Is it on the roadmap to add Beckhoff’s ADS communication to the product? I see other major vendors are supported natively, given the PC based nature of Beckhoff controllers this makes even more sense since you could actually run Factory IO natively on the IPC also running your TwinCAT controller.
This would be the closest to real machine integration and is far less time wasted then trying to configure Modbus TCP or OPC UA which is an added layer on top of your base PLC code, this is advantageous for classroom setups.