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Well-known automation providers work out a standard for safe application software within the PLCopen. The PLCopen Safety Specification is a milestone on the way to the standardization of safety-relevant application software. At the SPS/IPC/Drives 2005 in Nuremberg, Germany, this PLCopen Safety Specification will be released. The PLCopen compliance logo allows users to easily identify software which fulfills the requirements defined by the safety standard. This kind of software is characterized by a high standard of quality.

KW-Software offers already today a scalable safety platform according to IEC 61508 up to SIL3 which meets the quality standard of the PLCopen. On the one hand, the PLCopen safety standard defines guidelines for safe programming user interfaces. These guidelines are already met by the safe programming system SAFEPROG provided by KW-Software. On the other hand, the most important safety functions are standardized by means of function blocks. KW-Software, the leading provider of safety-relevant software, will realize 17 of these PLCopen safety function blocks until midyear 2006. At the Hanover Fair 2006, KW-Software will likely be the first company which receives the PLCopen Safety Certificate for an entire platform.