With SIMATIC AX, Barmag achieved a highly modularized and standardized codebase that enables efficient reuse across machine variants without starting from scratch for each project. Automated CI pipelines handle recurring build tasks, freeing developers to focus entirely on coding while maintaining consistently high software quality.
SIMATIC AX for modular chemical fiber systems
Siemens provided SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering, enabling Barmag to completely rebuild their software architecture in a modular, object-oriented manner using Structured Text (ST) within a VS Code-based environment.
How Barmag uses SIMATIC AX
Benefits of SIMATIC AX for Barmag
Early validation of code
Unit testing and step-by-step offline debugging allow engineers to validate code at their desks before hardware is available, significantly improving quality and reducing errors.
Efficient collaboration
Git-based version management enables multiple engineers to collaborate on the same codebase simultaneously, with full traceability of changes and faster onboarding of new team members.
Operating system for machines
Implementation of functions in libraries separately from the hardware. Automatic merge, compile, and delivery to the customer.
For me, object-oriented programming is one of the most impressive features of SIMATIC AX. Because the modularization we see on the hardware side can now be mirrored in the software as well.