Knowledge
Cyber Resilience Act, virtual PLCs and AI in automation — explained for the people who have to put it into practice.
Deadlines, reporting duties and what they mean for delivered machines.
How updates reach delivered machines — in stages and with evidence.
What a virtual PLC is, what it is good for and who owns the software.
How AI agents write, build and roll out control software.
Choose hardware freely, deploy applications more easily, run machines reliably: what matters when moving to cloud-native automation, and how IDE, CONTROL, ORCHESTRATE and DELEGATE work together.
Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act has applied since 11 September 2026 — including to machines already in the field. Which deadlines run, and what you need to answer them.
Preview Release 3 is out and the first general release is expected in 2027. What the open edge standard changes in practice — and what you can do today.
BSI registration was due on 6 March, the extension on 31 July. Both are gone — the obligation is not. What to do now, in the order that actually works.
Siemens put the S7-1500V centre stage at Hannover Messe 2026. The virtual PLC is settled. The follow-up question is not: hardware-free is not vendor-free.
Bernhard Böhrer on PLC development beyond 1995: the controller becomes an app — and a validating AI workflow produces code checked against the IEC standards.
Instead of engineering PLC and HMI separately: control logic, visualization, testing and deployment become one automation app — in the browser, in IEC 61131.
