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Programmable logic controllers

Author: Michel BERTRAND

Publication date: December 10, 2010

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4. Communication and integration into a processing chain

The dazzling progress of information technology has led to the creation of the digital factory in the industrial world, which enables information to be routed directly and almost instantaneously between the top of the company and the physical execution unit, crossing all the levels of the CIM (Computer integrated manufacturing) pyramid illustrated in figure 6 .

CIM pyramid
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