In June PLCopen had a very successful virtual annual General Meeting. Part of the meeting related to changes in the Board of Management. Atsushi Tominaga san has taken up new responsibilities within Omron Corporation in Japan and proposed to transfer his Board membership to his colleague. Jaeyoung Park san is the general manager of the Controller and HMI Product Management Group (Controller Division) of OMRON Corporation and based in Kyoto, Japan. He joined Omron in 2010 as a Controller Sales.
In 2013 he moved to Omron Korea for Business Planning, then came back to the Omron HQ (Japan) as Product Manager of Controller (PLC) in 2017. As of 2021 he has the responsibility for Controller and HMI Product Business Planning. “I feel that PLC programming and set-up engineering lack issues that will become bigger than nowadays at the Factory Automation market, and I hope to solve this issue as a member of PLCopen. It is an honor for me to join the PLCopen Board of Management," said Jaeyoung Park. We are glad to announce that Jaeyoung Park san joins the Board of Management and wish him a good start in his new role and a successful period with our Board of Management.
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.
