The PLCopen Motion Control Profile : changing the landscape of industrial control

摘要

The industry has to change to fulfill the changing requirements of the consumers and the governmental rules. These requirements can be solved by using new technologies, combining them with existing ones. In first line this is focused to the consumer oriented suppliers, like in the food & beverage or pharmaceutical sectors. These transfer their requirements to their machine suppliers, which in turn transfer it to their control suppliers. The controls play a crucial role in fulfilling the requirements. To be more specific: the application software is crucial. And to make that effective, standardization is needed. This paper presents such a standard: being implemented across different technologies, new and existing ones, and being well supported by a large representation of the industry, this software standardization will certainly change the landscape.