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PLCopen Newsletter - Issue November 2023
- Management change PLCopen
- Meet us at the SPS 2023 in Germany
- New: PLCopen Guideline on Software Quality Metrics
- Enhancing the PLCopen Coordinated Motion Specification for 6-axes Robots
- New: Update of the PLCopen Safety Part 1 document
- PLCopen Conformity Level ST Certification for FANUC Corporation
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PLCopen announces a significant transition in its leadership as Eelco van der Wal, the outgoing Managing Director, steps down after a career spanning nearly three decades. Eelco's dedication has been instrumental in establishing and nurturing PLCopen, taking it from its nascent stages to a global authority in the field. Eelco van der Wal's journey with PLCopen began in 1992 when he co-founded the organization.
The organization welcomes Roeland Hagesteijn as the incoming Managing Director. He joins PLCopen with a vision to continue the organization's mission of advancing standards, promoting innovation, and ensuring the industrial automation sector's prosperity.
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2. Meet us at the SPS 2023 in Germany
PLCopen will have a booth in Hall 5 #141 at the upcoming SPS in Nuremberg from 14-16 November.
We invite you to make an appointment to meet us in person and discuss your topics. For this email Eelco van der Wal at evdwal@PLCopen.org.
Also, we organize a get-together on our booth in cooperation with the OPC Foundation on the first day starting at 17:00. We would love to meet you there and introduce the new Managing Director of PLCopen.
Over the past 30 years PLCopen has created specifications that were relevant for the industrial automation industry. Now we need to identify the topics for the future. Your topics! For that we need your help. Therefore, we will be conducting a short survey at the SPS. Come and find out at our booth #141 in Hall 5.
For more information on the SPS check: https://sps.mesago.com/events/en.html.
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3. New: Publication of the PLCopen Guideline on Software Quality Metrics
PLCopen recognizes the ever-increasing importance of software in industrial automation and control. In order to evaluate the quality of software and to be able to improve the efficiency of this during the standard workflow, PLCopen has developed the document “Guidelines on Software Quality Metrics”.
This document is available now on our website.
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4. Enhancing the PLCopen Coordinated Motion Specification for 6-axes Robots
The PLCopen working group for Motion Control elaborated on the standardization of coordinated motion for 6-axes robots. This extension to the existing PLCopen Coordinated Motion document is well on its way. Major decisions have been made and will be reflected in upcoming versions of the document.
The working group will get together for a face-to-face meeting after the SPS event to continue the work.
The Robot Library adds configuration functionalities and defines an interface to the different robot suppliers. The essence for PLCopen is to incorporate these functionalities in the existing PLCopen Motion Control standard while maintaining the same “Look & Feel” by providing backward compatibility as support for different kinematics, as well as the integrated versus distributed architecture.
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5. New: Update of the PLCopen Safety Part 1 document
In February 2020 PLCopen published version 2.01 of their Safety specification, based on the feedback till that date. Today, PLCopen published a further update of the basic specification, based again on additional feedback items. The timing diagrams of all the function blocks have been improved and corrected. This new version of the document solidifies the importance at PLCopen of safety functionality.
The updated official release can now be downloaded from our website.
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6. PLCopen Conformity Level ST Certification for FANUC Corporation
We are pleased to announce that FANUC Corporation was granted the Certification of a system according to PLCopen Conformity Level for ST (Structured Text) for version 1.0 of their product FANUC PMC Programmer.
For more information visit https://plcopen.org/logic-certification.
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