Green Hills Software Expands Platform for Industrial Safety with KW-Software

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has partnered with KW-Software, an internationally leading provider of solutions and technologies in the field of industrial control and safety technology, to add new software integrations to its Platform for Industrial Safety. The Platform includes a complete set of development tools, a wide variety of middleware, industrial communications protocols, and services built around the IEC 61508 SIL 3-certified Green Hills INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS). This new partner integration further expands the comprehensive set of pre-integrated software that enables the fastest time-to-market for developers of industrial automation, control, and safety systems.

KW-Software is a specialist in embedding technologies like IEC 61131, Safety and PROFINET into automation controllers and solutions. KW-Software's SafeOS and SAFEPROG products have been integrated and validated with the INTEGRITY RTOS. SafeOS is a 2-channel diversified IEC 61508 run-time environment for Safety PLC applications programmed in IEC 61131 PLC-Open language. SAFEPROG provides a safety-certified IEC 61131 programming system. They have been developed according to strict requirements of the IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3). These software components in combination with the SIL 3-certified INTEGRITY RTOS provide a complete platform for safety control systems and significantly reduce both programming and certification efforts for device manufacturers.

"We are pleased to see the continued adoption of our Platform for Industrial Safety by customers around the world," commented Joe Fabbre, director of platform solutions at Green Hills Software. "This new partner integration with KW-Software further extends the value of the platform by providing turnkey solutions for open standard safety programming environments out of the box, reducing time-to-market for our end customers."

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