Why CODESYS? The right choice
for all industrial sectors

The plus for you as a device manufacturer

Achieve intelligent automation devices with high market acceptance at a calculable cost: As a manufacturer of intelligent components, you benefit from the extensive features of CODESYS when developing your devices. You can hardly realize a competitive device faster and easier!

Easy adaptation to your system requirements and environments

  • Widely used IEC 611311-3 development interface with simple option for specific configuration
    Your customers are (very likely) familiar with the CODESYS Development System and will be happy to configure your device using the platform. Of course, your device can be clearly assigned via a specific device description. You can also extend the interface with your own libraries and, if necessary, even with templates, editors, configurators, or wizards according to your specifications.
     
  • Support for all common processors and operating systems for industrial systems
    Use the architecture of your choice, with or without native utilization of multi-core architectures (multi-core support). CODESYS includes native code generators (compilers) for the most important CPU families, so that the control applications are compiled, loaded onto your device and executed there.
     
  • The basis of every CODESYS-compatible device: the CODESYS Control runtime system
    The runtime system is available as a product. It is continuously maintained and further developed. The modular single-source runtime system can be easily adapted for a wide range of device platforms.
     
  • Numerous available reference systems and platforms
    Whether you use common Arm® Cortex® or embedded systems, or set up on Linux®-based systems - a reference implementation is usually available. This allows you to estimate the expected result in terms of performance and memory requirements very accurately in advance. Risks during implementation are minimized due to the reference platforms.
The modular runtime system can be scaled in size and functionality.

The modular runtime system can be scaled in size and functionality.

  • Plannable, tool-guided integration effort
    With defined interfaces, comprehensive documentation, pre-adapted variants and qualified customization support, you can estimate the effort required to implement the CODESYS Control runtime system in advance. And, of course, implement the runtime system securely on your device - like more than 500 other manufacturers before you.
     
  • Convenient implementation of specific device properties
    Whether you want to connect your own I/O functions and ports or integrate specific additional software - with the Runtime Toolkit you have all the interfaces and expansion options you need.
     
  • Interface for integrating existing or generated C code
    You can easily integrate available software into the CODESYS Control runtime system and make it available to your customers via library blocks.
     
  • Integration into existing system architectures
    Using lean, proprietary interfaces or standards such as OPC / OPC UA, you can easily embed CODESYS into existing systems or connect them to CODESYS.

Integrated functions for practical automation devices

Configuration and communication of common fieldbus and I/O systems

Whether classic systems such as Modbus or CANopen®, Ethernet-based protocols such as EtherCAT®, PROFINET or EtherNet/IP™ - specific configurators and platform-independent protocol stacks can be optionally integrated in the CODESYS Development System and are therefore immediately available. You can embed your own I/O systems into the system just as easily using a generic device configurator.

Integrated visualization available as an extension

No external software is required to operate your devices: the CODESYS Development System includes a convenient visualization editor. Your customers can display user interfaces created with this on integrated/connected displays or even in the HTML5 browser using optional extensions to the runtime system.

Numerous additional products for quickly scaling the functional scope of the device

You decide whether your device should also have motion or robotics functions in addition to programmability, or whether it can be used as a panel controller or communication gateway, through the documented implementation of optional additional components.

Pre-certified software products for the realization of safety control systems according to IEC 61508 SIL2 or SIL3

Do your customers need certified safety controllers based on risk analyses? With the CODESYS safety add-ons, you can save yourself years of effort in implementing your own safety controllers. CODESYS provides many things that make your work easier and are required for certification of your device: validated and pre-certified software, approved integration concepts and user manuals, automated tests and much more.

Configuration and project planning of industry-specific and general communication protocols

With the CODESYS Development System, you can easily implement many protocols yourself. But why should you do that? For typical applications such as building management systems or process technology, there are already available implementations such as BACnet® or DNP3 that you can integrate and offer immediately. You can even integrate cloud communication via MQTT without any development effort.

Useful web-based administration platform for control units

With your CODESYS-compatible device, you can easily offer your customers an interface for the CODESYS Automation Server. With this Industry 4.0 platform, many everyday tasks for control systems can be easily combined and carried out at the click of a mouse, such as project storage, rolling out application updates, secure communication with remote controllers and their HTML5 visualizations, data collection and analysis.

As a device manufacturer, you specify the scope of services or the main application of your automation product using integrated additional products.

As a device manufacturer, you specify the scope of services or the main application of your automation product using integrated additional products.

Reliable partner for success in industrial automation

  • The CODESYS Group: product development in proven and competent teams
    The CODESYS development teams are well structured and their members are excellently trained with degrees in engineering and information technology. Ongoing further training is a matter of course. They have been working according to a proven, agile development model (Scrum) for many years.
     
  • Practice-oriented support from experienced project developers
    Experienced specialists are on hand to help you integrate the runtime system into your automation devices, from the initial idea to implementation and product maintenance. The common goal is for your devices to quickly reach market maturity and be used by your customers.
     
  • Fast response times to market requirements thanks to market-ready products
    If, for example, you want to expand your existing logic controller into a flexible CNC controller, equip it with an integrated OPC UA Server, implement automated device and application tests or realize TÜV-certified safety controllers - you can access proven products for this and many other requirements. This allows you to present your customers with suitable automation devices as quickly as possible.
     
  • Reliable maintenance, care and quality assurance of all products and features
    The CODESYS Group has been ISO 9001-2015 certified since 2005. Practical processes and procedures guarantee reliable product quality. This includes automated tests: Far more than 100,000 test cases with a multiple number of individual tests are carried out per release, for example.
     
  • Long-term and trusting cooperation
    Renowned device manufacturers from various industries and regions have been relying on CODESYS for decades. Whether existing or new customers - they all repeatedly commend the cooperation with the CODESYS teams.

 

  • Innovative partner with a "nose" for trends in industrial automation
    CODESYS is at the cutting edge of technology thanks to intensive exchanges with employees from user and operating companies in the automation environment, as well as its own and publicly funded research activities. Some examples: Object-oriented control programming (OOP), combination of control and operating unit in one device with one engineering tool ("TargetVisu"), realization of hardware-independent protocol stacks, provision of high-level language functions such as version management and static code analysis, abstraction of control systems towards SoftPLC and virtual control - CODESYS is a technological pioneer everywhere. This creates security when looking at future trends!
     
  • Transparent management with a strong communication culture
    Regular coordination meetings at various levels, direct access to the database for product improvements and ideas, transparent planning, clear compliance rules, etc. - all this is part of everyday life at the CODESYS Group and creates a high level of satisfaction with the management.
     
  • High market acceptance of CODESYS-compatible automation devices
    More than 300,000 people worldwide work with CODESYS on well over 10 million devices. Every year, more than 2 million new compatible devices are launched on the market. Machines and systems all over the world and in various industrial sectors are successfully realized with CODESYS ...
    The widespread use of the software platform provides the ideal basis for the success of your devices!
     
  • Offers for joint product marketing
    CODESYS attracts many people who enjoy working with the software - at face-to-face events such as trade fairs or conferences, but also on the web. You can benefit from this with your own presence on the CODESYS touchpoints, e.g. with a free entry for your company in CODESYS Inside.

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CODESYS for Device Manufacturers (Brochure)

CODESYS - One software. Any field of application. Your automation platform.

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25.10.2023