication profile based on IEC 62541 (OPC UA) (proposed IEC TS 61400-25-41)
Rejected
2015-10-09: The NP was finally accepted due to a late appointment of two additional exerts from two additional countries.
Project title: IEC 61400-25-41 TS Ed.1

The standard series IEC 61400-25 offers five different Mappings. The Mapping according to IEC 61850-8-1 (MMS) is the most important mapping when it comes to implementations and applications.

Next IEC 61850 Training Opportunities in English and German

One of the crucial issues in Understanding IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25 is education. NettedAutomation GmbH (Karlheinz Schwarz) has trained almost 4,000 experts from all over. We offer you the best courses ever conducted.

The other day I received this feedback:

It should be a seminar for the … partners with relation to IEC 61850 in the project (about 20 people) and hosted at xx in xxx – hopefully some time before the end of the year when the project ends.

We see you as the best candidate for providing this seminar and would therefore like to start a dialog on your conditions for this, like draft agenda, availability and price.

and:

The ultimate goal is to have … tools for training people into using IEC61850.
Keep on the good work Karlheinz. I’m a big fan of yours.

We have scheduled several public training courses in German and English. The courses in English are conducted by Andreas Bonetti (FMTP, Senior protection engineer) and Karlheinz Schwarz; the courses in German are conducted by Karlheinz Schwarz

Karlsruhe (Deutsch, Karlheinz Schwarz):
02-04 Dezember 2015
11-13 Januar 2016
07-09 März 2016 (neues Datum)

Karlsruhe/Germany (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
13-16 October 2015
18-21 April 2016 (new date)
10-13 October 2016

Stockholm/Sweden (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
15-17 March 2016
19-22 September 2016

Dammam City/SA (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
18-21 October 2015 EN 

Hong Kong (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
17-19 November 2015

ALL:

2015:
13-16 October 2015 EN Khe
18-21 October 2015 EN Dammam City
17-19 November 2015 EN Hong Kong
02-04 Dezember 2015 DE Khe
11-13 Januar 2016 DE Khe
2016: 
07-09 März 2016 DE Khe (neues Datum)
15-17 March 2016 EN Sto
18-21 April 2016 EN Khe (new date)
19-22 September 2016 EN Sto
10-13 October 2016 EN Khe

Click HERE for more details on the courses in Deutsch.
Click HERE for more details on the courses in English.

Contact us by email in case you have any question.

SCL Schema Accessibility in the near future

The SCL schema is published as part of the delivery of edition 1 and edition 2 of part 6. The publication of a Technical Corrigendum to IEC 61850-6 Ed. 1 and Ed. 2 is under way.

To provide an easier way to retrieve the latest version of the Schema a new possibility to access the Schema from the IEC Website is proposed in the document (57/1604/DC): Latest version of SCL schema and planned publication of a Technical Corrigendum to IEC 61850-6 Ed. 1 and Ed. 2.

This process is already proposed for the first corrigenda of part 6 and from Edition 2.1 onwards.

Please note: Currently the following valid schema files are currently used for conformance testing of IEC 61850:

- For Edition 1 of IEC 61850-6: SCL 1.7
- For Edition 2 of IEC 61850-6: SCL.2007B

NEWS on IEC 61850 Conformance Test Labs

The following nine new IEC 61850 Test services have been approved by the UCAIUG in during the first half of 2015:

Level A
IEC 61850 Conformance Test for 2nd Edition Server Products

• Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) [January 2015]
• TÜV SÜD (Munich, Germany) [January 2015]
• Xuchang KETOP, Testing Technology Co.,Ltd, Xuchang, China [February 2015]

Level B
IEC 61850 Conformance Test for 2nd Edition Server Products

• ALSTOM GRID UK Ltd, Substation Automation , Stafford (UK) [July 2015]

Level A
IEC 61850 Conformance Testing Sampled Values 9-2LE Publisher

• Xuchang KETOP, Testing Technology Co.,Ltd, Xuchang, China [March 2015]
• TÜV SÜD (Munich, Germany) [March 2015]

Level A
Edition 2 Client Systems

• DNV GL – Energy (KEMA), Arnhem (Netherlands) [April 2015]
• TÜV SÜD (Munich, Germany) [July 2015]
  

LEVEL B
IEC 61850 Conformance testing Edition 1 Server Products

• ALSTOM GRID UK Ltd, Substation Automation , Stafford (UK) [July 2015]

A total of 479 Certificates for Server Ed1 (47 for clients) and 21 for Server Ed2 (1 for clients) have been issued by July 2015.

Click HERE to access the testing information (requires user name and password – at least you need a guest account).

NEW Training Opportunities for IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, IEC 60870-5-104, and IEC 62351

Education is one of the crucial aspects when it comes to information modeling, system and device configuration, information exchange, and security measures.

Many new or updated standards have been published during the last couple of months – and more to come: e.g., several parts of the series IEC 61850 will be published as Edition 2.1.

In addition to many new definitions we are seeing more and more utilities and vendors in getting started using the above mentioned standards in Automation and Protection … SCADA, …

Taking the experience with the many solutions and the new standard s into account, FMTP and NettedAutomation offer a new series of training courses (in English and German). FMTP and NettedAutomation have conducted more than 10 in-house courses in recent months and several public events. You would tap the experiences of so far more than 4.000 attendees we have trained (FMTP and NettedAutomation) all over.

Karlsruhe (Deutsch, Karlheinz Schwarz):
02-04 Dezember 2015 (neues Datum)
11-13 Januar 2016
14-16 März 2016

Click HERE for details

Karlsruhe/Germany (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
13-16 October 2015
04-07 April 2016
10-13 October 2016

Click HERE for details

Dammam City/Saudi Arabia (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
18-21 October 2015

Details will be available soon.

Stockholm/Sweden (English, Andrea Bonetti and Karlheinz Schwarz):
22-25 February 2016
19-22 September 2016

Click HERE for details

We look forward to seeing you in one of the above courses or in an in-house event.

Contact us if you are interested in an in-house event.

IEC 61850: Protection and SCADA Seminars (updated)

The IEC 61850 applied for several years to many new substation designs all over the world. During the seminar, truly experienced and vendor independent engineers will help you to see and understand how use the core parts of the IEC 61850 standard are applied in substation design, monitoring, protection and control applications.

Attendees will learn from a senior protection engineer, how the protection system will improve and understand the crucial lessons learned since the first projects with IEC 61850 in 2004.

Seminar contents:

IEC 61850 Introduction (Edition 1, 2, and 2.1) and experience after 10 years in operation. Where are we today?

Return of experience, applications and practical demonstrations: Protection and Control in Substation Automation, Engineering and Configuration, Maintenance, Monitoring and SCADA system, Specification of the IEC 61850 protection and control system.

Through the practical demonstrations you will learn: To handle IEC 61850 relay protections from different vendors and their software tools; to be able to efficiently manage flexibility in engineering and interoperability. To use the state of the art IEC 61850 testing tools and equipment to efficiently detect the technical problems and work-out their solutions. To understand SCL files, setup clients and servers for MMS communication to SCADA and RTU Systems All the presentations are supported by practical examples or demonstrations.

The following 3 days special training courses are offered by FMTP (Uppsala, Sweden) and NettedAutomation:

Hong Kong
27-29 April 2015
Details and registration

Berlin (Germany)
05-07 May 2015
Details and registration

Bratislava (Slovakia)
18-20 May 2015
Details and registration

Brussels (Belgium)
08-10 June 2015
Details and registration

I look forward to seeing you there.