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5. UDT-Based I/O Mapping in Studio 5000 — Building a Scalable PLC Architecture

In the previous articles, we built an I/O architecture using:

Direct physical I/O

Alias Tags

Individual mapped tags

XIC/XIO and OTE

MOV

COP

CPS

These methods allow us to separate physical hardware from application logic.

But as the machine …