This company provides an Industrial DevOps platform to manage heterogeneous PLC projects, increasing factory uptime and security. The solution integrates automated backup, version control, and secure remote access for automation engineers. It also offers tools like AI-driven legacy code translation and virtual PLC management on COTS hardware.
Funding
$12.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Managing programmable logic controller (PLC) projects across multiple vendors introduces operational inefficiencies and security risks due to insufficient code management tools and a shortage of skilled personnel. This complexity leads to increased downtime, higher costs, and scalability challenges for production facilities.
Solution
Software Defined Automation (SDA) provides an integrated Industrial DevOps platform that simplifies PLC project management for heterogeneous vendors, enabling automation engineers to automate backups, track changes, and leverage AI for understanding legacy code. The platform offers features such as automated backup and recovery, unified version control across different vendor solutions, and the ability to translate PLC code into human-readable language. By providing secure remote access and browser-based IDE access, SDA allows engineers to make PLC code changes anytime, anywhere, and manage virtual PLCs running on commercial off-the-shelf IT servers.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes automation engineers, system integrators, and factory operators responsible for managing and maintaining PLC systems in industrial environments.
Features
- Automated PLC code backup and simplified recovery processes
- Unified version control for multi-vendor PLC systems, tracking changes across siloed vendor solutions
- AI-powered translation of PLC code into human-readable language for faster comprehension
- Secure remote access for PLC code modifications from any location
- Browser-based IDE access, enabling secure and maintenance-free development environment from a web browser
- Vendor-agnostic virtual PLC management on commercial off-the-shelf IT servers
- Version control capabilities with a revision history tracking system that captures what changed, when it changed, who changed it, and why it changed.
- Support for third-party specialized IDEs, such as Siemens TIA Portal, CODESYS, or Beckhoff TwinCAT.