PLCOpen-certified PAC platform

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced that it has received certificates of compliance from PLCopen, the independent organisation that focuses on the harmonisation of control programming around IEC 61131-2. PLCopen represents various industries and seeks to drive more efficiency in industrial automation through creating specifications and implementations in engineering programming language. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms fulfilled the requirements of the PLCopen Compliance Procedure for Motion Control Library V. 1.1 and PLCopen Compliance Procedure for Motion Control Part 2 — Extensions, Version 1.0.

PACMotion allows the engineering communities that are already familiar with these IEC languages to quickly integrate motion control into their existing programs, and to develop new programs in the quickest and most efficient way.

PACMotion uses GE Fanuc Intelligent Platform’s Proficy Machine edition, an integrated programming environment for machine logic, motion and HMI in a single program. A single programming environment allows developers to use common tag databases and common scripting, and eliminate all synchronisation logic between separate programs. Many new features, such as motion function blocks, have been added to Proficy Machine Edition supporting PACMotion.