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Yes, we can close the topic, thanks.  Unless you want to give a hint, when the same functionality will come to ctrlX IO Engineering software. ... View more

I had a similar experience one time where I crashed a core by reading a bit in the PLC app with the IDE app through the datalayer without proper delay.  Now in my case it did not actually crash the whole core, just the apps managed by the automation core.  And I was able to recover after a power cycle by uploading functional code into the IDE app, which still ran even with the automation core  in service mode.  Now if a customer is using a third party solution and is connecting different systems through another data broker, they would be just as capable of crashing part of the system.  So I prefer to look at it as a matter of risk versus reward of having connected systems.  If you are going to have connected systems, then an all-in-one-device is quite advantageous in providing a uniform architecture.  ... View more

For the motion app I see it listed "Support of up to 30 axes with ctrlX CORE X7".  What kind of behaviors would we expect to start seeing with more than 30 axes? ... View more