Forecasts in automation technology predicting a complete technological break have rarely been realistic. For example, when industrial PCs started to be used as control platforms, many experts predicted that classic control solutions would be completely replaced by central PC-based control technology within the next decade. Current user surveys, on the other hand, show that they use a mix of centralized and decentralized control technology and even tend towards decentralized architectures....

At the first CODESYS Technology Day in mid-May, Manfred Werner and Dieter Hess got the attention of around 400 participants. They outlined the status of the CODESYS Automation Server, the central component of CODESYS' upcoming automation architecture.

Modern control systems are taking on more and more tasks. However, reliability and guaranteed real-time performance must not suffer as a result. The solution lies in powerful control systems with multi-core processors in which the various cores perform dedicated tasks. Thanks to a multi-core capable development environment for programmable logic controllers according to the IEC 61131-3 standard, implementation is now easy.

- An article by Roland Wagner, CODESYS Group. The CODESYS Automation Server acts as a central component of the automation architecture. The new platform masters the everyday problems of machine operators and thus stands out from other server platforms.

Portland, ME/USA, June 8, 2017 — Kepware®, a PTC business developing industrial connectivity software, today announced the release of the KEPServerEX® version 6.2 industrial connectivity platform. Significant enhancements include new functionality for the CODESYS Ethernet driver, a new TIA Portal Exporter Utility, Configuration API support for the EFM Exporter, and improved interoperability with the ThingWorx® IoT Platform.

Altera Corporation received the first-place ACE award for best reference design at the Embedded Systems Conference.

Profiling in software technology means that information is processed, which helps analyze the specific execution time of application POUs.

For software developers in IT programming, add-on tools supporting the development are state of the art.

The advantages of integrated safety project engineering under the roof of standard tools in automation technology.

PLCs are today programmed in IEC 61131 standard which are not ready to meet the new challenges of widely distributed automation systems.