02 Feb 2025

Teach-Free Path Planning for 2-Axis Gantries with MATLAB and PLCnext

📌 Author(s): Roman Mayer, Markus Hoser 📌 Company: maku engineering GmbH 📌 Contact: rommayer@maku-engineering.com, marhoser@maku-engineering.com 📌 Technologies: MATLAB/Simulink, Simscape, Phoenix…

29 Oct 2024

Enhance web visualization on PLCnext

Crickets Automation is proud to present its scada/webHmi xvision.IOT solution running on Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext. xVision IOT is an innovative…

23 Oct 2024

Open a PDF file in the eHMI

In my last post I explained how to create a PDF file with Python. If you want to open the…

22 Oct 2024

Creation of a PDF report with Python

I was asked quite frequently how a PDF report with process data from the PLC program can be created with…

22 Oct 2024

Build your LiteRT (formerly known as TensorFlow Lite runtime) Python Wheel for the AXC F 2152:

Last month, google announced a rebranding/renaming of TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT ([Link to article](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/tensorflow-lite-is-now-litert/)). It will now form part of…

24 Jun 2024

PLCnext Control ko module creation

Recently, I have been asked by some customers if it is possible to develop ko modules in plcnext device? So…

12 Mar 2024

Streamlining Database Connectivity with Java and GraalVM Native Image

Today's landscape of applications in the manufacturing industries are divided into a rigid hierarchy. Starting from Management using ERP systems…

11 Mar 2024

How to install Node-RED in PLCnext with Podman

# How to install Node-RED in PLCnext with Podman Since firmware 2023.0, Podman ([https://podman.io/](https://podman.io/)) has been installed on the PLCnext…

17 Nov 2023

Userdefined Array in Native Function Block and some questions about it

## Demo description - The following example uses the Native Function Block to create a user-defined Array interface with PLCncli…

09 Jun 2023

Solar charging. Super simple. As an example of running the user application on CHARX Control SEC3xxx, we use evcc.io

CHARX Control is built on the PLCNext Linux platform, similar to a PLCNext Controller. It features hardware specifications including an…

23 Feb 2023

Using cnspec to find old firmware and misconfigurations on PLCnext Control

As an example, let's take the PLCnext Control AXC F 2125 from Phonix Contact, which is based on the ARM…

01 Feb 2023

Secure remote gRPC using grpcurl

**WARNING: The procedure described in this blog uses features of the PLCnext Runtime that are currently not supported. Use these…