The “SpiderControl I4.0 Integration Suite” is a comprehensive low-code tool for developing solutions for integrating OT into IT. It consists of a powerful SCADA server and a simple browser-based FBD programming tool and is targeted at programmers from the PLC sector.

The SpiderControl SCADA Server contains all common drivers for communication with the control level and operation via standard HTML5 browser.

The SpiderControl HMI Editor allows easy design of HTML5 user interfaces, which are used for all UI tasks: SCADA control system, operator panels for local operation, remote access with the browser and visualization of KPI’s, alarm lists and trends.

The SpiderPLC and the I4.0 Integration Library: The SpiderPLC allows the programming of function block diagrams directly via HTML5 browser. The I4.0 Integration Library contains a large number of function blocks with which the described tasks can be implemented very easily: Communication with SQL databases, REST API’s, MQTT, http, screen dumps, generating PDFs, sending e-mails, FTP transfer, string manipulation, copying files. CSV variable files reading and writing, logging, creating and editing variable namespaces, calling and monitoring external processes, etc. These function blocks are now directly connected to the process variables.

The SpiderPLC starts and monitors script engines, such as NodeJS and Python, so that own scripts can be integrated and called via function block.