BS EN 61158-6-18:2012

This standard BS EN 61158-6-18:2012 Industrial communication networks. Fieldbus specifications is classified in these ICS categories:

• 25.040.40 Industrial process measurement and control
• 35.110 Networking
• 35.100.70 Application layer

IEC 61158-6-18:2010(E) specifies the protocol of the Type 18 fieldbus application layer, in conformance with the OSI Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC 7498-1) and the OSI application layer structure (ISO/IEC 9545). It defines the protocol provided to define the wire-representation of the service primitives defined in IEC 61158-5-18:2010, and the externally visible behavior associated with their transfer. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2007 and constitutes a technical revision. The main changes with respect to the previous edition are:
- editorial corrections;
- addition of cyclic data segmenting.