Engineers Empowered for Maximum Productivity
Object Architecture Makes It Possible to Implement Seamlessly Integrated Production Systems
The ability of one’s automation architecture to readily enable seamless integration rests in no small part on making the necessary engineering tasks easier to do. Rather than custom-coding an interface between two applications, why not drag-and-drop the needed data point from one window to another in the engineering console—and let the underlying architecture take care of the rest?
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