I am happy to announce the launch of Industrial automation software (IAS) portal . IAS is an attempt to accumulate the software aspects of industrial automation. IAS is the first web portal dedicated to software side of industrial automation. IAS portal registration is free. Major topics related to IAS are process automation, motion control, process control, factory automation, PLC, HMI, MMI, SCADA, robotics, vision systems, instrumentation, MES, MMI, OPC, IEC, specifications, protocol, RFC etc.