PLCopen intended to show several areas of activities during the SPS: from guidelines to use the Object-Oriented Programming within the industrial environment, the extended harmonization of the interface towards robot controllers, and benchmarking. “PLCopen Benchmarking is something different at PLCopen for 2 reasons”, says Eelco van der Wal, Managing Director of PLCopen. “Although PLCopen normally deals with the software environments, it was the best choice to define a benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of the different CPU architectures. Nowadays the CPU suppliers can tune their architectures to the specific needs. However, the needs of the industrial world in general are not clearly specified for them. The strict need for…