FactoryTalk Remote Access

FactoryTalk Design Studio integrates with FactoryTalk Remote Access to connect from the cloud to controllers. FactoryTalk Remote Access enables remote access and remote assistance to industrial equipment associated with Ethernet connections through the Stratix® 4300 Remote Access™ Router, the FactoryTalk Remote Access Runtime, or through industrial PCs and other products, such as FactoryTalk Optix panels with the FactoryTalk Remote Access Runtime license included.

FactoryTalk Design Studio accesses FactoryTalk Remote Access endpoints with a custom

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user, which is automatically created as part of the FactoryTalk Remote Access configuration. In this way, FactoryTalk Design Studio endpoint access can be managed separately from other applications, enabling secure communications for all managed systems.

For more information on the network architecture and security design of FactoryTalk Remote Access and how it communicates using endpoints, see System Architecture help in the FactoryTalk Remote Access online help.

See Enable FactoryTalk Remote Access for FactoryTalk Design Studio for the process of enabling the

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user in FactoryTalk Remote Access.

See Connect FactoryTalk Design Studio to FactoryTalk Remote Access to set the path from FactoryTalk Design Studio through FactoryTalk Remote Access to your on-premises controllers.

For an online demonstration of how to set up a FactoryTalk Design Studio connection through FactoryTalk Remote Access, see .

The following figure shows an example of a FactoryTalk Design Studio connection through FactoryTalk Remote Access: