
Matheus Bulho becomes Senior VP Software & Control
On April 1, Matheus Bulho will take over the position of Senior Vice President Software & Control at Rockwell Automations.
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On April 1, Matheus Bulho will take over the position of Senior Vice President Software & Control at Rockwell Automations.

checked up on! - with Dieter Hess
Until now, Codesys has sold its Soft PLC with a device-based license model. Now the company is switching to an application-based payment model. Managing Director Dieter Hess explains the background to the license changeover.

The PLC programming software 'Cscape 9.90' from Horner Automation combines graphical programming with the configuration of operator interfaces.

Horner Automation at the SPS 2023
'OCS-I/O' is a compact, expandable I/O system to supplement the PLC controllers from Horner Automation. The system can be used both as a local extension and decentralized.
Many control methods have been developed for three-phase motors, for which there are numerous terms. In order to bring clarity to the variety of terms and abbreviations, this article highlights basic properties using the Movi-C frequency inverter as an example.

Despite the rail strike on the last day, SPS is approaching its pre-corona size again: Over the three days of the trade fair, 50,081 trade visitors made their way to Nuremberg.

Open Industrie 4.0 Alliance on App Store
Shaping the future of Industry 4.0 together is the goal of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. Flecs has been chairing the 'Application Management' working group for a year now. Samuel Greising, Managing Director at Flecs and head of the working group, gives an initial summary.

Bosch Rexroth launched the automation platform ctrlX and the associated App Store in 2019. The App Store now has 90 partners with over 60 apps. The partner companies currently cover more than 150 use cases.

Can industrial applications be moved to the cloud? In addition to time-critical aspects, the issue of cyber security is still a major obstacle to such a development. Klaus-Dieter Walter from SSV explains the problem in an interview.

Codesys for Edge & Cloud Control
Codesys advertises the fact that its SoftPLCs can also be installed as virtual controllers on any platform with a container or hypervisor. Domenik Vögel explains why virtualization does not stop at safety applications.