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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada / Automation fellows
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:11:10 +0100
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:37:40 -0700 (PDT), slos wrote:

> Feeling alone, I have tried to see if any other fellows were interested in
> doing automation applications in Ada.
>
> I have only found those guys but I have seen not much on their web site
> and my message in the contact page got no reply :
> http://adaautomation.com/web/
> 
> Are they reading this list ?

Not much is there.

> I have also found this interesting paper :
> http://www.ias.uni-stuttgart.de/lehre/praktika/industrialautomation/unterlagen/02-ADA-en.pdf

This is close to what we do, however, our projects are much larger and have
much more different hardware involved.

For a PLC, real-time control is not such a big problem as communication
with the outer world while keeping real-time.

As for GTK, you might find with useful for designing HMI and SCADA:

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/aicwl.htm

> Anyone working in industrial automation field ?

I do. We have a middleware written in Ada for dealing with various hardware
under real-time constraints, e.g. EtherCAT, CAN, XCP, iTOT, GPIO etc.
Application is mostly in automotive and energy. Some are embedded some are
not.
 
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de