Introduction

Overview

Copia Automation brings modern DevOps tooling to industrial automation, standardizing processes to drive quality, efficiency, and uptime at scale.

• Quality: Copia drives quality by enabling teams to capture issues earlier in the development lifecycle and better leverage team expertise.

• Efficiency: Copia breaks the one-engineer-to-a-project paradigm, enabling you to apply your talent where and when it’s needed most. Engineers can easily move between projects and work simultaneously on the same code base.

• Uptime: Copia provides visibility into when code changes and why. The last working version is instantly available to accelerate recovery during operational disruptions.

Git-Based Source Control

Built for industrial automation professionals, Git-Based Source Control enables you to manage the code development of your automation projects.

• Industrial code support from multiple vendors

• Tracks all file changes with rich context and ensures access to previous versions

• Renders IEC-based languages, such as Ladder Logic (LD), Function Block Diagram (FBD), and more in a browser or desktop app

• Visually highlights differences between versions

• Provides advanced code review with in-line commenting on PLC files

• Enables the work of multiple engineers to be merged effectively

With proven version control, powerful collaboration, and accelerated code review, Copia's Git-Based Source Control grants you the full power of Git integrated natively with controls code.

DeviceLink™

DeviceLink can automatically back up your controls devices and detect program changes on the factory floor.

• Backup support for multiple vendors and device types
• Schedules and executes backups of PLC and robotic code directly from the devices

• Automatically detects and notifies the team of code changes

• Visually compares running machine state to the expected code

• Enables backups to be added to the project history as a version-of-record

When paired with Copia's source control solution, DeviceLink offers best-in-class data protection, change detection and notification, and improved visibility.