ODVA is an international association supporting network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). These currently include DeviceNet™, EtherNet/IP™, CompoNet™, and the major extensions to CIP — CIP Safety™, CIP Sync™, and CIP Motion™. ODVA manages the development of these open technologies, and assists manufacturers and users of CIP networks through tools, training and marketing activities. In addition, ODVA offers conformance testing to help ensure that products built to its specifications operate in multi-vendor systems. ODVA also is active in other standards’ development organizations and industry consortia to drive the growth of open communication standards. Innovasic is an active participant in ODVA with ongoing membership and participations in the Infrastructure and System Architecture SIGs. http://www.odva.org
The PTO is dedicated to showing industry the beneficial results of using fieldbuses in general and PROFIBUS and PROFINET in particular while assisting device manufacturers throughout North America in the development and marketing of PROFIBUS and PROFINET products. As one of those 25 local PROFIBUS and PROFINET organizations, PTO, a non-profit, member organization, is responsible for North America. Members of the PTO are vendors of hardware, software and systems as well as end users and operators, scientific institutes, universities, distributors, and system integrators. http://us.profibus.com
Component Obsolescence Group (COG) International is an industry-wide forum for the discussion of obsolescence issues. It runs workshops, seminars and conferences to provide training and enable members to share information and solutions, and it has formed working groups dedicated to addressing key issues. It also publishes guidance booklets and provides links to other sources of information via its website http://www.cog.org.uk.
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has made a significant impact on the industry since its inception in 1994, playing a vital role with the emergence and worldwide adoption of the fabless business model. GSA's mission is to accelerate the growth and increase the return on invested capital of the global semiconductor industry by fostering a more effective fabless ecosystem through collaboration, integration and innovation. http://www.gsaglobal.org
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. TechAmerica was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). http://www.itaa.org