SCC Capabilities and Experience Profile

Karlheinz Schwarz, Schwarz Communication Consult (SCC), Karlsruhe (Germany) is an independent consultant in the area of systems integration and open communications since 1992. As a manager with Siemens (industrial communication systems) he represented the Siemens and the German national position in the international standardisation of MMS, MMS Companion standards, and other standardisation projects from 1984 until 1997.

He assists companies in examining open communications and distributed systems technologies and with entering the open MMS communications in application areas other than the manufacturing industry (for which MMS was originally designed).

The primary business objective of SCC is to provide consulting services to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) for feasibility study, design, specifying and editing international standards, training, marketing, information dissemination, procurement of distributed systems and open communications for the various aspects of distributed automation systems. To keep abreast of the latest technical development, SCC is actively involved in workshops, seminars, task forces, and committees of various professional organisations such as ISO, IEC, IEEE, CEN, and CENELEC.

SCC offers consulting services outlined above for a wide range of communication systems and technical applications oriented to the automation of discrete and continuous manufacturing. These include, but are not limited to:

Mr. Schwarz has published more than 30 technical articles and held more than 50 seminars on communication subjects.

SCC´s Experience

Mr. Schwarz is a principal contributor in the following standardisation projects (either project member or as the lead technical staff on the projects), representing more than 20 companies (Bayernwerk, Badenwerk, Mercedes Benz, RWE, VEW, AEG, ABB, Bosch, E+H, P+F, Phoenix Contact, Siemens, ...) and interest groups:

ISO	ISO TC 184/SC5/WG2	Communications and interconnection (MMS, ...)	Member
IEC	IEC TC 57	Power Systems Control and Associated Communications	Member
	IEC TC 57 WG 07	Protocols compatible with ISO/OSI and ITU	Member
	IEC TC 57 WG 10, 11, 12	Communication within Substations	Member
	IEC TC 65 > WG6	Functionblocks (IEC 1499)
	IEC TC 65C/WG1	Message data format for information transferred on process and control data highways, Profiles	Member
	IEC TC 65C/WG6	Fieldbus (IEC 1158)	Member
	IEC TC 65C/WG7	Functionblocks and Data Descriptive Language	Member
CENELEC	CENELEC TC 65 CX	Fieldbus Communication
CEN	CEN TC 310/TG ICOM	Task Group on industrial communications	Member
MMS Forum	EPRI, Electric Power Research Institute	Communications and application modelling in the area of power utilities (UCA, ICCP, ...)	Member
NAM	DKE/NAM/NI 96.5	Architektur und Kommunikation	Member
	DKE/NAM/NI GA 96.5.2	Kommunikation und Datenaustausch (MMS, ...)	Chairman
DKE	DKE FB 9 AK AP	FB 9 Arbeitskreis Arbeitsplanung	Member
	KG-ILT des DKE FB9/ NAM FB IA	Koordinierungsgruppe Industrielle Leittechnik	Member
	DKE K 950	Kommunikation und Informationslogistik	Member
	DKE UK 951.2	Kommunikationsdienste, Process Control	Member
	DKE UK 951.3	Feldbus	Member
	DKE AK 951.3.1	Functionblocks and Data Descriptive Language	Chairman
	DKE K 952	Netzleittechnik	Member
	DKE AK 952.07	Protocols compatible with ISO/OSI and ITU	Member
	DKE AK 952.08	Stationsleittechnik	Member
PNO	PNO Beirat	PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. Beirat	Member
	PNO FA 1	Qualitätssicherung, Prüfen und Zertifizieren	Chairman
GMA	GMA AK 4.2	Kommunikation in verteilten Systemen	Member
ZVEI	ZVEI GA IK	Gemeinschaftsauss. Industrielle Kommunikation	Member