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AutomationML recommended by AIDA as standard data exchange format for robot planning
8 June 2010 , Magdeburg, At the 1st AutomationML User Conference Anton Hirzle chairman of the AutomationML organization and spokesman of the working group “Digital Factory” of AIDA (Automatisierungsinitiative Deutscher Automobilhersteller), announced that this working group has chosen AutomationML as format for data transfer within robot planning and strictly recommends it.

First AutomationML User Conference complete success
On May 5th to 6th 2010, the last year founded AutomationML association presented its 1st User Conference at ABB facility in Ladenburg. It was organized under the motto “Get Rid of the Paper Interface!”.

The two day conference was used to present the AutomationML format and the motivation behind the development. Therefore the AutomationML team  presented different lectures and workshops and discussed examples of use with the participants.

More than 60 participants from different industrial fields got an overview about solutions for the problem of seamless data transfer between different engineering phases and established tools of industrial planning during the two conference days.

The event was closed with a panel discussion where the conferees and the board of direction discussed the further development of Automation ML. This includes the discussion about projects using AutomationML in a productive way as well as future developments.


The first book about the AutomationML technology with the title: „Datenaustausch in der Anlagenplanung mit AutomationML“ (German) is published.
 The book gives a comprehensive overview about AutomationML and its joint technologies CAEX, COLLADA and PLCopen XML.

It is designed as a compendium as well as decision helper for the application of AutomationML. It is addressed to a broad audience as research groups, system integrators, developers and managers. For students and researchers this book is a rich source for future activities because it presents development methods and approaches that are currently not available within actual engineering tools.

More information can be found here…


AutomationML welcomes new members INPRO and logi.cals kirchner SOFT
14. October 2009 , Magdeburg, The companies INPRO and logi.cals kirchner SOFT are new members of the AutomationML consortium.

INPRO GmbH provides its shareholders with a competitive advantage through innovations in production technology. The core competences of INPRO are process simulation, production systems and information processes, manufacturing and automation technologies, coating and composite technologies, innovation management and technology watch. With these competence in information processes INPRO has the ability to support the further development of AutomationML and to broaden its utilization.

logi.cals - kirchner SOFT is an independent software development house which offers both open automation platforms and functional specification environments in accordance with a range of standards. logi.cals' products are used by leading engineering companies for functional specification, programming and in the running of large scale plants in manufacturing and processing industries. Increasing customer productivity in diversified engineering environments is a principal mission of logi.cals and the primary reason for it joining the AutomationML initiative.

Together both companies share with the AutomationML association the vision to improve the engineering of production systems by using AutomationML and to extend the data format for future use cases.
AutomationML membership now possible!
April 2009, Magdeburg, Since the foundation of the AutomationML e.V. interested companies and institutes can now become members. Find the Articles of Constitution as well as the Application for Membership in the public part of the download center.
Version 1.1 of the Top-level Architecture Specification Released
April 2009, Magdeburg, The new version 1.1 of the AutomationML Specification - Part I - Architecture is now released and can be downloaded in the public part of the download center.
AutomationML e.V. officially founded

April 2009, Eschborn, in order to give the standard a formal basis, seven companies and institutes founded the AutomationML Organization as industrial consortium on April 8th, 2009, at the site of Zühlke in Eschborn, Germany.
Under notarial supervision, representatives of ABB, Daimler, Fraunhofer IITB, NetAllied Systems, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Siemens and Zühlke set the seal on the foundation declaration with their signatures. Mr. Anton Hirzle of Daimler was elected as Chairman of the Board, he will be supported by his Deputies Mr. Dr. Wolfgang Schlögl (Siemens) and Mr. Volker Miegel (ABB).
Goal of the consortium is the further establishment and development of AutomationML as open, cost free and standardized data exchange format for joint plant engineering in heterogeneous tool landscapes among companies.
With the foundation, the AutomationML Organization is now open for every interested company or institute, which wants to apply or further specify the format.

February 2009, Karlsruhe. The Fraunhofer-Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) is the newest member of the AutomationML consortium. The business division Monitoring and Control Systems (LTS) develops and delivers production monitoring and control systems which monitor automated plants e.g. the actual production of the C-Class within the Daimler AG. Before the real startup, these systems also work with data of the Digital Factory to reduce their startup time. The goal is to monitor virtual plants and evaluate their behavior in combination with each other. These are the competences the IITB introduces into AutomationML. The vision is a seamless integration of production monitoring and control systems into the virtual startup and a digital production release. This allows plants to be evaluated and optimized within the Digital Factory by software systems used during real-world operation.

December 8, 2008 PLCopen published he XML schema and documentation in June 2005 as version 1.01. After that, feedback came in from companies starting to implement this specification, not only from Europe but also from Japan. With a new initiative called AutomationML we have come to a new phase. The companies Daimler, ABB, KUKA, Rockwell, Siemens, netAllied and Zühlke together with the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Magdeburg jointly define and standardize the Automation Markup Language (AutomationML™) as an intermediate format for the Digital Factory.


November 19, 2008 Users of Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 will be able incorporate 3D CAD models designed in SolidWorks® software to simulate their operation more accurately. Developers will be able to correct any issues in their robotic application early on to maximizing the robots’ performance. The solution is possible because both applications support COLLADA for rendering 3D objects and for motion.

November 11, 2008 Bentley software solutions provider introduces MicroStation. The first single-point solution to publish geospatially located 2D/3D models complete with 2D GIS data directly to the Google Earth environment. Publish DGN and DWG models from your desktop to COLLADA and the Google Earth™ 2D/3D environment. Zoom to any place on the planet with the touch of a button.

Tuesday August 05th, 2008 COLLADA expands into new markets and widens adoption among leading content-creation software packages; Support for COLLADA 1.4 continues in parallel with COLLADA 1.5 development

April 8, 2008 PLCopen Technical Committee (TC6) - XML has opened up the IEC 61131-3 programming language development environments by specifying the XML schema, which provides an open interface to other software tools... PLCopen creates concepts to reduce the costs of industrial automation; savings are realized in areas such as engineering, training, operation and maintenance. With its members, PLCopen creates specifications to materialize the concepts. A new phase began with the initiative AutomationML. Daimler, ABB, Kuka, Rockwell, Siemens, netAllied, and Zühlke, together with the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Magdeburg, jointly define and standardize the Automation Markup Language (AutomationML) as an intermediate digital factory format...

March 1, 2008 The XML standard, an open and non-proprietary software interface for the interchange of industrial and process control programs, is progressing and gaining acceptance, according to a spokesperson for PLCopen, the organization that administers it. The AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) organization has accepted the format for the description of control.

 

 

 

 

 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 11:38