Control automation companies are facing increasing competition around the globe. As they look to develop their next-generation control automation equipment, they are exploring new software technology to bring more efficiency, productivity, and quality levels to process or discreet manufacturing facilities. Existing factory infrastructure is aged and inefficient, often using multiple separate systems based on 20 year old system platforms. These companies want to bring Industry 4.0 capabilities to their next product offerings to reduce the cost and complexity of control automation and to bring more intelligent control to the factory edge. Learn from this use case how virtualization technology can be the path to evolve control automation to Industry 4.0.