Softing plans to launch its new edgePlug product family for the Siemens Industrial Edge Ecosystem in the first quarter of 2022. This makes the company one of the first 3rd party product providers on the associated Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace.

Industrial Edge is an open software platform that makes IT and software for the store floor scalable and manageable. The Marketplace acts as an entry point for software-related offers from various providers, making it easy for users to find and purchase all the products they need for Industrial Edge.

The three products edgePlug Sinumerik CNC, edgePlug Fanuc CNC and edgePlug Simatic PLC are to be the first Softing products in the Siemens Store: The edgePlug Sinumerik CNC enables access to data from Siemens 840D CNC controllers. The software supports access to both Solution Line controllers and older Power Line controllers. On the one hand, it provides machine data such as operating data, alarms and energy data. On the other hand, it provides production data such as the drive current, the position values of the axes and information about the tools in use and in the magazines.

With the second product - edgePlug Fanuc CNC - machine and production data from the Fanuc CNC product series 30i-B, 31i-B, 32i-B, 35i-B and 0i-F can be read out.

The third product - edgePlug Simatic PLC - allows access to Siemens Simatic S7 controllers. The software supports access to the data of the older S7-300 and S7-400 controllers as well as to the newer S7-1200 and S7-1500 controllers. With the S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLCs, users can continue to work with optimized data blocks, as the edgePlug Simatic PLC is able to read out the variables of these data blocks.

All edgePlug products are seamlessly integrated into the Siemens Industrial Edge Device environment and can be configured using the integrated configuration tool.