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Wonderware and Kontron Improve Factory Efficiency through Standards-Based, Pre-Integrated Automation and Control Systems

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One of the more time-consuming tasks of the factory control engineer is the installation, configuration and management of the automation and control software. The more time spent on such maintenance tasks, the less time available to perform duties that can improve factory productivity and efficiency. This problem is sometimes compounded by incompatibility between hardware and software-common in the industrial world-where reliance on proprietary hardware systems produces an unwieldy mix of drivers, operating systems, and platform configurations. Even two different hardware products from the same vendor may use different platform specs. With a paucity of control engineers on the factory floor today, manufacturers can ill afford to spend time solving these compatibility problems.

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