SMMA - The Motor & Motion Association is a manufacturing trade association whose core membership is electric motor and motion control companies. The membership of more than 120 also includes suppliers, users and associated businesses such as consultants, universities, and distributors.
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If your work involves the designing or applying of motion control products or systems, you are a motion control specialist. You, your work, your peers, and the motion industry will all benefit when you join the Association of International Motion Engineers (AiME).
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PLCopen, as an organization active in Industrial Control, is creating a higher efficiency in your application software development and lowering your life-cycle costs. As such it is based on standard available tools to which extensions are and will be defined. With results like Motion Control Library, Safety, XML specification, Reusability Level and Conformity Level, PLCopen made solid contributions to the community, extending the hardware independence from the software code, as well as reusability of the code and coupling to external software tools.
PLCopen is a vendor- and product-independent worldwide association. Its mission is to be the leading association resolving topics related to control programming to support the use of international standards in this field. For this PLCopen has several technical and promotional committees. The committees working within PLCopen are listed on the left side.
