Maximize productivity with FactoryTalk Design Studio

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

Experience the benefits of a modern cloud-based design product. FactoryTalk® Design Studio™ enables industrial automation system designers to improve their collaboration and productivity with a more simplified and streamlined way to work. The result is faster time to market and systems that cost less to build and maintain.

Modern
Development functionality that enables you to build and deploy projects faster.

Multi-user
Collaboration tools that support scalable teams and varying skillsets.

Multi-controller
Support for all of your devices with context across the entire system.

Design and develop your control applications quickly and efficiently with these features in the latest update.

Add devices to project Assign devices to controller Restore changes Duplicate projects

A demonstration of starting a project in FactoryTalk Design Studio by adding your devices.

A demonstration in FactoryTalk Design Studio of assigning devices to controllers.

A demonstration on how to restore changes while using FactoryTalk Design Studio.

A demonstration on duplicating projects while using FactoryTalk Design Studio.

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, analog I/O, digital I/O, and ethernet adapters with more devices to come.

Assign hardware to controllers

Ready to assign devices to a topology now that the hardware has been defined? Move and assign devices to controllers throughout your archiecture without losing their configuration.

Revert to a previous commit if you don't like your changes

Testing something in your project and don't like the results? Roll the project back to a last known good state. It's as easy as 1-2-3 with the new restore feature in change history.

Easily duplicate a project with save-as functionality

Want to leverage work that's already been done for a new project? FTDS users now have the ability to duplicate a project and work with it in a different context while keeping the original project in tact.

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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.

Sometimes you want to start designing your control system with a blank canvas; but sometimes you want to start from a known good state. That’s why we’re delivering the ability to import an existing Studio 5000 Logix Designer project into the FactoryTalk Design Studio environment. Some things will look familiar, and some workflows will be different. We encourage you to explore and experiment so you can start to understand the value of this new cloud-based design tool.

See what industry leaders are saying about FactoryTalk Design Studio

"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