Decentralized automation shortens commissioning and time-to-market and simplifies the expansion or shifting of production resources. Those who modularize their plants and machines gain new degrees of freedom for production.

Where rigid hierarchies and long decision-making paths previously determined automation, the levels are now becoming increasingly permeable. Sensors that even detect machine wear, RFID data carriers that tell the machine whether it is correctly configured for the next work step, or an intelligent I/O module that independently decides to actuate an actuator: The present and future of automation can no longer be located in the levels of the classic automation pyramid. Decentralized intelligence reduces machine data to valuable information and thus lays the foundation for a new era of automation.

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