Industrial-Control-as-a-Service for Automation Engineers
We provide Industrial-Control-as-a-Service for automation engineers by turning Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) into software functions – freeing industrial automation from the constraints of vendor specific hardware.
This delivers new degrees of freedom and improved resilience for manufacturers. Our solutions enable cloud-based PLC file storage and backups, fine-grained user access, PLC and gateway fleet management to increase the productivity of automation engineering teams.
Software Defined Automation enables DevOps for PLCs through Git-based code versioning and collaboration. SDA TechOps provides cloud-based management of conventional and virtual PLCs, and automated code deployments. SDA vPLC delivers independence from proprietary controllers on x86 servers at the edge.
SDA TechOps
Cloud-based management of virtual and conventional PLCs with full project traceability and automated code deployments. Manage all your PLCs in one web application independently of the PLC vendor type. Control access to PLC code and IDEs for your co-workers.
PLC Twin:
Download and deploy programs
Download and deploy programs and configuration and monitor PLCs‘ real-time status
Set up cloud connectivity in
less than 2 min
Use existing gateways or purchase pre-configured ones from our partners and benefit from certificate based encryption
Seamless brownfield integration
Build on existing PLCs and automation IDEs and Improve integrity of hardware and software


SDA DevOps
Leverage Git-based version control for PLCs and modern software development tools. Backup and version PLC projects in the cloud and benefit from a master repository of all control projects. Co-engineer and collaborate with your peers via Git version control.

Git for PLC programming
Remote editing and deployment of PLC projects, co-engineering with GIT version control for IEC 61131 native formats, including diff. rendering
Backups, integrity checks and factory time machine
Safely updated and backed up projects, project decomposition and integrity checks, roll-back to multiple PLCs in minutes


SDA vPLC
Virtual PLCs decouple real-time control execution from proprietary hardware through virtualization while ensuring deterministic cycle times below 10ms.
Virtual PLC runtime on standard IT hardware
Integration on VMware edge compute stack for IT servers, Option to deploy on industrial PCs, Deterministic real-time performance (sub 10ms)
Cloud-based vPLC management
Management service to provision, operate and monitor vPLCs, hypervisor configuration, automatic failover policies
vPLC performance monitoring
Monitoring of vPLC real time behavior




Henkel Laundry & Home Care
Henkel implements SDA TechOps to manage the control layer in their liquid home care production in their Düsseldorf plant. The new system is implemented to manage all PLC code and configurations of the line head controllers.
Try it out yourself!
Start now with the Public Preview of SDA TechOps and SDA DevOps
