The pressure is increasing: machine builders have less and less time from the order to the productive machine. As a result, design, electrical planning and application development are increasingly taking place in parallel.

In collaboration with CODESYS, Fraunhofer IEM has integrated static code analysis development methods into the CODESYS development environment commonly used for PLCs.

CODESYS will soon be launching virtual controllers on the market. By there should even be a safety version by the end of this year at the latest. elektrotechnik spoke to Dieter Hess, co-founder of CODESYS, about trends in control technology and virtual controllers.

In an exclusive interview, Hilmar Panzer, CODESYS’s Chief Technology Officer, discusses the importance of open automation and how it addresses today’s industrial challenges.

In this article, the authors describe the benefits manufacturers can expect to see by virtualizing industrial automation control (IACS) systems and solutions to get there.

The openautomation editorial team spoke to Domenik Vögel, Product Manager at the CODESYS Group, about this next generation of industrial controller, which can also be used as a safety controller.