Open Web Automation (OWA by logi.cals) is a fully cloud, on-premise or client-based engineering solution that can be integrated into various client or cloud-based automation platforms thanks to its open architecture. As a cloud architecture, it provides basic functions for developing automation solutions. It can be used to integrate everything that is required for end-to-end automation.

This includes control programming and visualization functions as well as virtual PLCs, for example in building management, a test manager, simulation tools, orchestration managers, I/O and device configurators or even future functions based on AI algorithms, for example.

"Nowadays, developers lose a lot of efficiency and time because they have to deal with the interaction of many individual systems, components and tools," explains Heinrich Steininger, CTO and co-founder of logi.cals. "Open Web Automation aims to eliminate precisely these unproductive parts of work and create more space for the creative development part of the work - in all phases of a system or machine's life cycle."

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To this end, OWA provides a complete engineering ecosystem consisting of infrastructure and interfaces into which a wide variety of tools can be integrated. The tools can be taken from the engineering toolchain of the OWA OEM or the OWA user. Standard tools with specific interfaces can also be integrated. By integrating the existing logi.CAD 3 solution into the OWA architecture, logi.cals offers users a development environment that can be used seamlessly - across disciplines and manufacturers - from the client to the cloud. Engineering for PLC programs is possible in the IEC 61131-3 languages and in C, C++ or Python.