Preactivation of standard licenses by Beckhoff

TwinCAT 3 licenses must always be activated for a certain hardware (by default a TwinCAT 3 license dongle) before they can be used. Activation can be carried out by Beckhoff during production or by the OEM after delivery.

TwinCAT 3 licenses activated for a dongle by Beckhoff during production

You can order TwinCAT 3 standard licenses together with a TwinCAT 3 license dongle and have these licenses preactivated for this dongle by Beckhoff during production. You then no longer have to activate these licenses yourself. This makes work preparation in series production much easier. A prerequisite is that you order the licenses and the TwinCAT 3 license dongle in the same order. The dongle must be physically present at Beckhoff during production.

Non-preactivated TwinCAT 3 licenses

Ordering non-preactivated TwinCAT 3 licenses usually has one of the following reasons:

• TwinCAT 3 license dongle and licenses are included in different orders.
• Ordering additional licenses for an existing TwinCAT 3 license dongle (e.g. adding a TwinCAT 3 function)
• At the time of ordering the subsequent license combination on a TwinCAT 3 license dongle is not yet known.