Maximize productivity with FactoryTalk Design Studio

A cloud-based, software-defined industrial automation design environment

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Harnessing Generative AI in control design puts knowledge and expertise at your fingertips.
FactoryTalk® Design Studio™ Copilot brings the power of Generative AI to the Logix experience. Go beyond new knowledge and change the way you create. Generative AI can significantly increase productivity by creating new designs, content and solutions. FactoryTalk Design Studio Copilot uses Generative AI to process your natural language to help you create PLC code.

Why FactoryTalk Design Studio?

MODERNDevelopment functionality that enables you to build and deploy projects faster.

MULTI-USERCollaboration tools that support scalable teams and varying skillsets.

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MULTI-CONTROLLER
Support for all your devices with context across the entire system.

Eliminating Barriers with Modern Industrial Automation Software

To help our customers transform, Rockwell Automation partnered with Microsoft to deliver multiple components of our extensive portfolio to the cloud. Read the story of how we went cloud-native on Azure to deliver products like FactoryTalk Design Studio to help eliminate many of the systemic barriers that have existed in designing an industrial automation system.

Dynamic Duo

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Dynamic Duo

Learn how Rockwell Automation partnered with Microsoft to bring secure, modern, design software to the factory floor.

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We’re excited to announce the 1.08 update of FactoryTalk Design Studio that introduces:

Role-based access control that provides an administrator the ability to assign roles based on the level of access needed for each user.
Refined response times in our Generative AI Copilot that allows users to view responses in real-time as the assistant generates an answer.
Integrated "Ask Copilot" feature where users can prompt the assistant to describe what the error means, the likely cause, and a suggested fix.
Expansion of our device offering with the addition of Stratix® switches to help customers increase the security of their network.

Design and develop your control applications quickly and efficiently with these features.

Add new devices to project Bulk-add of quick configure devices

GIF demonstration of Stratix 5400 Switches and ETAP

GIF demonstration of bulk-adding of quick configure devices

Create your project with a core set of devices

Start your project by adding your devices, or start project development logically, then add your hardware later. Either way, you can choose from a core set of devices including controllers, I/O, and communication devices including newly Stratix 5400 switches and ETAPs.

Add and configure multiple devices at the same time

Systems come in all sizes. And we want to make you as efficient as possible. One of the ways we’re doing that is delivering on a feature that allows you to bulk-add and quick configure devices to speed your development time.

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Coming Soon

One of the great things about Software-as-a-Service is as it’s continuing to grow and expand, new features and functionality automatically become available to the user. And it’s no different with FactoryTalk Design Studio. Our team is hard at work preparing for the next update with value-add deliverables that will make your team more efficient and speed your time to delivery.

See what industry leaders are saying about FactoryTalk Design Studio

"We found time-saving advantage in managing geographically disparate concurrent engineering efforts."

Gary Hida - VP and Owner
"The code editor functionality of FactoryTalk Design Studio is one of the best and most promising features. We can develop faster in the code editor but clients who are more comfortable in the ladder editor still have that ability."

Jacob Kubale - Project Manager
"The browser-based design environment makes for quick migration and handling of customer files without managing multiple Virtual Machines. What used to take days to get engineers engaged and productive on projects can now be achieved in minutes."

Ryan Binkley - Technical Consultant
"Web based available anywhere in the world is something we are looking forward to using. It will allow new team member to begin developing quickly without doing all the heavy installs. Also being able to make a change in the code wherever an engineer is located."

Andy Croke - Food & Beverage Core Team Lead
"We are excited to leverage the multi-controller support to increase our velocity to market by allowing us to focus on generating project code in a single instance of a design environment. This should reduce the organizational challenges of managing multiple .ACD files over the course of a project lifecycle.”

Jacob Becker - System Solution Architect