
FAQ
Questions, answered
What we do, where we work, how projects run and how we price them.
In short
This FAQ explains how Wartens works in Germany: engineering at its centre in India, remote acceptance and commissioning by your team or a local partner. It also covers S7-300 migration, virtual commissioning, Wartens' supporting role on the Machinery Regulation and CRA (no CE marking) and PLC training in Oberhaching.
Wartens in Germany
At the edWartens training centre, Bajuwarenring 1, 82041 Oberhaching (phone +49 211 36870181). Engineering is delivered from our India centre.
No. We support with safety-software documentation, machine cybersecurity risk assessment and update processes, working with your CE partner.
We migrate the code to S7-1500, migrate the HMI and document the tests. Your team carries out the cutover on site, with our engineers supporting remotely.
Common questions
No. Robot cell programming and integration are not part of the Wartens offer in Germany today. For German clients the focus is PLC, HMI and safety software, S7-300/400 migration, virtual commissioning and digital twins, Machinery Regulation, CRA and OT security support, battery storage controls and PLC training in Oberhaching. If a project includes robots, we can program the PLC side for your robot integrator.
About Wartens
Wartens is an industrial automation group. We design and deliver control systems, digital twins, immersive training and energy systems, through Wartens and specialist brands including iUNI, edWartens and Wartens Energy.
We serve clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, India and the UAE, with offices in Milton Keynes, Dover (Delaware), Abu Dhabi, Bangalore and Iritty, and a training centre in Oberhaching near Munich.
Every market gets engineering from the same India centre. You deal with one Wartens contact in your country.
Engineering & digital twins
Siemens TIA Portal and S7-1500, Allen-Bradley Studio 5000, Beckhoff TwinCAT and CODESYS among others. Our engineers are trained on 20 PLC brands, including Mitsubishi, Delta, ABB and Schneider Electric.
Testing your PLC program against a virtual model of the machine or line before site work, so logic, interlocks and sequences are debugged before they reach physical equipment.
A typical digital twin project takes 12 to 24 weeks, depending on scope and the data available.
Working with us
As a fixed-price work package, a monthly engineering capacity retainer, a turnkey project (in India), a subscription, or a training programme. Every engagement starts with a written scope, schedule and price.
Discovery, fixed scope and quote, engineering, remote acceptance, site support, then handover and support.
Yes. Quality management across the group is certified to ISO 9001:2015.
LADX questions
LADX is the Wartens group's AI workbench for automation engineers. It brings a ladder editor and simulator, compile-checked AI, conversion between PLC platforms, an HMI/SCADA builder, panel CAD, project documents, a planner and a manuals assistant onto one project. It is vendor-neutral and can run offline.
The browser ladder editor and simulator, the converter, the HMI/SCADA builder, the CAD tool, the 17 document templates and the forum are free with no account and no trial period. An account adds a central place to keep projects. The AI uses the provider key you connect, and free OpenRouter models work.
It can if something checks it first. LADX compiles every generated answer with the matiec IEC 61131-3 compiler and checks it with iec-checker and a PLCopen schema pass. Failures go back to the model with the compiler's errors, so what you see has already passed.
LADX writes programs out as Siemens SCL, Rockwell neutral text, IEC 61131-3 Structured Text and PLCopen XML. You then import, compile and download in the vendor tool. Reading vendor projects back into LADX is still being built.
No. Programs are encrypted at rest, scoped to your project, never used for training and deletable in one action. The desktop build, LADX Studio, runs a local model and makes no outbound AI call.
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