As an initiative by the Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement and Control (SAIMC) to benefit local industry with regards to the cost and availability of standards, October 2014 saw the inception of the first SABS technical committee dedicated to control and instrumentation. Under the leadership of SAIMC councillor and Extech Safety Systems director, Gary Friend, SABS TC 165 was established as a mirror to IEC TC 65. In addition to driving TC 165, SAIMC also has a seat on TC 065, a mirror of the IEC TC 031.
Gary Friend.
The objective is to provide equivalent SANS standards to benefit the local manufacturing industry in the fields of industrial process measurement, control and automation. The agreed scope of work covers:
• IEC61158 – Industrial communication networks.
• IEC60654 – Industrial-process measurement and control equipment.
• IEC60584 – Thermocouples – Part 1: EMF specifications and tolerances.
• IEC61131 – Programmable controllers.
• IEC60534 – Industrial-process control valves.
• IEC62337 – Commissioning of electrical, instrumentation and control systems in the process industry.
• IEC62381 – Automation systems in the process industry – Factory acceptance test (FAT), site acceptance test (SAT), and site integration test (SIT).
• IEC62382 – Control systems in the process industry – Electrical and instrumentation loop check.
• IEC61512 – Batch control.
• IEC62541 – OPC Unified Architecture.
• IEC62264 – Enterprise-control system integration.
• IEC62061 – Safety of Machinery standard.
• IEC61513 – Nuclear power plants – Instrumentation and control important to safety.
The TCs recently reported the approval and adoption of the SANS standards shown in the table.
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