This video shows how Beckhoff TwinCAT and NX MCD can be connected directly based on the solution PLCConnect by iSILOG / EDAG PS. The advantage of this solution is that signals can be browsed directly from NX MCD. No OPC Server is needed with the need of defining manually all signals. Because of the direct integration the cycle time is very low (up to 1ms). TwinCAT can also be used to replace Simit as the behavior modeler. This makes sense for users which are not using Siemens PLCs.
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