🚀 Revolutionizing Virtual Real-Time Control Platforms from congatec and CODESYS! 💡

[Ahmet Ö.]

We are witnessing a groundbreaking collaboration in the world of industrial automation! congatec, a pioneer in embedded and edge computing technologies, and CODESYS Group, a leader in hardware-independent control software, have signed a strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to develop highly integrated, virtualized real-time control platforms for mixed-critical workloads. So, what does this mean? A brand new dimension in flexibility and efficiency for industrial automation!

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⚙️ A New Era in Automation with Efficient Virtualization​

At the heart of this partnership lies the combination of congatec's proven aReady.VT virtualization technology with the CODESYS Control runtime system. The goal is to transform industrial controllers into fully-fledged, software-based IEC 61131-3 PLCs for demanding automation tasks.

To achieve this transformation, the conga-zones hypervisor partitions the embedded computing platform into dedicated zones. While general-purpose operating systems run in parallel, the CODESYS PLC-based real-time control logic is executed in an isolated manner. This ensures deterministic real-time behavior and secure isolation on a single system. This is a critical requirement for the increasing trend towards virtualization in industrial control technology.

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🗣️ congatec COO: "A New Level of Flexibility"​

Konrad Garhammer, COO and CTO of congatec, emphasizes the importance of this partnership:

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  []"Our partnership with CODESYS combines congatec's conga-zones hypervisor with CODESYS PLC to offer our customers an easy-to-install, cost-effective solution running on standard hardware."
  
  []"This solution guarantees robust real-time performance and secure isolation."
  
  []"Our hypervisor technology enables different operating systems to run seamlessly in parallel with CODESYS PLC in industrial applications, creating a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and reliability for automation and robotics applications."
  
  

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🛠️ Leading the Future of Machine and Plant Engineering​

The virtualization of control technology is considered a key lever for reducing costs, increasing scalability, and optimizing the security of embedded control platforms. This approach, showcased as a promising concept at the embedded world trade fair, is now progressing towards market maturity.

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🤝 CODESYS CTO: "Win-Win for Our Customers"​

Hilmar Panzer, CTO of CODESYS Group, summarizes the benefits of the collaboration:

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• ]"The virtualization of control technology is a major trend for optimizing the costs, scalability, and security of embedded control platforms."
  
  []"Thanks to our collaboration, machine and plant engineers and the operators of these systems will directly benefit from this trend."
  
  []"This is a win-win situation for both companies; but above all, a great gain for our mutual customers."
  

With this collaboration, congatec and CODESYS directly address the market demand for high-performance, isolated, and flexible control solutions that fully meet the requirements of modern, data-driven Industry 4.0 environments.