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What are benefits of reducing Custom Automation Code?

Non-deterministic custom automation code is:

❌ Complex to implement,
❌ Costly to maintain, and
❌ Difficult to scale across multiple lines and factories.

When it is minimized using a real-time control plane for interoperability, orchestration, and traceability a number of things occur:

1) Factory Asset Integration Becomes Reusable

- Standard many-to-many drivers replace custom point-to-point integrations
- Once built, deploy repeatably
- Data model and field definitions are standardized
- Multimodal data become contextualized and continually enriched

2) Factory Automation is More Straightforward to Adapt

Data model changes occur in sustainable software-defined automation, not custom PLC logic

- Reduced downtime risk
- Greater control over non-deterministic FBs/AOIs
-Faster iteration

3) Production Data Consistency Improved

- Data granularity, consistency, and contextualization enable greater factory intelligence
- Unified data model and name space alignment
- Normalized data element capture and traceability
- More reliable cross-line and cross-plant analytics

4) PLC Complexity Reduced

- Control logic is not merged with interfacing, tracking, and bridging
- Focused on control, not integration
- Deterministic responsibility, not coordinating governance
- Easier to validate and maintain

5) Factory Automation Scales Repeatably

Most Importantly:

> Adding a new line or set of cells no longer means rewriting the same logic again or forking custom code.

The Bottom Line:

The constraint in modern manufacturing is no longer the physical automation, but the system’s architecture required to integrate and orchestrate automation at scale.

PLCs scale.

Custom Automation Code does not.

You can read more about this problem and what to do about it at: https://flexxbotics.com/blog/what-are-hidden-scaling-problems-in-factory-automation/