This story of the concept of Totally Integrated Automation extends from the beginning of Simatic, the world's most successful programmable controller family, to modern-day technology, with the documentation backed by specific solution examples and a brief look into the future.


Easy to read and creatively designed, the book offers technicians, engineers and managers a profound look into the development history and possibilities for the use of a technology that has left its mark like no other on industrial processes and a huge range of technical systems.