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PLCopen Newsletter - Issue October 2024
New PLCopen representative office in China
Kickoff meeting for Edition 2 of IEC 61131-10 (XML)
PLCopen joins partner program of PACK EXPO International in Chicago
Meet us at the SPS in Nuremberg
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New PLCopen representative office in China
On September 23, PLCopen and RIAMB (Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machinery Industry) in China celebrated their new partnership.
The cooperation with RIAMB aims to enhance the promotion of the IEC 61131-3 programming languages standard and the PLCopen technical specifications and guidelines in China. The new PLCopen China office in Beijing will provide guidance and technical support for Chinese enterprises to design, develop and use products that comply with IEC 61131-3 and the PLCopen technical specifications.
We are very excited to cooperate with RIAMB in promoting the development of industrial control standards, technologies and software & hardware products in China.
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Kickoff meeting for Edition 2 of IEC 61131-10 (XML)
The Working Group 7 (Programmable control systems) of IEC TC65 SC65B will start a new project in November 2024 in order to update IEC 61131-10:2019 ED1 – Programmable Controllers – Part 10: PLC open XML exchange format. This update became necessary in order to reflect the improvements made in the 4th Edition of IEC 61131-3, which will be published early 2025.
The Kickoff meeting on November 15 will take place in Erlangen (Germany), hosted by Siemens AG, immediately after the SPS in Nuremberg. It will be both, online and offline. If you want to contribute you are welcome. Please contact us at info@PLCopen.org or contact Szilvia Zvada (Szilvia.Zvada@siemens.com).
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PLCopen joins partner program of PACK EXPO International in Chicago
PLCopen is an official partner of PACK EXPO International in Chicago, USA which takes place from November 3-6. We will be exhibiting and supporting our members and hope you join us, and thousands of packaging and processing professionals.
We invite you to visit our booth #N-4527 in the Association Pavilion in the North building, next to OPC Foundation and OMAC.
Complimentary tickets are available on http://nvyt.es/889d30fc2eac70b6a416. Our company code is 86H45.
Or come and meet us at the Industry Speaks Stage (#N-4544 North Building) on Monday November 4 from 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM, where Roeland Hagesteijn, Managing Director of PLCopen, will speak about Mastering Remote Robot Control through PLC.
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Meet us at the SPS in Nuremberg
From November 12-14 the exhibition highlight of the automation industry, the SPS, will take place again in Nuremberg, Germany.
We would like to welcome you on site. You will find us in hall 5, booth #147.
Please feel free to contact Roeland Hagesteijn, the Managing Director of PLCopen, to arrange a personal appointment in advance or receive a link for a free of charge entrance pass.
On the first day of the event, Tuesday November 12, Roeland Hagesteijn will have a press conference from 14:30-15:00 in Room Kiev of the press centre.
We are looking forward to meet you and wish you a successful visit to the SPS 2024.
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PLCopen is pleased to announce that the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania joined our organization as an educational member.
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