PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN FACTORY AUTOMATION

The complexity of the world of factory automation, the variety of the environments where the automation operates, the variety of the technologies it uses and the convergences of its corporations have led creating professional associations, professional organization and organisms of standardization. Their goal is to federate the many different points of view in relation with automation.

Their objectives can be to promote or to develop a technology, to think about different points, to group people who share the same interests, to build or to advance a set of standards, or more simply, to share informations and to follow the news in a particular area.

• AFNOR

  French standards organization.

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• ISO

  International organization for standardization..

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• OPC foundation
  Open platform communication foundation.

  ( Look at some OPC presentations and other resources )

• CTIA

  International wireless communications association.

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• EMVA
  European Machine Vision Association.

  ( Author of the EMVA 1288 standard for instance )

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• ESMERA
  European small and medium enterprise robotic applications.

  ( Look at this ESMERA project introduction )

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• IEEE

  International Electrical Engineering association.

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• IFR
  International federation of robot.

  ( Publication of some economical trends relative to the industrial robots market in the world among other things )

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• ZigBee alliance

  Association of companies for open and economic wireless communications.

• E-United Robotic

  European federation of robotics.