Industrial Automation Software,Process Control,Distributed Control Systems,DCS, OPC, OPC-UA, Programmable Logic

Author:	Pradyumna Sampath	Created:	Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The Industrial Automation and Robotics world is mostly devoid of Open Source software. This blog attempts to bring out success stories, failures and everything else with Open Source and the Automation world.

Trumpf Laser Cutters
	By Pradyumna Sampath on Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Trumpf ( http://www.trumpf.de ) has released its new laser cutter which is based on linux , dotgnu (http://dotgnu.org) and winforms. Now that is extremely exciting for Open Source in Industrial Automation and Control.

Wireless in Automation
	By Pradyumna Sampath on Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The ISA-SP100 wireless standardization comitee has come up with a survey for users on the usage of wireless in Automation. Check the link out http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=73812924482

OSADL
	By Pradyumna Sampath on Tuesday, January 16, 2007

OSADL (Open Source Automation Development Labs) is an initiative by the open source community to have greater penetration of open source technologies in automation. The impetus for this consortium has mostly come in the form of the new rt-preempt branch of the linux kernel, which claims to provide hard-real time performance which is an absolute necessity for IA and Robotics.