July 2020

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PLCopen Newsletter - Issue July 2020

  1. Re-election within PLCopen Board of Management
  2. PLCopen sponsors ARC India
  3. PLCopen welcomes new member
  4. New PLCopen Motion Control certifications
  5. Renewal PLCopen training certifications

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1. Re-election withing PLCopen Board of Management

On June 23, PLCopen had a successful annual General Meeting. In view of the situation around COVID-19 it was decided to organize a virtual GM this year.

Part of the meeting related to elections in the Board of Management. We are pleased to announce that:

  • Manfred Werner of Codesys was re-elected as member of the Board of Management and as Treasurer;
  • Boris Waldeck of Phoenix Contact was re-elected as member of the Board of Management and as Secretary;
  • And Atsushi Tominaga san of Omron Corporation was re-elected as member of the Board of Management.

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2. PLCopen sponsors ARC India

PLCopen is sponsoring the ARC Advisory Group’s Eighteenth India Forum (for process and discrete industries). Due to the situation with the Corona virus the forum is offered this year as a Virtual Forum on September 8-9, 2020.

Check their website for more information on this Forum or register for the webinar.

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3. PLCopen welcomes new member

We are pleased to announce that the Beijing University of Technology in China joined PLCopen as an educational member.

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4. New PLCopen Motion Control certifications

We are glad to announce that two members have been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control certificate:

  • IntervalZero for version 3.8 of their product KINGSTAR Motion (PLCopen Motion Control Part 1 and 4).
  • Siemens for version 02.08.02 of their products SIMATIC S7-1500 (PLCopen Motion Control Part 1) and SIMATIC S7-1500 T-CPU (PLCopen Motion Control Part 1 and 4).

This brings the total number of certified companies to 30 and of certified products to 67.

For more information please check our website www.PLCopen.org.

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5.  Renewal PLCopen training certifications

3 of our members renewed their training certification and remain listed as PLCopen certified training centre:

  • BE.Services GmbH
  • Ormec Systems Corp.
  • Manchester Metropolitan University

And two new members in China were certified as PLCopen certified training centre:

  • Beijing University of Technology
  • Zhongji Huajio High Skilled Personnel Certification Training Base.

For more information on the certified training centres please check our website www.PLCopen.org.

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