Speakers:
Paul Diepstraten and Fabrizio Bozzarelli, Advantech
Arnold Kopiar, NXT Control
The Automation standard IEC 61499 will be one of the main directions for Advantech in intelligent Automation in the future where the intelligence is being designed from very beginning as decentralized and embedded into software components, which can be freely distributed across networked hardware devices. This is a serious leap forward as compared to the current understanding of distributed automation as field bus connectivity to remote I/Os or information exchange between PLCs
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