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TwinCAT & Structured Text
A practical architecture for maintainable TwinCAT 3 PLC software: typed interfaces, reusable function blocks, explicit machine states, diagnostics and controlled hardware mapping.
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Axiotech Technical Library
Practical engineering guidance for TwinCAT, Structured Text, EtherCAT, instrumentation, process control, machine data, HPC, CUDA and production AI.
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Use the automation guides to design and support machine software, fieldbus, instrumentation, control loops and production interfaces. Use the HPC and AI material to plan workloads, software stacks and validated Hyperion platforms. Each resource defines practical checks, evidence and technical references rather than relying on generic product claims.
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Automation engineering
TwinCAT, PLC software, EtherCAT, instrumentation and machine data
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PLC Software Engineering
How to design deterministic machine states, PackML-aligned modes, permissives, interlocks, alarms and recoverable fault handling in a TwinCAT control system.
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EtherCAT & Industrial I/O
A repeatable TwinCAT 3 workflow for EtherCAT topology, ESI files, PDO mapping, Distributed Clocks, state transitions, fault localisation and commissioning evidence.
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Instrumentation & Process Control
Engineering analogue and temperature measurements from field device and wiring through EtherCAT scaling, validation, alarms, calibration evidence and process use.
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Testing, Commissioning & Lifecycle
How to make TwinCAT changes reviewable and repeatable with source control, clean builds, static checks, TcUnit tests, release packages and commissioning evidence.
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HMI, Alarms & Machine Data
Designing operator interfaces that expose machine state, first-out faults, interlocks, recipes, trends and maintenance evidence without bypassing control ownership.
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Find the technical guidance and Hyperion systems designed for your field
Bio & Genomics
Memory-bound assembly and variant pipelines in research and sequencing-core production, with imaging AI beside the instrument.
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Medical & Clinical
Research computing inside the hospital network and clinical AI assistants that keep patient data on site.
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Hyperion X1160 AxiAnvil
Hyperion X2260 AxiCrucible
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Pharmaceutical
From discovery model development to validated production pipelines over confidential compound and trial data.
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Hyperion X3140 AxiLattice
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Engineering & Manufacturing
CFD, FEA and design-of-experiments in production, with surrogate-model AI trained from simulation output.
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Secure in-house LLM platforms
Sovereign AI behind your firewall: serving fleets, large-model tiers and organisation-scale platforms with hybrid cloud gateways.
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Hyperion X1160 AxiAnvil
Hyperion X4460 AxiTitan
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Software development platforms
Build farms, CI matrices and developer AI on production-class silicon: compile in minutes, test in containers and serve assistants from your own rack.
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Hyperion X1440 AxiRelay
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Factory automation, control & PLC engineering
PLC and motion software development with automated validation, virtual commissioning, digital twins and an LLM assistant that never sees outside the plant network.
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Production & maintenance intelligence
Factory management systems with AI in production: line monitoring, vision inspection, predictive maintenance and shift-level analytics.
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Hyperion X2260 AxiCrucible
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Robotics & vision systems
Perception for machines that move: inspection, pick-point models, robot-cell simulation and low-latency serving beside the line.
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Analytics & mathematical computing
MATLAB, R, Julia and Python at 96–128 cores, whole datasets in memory, and Monte Carlo or optimisation runs that finish over lunch instead of overnight.
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HPC & AI foundation
Academic and Research Computing with Hyperion: Reproducibility, Teaching and Shared Facilities
How to turn departmental HPC and AI hardware into a sustainable research and teaching service with fair access, reproducible environments and publishable evidence.
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ADS, OPC UA, MES and OEE: Designing a Reliable Machine-Data Architecture
A layered approach to TwinCAT machine data: stable PLC contracts, ADS engineering access, OPC UA information models, MES transactions, OEE context and secure failure handling.
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Analytics and Mathematical Computing on Hyperion
MATLAB, R, Julia and Python at 96–128 cores, whole datasets in memory, and Monte Carlo or optimisation runs that finish over lunch instead of overnight.
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Application Note: CUDA-Enabled CI, Build and Performance Testing
A secure runner design for CPU compilation, accelerator smoke tests, numerical regression and scheduled performance gates.
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Application Note: Hybrid CFD/FEA Campaigns and Surrogate Models
Run validated physics at scale, then train bounded surrogate models to screen designs and shorten engineering iteration.
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Application Note: Molecular Dynamics and AI-Assisted Virtual Screening
A campaign design joining CPU preparation, GPU simulation, biomolecular models, scheduler arrays and governed scientific evidence.
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Application Note: Monte Carlo and Optimisation with CPU, MPI and GPU Execution
Choose threads, processes, MPI or CUDA by algorithm; preserve random streams and report efficiency, uncertainty and completed scenarios.
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Application Note: On-Premises Clinical Imaging AI with DICOM and MONAI
A shadow-mode-to-production architecture for DICOM routing, MONAI inference, clinical-format outputs, audit and rollback.
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Application Note: Predictive Maintenance from Historian, Telemetry and Vision
Build a governed feature and inference pipeline that combines machine state, maintenance outcomes and visual evidence without flooding operators with alarms.
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Application Note: Production Variant Calling and Long-Read Assembly
A reproducible Nextflow/Slurm pattern for sample throughput, memory-heavy assembly, accelerated stages and governed genomic data.
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Application Note: Robot Perception Training, Digital Twin and Deployment
A closed-loop workflow from calibrated data and simulation through GPU training to bounded, low-latency perception beside the robot cell.
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Application Note: Sovereign RAG and LLM Serving Behind the Firewall
Permission-aware retrieval, efficient inference, evaluation, monitoring and controlled hybrid routing for confidential enterprise knowledge.
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Application Note: TwinCAT Virtual Commissioning and a Private Engineering Assistant
Automate TwinCAT project builds, simulate machine sequences and use locally hosted AI without crossing the real-time or safety boundary.
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Designing a Hyperion Platform: CPU, Memory, GPU, Storage and Fabric
A workload-first method for selecting cores, memory capacity and bandwidth, accelerator topology, NVMe, shared storage and RDMA across the Hyperion X-Series.
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Designing Secure In-House LLM Platforms with Hyperion
Sovereign AI behind your firewall: serving fleets, large-model tiers and organisation-scale platforms with hybrid cloud gateways.
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EtherCAT Commissioning and Diagnostics in TwinCAT 3
A repeatable TwinCAT 3 workflow for EtherCAT topology, ESI files, PDO mapping, Distributed Clocks, state transitions, fault localisation and commissioning evidence.
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HMI, Alarm, Recipe and Diagnostic Design for Supportable Machines
Designing operator interfaces that expose machine state, first-out faults, interlocks, recipes, trends and maintenance evidence without bypassing control ownership.
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HPC and AI for Bioinformatics and Genomics on Hyperion
Memory-bound assembly and variant pipelines in research and sequencing-core production, with imaging AI beside the instrument.
Hyperion X1140-C AxiKeystoneHyperion X3140 AxiLatticeHyperion X1260 AxiForge
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HPC and AI for Pharmaceutical Discovery, Validation and Production
From discovery model development to validated production pipelines over confidential compound and trial data.
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HPC and AI for Robotics and Vision Systems
Perception for machines that move: inspection, pick-point models, robot-cell simulation and low-latency serving beside the line.
Hyperion X1250 AxiOverseerHyperion X1260 AxiForgeHyperion X1150-C AxiGovernor
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HPC and Private AI for Factory Automation, Control and PLC Engineering
PLC and motion software development with automated validation, virtual commissioning, digital twins and an LLM assistant that never sees outside the plant network.
Hyperion X1150-C AxiGovernorHyperion X1140-C AxiKeystoneHyperion X2160 AxiVector
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HPC Simulation and Engineering AI for Manufacturing
CFD, FEA and design-of-experiments in production, with surrogate-model AI trained from simulation output.
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Hyperion Software Development Platforms for CUDA, CI and Private Developer AI
Build farms, CI matrices and developer AI on production-class silicon: compile in minutes, test in containers and serve assistants from your own rack.
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Industrial Instrumentation in TwinCAT: 4–20 mA, RTD, Thermocouple and Signal Validation
Engineering analogue and temperature measurements from field device and wiring through EtherCAT scaling, validation, alarms, calibration evidence and process use.
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On-Premises HPC and AI for Medical and Clinical Workflows
Research computing inside the hospital network and clinical AI assistants that keep patient data on site.
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Operating Shared Hyperion Platforms: Slurm, Kubernetes, RDMA, Storage and Security
An operations blueprint for schedulers, GPU allocation, identity, quotas, fabrics, monitoring, backups and controlled change on multi-user Hyperion systems.
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PID and Process Control in TwinCAT: From Control Philosophy to Commissioning
A disciplined route to process-loop design in TwinCAT: control objectives, modes, scaling, PID execution, limits, anti-windup, alarming, tuning and acceptance evidence.
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PLC State Machines, PackML, Interlocks and Fault Recovery in TwinCAT
How to design deterministic machine states, PackML-aligned modes, permissives, interlocks, alarms and recoverable fault handling in a TwinCAT control system.
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1140 AxiFoundry
A professional development and proof-of-concept node for CUDA, AI, data science and software engineering.
Hyperion X1140 AxiFoundry
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1140-C AxiKeystone
A CPU- and memory-led HPC platform for simulation, genomics, analytics, compilation and workloads with large in-memory working sets.
Hyperion X1140-C AxiKeystone
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1150-C AxiGovernor
A controls-engineering and virtual-commissioning platform for TwinCAT, PLC, motion, simulation and private engineering AI.
Hyperion X1150-C AxiGovernor
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1160 AxiAnvil
A large-memory single-GPU platform for private LLM inference, retrieval-augmented generation, medical imaging and large scientific models.
Hyperion X1160 AxiAnvil
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1250 AxiOverseer
A production-intelligence node for machine vision, telemetry, predictive maintenance and low-latency factory AI.
Hyperion X1250 AxiOverseer
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1260 AxiForge
A professional two-GPU training, visualisation and applied-research server for larger datasets and models.
Hyperion X1260 AxiForge
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1440 AxiRelay
A dense inference, RAG, CI and multi-service node where several independent GPU workloads must run concurrently.
Hyperion X1440 AxiRelay
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X1460 AxiForge Max
The maximum single-node Hyperion platform for AI training, molecular modelling, generative engineering and large accelerated workflows.
Hyperion X1460 AxiForge Max
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X2160 AxiVector
A tightly coupled two-node simulation and mathematical-computing platform for MPI, CFD, FEA and optimisation.
Hyperion X2160 AxiVector
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X2260 AxiCrucible
A two-node multi-user AI workgroup for clinical research, production intelligence, training and resilient service placement.
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X3140 AxiLattice
A shared departmental CPU-compute facility for research pipelines, simulation, genomics and queued multi-user work.
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X3460 AxiBastion
A sustained departmental AI/HPC platform for pharmaceutical modelling, large training campaigns and shared accelerated research.
Hyperion X3460 AxiBastion
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Product Use Brief: Hyperion X4460 AxiTitan
The flagship sovereign AI and research-computing platform for organisation-scale shared services and the largest Hyperion workloads.
Hyperion X4460 AxiTitan
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Production and Maintenance Intelligence with Hyperion
Factory management systems with AI in production: line monitoring, vision inspection, predictive maintenance and shift-level analytics.
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Reproducible HPC and AI Development: Containers, CI, Profiling and Evidence
A practical software-engineering system for repeatable builds, traceable datasets, benchmark gates and portable execution across workstations, servers and clusters.
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The CUDA and AI Software Stack: From One Hyperion Node to a Cluster
Drivers, CUDA, frameworks, collectives, containers, inference servers and schedulers arranged as an operable stack rather than an accidental collection of packages.
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TwinCAT 3 Structured Text Software Architecture: From Machine States to Reusable Function Blocks
A practical architecture for maintainable TwinCAT 3 PLC software: typed interfaces, reusable function blocks, explicit machine states, diagnostics and controlled hardware mapping.
Read articleAutomation engineering guide
TwinCAT Version Control, Automated Builds, TcUnit and Release Evidence
How to make TwinCAT changes reviewable and repeatable with source control, clean builds, static checks, TcUnit tests, release packages and commissioning evidence.
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Turn the guidance into a defined work package
Discuss a TwinCAT codebase, machine control problem, instrumentation or data interface—or bring a representative HPC/AI workload for configuration and formal quotation.