How electrical engineers start adopting UML
For my work, I have been involved in different activities related to IEC standards for electrical utilities, and in particular to:
- IEC 61850: Communications Networks and Systems in Substations, International Standard, 2003
- IEC 61970: Energy Management System Application Programming Interface (EMS-API), draft IEC Standard, 2004
- IEC 61968: System Interfaces for Distribution Systems, draft IEC Standard, 2004
The latter two have adopted UML as the language for the formal, normative specification of the CIM - Common Information Model. The first one has not adopted that approach, yet... So, in the last few years, I have been working on developing such a UML model of IEC 61850.
In one of my publications (and the associated presentation), you can find an introductory material comparing the first two standards and some issues on their integration. Search the same page for IEC to find other related publications.
