OSADL

The Open Source Automation Development Lab ( OSADL ) is a registered cooperative with the aim to promote the development of open source software for the machine and plant engineering and automation industry and to co-ordinate. It represents the interests of special machine builders, manufacturers of automation hardware and software as well as open source software service providers. Member of the cooperative may be any business worldwide.

Foundation

At the foundation of various forms of society (association, foundation, GmbH, cooperative, etc.) were discussed. The close relationship between the content and ethical formulated in the 19th century co-operative thought and only a few decades old open source movement was decisive to form a cooperative. It was founded on 8 December 2005; in August 2006, OSADL was entered in the register of cooperative societies in the Register Stuttgart under the number 440085.

Preamble to the Cooperative Statute

" The automation industry and its supplier companies especially benefit from open source operating systems such as Linux, as this long production cycles, rapid troubleshooting, as well as the independence of individual software manufacturers is guaranteed. However, this industry requires specific extensions of the operating system such as real -time capability, it must be the compatibility can be certified with these extensions, and it must be standardized software interfaces available. The development of these conditions is the goal of the Open Source Automation Development Lab OSADL. "

Regular and academic members

Activity

OSADL acts including " Shopping Community for Open Source Software ", ie of membership dues development contracts for open source software projects are assigned which are required or accepted by the majority of members. In addition, the OSADL pursuing the standardization of software interfaces for automation industry and their certification. In addition, the OSADL develops concepts for practical situations in the use of open source software in industrial products with respect to legal and administrative aspects. Counsel OSADL is RA Dr. Till Jaeger, a co-founder of ifrOSS.

Working groups and projects

  • Ingo Molnár and Thomas Gleixners real-time Linux ( realtime - preempt patches)
  • Kernel-based Virtual Machine in conjunction with the realtime - preempt patches
  • Safety Critical Linux
  • Universal industrial I / O Framework
  • Integration of device drivers in the mainline Linux kernel ( upstream Submission)
  • Certification of Board Support Packages
  • Quality assurance of the Linux kernel and especially the real-time properties in so-called " QA Farm"
  • License Compliance Audit ( LCA), can certify compliance with open source license obligations with the company
  • Organization of the 1999 annual international Real-Time Linux Workshop (previously in Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, Valencia, Singapore, Lille, Lanzhou, Linz, Guadalajara, Dresden, Nairobi, Prague, and Chapel Hill )
Mechanical engineering ETAS Group Festo Heidelberger Druckmaschinen KEBA Kontron Qiagen Roche Diagnostics Trumpf Wind River Systems Italy
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