Interview

»Sleutel voor het thema openheid«

11/18/2022

WAGO integreert onafhankelijke automatiseringssoftware CODESYS V3 in de engineering. Dr. Sven Kreft, Head of Product Line Software, legt uit waarom WAGO deze stap neemt en licht toe hoe klanten hiervan profiteren.

Why is WAGO integrating CODESYS V3 into its automation engineering?

Dr. Sven Kreft: We place open standards at the center of our business because we believe that our customers – as well as ourselves – cannot develop everything alone. We are convinced that the future lies in strong partnerships and co-creation. Active communities and complementary partners ensure that the wheel does not always have to be reinvented and that a large number of individualized solutions are created that customers need due to increasing complexity. Open standards are the basis for this, which is why we are open for CODESYS V3.

How does CODESYS V3 contribute to openness, which characterizes WAGO's automation solutions?

Dr. Sven Kreft: IEC 61131 is the open standard for programming real-time capable industrial controllers – it is mature, established, and widely used. CODESYS V3 is the standard for IEC 61131 development; many thousands of application developers use CODESYS. Additionally, more than a thousand different industrial controllers and panels are supported independently of the manufacturers. These are the keys to openness.

The possibilities, the willingness and ultimately also the chances for co-creation are increasing almost daily. We are certain that we have chosen the right platform with CODESYS V3.

Dr Sven Kreft

Head of Product Line Software

What does the customer get from CODESYS V3?

Dr. Sven Kreft: The possibilities, the willingness and ultimately also the chances for co-creation are increasing almost daily. We are certain that we have chosen the right platform with CODESYS V3. First, the system has been on the market for a long time, and it offers the functions and technologies used for modern automation today. Secondly, CODESYS has proven time and again that the system is kept absolutely up-to-date. Third, vendor independence and interoperability create new opportunities for our customers.

Can customers who have already invested in e!COCKPIT also use CODESYS V3?

Dr. Sven Kreft: Yes, of course! Both systems are based on the same platform; programming and compiling IEC 61131 programs work the same. For example, all the libraries available under CODESYS remain available.

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Engineering met CODESYS V3: WAGO Compact Controller 100

WAGO is "ready" voor CODESYS V3 en biedt in de toekomst besturingen met de fabrikantonafhankelijke automatiseringssoftware aan. Als eerste nieuwe apparaat van de serie 751 is, vanaf september dit jaar, de nieuwe WAGO Compact Controller 100 verkrijgbaar. Deze kleine besturing is perfect voor de engineering met CODESYS V3; de besturing is voordelig, performant, compact en dus veelzijdig inzetbaar. De besturing functioneert, net als alle besturingen van WAGO, met een real time Linux®-besturingssysteem en ondersteunt alle gangbare veldbusprotocollen. Dankzij de geïntegreerde I/O's, de modulaire bouwvorm en het verwijderbare bedradingsniveau kan de besturing ruimtebesparend gemonteerd en eenvoudig gebruikt worden, kortom: de optimale aanvulling op het besturingsportfolio van WAGO.