Tissue Database for IEC 60870-5 is now online

The industry asked for another tissue database for IEC standards. The other day the new tissue database for IEC 60870-5 went online:

https://iec60870-5.tissue-db.com/default.mspx

IEC 60870-5: "Telecontrol equipment and systems" ... a well known standard used in many applications globally.

Some discussion can be found here (60870-5, comparison with other solutions): 

https://blog.nettedautomation.com/search?q=60870-5

https://blog.nettedautomation.com/search?q=comparison

IEC 60870-5-1:1990
IEC 60870-5-2:1992
IEC 60870-5-3:1992
IEC 60870-5-4:1993
IEC 60870-5-5:1995
IEC 60870-5-6:2006
IEC TS 60870-5-7:2013
IEC 60870-5-101:2003+AMD1:2015 CSV
IEC 60870-5-102:1996
IEC 60870-5-103:1997
IEC 60870-5-104:2006+AMD1:2016 CSV
IEC TS 60870-5-601:2015
IEC TS 60870-5-604:2016 RLV

Do you know the PAC World Magazine? You should!

The PAC World Magazine - "Protection, Automation & Control World" - is a great global forum for the corresponding community:

https://www.pacw.org/

There you will find great discussions and use-cases on IEC 61850 ... and hints you don't find in the standards! 

Another source of background information is buried in the IEC 61850 Tissue Database:

https://iec61850.tissue-db.com/default.mspx

Enjoy!

IEC 61850 Tissue Database Has Been Used to Publish The Second Set Of Tissues in Force

The IEC 61850 Tissue Database is an excellent tool helping to support a high level of quality. Tissues that affect interoperability will be put in force as batches, before an amendment of the standard can be done. They will then as well be required to be implemented for conformance testing.

70 Tissues related to 13 parts are listed in the second batch! Only 18 tissues are real interoperability tissues ... 57 are editorial tissues that improve the understanding of the various parts.

Click HERE to find the link to the first and second batch.

It is highly recommended to study the tissues in some detail ... many tissues (even those that have no impact on the interoperability) contain valuable discussions ... why is this and that done ... or not ... e.g., https://iec61850.tissue-db.com/tissues/1731 

The IEC 61850 Tissue Database reached 1900 Tissues

The IEC 61850 Tissue Database is a very useful tool to help improving the quality of the standard series. The first Tissue (#1) was posted almost 19 years ago. On December 12, 2023 the Tissue #1900 was posted. In average two Tissues per week have been posted. The Tissue process is accepted all over.

The other day I received a question on the definition of power factor (MMXU.PF). The definition is contained in the Logical Node class MMXU of part IEC 61850-7-4:

When I read the definition I was wondering that there was no definition of the sign of the PF. I thought that somebody must have found this long before me ... I checked the Tissue Database to find the corresponding Tissue ... which is #1721 (Power factor related data objects in LN MMXU) dated September 22, 2020.

The following figure depicts the corrected definition.

Recommendation: In case you belief you found an error in the standard series, check first the tissue database and search ... you may find the correct answer ...

IEC 61850 Conformance Certification of IEC 61850 Core Documents with Ed2.0 About to End

Richard Schimmel (IEC 61850 Certification Manager at DNV ( former KEMA)) just reported a very crucial information at LinkedIn:

"IEC 61850 certification for Edition 2 will be phased out by the UCAiug. From January 2024 UCAiug will only allow new Edition 2 certificates after passing the Edition 2 with Amendment 1 (Ed2.1)!

If you want to certify IEC 61850 Edition 2, we (DNV) need to show the UCAiug that we received the purchase order before 1st January 2024."

Click HERE for the post a LinkedIn.

Be aware that Edition 2.1 refers just to the yellow marked core parts of IEC 61850 (see IEC 61850 Tissue Database):

 

Note that EACH part has its own Edition numbering ... there is no IEC 61850 Edition x at all!

The Tissue Database provides the tissues posted, discussed, and solved of the previous editions for each part. This gives you the possibility to see which comments let to a new edition. Comments to Edition 2.1 of the core parts will finally lead to Edition 3.0 of these parts ... Edition 2.1 of the core parts will be valid for the next years ... this is my personal expectation.

Want To Know What The IEC 61850 Tissue Process Is All About?

Please click HERE to find a good description of the IEC 61850 Tissue process as defined by IEC TC 57 - written by Christoph Brunner.

The tissue database was designed by my son Michael Schwarz and myself in 2004. At that time we exchanged tissues, questions, discussions, results ... by email ... and somebody took note of the discussion and wrote something into the tissues word document ... huch ... which was the latest version ...? Quite confusing.

NettedAutomation wanted to offer a free of charge service to the community that allows everybody to post any new tissue on a single entry point ... and to get a single, always up-to-date list ... Since then we have improved the tissue database according to the experience made by the global community.

Nowadays the tissue database is an integral part of the IEC 61850 and related standard series like IEC 61400-25 ... all new editions of any part of these series has a list of tissues taken into account in the new edition, e.g., in the name space document of part 7-4:

IEC 61850-7-2 2007A3 NSD light code component, see the IEC 61850-7-2:2010 for full legal notices:

Click HERE to download that name space document. That document lists the tissues taken into account since version 2007/A:

    

Click HERE for tissue 1652.

So, the tissue process is a core service offered by IEC to the global community! In case you have a comment on the tissue database, let me know.

In case you would be interested in such a tissue database for your standards or other projects, let me know please ... we could provide you an offer.

Note that there are 22 name space documents available for free download.☝

Click HERE to access the name space documents.

List of UCA IEC 61850 Certificates

The UCAIUG users group has reorganized the access to the 1200+ IEC 61850 certificates:

Click HERE to freely access the certificates.

Click HERE for additional information related to the conformance testing.

Click HERE for IEC 61850 User Feedback Task Force 

Unfortunately these issues are independent of the official IEC TC 57 / IEC 61850 tissue database. 

The tissue database offers a new service to filter and show tissues by status, e.g., for those accepted 

  

Improve the Quality of Your Standard With A Tissue Database

What is a Tissue Database? Tissue stands for Technical Issues - short Tissues.

One of the crucial challenges of maintaining and improving standard series like IEC 61850, IEC 62351, IEC 61400-25, ... is that usually standardization processes of the Standard Setting Organizations use text files (Word, pdf, ...) for publishing drafts and final documents. When it comes to manage and document errors and other problems, then quite often Excel Sheets are used ... or even just a text file.

This was the case in the IEC TC 57 regarding IEC 61850 after the first parts had been published. We often had a discussion like: Who has the latest Word Document with the Tissue Lists? When was it updated ... grrrr.

NettedAutomation GmbH developed the first version of the so-called IEC 61850 Database in 2004. 16 years later IEC uses a license of the improved tissue database (Tissue DB v. 20.7.3.1):



Click HERE for the parts overview.

For the current Edition 2.1 of part 7-2 there are eight tissues listed:



Click HERE for 7-2 Ed 2.1.

The IEC 61850 tissue database is a very helpful tool to improve the quality of the standard series IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, and IEC 62351.

Contact NettedAutomation GmbH for an offer of a license of the NettedAutomation tissue database for your project.

Click HERE to contact NettedAutomation for a quote.

Tissue Process for IEC 61850-8-2 open for posting Tissues

Please note that the Tissue Database is now open for part IEC 61850-8-2:

Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 8-2: Specific communication service mapping (SCSM) – Mapping to Extensible Messaging Presence Protocol (XMPP)

http://tissue.iec61850.com/part/52

The IEC 61850 Tissue Database is a Great Resource of Hints and Background Information

The IEC 61850 tissue database is a comprehensive resource of hints and background information that can help you to understand why a particular change or correction has been implemented:
https://iec61850.tissue-db.com

Many tissues are posted that end up in the category "blue" (This is a question only). The discussion of the experts is often very helpful ... here you find answers that you may not get from the original published documents.
Example of discussion:
https://iec61850.tissue-db.com/tissue/1649



Enjoy the tissue database. As a registered user you can post tissues and see more details.