SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering

SIMATIC AX Engineering introduces proven methods & mechanisms from software development to the world of industrial production. Benefit from modular engineering workflows to empower IT-savvy automation engineers with a versatile and adaptable toolchain, tailored to their requirements: working together, from anywhere and in the way that suits them.

Work together
Simplify collaboration in automation projects. SIMATIC AX Engineering incorporates software development best practices. This includes a native Git integration for version control and a package management system to facilitate project distribution and organization, tailored for large-scale collaborative and distributed projects. Ensure quality standards with the unit testing framework and automation through CI pipelines.

Work from anywhere
Empower your team to work from anywhere with a cloud-native or local engineering environment. With easy remote connectivity to SIMATIC PLCs, you can streamline engineering processes effortlessly and enhance productivity. Monitor, debug, and deploy directly on the remote systems with ease, no matter where you are. Access critical data on the shop floor to optimize your production.

Work the way that suits you
Customize your automation environment to your needs with SIMATIC AX Engineering. Harness the power of extensions, packages, and scripts to effortlessly adapt your workflow. Use those provided by third parties, create them yourself, and distribute them wherever you want. Embrace a future of versatile automation, enabling you to customize and innovate, all in a way that suits your workflows.

State-of-the-art development

• Increase performance via State-of-the-art IDE based on VS Code
• Set modular standards with object-oriented programming in structured text
• Increase software quality through unit testing
• Ensure source control management via native Git integration

Automate the automation

• Increase efficiency and speed through a command line interface first approach
• Handle complex dependencies easily with a proven package management solution
• Ensure stable, fast, and automated release cycles with CI pipelines
• Connect and deploy to PLCs from anywhere thanks to cloud connection

Collaboration and openness

• Foster transparency and automation through human-readable plain text source code
• Adapt an open API-first system to your workflows via extensions, scripts and packages
• Work anywhere on any device with a cloud-native SaaS offering
• Get support from and engage with peers in the SIMATIC AX community

Use SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering to load your program to the PLC. You can choose between engineering the entire machine in a software minded way or by bringing IT and OT closer together by combined use of SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering and TIA Portal.

Left: IT-like PLC Engineering
IT-like PLC engineering enables automation at the speed of software development. Complete entire engineering tasks in SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering. Make use of methods and principles from software development for hardware configuration.

Right: IT-oriented PLC Engineering with TIA Portal
Take advantage of the best of both OT and IT. Configure your technology objects and hardware in the TIA Portal once. This allows for the development of motion applications in SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering with a direct (delta) download to the PLC.