In summary, MICA brings the award-winning HARTING Modular Industry Computing Architecture to the automation world. With one or several MICA products as I/O Devices in the control loop data the customer can read, and process data directly at the machine and forward relevant information to MES and ERP systems. Because of the open software architecture a plethora of modern open source tools like C, C++, Java, Python, node.js, Node-RED, R and many more are available for programming and data processing.