Free download of software-defined automation application for manufacturing autonomy

Flexxbotics has released its software-defined automation as a free software download, providing direct access to industrial-grade automation technology for advanced manufacturing operations worldwide. The download offers a powerful and extensible production-ready runtime environment, low-code HMI, developer studio, and complete API for smart factory interoperability and orchestration.

The free download is not a trial or evaluation version. It includes the SDA runtime, Studio, and API with no time limits, capacity restrictions, or disabled capabilities.

Software-defined automation (SDA) built for fault-tolerant stability and regulatory compliance requirements, the company has been deployed in production environments across multiple industries globally. The browser-native frontend uses progressive web application technology with hardened security for controlled access from computers and other industrial devices. A lightweight containerised, full-stack backend architecture runs on virtually any compute infrastructure while delivering deterministic reliability, security, and scalability.

The company provides many-to-many controller interoperability across over 1000 makes and models of factory equipment, enabling companies to move beyond incompatibilities and complex custom integrations.

Using parallelised data pipelines, it delivers bi-directional read/write data flows in real-time for heterogeneous plant assets with both open and proprietary industrial protocols – making multiple machines, PLCs, robots, test and inspection equipment, and IT systems operate with closed-loop control for greater autonomy.

Flexxbotics is designed for companies pushing factory automation boundaries seeking:

• Automated operation sequencing across multiple machines, sensors, and devices
• Granular multi-source production data streams for Physical AI training
• Sovereign data acquisition for secure, local Industrial AI training data sets
• Data contextualisation for factory automation regulatory compliance
• Modern alternatives to legacy control systems for better asset interoperability

Advanced manufacturing technologists, such as automation and controls engineers, are able to run controller connector drivers – called Transformers – in Flexxbotics and can create their own using Python. Each new connector driver inherits compatibility with all others loaded in Flexxbotics to interoperate many-to-many across all endpoints.

“Many-to-many compatibility inheritance accelerates connecting factory equipment by 22x compared to conventional point-to-point PLC integration approaches,” explained Tyler Modelski, CTO and co-founder of Flexxbotics. “To aggregate and contextualise factory data for Industrial AI and then make closed-loop adjustments in processing logic requires autonomous process control, which is what Flexxbotics delivers.”

Flexxbotics includes:

• Universal Open Connectivity – Multi-machine controller protocol interoperability for OPC UA, MQTT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, Beckhoff, FOCAS, and many others
• Factory AI Data Acquisition – Collect high-frequency, multi-source production data streams for Industrial AI training data sets
• Powerful Cell Automation – Conditionals, rules, and logic sequencing enable dynamic reaction based on operational conditions, system states, and sensor inputs
• Autonomous Process Control – Closed-loop feedback for real-time parameter and variable adjustments to processing instructions in factory assets and automation
• Digital Thread Traceability – Comprehensive, contextualised data capture for compliance to ISO-13485, CGMP, AS9100, and other mandates
• Flexible Developer Extensibility – Python-based Studio with IntelliSense and RESTful API for bring-your-own-model (BYOM) LLM AI development

Flexxbotics runs both online and offline, so production continues with or without internet access, and works with existing IT business systems, including ERP, MES, QMS, PLM, CAD/CAM, IIoT/SCADA, and others, for synchronised process execution.

“Providing open access to our production-proven software unlocks the factory for global companies to scale autonomous control across their operations worldwide,” said Bouchard. “To truly scale production autonomy requires open, extensible software-defined automation, and Flexxbotics puts that directly into the hands of the people who are transforming operations.”