Installation and licensing

The TwinCAT Analytics setup is part of the TwinCAT Measurement Suite setup. You have the option of choosing between two setup variants:
The TC3-Measurement-Full Setup includes the TwinCAT Measurement components and a Visual Studio® environment.
The TC3 Measurement Update Setup, on the other hand, only includes the measurement components.

After confirming the terms in the license agreement, you can choose between Standard and Custom. By default, all measurement components including TwinCAT Analytics Engineering are automatically installed.

With Custom, you can deselect individual components so that they are not installed on your system.

Analytics Setup checks whether your system has the required Analytics Engineering licenses during the process. If not, a demo license can be activated. This demo license can be extended as often as you like. However, after the installation in demo mode, no further functional updates can be performed on this system through newer setups. In order to be able to import these updates, a license must first be purchased. An overview of the functional limitations in the demo version can be found here.

The licenses of the Analytics Engineering Tools TE3500 Analytics Workbench and TE3520 Analytics Service Tool are always associated with a maintenance license. After the initial purchase, the maintenance license is valid for 12 months. Functional updates of the software can be executed during this period. After 12 months, the software can still be used without any restrictions. However, new functions can no longer be imported without extending the maintenance license. The installation indicates this with a corresponding message. An extension of the maintenance license can be performed at any time via the products TE3501 and TE3521.

Please contact your Beckhoff sales employee for information about future functions of newer versions.

Setup requires license Updates of TwinCAT Analytics engineering tools can only be performed with a valid maintenance license!