Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 165 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers – including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
CERT@VDE is the first independent cybersecurity platform in Germany for companies in the field of embedded software systems. As the coordinating product CERT (PSIRT), it works with its industry partners to provide advanced knowledge along the value chain, enabling a rapid and structured response to current threats in the cyberspace.
The progressive linkage of production systems increases the risk of exploitation of security vulnerabilities and thus the risk of attacks. The CERT@VDE team helps companies by means of cooperation, networking, and competence to react appropriately to these threats and to communicate security vulnerabilities. CERT@VDE supports the necessary analyses and decisions and coordinates the response to security vulnerabilities across organizational boundaries.
More information at https://cert.vde.com
CiA® (CAN in Automation) is a non-profit organization aiming at the promotion of the CAN protocol in the automation world. To this end, CiA members actively support the international standardization of CAN protocols and develop CiA specifications. CiA organizes joint marketing activities such as joint booths at fairs and exhibitions or training courses.
Founded in 1994, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) is a not-for-profit, global trade association that seeks to advance the industry of control system integration. Control system integrators use their engineering, technical and business skills to help manufacturers and others automate their industrial equipment and systems. CSIA helps members improve their business skills, provides a forum to share industry expertise, and promotes the benefits of hiring a certified control system integrator. CSIA has over 500 member companies in 35 countries.
The “Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA)” is a partnership program formed by CSI and CPLANE to encourage collaboration among OT and IT vendors in the creation of commercial control systems based upon the “The Open Group” O-PAS™ Standard. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of O-PAS-based control systems among industrial manufacturers in oil & gas, power generation, chemical, water, mining, materials processing, pulp & paper, and many others.
The IO-Link Consortium represents the interests of manufacturers promoting the first standardized IO technology worldwide (IEC 61131-9) for the communication with sensors and also actuators. The powerful point-to-point communication is based on the long established 3-wire sensor and actuator connection without additional requirements regarding the cable material. So, IO-Link is no fieldbus but the further development of the existing, tried-and-tested connection technology for sensors and actuators.
KNX® is the worldwide standard for home and building control. KNX Association is the creator and owner of the KNX technology – the worldwide standard for all applications in home and building control, ranging from lighting and shutter control to various security systems, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, monitoring, alarming, water control, energy management, metering, as well as household appliances, audio and many more.
The KNX technology is also approved by the international standard ISO/IEC 14543, offers a software tool for commissioning (ETS®) and supports all communication media (IP,RF,TP,PL). Proof of the success of the KNX Technology is its large community: + 500 KNX manufacturers, + 100,000 KNX partners, + 500 KNX training centers, + 170 KNX scientific partners, + 45 KNX national groups.
ODVA® (OpenDeviceNet Vendor Association) is an international association supporting network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). These currently include the network adaptations of CIP—EtherNet/IP™, DeviceNet™, ControlNet™, EtherNet/ IP™ and CompoNet™—and major application extensions to CIP—CIP Safety™, CIP Sync™ and CIP Motion™. ODVA manages the development of these open technologies, and assists manufacturers and users of CIP Networks through tools, training and marketing activities.
The “Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG” supports companies in the use of open source software in products. This support refers both to the license-compliant distribution of open-source software and the necessary adaptation of company processes as well as to the development, maintenance, quality assurance and sustainability of the software. An overview of OSADL and the OSADL services can be found here: www.osadl.org/At-a-glance.
PLCopen® is an organization in the field of industrial control. The goal is to set up standards in order to improve efficiency in application development and to decrease maintenance effort and cost of software. The PLCopen is a manufacturer and product independent association. One of the core activities of PLCopen is the development and implementation of the IEC 61131-3, the only global standard for industrial control programming.
TASKING® products are the tools of choice for embedded software development across a diverse range of industries including Tier-1 automotive suppliers and industry-leading car manufacturers. We create complete development environments that allow engineers to create reliable, safe, and high-performance applications. Over 30,000 engineers around the globe rely on TASKING compilers and debuggers every day for their development needs.
The Open Group® is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 870 (as of March 2022) organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. Further information on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org.
About Wind River®: About Wind River®: Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in the world since 1981 and is found in billions of products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of mission-critical intelligent systems that will increasingly demand greater compute capabilities while delivering the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.