On June 27, PLCopen had a successful annual General Meeting in Gorinchem, The Netherlands. Part of the meeting related to elections in the Board of Management. Carsten Weber of Phoenix Contact Electronics was re-elected as member of the Board of Management and as Secretary, and Dr. Efrossini Tsouchnika of Siemens was re-elected as member of the Board. Manfred Weber of Codesys informed PLCopen that he wished to step down as member and Treasurer of the Board of Management.
His colleague Dipl.-Inf. Dieter Hess was instead proposed and elected as member of the Board of Management and as Treasurer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the CODESYS Group. CODESYS is the most widely used implementation of the IEC 61131-3 standard on the market.
Since founding the company in 1994 under the name 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH, Dieter Hess has accompanied the most important activities of PLCopen, e.g. PLCopen Motion Control and PLCopen Safety. He initiated the 3rd edition of IEC 61131-3 together with PLCopen within the DKE (German Commission for Electrotechnical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE). Given his long involvement with PLCopen, Dieter Hess looks forward to taking on responsibility on the Board of Management.
PLCopen sincerely thanks Manfred Werner for all his work for the Board of Management and welcomes his successor Dieter Hesss. We look forward to our cooperation in the coming years.
About PLCopen
PLCopen was founded in 1992 as an independent worldwide association for industrial suppliers and users. It is the leading association resolving topics related to industrial control programming. PLCopen creates concepts to reduce the costs of industrial automation. These cost savings are realized in areas such as engineering, training, operation and maintenance. Together with its members, PLCopen creates specifications to materialize these concepts.