Automation as a product · for machine builders
For machine and equipment builders with an installed base who engineer similar functions again and again.
Develop once. Deploy a thousand times. With logiccloud, automation software becomes a digital product: build functions as apps, bring them to delivered machines and sell them as upgrades or services — vendor-neutral and under your brand.
3 machines not on the released version
Auto-rollback once the failure rate passes the threshold
Starting point
Many machine builders sell similar functions again and again as bespoke projects.
Similar functions are engineered repeatedly for customers and machines.
Software distribution, versions and approvals create manual effort.
New digital functions can only be rolled out by adding people.
Purchase, deployment and the ERP process are often disconnected.
How it works
Know-how becomes a product: functions such as energy monitoring, condition monitoring or process functions are built once as a standard app and then sold again and again. They are sold through the MARKETPLACE — not a product of its own, but an app store under your brand, built on the FLECS Marketplace and part of the white-label platform. ORCHESTRATE handles the controlled deployment.
Control logic, HMI and connectivity become one Automation App: developed once, versioned and then sold again and again.
One deployment process from the single device to the large-scale rollout: one machine, a hundred machines, edge systems, sites and fleets.
White label
Your customers see your product, not ours. Technology by logiccloud, customer experience by you.
Your organisation’s logo and colours in the logiccloud IDE.
Your own themes for operator interfaces, reusable across all projects.
In ORCHESTRATE customers are strictly separated, each tenant with its own branding.
Upgrades, apps, subscriptions or lifecycle services — you decide what your customers pay for.
CRA conformity of the overall product remains the manufacturer’s responsibility.
The installed base
After delivery, the longest part of the software lifecycle begins. With ORCHESTRATE you see which version runs on which machine and bring new functions and security updates there in stages — across vendors.
Impact
Standardisation changes more than the engineering — it changes the business model.
Sell automation apps again and again instead of re-engineering the same functions.
Standardised products reduce customer-specific repeat work.
Purchase and deployment become one continuous process.
More installed apps and machines without a proportional rise in headcount.
Not necessarily. CONTROL runs on edge devices from many vendors, such as WAGO, Bosch Rexroth (ctrlX) or Phoenix Contact (PLCnext). And ORCHESTRATE also distributes software not built with CONTROL to your existing edge systems.
Yes, as far as is documented today: logo and colours in the logiccloud IDE, your own HMI themes, and in ORCHESTRATE a separate tenant with its own branding for each customer.
The CRA requires you to deliver and prove security updates for the whole support period. The same infrastructure you use to sell and roll out new functions also delivers these updates — with a log of every change.
With one machine function and one machine series. In the demo we show you the path using your example — from the standard app to the rollout on delivered machines.