PC-based control delivers extremely efficient, IoT-based automation through a central, open, and holistic machine control platform. Machines, plants, and production lines can be well-connected to unleash their entire potential. TwinCAT Cloud Engineering has offered users a simple method to engineer TwinCAT instances and controllers in the cloud.
TwinCAT engineering and runtime products can be directly used in the cloud. This new solution offers easy, direct access to the Beckhoff website using a browser without any additional software. Registered users can work with the TwinCAT development environment from tablet PCs and other unsupported devices.
Physical control hardware can be connected to the TwinCAT Cloud Engineering instances created by users using a safe transport mode. Users are benefited due to the pros of TwinCAT control architecture and distributed collaboration support through a source control repository. Access to these Engineering instances is a perfect, holistic foundation to understand the TwinCAT environment.
Users can leverage the TwinCAT Cloud Engineering to transport their complete TwinCAT architecture to the cloud.
The change is that instead of a local engineering PC, a virtual machine is used. The benefit is that users get a familiar environment and need not learn a new one. They need not install and maintain several software versions customized to the specific machine generations.
Users can remotely access the disparate TwinCAT Cloud Engineering instances with different software versions. They can connect to Git-based systems and handle automation projects because they are based on modern source control characteristics. This simple, seamless access to a source control repository does not demand expertise. Thus, TwinCAT Cloud Engineering facilitates the collaboration of several users simultaneously on numerous instances through the use of a Git-based cloud service or integration of a Git Server into the instance.
For more details, visit www.beckhoff.com/twincat-cloud-engineering
