Machine building & management: knowledge base
Last updated on 22 September 2026
From a reachable controller to a manageable machine fleet. Start with the fundamentals or choose your next task: remote engineering, collecting machine data or managing service permissions.
Start here: remote access and data logging for machine builders
This overview brings the fundamentals and four deeper guides together. Existing protocol manuals and article addresses remain available.
Explore your next task
Access a Siemens S7 remotely with a ServiceGate
Access a Siemens S7 remotely: understand TIA Portal requirements, network routing, security and data logging through a ServiceGate.
Beckhoff TwinCAT remote access through a ServiceGate
Use TwinCAT remotely through a ServiceGate. Understand IP reachability, AMS Net IDs, ADS routes, Secure ADS and data logging with OPC UA.
Read machine data with OPC UA and a ServiceGate
Turn OPC UA variables into useful machine data. Learn about server access, certificates, data quality and monitoring through a ServiceGate.
Service access for customers and maintenance partners
Manage machine service access with locations, users and groups. Define VPN access, portal services, logging and permission revocation.
Continue in the knowledge base
- Remote access and data logging for machine builders
- Access a Siemens S7 remotely with a ServiceGate
- Beckhoff TwinCAT remote access through a ServiceGate
- Read machine data with OPC UA and a ServiceGate
- Service access for customers and maintenance partners
- OPC UA: protocol manual
- Remote Portal
- Remote Access Services
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