PLCopen for achieving interoperability between development phases

Abstract

As fast as industry reaches a greater maturity level and applications become more complex, a consolidation of the modeling methodologies becomes necessary. They are composed by a lot of heterogeneous systems that need working together to perform automation and control tasks. AutomationML framework's goal is to interconnect the heterogeneous tools used in the different engineering disciplines. In concrete it manages three well accepted standards: CAEX for topology, COLLADA for kinematics and geometry, and PLCopen for logic data. This paper is focused in the logic data. A logic CPF framework is defined in order to integrate tools into AutomationML framework that fulfill the logic data present in different development phases of the applications.