PLCopen elects board of management at annual meeting

On June 27, PLCopen held its annual general meeting in Gorinchem, The Netherlands. Part of the meeting related to elections in the board of management.

 

Carsten Weber of Phoenix Contact Electronics was re-elected as member of the board of management and as secretary, and Dr. Efrossini Tsouchnika of Siemens was re-elected as member of the board.

 

Manfred Werner of CoDeSys informed PLCopen that he wished to step down as member and treasurer of the board of management. His colleague Dipl.-Inf. Dieter Hess was instead proposed and elected as member of the board of management and as treasurer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the CoDeSys Group. CoDeSys is an implementation of the IEC 61131-3 standard.

 

Since founding the company in 1994 as 3S-Smart Software Solutions, Hess has accompanied the most important activities of PLCopen—PLCopen Motion Control and PLCopen Safety. He initiated the 3rd edition of IEC 61131-3 together with PLCopen within the German Commission for Electrotechnical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE (DKE).

 

Given his long involvement with PLCopen, Hess looks forward to taking on responsibility on the board of management.

 

PLCopen thanked Werner for all his work for the board of management and welcomed Hess as his successor. PLCopen was founded in 1992 as an independent worldwide association for industrial suppliers and users. It 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.