PLCnext Technology agile roadmaps

Here's a sneak peek into our development roadmaps and current activities on key parts of the PLCnext Technology ecosystem.

Note: As always in agile development, this information is subject to change without notice. Come back on occasion to keep up with changes.

Latest update:  February 26th, 2024

PLCnext Runtime System 

work in progress

  • Support for Docker and Docker-like alternatives
  • PLCnext Control Simulation in PLCnext Engineer (continuation)
  • Device and Update Management (continuation)
  • New system variables for PLC status
  • PROFINET TSN

next on the list

  • WBM – VPN/IPsec config
  • WBM – Import firewall filter tables
  • Security – more features and hardening 

PLCnext Control devices and Extensions

work in progress

  • (to be announced later)

next on the list

  • (to be announced later)

PLCnext Engineer

work in progress

  • IO‑Link® Safety integration

next on the list

  • Running multiple unrestricted instances of PLCnext Engineer
  • Excluding single instances from compiling and downloading
  • Creating global function blocks and arrays of function blocks

See also

  1. PLCnext Technology features
  2. PLCnext Control features
  3. Extensions
  4. SD cards
  5. PLCnext Engineer features
  6. Working with encrypted SD cards

• Published/reviewed: 2024-09-24   ☀  Revision 073 •