Phoenix Contact designed PLCnext Technology, a platform of limitless automation. Future-oriented automation systems should be flexible, open, and networked. For this reason your industrial automation system should change: from a classic system structures into cyber physical system.
Features:
– PLCnext Technology allows several developers to work on one controller program indipendently of each other using different programming languages.
– The platform lets consistent data exchange and synchronous execution of the program code. In this way there could be a real-time execution across different programming languages.
– The system can be integrated with open-source software and apps and thanks to this aspect you can enhance development processes in order to think about future improvements.
– For open communication in a networked automation system, PLCnext Technology makes it easier the integration of interfaces, protocols and cloud services.
– The system could be customised: you can use your favorite programming tool and language just to set up a familiar development environment.
– You don’t have proprietary systems limits.
The first controller of the open platform is PLCnext Control, that integrates the classical PLC with smart devices. A great feature of this product is the possibility to create an intelligent networking through direct cloud connection and integration of current and future communication standards.
An other useful product is the modular sofware platform for users who want program according to IEC 61131: the user interface is optimised, in a free basic version you can integrate individual function and it semplifies engineering process.
Phoenix Contact shall make available to all interested people a community (PLCnext Community) in which you can find application examples, instruction for use, tutorials, videos, sofware and firmware downloads.
Moreover, you can ask questions to specialists and exchange ideas and experiences with other users.
To join the community there are few steps to do on the company website:
https://www.plcnext-community.net
On the other hand, if you want to watch short videos related to this topic you can find all public domain material on YouTube: Industry 4.0 with PLCnext Technology.
In an aggressive marketplace of industrial automation if you want to be competitive, you need to have a flexible and innovative approach of Industry 4.0 more oriented to interconnection and communcation.
PLCnext Technology is the answer to your need and it can help your company to deal with current industry challenges, especially at the beginning of this new year 2018.
