Flexibility and openness are the most important drivers in automation: WAGO therefore relies on strong partnerships – because developing qualified solutions in Industry 4.0 can only succeed together.
The Independent Linux®-Based Operating System
Users in various industries benefit from the Linux®-based operating system: ctrlX OS’s flexibility reduces integration effort in all directions, providing faster time-to-market. At the same time, it offers users new degrees of freedom, because ctrIX OS allows not only easy connection of all standard bus and network protocols, but also a free choice of programming environment. This allows users to more flexibly orient their control tasks according to their needs in the future. In addition, the operating system is compatible with high-level languages and other engineering tools. This is how WAGO is bolstering the open platform concept, providing users with future-proof solutions to meet today’s challenges.
ctrlX OS fits perfectly into the open concept of the product family and meets all the requirements for modern automation projects:
Individually expandable
Easy to Manage
Connective in All Directions
Highly Secure and Certified
Seamless Data Integration
ctrlX OS – The Marketplace of Possibilities
From the field level to edge devices to the cloud: ctrlX OS can be used individually in all automation levels as a holistic ecosystem. Together with Bosch Rexroth, we have created a "marketplace of possibilities" and provide access to the entire ecosystem. We offer an immense range of apps that are available for download either in the WAGO eShop, in the WAGO Download Center or in the ctrlX Store. This makes software-based functions even easier and more flexible to develop, install, update and operate.
WAGO Edge Computers
The Linux®-based, real-time-capable ctrlX OS technology from Bosch Rexroth is being gradually deployed on WAGO’s medium- and high performance class Edge Computers. Developers and programmers can freely choose to use either the WAGO Edge Controller 400, which is tailored to ctrlX OS, or the powerful WAGO Edge Computer, which allows a choice between ctrlX OS and classic CODESYS.
WAGO Edge Controller 400
Engineering complex automation tasks made easy: Use data from machines and systems directly in the field instead of transferring it to a cloud solution at great resource expense. The WAGO Edge Controller 400 is tailored to ctrlX OS, guarantees optimal data use in the field and can be easily integrated into existing systems due to the variety of interfaces.
Strong Partnerships in Automation – Bosch Rexroth and WAGO
We are expanding our cooperation with Bosch Rexroth, offering great benefits to users in various industries: We are the first system and technology partner to bring the ctrlX OS operating system to our devices. Through its flexibility, this system reduces the integration effort in all regards, ensuring a shorter time-to-market. This is how we are bolstering the open platform concept – providing you, the users, with future-proof solutions to meet today’s challenges.
Power Engineering
The open ctrlX OS operating system also opens up new degrees of freedom in power engineering: In future, this will give users even more freedom for developing their control applications according to their needs and capabilities. Discover our versatile portfolio of products and solutions based on open standards that accounts for new technologies and security aspects.
Mechanical Engineering
Benefit from ctrlX OS in mechanical engineering and easily connect to the world of Industrial IoT: WAGO’s open automation platform links both new and existing technologies and enables optimal communication – from the field level up to the cloud.
ctrlX OS is a real-time-capable, Linux-based operating system designed for real-time use and can be used at all automation levels – from the field level to edge devices to the cloud. ctrlX OS supports the fusion of IT and OT applications in the sense of Industry 4.0.
It is hardware-independent and seamlessly connects even more automation components to the entire ctrlX AUTOMATION portfolio, including ctrlX World partner solutions.
The installation of ctrlX OS opens up a large world: users get access to the entire ctrlX ecosystem. There is an immense range of apps available that can be downloaded from the ctrlX Store.
As a system and technology partner of Bosch Rexroth, we promote ctrlX OS as the open platform on the market. We are convinced that openness requires bundled strengths. The goal is to jointly create a world-leading and open automation system, supported by a community that shares openness and co-creation – and thus creates dissemination and acceptance for ctrlX.
This succeeds if established market participants engage with an ecosystem together and still promote it (sector-specific) individually. Through joint further development, we want to strengthen the freedom for users and open the system to applications in other industries in addition to our focal sectors.
Obtaining quick and easy access to automation solutions or creating applications yourself – this is the principle offered by the open automation platform. With the ctrlX Store, WAGO and Bosch Rexroth have developed a “marketplace of possibilities“ that offers users the possibility of setting up an individual software system with a wide range of apps.
As a user, you have access to the entire ecosystem and can purchase any app from the ctrlX Store and install it on the ctrlX CORE.
Jointly bundling strengths to advance automation: In industry, systems are becoming increasingly complex and demanding, so future challenges can only be solved together.
The open-source ctrlX OS operating system enables a combination of innovative ideas that leads to added value and creates new potentials. ctrlX OS is the basis on which co-creation is possible and on which other partners can develop a complementary range of services to achieve more together.
ctrlX OS is designed for real-time use in industrial environments and can be used on all levels – from the field level up to the cloud, as well as on a wide variety of hardware. It supports the merging of IT and OT applications in terms of Industry 4.0. It also forms the basis for the server, edge and cloud automation industry.
