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Every major PLC programming environment in one place. Click any tool for pricing, system requirements, supported controllers, pros and cons, and direct comparisons.

AVEVA

Wonderware InTouch

$$$

Oil & gas processing plants

Citect SCADA

$$$

Mining and mineral processing

B&R Industrial Automation (ABB Group)

Automation Studio

$$

High-speed packaging machinery

LADFBDSTSFC

Beckhoff Automation

TwinCAT

$

High-speed motion control applications

LADFBDSTSFC

CODESYS GmbH

CODESYS Control Win

$

Engineers learning IEC 61131-3 properly

LADFBDILST

CODESYS GmbH (3S-Smart Software Solutions)

CODESYS

$

Learning PLC programming and IEC 61131-3

LADFBDSTSFC

Delta

WPLSoft

free

Cost-sensitive small machinery OEMs

LADSTFBDSFC

GE Vernova

iFIX

$$$

Power generation plants

Proficy

$$$

Power generation plants

Mitsubishi Electric

GX Works3

$$

Asian manufacturing facilities

LADFBDSTSFC

Omron

CX-Programmer

$$

Material handling and logistics systems

LADFBDSTSFC

Sysmac Studio

$$

Machine automation with robotics

LADFBDSTSFC

OpenPLC Project (Open Source)

OpenPLC

free

Students learning PLC programming

LADFBDSTSFC

Phoenix Contact

PLCnext

$

Industry 4.0 and IoT applications

LADFBDSTSFC

Real Games

Factory I/O

$$

Vocational and university automation programmes

LAD

Rockwell Automation

FactoryTalk

$$$

Large-scale SCADA systems

Studio 5000 Logix Emulate

$$$

North-American Allen-Bradley engineers

LADFBDSTSFC

RSLogix Emulate 500

$$

Maintenance engineers inheriting SLC 500 / MicroLogix panels

LAD

CCW Micro800 Simulator

free

Beginners learning Allen-Bradley fundamentals

LADFBDST

Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley

Studio 5000

$$$

North American automation professionals

LADFBDSTSFC

Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley (Legacy)

RSLogix 500/5000

$$

Maintaining existing MicroLogix/SLC 500 systems

LADFBDSTSFC

Schneider Electric

EcoStruxure

$$

Building automation projects

LADFBDSTSFC

Unity Pro

$$

Maintaining existing Modicon installations

LADFBDSTSFC

Vijeo Designer

$$

Schneider Modicon plants needing native HMI

Siemens

TIA Portal

$$$

Professional Siemens automation engineers

LADFBDSTLSCL

Siemens PLCSIM

$$$

Working Siemens automation engineers

LADFBDSTLST

The Learning Pit

LogixPro

$

Complete beginners learning PLC basics

LAD

Trihedral (Delta Electronics)

VTScada

$$

Water and wastewater utilities (especially distributed)

Various educational publishers

Ladder Logic Online

free

Absolute beginners

LAD

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PLC Simulation Software

free

Absolute beginners learning PLC programming

LADFBDST

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