Phoenix Contact and PLCnext Technology: Revolution in automation

Engineering platforms, part 4 <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/phoenix-contact-organizes-the-webinar-visibility-and-data-analysis-with-plcnext-technology/" title="Phoenix Contact organizes the webinar Visibility and data analysis with PLCnext Technology”>PLCnext Technology: flexible, future-proof and secure

November 6th, 2024 By Ralf Steck, Friedrichshafen 3 min reading time

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In 2017, Phoenix Contact entered the market for engineering platforms for automation with PLCnext Technology. The solution, which was designed from the ground up as an open control system, offers interesting unique selling points such as runtime environments for Codesys and other programming environments.

PLCnext Technology is the industrial automation ecosystem that can be easily adapted to current and future needs.

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For Phoenix Contact, as a specialist in electrification, networking and automation, programmable logic controllers are an indispensable part of the product portfolio. In 2017, the company introduced its PLCnext Technology software and hardware platform, which consists of the PLCnext Control control computers, the PLCnext Engineer development platform, the PLCnext Runtime System and the PLCnext Store. The PLCnext Community is the meeting place for users who want to support each other.

Bypass IEC programming limitations

The operating system of the controllers itself consists of a special Linux system. The PLCnext Runtime system runs directly on the system and can be programmed using programming languages ​​from IEC 61131 to C++ and C# to Java, Python and Matlab Simulink. The Execution and Synchronization Manager (ESM) can be used to program Simulink code for real-time execution in the languages ​​61131-3, C++, C# and Matlab. The Global Data Space ensures that the different data types of program parts from different worlds are mapped to one another. For example, additional software containers in which IT software runs can be installed on a controller. This IT software is then able to access and further process the data from, for example, IEC 61131 control software.

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