The term Industry 4.0 refers to the permanently increasing use of information technology across all levels of the value chain. As a result, the rigid boundaries of conventional automation technology are becoming increasingly blurred. To keep up with the rapid development in the digital field and stay com-petitive, companies are faced with the need to adapt their machinery to match the requirements of this fourth industrial revolution. One way this can be accomplished is via the use of the so-called ¿retrofit-ting¿, which upgrades existing systems by using suitable components, to meet the new demands. In the course of this work the induction test stand at the Material Center Leoben is to be subjected to such a retrofitting. Up to now it consists of several proprietary subsystems, each of which must be op-erated separately in order to carry out a measurement. The aim is to integrate these components into one non-proprietary system using a PLC as the central control unit. This new overall¿system can simpli-fy the execution of measurements and enable uniform processing of all measurement data. This master thesis represents the first part of this project and focuses on the one hand on building up the necessary hardware and on the other hand on creating a software framework which should serve as a basis for subsequent work and may furthermore be supplemented and extended.