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Technology suppliers are embracing open-source automation. For example, the recently introduced Bosch Rexroth ctrlX Automation platform follows open automation principles. Based on a Linux operating system, the Bosch Rexroth ctrlX Core control system is designed as an open industrial automation platform, allowing customers the maximum freedom to apply or adapt their control systems in whatever direction they see fit. Courtesy: Bosch Rexroth

IIoT, Industrie 4.0

Lessons learned for new approaches in machine control

Cover photo: Having a low-cost controls solution for a simple two-axis machine and an economical solution for a machine with a high-axis coordinated motion system that runs on the same control software is important to keep costs down. Courtesy: Bosch Rexr

PLM, Control Design

Ways to make packaging machine design more flexible

Figure 2: Automation components with decentralized intelligence equip the machine to do something with the process data and improve the process on its own—adjust throughput, use energy more efficiently and so forth—rather than depending on the “cloud” to

PLM, Control Design

Connect the potential of Industry 4.0 with real manufacturing