Engineering automation platform

Stack: TIA Openness (C# / PowerShell) · WinCC Unified · PLCSIM Advanced · TIA VCI

Control projects are normally built by hand in an IDE, which makes them slow to produce and impossible to verify mechanically. I built tooling that treats them as generated, testable artefacts.

Components

• Project generation — screens, tags and blocks created programmatically from a specification rather than clicked
• PLC↔HMI tag handoff — an automated contract between the two sides, so a mismatch fails at generation time instead of at the panel during commissioning
• Consistency checking — static analysis over SCL and SimaticML catching dead interlocks, uncalled blocks, broken alarm chains and unclamped operator setpoints
• Simulated test rigs — PLCSIM Advanced instances driven from PowerShell, so control logic is exercised before hardware exists
• Version control — TIA VCI workspace integration, putting machine software under real source control

Why it is relevant beyond automation

This is virtual commissioning and CI for control software: test in simulation, verify mechanically, deploy to hardware. The same argument applies to a robot cell as to a production machine, and it is the workflow that Process Simulate and Isaac Sim exist to serve.

Result

<Quantify: authoring time before → after, defects caught pre-dispatch, projects using the toolchain.>

Describes techniques only. No customer projects, source files or screenshots.