# 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 <a href="#benefits" id="benefits"></a>

Built for industrial automation professionals, [Git-Based Source Control](https://docs.copia.io/docs/overview/readme/overview) enables you to manage the code development of your automation projects.

* Industrial code support from [multiple vendors](https://docs.copia.io/docs/overview/supported-vendors-and-device-types)
* 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™ <a href="#git--controls-code" id="git--controls-code"></a>

[DeviceLink](https://docs.copia.io/docs/overview/readme/devicelink) can automatically back up your controls devices and detect program changes on the factory floor.

* Backup support for [multiple vendors and device types](https://docs.copia.io/docs/overview/supported-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.


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