Industrial Server Features 12, 24, or 36 Processor Cores

To accommodate the rising demands posed by the Smart Factory, with its highly intelligent machines and production systems, Beckhoff is introducing one of the most powerful controllers in the world with its C6670 industrial server. It features 12, 24, or 36 processor cores and 64 to 2,048 GB of RAM, making the new device an appropriate hardware platform for the "many-core control" concept, through which Beckhoff consistently pursues its centralised control philosophy. This means that not only PLC, Motion Control, robotics, and CNC functions, but also the Condition Monitoring and energy management functions of a Smart Factory are integrated into a single software system and executed on a single CPU. However, this immense computing power can only be utilised effectively if each core's performance is fully leveraged by the TwinCAT 3.1 automation platform.