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Advantages of joining the association PLCopen

PLCopen Mission

We want to be the leading association resolving topics related to control programming
to support the use of international standard in this field.

What does this mean?

	Focus towards users.
	All voting members are equal: one member = one vote.
	All non-voting members are equal.
	PLCopen is focused towards independent services, not products.
	Commitment of users and suppliers.

Benefits of Membership

A membership of PLCopen has many benefits for vendors, users and institutes:

	Direct influence on technical and commercial issues.
	Contact with other vendors, users and institutes. These informal contacts have proven to be a major benefit to the members.
	Early exchange of information: during meetings and via the minutes of meetings of all committees. Access is provided, also if they are no member of the committee.
	Definition of and early access to benchmarks, for example for compliance testing.
	Early recognition of trends.
	Relationships for complementary products. Many users and vendors look for complementary products. PLCopen members can be the right source.
	Identification as a supporter of standardization. At many promotional activities of PLCopen the names of members are published. This is important free publicity.
	Better user acceptance and recognition: users increasingly demand products according to the IEC 61131-3 standard. A vendor that supports openly the standard is better accepted by these users.
	Automatic updates of the standard, and the standardization process itself.
	Possibility to have access to interested parties directly via the newsletter, fairs, meetings and conferences.

As is true with every organization, an active support yields other results as a passive one. For this reason, an active membership, contributing to the different committees is preferred.

Membership categories

PLCopen strongly supports the user community. For this it created additional membership categories.

The annual contribution depends on voting and non-voting rights, the number of relevant employees and the nature of the organization. There are 3 different sizes: over 1,000 relevant employees, between 100 and 1000 and less than 100. The different organizational types are:

	Companies: commercial organizations active in the field of Industrial Control, IC.
	Users: focused to the application and usage of IC.
	Re-sellers: added value is not in the IC or its programming environment.
	Non-profit organizations are (educational) institutes, registered as non-profit organizations.
	Educational Institutes, non-profit, such as Universities, (Technical) Schools, etc.

Annual Contributions:

Size\Type	Voting Companies	Voting Users/ Resellers	Non-voting User / Resellers
>1000	Euro 11,000	Euro 5,500	Euro 2,200
100 .. 1000	Euro 5,500	Euro 2,750	Euro 1,100
<100	Euro 2,750	Euro 1,375	Euro 550
Non-profit »	Euro 900	Educational Institutes »	Euro 50