New forum topic - Open Control
Jan 30, 2002 3:23 pm, by Ken Crater
Subject : Motion Control
from the Automation List dept.
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Hi all,
People who have been regulars at Control.com and on the Automation List will recall that our principal mission as an organization is to encourage the advent of open control, in the sense of multi-vendor standards-based systems.

We feel that a global peer community of working automation engineers is an important step toward making this vision possible. We are well on the way toward accomplishing this goal, with over 50,000 unique visitors each month, and the world's most active discussion venue for automation topics.

I'm pleased to announce that we are now introducing a new topic to our website and to the companion Automation List, that will be a gathering place for discussions on open control technologies. This topic, Open Control (OPENC), will include discussion on:

- open control architectures and components
- open interfaces, including:
--bus structures (cPCI, PC/104, ISA, PCI, etc.)
--device-level busses (Modbus, Profibus, DeviceNet, etc.)
--networking (TCP/IP and related protocols)
--APIs
--language standards
- open source software
- portable control software
- interoperability issues
- performance and benchmarking of open system components

We hope this new topic makes an important contribution to our industry and to the people who make up the Control.com forum. We're inviting you all to contribute to the discussion, share experiences, and help the controls world become a bit more open.

Regards,
Ken Crater, President
Control.com Inc.
ken@control.com

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• Re: New forum topic - Open Control
  Mar 18, 2002 10:04 am, by Jiri Baum