Barrier-free communication

To with­stand increas­ing­ly tough mar­ket and cost pres­sures, the process indus­try needs future-proof automa­tion solu­tions. The only way to imple­ment these is through holis­tic sys­tem con­nec­tiv­i­ty that over­comes the tra­di­tion­al sep­a­ra­tion between dis­crete automa­tion and process automa­tion. PC-based con­trol tech­nol­o­gy from Beck­hoff pro­vides the ide­al basis for this purpose.
With PC-based con­trol, even dis­trib­uted sys­tems can be con­nect­ed with lit­tle effort while enabling access to cen­tralised and there­fore high­ly effi­cient analy­sis and process con­trol capa­bil­i­ties. Because of its inter­op­er­abil­i­ty, open­ness and inte­grat­ed sup­port of cloud-based ser­vices, the Beck­hoff automa­tion sys­tem is also ide­al for imple­ment­ing con­nec­tiv­i­ty in pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments in line with cur­rent Indus­trie 4.0 and Inter­net-of-Things con­cepts. The user ben­e­fits across the board – from hor­i­zon­tal inte­gra­tion, even beyond enter­prise bound­aries, and ver­ti­cal inte­gra­tion with con­nect­ed pro­duc­tion sys­tems to con­sis­tent engi­neer­ing over the entire equip­ment life span.