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There are administrators who praise its stability and performance, and who wouldn't exchange it for Linux for all the penguins in Patagonia.

Companies that use BSD at the heart of their products include Apple, uh, which released the essential BSD part of its macOS operating system as the open source Darwin project, Netf- uh, Network Appliance, Netflix, Juniper Networks, New York Internet, Sheridan Computers, Beckhoff, uh, Mesophy, RG Nets, Cloudium, Antithesis, Ecard, and the Sony PlayStation.

Many companies don't publicize their use of the BSD operating system, and people who have chosen other OSs still rest on the legacy of BSD because it was on BSD that the internet grew to maturity.

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We'll define this approach, we'll spotlight why this is beneficial and detail who is best served, and we'll share application tips and explore the benefits of doing this properly.

This podcast is sponsored by Beckhoff.

We're joined by Brandon Snell.

Brandon is MX System Product Manager with Beckhoff USA.

Welcome

to the podcast, Brandon.

Thank you, Chris.

I appreciate you having me today.

So what else has caught your attention?

I think I have never seen, I worked with Beckhoff earlier.

When I was working in, the first Beckhoff came into US was through us.

That is, I was working for Corning in Wilmington, North Carolina.

So that's when we brought Beckhoff and we introduced to In the U.S., that was the first they started using.

So we used TwinCAT and a lot of applications we developed using Beckhoff.

It was so much good to see Beckhoff's TwinCAT presentation here today with Ignition collaboration.

direct ADS driver now, or really going further with it? So

But then also, when it comes to reaction times, that can dictate things.

We've seen that reaction times with the Beckhoff EtherCAT ecosystem, it's more real time.

more used in real-time focused applications.

So anywhere there is servo-like movements or servo-type movements happening, you might see more EtherCAT or FSOE used there, whereas in a more typical conventional automation system where you do want the flexibility of using functional safety over Ethernet, you're probably going to see SIP safety, especially here in the United States.

And well, what controller are you using? What's your PLC? What's your motion controller? Okay.

Are you using servo drives? What are they doing on the machine? Do you need any remote IO? And so the controls engineers typically we're thinking in terms of field bus control, right? So how do I control everything on the machine starting from my Rockwell PLC or Beckhoff PLC or so on and so forth, right? How do I control all of the devices that I'm going to have on my machine? And so let's see.

There's a number of different ways you can add components in.

If you are familiar with the Festo portfolio, so for example, I know our controllers have this designation, C-E-P-E.

But you can do PROFINET, EtherNet IP, Modbus.

We support all of those.

And so this would just be generic, right? So, for example, if I was used as a customer, if I was using a Beckhoff PLC, maybe I'd bring in this generic one and I would just call this whatever the actual designation is.

But, you know, to keep it in mind, Beckhoff, but, you know, whatever my part number is.