Beremiz Roadmap from CanFestival and MatPLC to Automforge.net

Presentation for Xenomai User Meetin 2009 - Abstract : The Beremiz PLC programming environment originally involved developers of the CanFestival free CANopen stack and MatPLC projects. The project has been initiated in order to fill the gap between free software and control engineering. Today, thanks to Beremiz, automation users can easily connect IEC-61131 function blocks across CANopen networks with Free Software. Industrials, teachers, students and researchers use that GPL project, and actively contribute with new features every day. But what about the PLC programs they produce? Could PLC programming also benefit from the Free Software ideology? A new Free Software Forge is to be held: Automforge.net. In this presentation, I will present the Beremiz project's passed, present and future milestones.

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