SIMATIC AX¶

Based on Visual Studio Code, SIMATIC AX offers state-of-the-art IT tools in a lean development environment for programming and maintaining SIMATIC PLCs.

Documentation¶

The SIMATIC AX documentation helps you get started and provides comprehensive guides, tutorials, and reference materials for working with SIMATIC AX.

Community¶

If you have technical questions or want to stay up to date regarding the development of SIMATIC AX join our community.

Trainings¶

There are lots of training options available. Depending on your learning goal, you can choose one or all of the following trainings:

• Get an overview over all the basics to get started developing your own PLC software. The videos are designed as a lecture and guide you through the environment of the toolchain and its basic features. It is a freemium offering of Sitrain: https://siemens-learning-sitrainaccess.sabacloud.com/Saba/Web_spf/EU2PRD0112/app/me/learningeventdetail/cours000000000134229
• The training on GitHub will help make you fit in working with the toolchain at your own speed. The learning goal is to acquire comprehensive knowledge and practical skills: https://github.com/simatic-ax/learning-path

Open Source¶

The SIMATIC AX GitHub Community is a platform where you can find additional contents for SIMATIC AX, for example tutorials, application examples, example libraries and code snippets.

Third-party frameworks¶

A prime example for a third party framework is the Industrial Automation Xpansion (IX) project from Modern Technology Systems with their projects AX# and AXOpen.

Useful Links¶