Platform
Your automation system is more than its code.
PLCforge builds a connected, versioned representation of the engineering context behind the system — from reusable assets and design intent through PLC implementation, documentation, validation, and history.
That becomes its authoritative engineering record.
From files to context
Turn fragmented engineering information into a system model.
Ingest drawings, specifications, documents and existing PLC projects into one workspace. PLCforge’s AI-assisted analysis identifies assets and populates your Asset Library and System Specification — a structured starting point instead of a blank page.
Asset Library
What your organization knows how to build.
The Asset Library is the reusable engineering foundation of the organization. Assets accumulate structured knowledge: PLC implementation, I/O configuration, requirements, tests, documentation, vendor information, operating behavior and approved patterns.
Build once. Improve over time. Reuse everywhere.
System Specification
What this system actually is.
The System Specification describes how reusable assets are instantiated, configured and related in a particular machine, line, facility or process area.
What your organization knows how to build.
Reusable assets carrying implementation, configuration, requirements, tests, documentation and approved patterns.
How those building blocks come together in this system.
Instances, configuration and relationships for one real machine, line, facility or process area.
Open standards
Built on open formats, not a proprietary file.
Every asset is stored as an Asset Administration Shell (AAS V3) JSON file in a folder on your machine — the open industrial standard for describing assets and their data.
- Assets are plain JSON on your own disk — readable, diffable and version-controllable without PLCforge
- IDTA-standard submodels where the standard defines them, ours where it does not
- Programs export to Rockwell L5X and PLCopen XML for CODESYS and OpenPLC
Your engineering context outlives your tool choice.
Traceability
Keep system design and implementation connected.
PLCforge connects the system model to the control implementation and its evolving history, so design intent, configuration, PLC logic, validation and engineering change can all be related to one another.
AI
Better context creates better agents.
PLCforge agents reason across structured engineering artifacts rather than isolated text or a single code file. The differentiation is the combination of engineering context, structured relationships, code understanding, system history, and direct integration into the engineering workflow.
Context improves what an agent can do. It does not make it omniscient, and the underlying model is not where the difference comes from.
System of record
From engineering environment to system of record.
As teams design, develop, validate, document and change automation systems, PLCforge builds the versioned engineering record behind those systems.
The system of record for industrial automation.