December 5, 2011 - Three companies have been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control Certificate for their products. These companies are:
- Omron Corporation, for their product Machine Automation Controller, NJ-series, Automation Software, Sysmac Studio
- Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., for their product L Serie LD77MH4 simple motion module, GX Works2
- Keba AG, for their product KeMotion
This brings the total number of certified companies to 27 and of certified products to 39. The products of Omron and Keba also comply with Part 4 – Coordinated Motion – of the suite of PLCopen Motion Control specifications.
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.