Beckhoff TwinCAT actually leverages the capabilities of the underlying Windows OS and have built a customised RTOS to provide deterministic performance required for industrial automation tasks. This setup allows for precise control and timely responses to various input signals and events, critical in automation environments. We have hundreds of clients running IPCs and never have any cases of crashing like you state. Beckhoff OS is actually a modified Windows OS so shouldn't be consider a "PC".

Thankyou for the feedback. Yes thanks for that, we will do some more videos like that. Keep an eye out.

Very good point, this is often where user get stuck on the "Windows is not good" subject.

Not actually true with the case of Beckhoff. It core share a/some cores with Windows OA as well. No need to isolate cores completely.

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@@AutomateXNZ lol. It’s a horror movie from early 2000’s with a premise that the movie you’re watching is footage recorded by campers with handheld cameras. Very shaky footage that made lots of people feel nauseous.

Interesting point of view, we would argue that the IPC actually gives us this robustness and without the expense you pay for a Rockwell PLC.

Please let me know if you're still looking for help? My company can help you with this.

​@@aaqilkhanhi, I am interested, but I mean clean IPC, can I open source or I need to install there some soft from Siemens or backhoff for example

We have many engineers who all specialize in PLC training. This is the core of our business

Thanks for the comment. There are many tools for learning about coding IPCs. The most popular code method is "structured text". We mostly code in this language on Beckhoff IPCs. There is a guy on KZfaq that provides free Beckhoff programming courses/videos called Jakob.

Hi Ariel, thanks for your comment. We are using a software called Visual Components

Yes anytime!

@@AutomateXNZ thanks for your response I have been waiting for it for a long time Can we have conversations over watsapp or email. Just need to discuss regarding plc programming and some other things.

You're welcome

Hey Tommy, thank for your comments. And yes that's a very good and valid point! You can even get a temporary 7 day licence if you need it for development!!

Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 is free for development. You only pay for the licenses on the device that will be implemented on the machine which also You can have as a trial for 7 days and then You can renew the trial license for another 7 days and so on until You decide that You need that license and then You buy it for long therm. It's also good to know that You can add different licenses later on so You don't have to specify all the licenses for various functions when You are buying the IPC or Embedded PC. Also the cost of the license depends on the performance class that Yours IPC or emPC is having P20, P30, P40 and so on. Of course the bigger performance class the grater the license price. It's a bit confusing when You're first introduced to such licensing process but once You get into it, it's actually really good type of licensing in my opinion.

Definitely the future Tommy!

Cheers Nik!! More to come my friend!

Thanks for watching and appreciate you comment! :) let us know if you have any ideas for videos!

It used to be the case but nowadays IPC and especially Embedded PC-s from Beckhoff are even in the range of price like S7 1200 series like CX7000 series for example :D

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