The next step toward Industrie 4.0 is PC-based control: In the movement toward Industrie 4.0 and IoT, PC-based control technology from Beckhoff Automation provides the ideal toolbox to implement the leading automation concepts of our time. These concepts include the Internet of Things, cloud computing, centralized PC-based control systems, and ever-more connected devices via industrial Ethernet and OPC-UA. Many users are already integrating Beckhoff controllers into highly-connected production networks, enabling them to communicate with databases, perform remote maintenance over the Internet and request cloud-based services.

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