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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

Redundancy

Duplicate or alternate capacity that tolerates a single failure.

Using duplicate or alternate components, paths, or services so one failure does not stop the required function. OT redundancy must consider common-cause failures, switchover behavior, synchronization, testing, and the process safe state.

See also: DCS · EtherCAT · Functional safety

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