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To: Subscribers PLCopen Newsletter Subject: PLCopen newsletter Issue September 2008 Welcome to the PLCopen electronic newsletter. You receive this message because you subscribed to the PLCopen electronic newsletter via the PLCopen website www.plcopen.org. For comments or additional information check either www.plcopen.org or send an email to wendelien@plcopen.org. To
unsubscribe, send an email to wendelien@plcopen.org
with the message to unsubscribe. ============================================== Most
of you will have returned from your holidays. We hope you had a nice summer
break and came back safely and fit again, and ready for some news on PLCopen's
latest developments. ============================================== PLCopen
Newsletter - Issue September 2008. 1.
Addition
to PLCopen Board of Management 2.
TC4 Communications – OPC UA 3.
TC5 Safety specification Part 2 User Guidelines – version 1.01 4.
ETFA, September 15-18 in ============================================== 1.
Addition to PLCopen Board of Management We
are glad to announce that Mr. Ken Ryan has joined the PLCopen Board of
Management. Dr.
Kenneth J. Ryan is the director of the Center for Applied Mechatronics at
Alexandria Technical College in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA. He
has developed IEC 61131-3 curriculum for Bosch Rexroth, Danaher, Eaton
Corporation, Parker Hannifin, Turck, Hyundai and Liebherr. He conducts IEC
61131-3 trainings throughout the Ken Ryan has served as chair of the Open Modular Architecture Control - Packaging Workgroup (education subcommittee) and acts as a consultant to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers/Education Foundation on matters impacting mechatronics education at the 2-year technician level. As a leader in technician/technologist education for a broad spectrum of industry from packaging to building automation, the Center for Applied Mechatronics has long championed the use of open standards architecture and has been a member of PLCopen since 2000. Ken
will act as normal member in the board, and we all are confident that he will
increase the success of PLCopen specifically in the North American market. ============================================== 2.
TC4 Communications – OPC UA PLCopen
is re-activating the Technical Committee TC4 Communications with a new working
item “IEC 61131-3 INFORMATION MODEL IN
OPC UA” The
OPC Foundation is currently developing new specifications called Unified
Architecture (OPC UA). Sector or
application specific information models are part of these specifications. Such
information models are under development e.g. for Electronic Device Description
(EDD) or Field Device Tool (FDT). It is important that the PLC as the main
component of automation systems remains / becomes visible in the vertical
information integration which will be strongly influenced by OPC UA. OPC UA
servers which represent their underlying manufacturer specific PLCs in a similar
IEC 61131-3 based manner will provide a substantial advantage for client
applications as e.g. visualizations or MES systems. PLC vendors may reduce costs
for the development of these OPC UA servers if an IEC 61131-3 based information
model is already available in OPC UA. The
goal of TC4 is to define an IEC 61131-3 based information model as additional
part of the overall OPC UA specification. The necessary information model
already exists in the standard IEC 61131-3 (software model), but must be (re-)
specified according to the guidelines and the technical requirements of OPC UA,
without changing its contents. A close co-operation with the OPC Foundation will
be established, resulting e.g. in a joint working group and shared documents. The
kick-off meeting is set for October 14 in ============================================== 3.
TC5 Safety specification Part 2 User Guidelines – version 1.01 Earlier this year PLCopen released the TC5 Safety specification Part 2 – User Guidelines. Unfortunately there was some information missing in Figure 12 of the pdf file. A new pdf version has therefore been generated and is available as version 1.01 on the PLCopen website (www.plcopen.org) for downloading. We
apologize for the inconvenience. ============================================== 4.
ETFA, September 15-18 in The
13th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation, ETFA,
will be held in Hamburg, September 15-18, 2008. The
first day of this conference September 15, the so-called Industry Day, will be
focused on two key standards for factory automation: IEC 61131-3, which defines
programming languages for Programmable Logic Controllers, and IEC 61499, which
defines a generic architecture for the use of function blocks in distributed
industrial process measurement and control systems. The focus is on recent
developments and further extensions. Experts
from industry, especially from companies involved in the further development of
these standards, have agreed to present the latest developments. A
special PLCopen track is scheduled for the afternoon of September 15, with
presentations from PLCopen and its members. Details can be found at the ETFA
website www.etfa2008.org. Participation
in the Industry Day is recommended for both: -
Control developers and managers from industry to get informed about the current
trends in industrial control architectures and programming; -
Researchers in academia and industry to discuss needs and directions for further
research. ============================================== SAVE,
the International Conference and Fair of Vertical Solutions and Applications of
Automation, Instrumentation, Sensors will take place in The
SAVE event offers both an exhibition area and a rich calendar of events
for technical operators. PLCopen
will have a stand at this event and there will be PLCopen presentation on
Wednesday October 22. More details will be made available on our website later
on. For
more info on SAVE check their website at www.exposave.com/english/home.asp ============================================== Kind
regards, Eelco van der Wal
tel.:
+31-183-660261 email: evdwal@plcopen.org Do not forget to look at http://www.plcopen.org |
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