This SIMATIC Project SDC starter package offers an open, data centric and purely software-based automation runtime (SIMATIC Project SDC Instance) and key automation edge apps (SIMATIC Project SDC Control App (""SDC DCA"") and SIMATIC Project SDC PROFINET App (""SDC PNA"") as well as services for building industrial automation solutions with IT like methods and workflows. 

SIMATIC Project SDC is available as an image for IPC, virtual machines, or cloud (each an ""SDC Instance""). An SDC Instance can be deployed on either physical, virtualized hardware, or cloud and is managed as an Industrial Edge Device through Industrial Edge.*

Each SDC Instance can then be used to install either self-developed Industrial Edge Apps or to host SIEMENS Industrial Edge Apps.

*Onboarding and management of an Industrial Edge Device requires an Industrial Edge Management License.

This Offering entitles Customer to:

• create one (1) SDC Instance.
• install and run Industrial Edge Apps with required capacity of maximum 2 managed real-time cpu cores and 1024 process tags. A real-time cpu core is consumed once an Industrial Edge App is deployed and executed on the SDC Instance. Process Tags will be recorded by fieldbus apps (like the SDC DCA) and counted against the available process tag contingent per Industrial Edge App. Each sensor/actor tied to the automation process is considered a process tag.
• create one (1) SIMATIC AX Community Account, register one (1) SIMATIC AX Community Admin and up to 25 named users with SIMATIC AX and authorize such users to access and use SIMATIC AX, limited to the purpose of engineering SDC DCA and SDC PNA.**