Browser-based Engineering

Enable secure and maintenance-free IDE access from anywhere.

Browser-based Engineering

Enable secure and maintenance-free IDE access from anywhere.

If you have a heterogenous PLC landscape in your production environment, you need to manage the all the IDE versions and stay on top of all the updates and patches as well as the devices they run on.

Using those IDEs is not any easier. Traditionally, you need automation engineers on-site to make code changes, which can be inconvenient, create long wait times for IDE-specific experts, and increase costs. While they are there, they often need to run around the floor with a designated laptop updating each system individually.

Software Defined Automation’s Browser-based Engineering is an IDE-as-a-Service (IDEaaS) that enables your automation engineers to securely access any IDE from any browser and internet connection. With the full capabilities of the latest vendor specific IDE version at their fingertips, they can see what’s going on in the devices to diagnose and fix problems remotely, speeding the time to resolution. And it allows them to provide multi-site coverage near instantaneously, no matter where they are.

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Automated Backup

Increase backup protection—easily and cost-effectively.

Version Control

Unify PLC code management and version tracking.

Secure Remote Access

Improve productivity and reduce downtime while improving factories’ security posture.

Access the Full Spectrum of IDEs

SDA supports multi-vendor, multi-version IDEs—including all the common versions of Rockwell, Siemens, CODESYS, Beckhoff, and more.

SDA supports multi-version IDEs for many industrial automation vendors

Reduce Your IT Footprint

Eliminate the burden of managing the IDEs and the laptops/virtual machines they run on. You’ll always work on the most up-to-date, fully patched version of the IDE and OS.

Track PLC code changes across multiple vendors in one integrated and secure solution

Streamline Licensing

Our IDEaaS allows you to pool and share licenses among your team, increasing license utilization and potential cost savings.

Increase license utilization and potential cost savings

Securely Work From Anywhere

SDA provides remote access without compromising security. All connections are implemented through a secure VPN, and every session starts up a fresh copy of the respective IDE version, which is then discarded upon termination.

Record Your Sessions

Maintain a record of who has done what in the system. These recordings can be used to document contractors’ sessions, serve as a reminder to engineers of what they did, and for training.