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Very likely they use a manufacturing execution system like Dassault's DELMIA or Siemens MES.

These systems are intended to allow local control of a factory, or cloud based global control of manufacturing.

They can connect to individual PLC(Programmable Logic Controller) which handles the actual equipment.

They connect to a LAN network, or to the internet. So they naturally need some form of security.

They could use Windows Server, Redhat Linux, etc. but they need some form of security. Which is how controller would be affected.

Usually you can just set them to manual though...



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