https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog Hands-on articles on unit testing, AI and code generation for Siemens TIA Portal. en Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:31:08 GMT https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-mcp-integration https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-mcp-integration Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Model Context Protocol connects AI assistants to tools. What that means for TIA engineering and why approvals are the crucial part. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/ai-scl-code-generation https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/ai-scl-code-generation Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT An LLM writes SCL in seconds. The code only becomes valuable with guardrails: a precise spec, Openness import, a compile gate and unit tests. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-openness-block-generation https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-openness-block-generation Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT From reference block to series: generating blocks from templates, via external sources or SimaticML XML, with compile as the gate. Here is how. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-git-workflow https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-git-workflow Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Version PLC code like software: stage, commit and diff TIA blocks and test suites in Git, and sync with GitLab or GitHub. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/scl-unit-test-tutorial https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/scl-unit-test-tutorial Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to create an SCL unit test for a TIA block and run it against PLCSIM Advanced: Arrange, Act, Assert, in five steps. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-openness-explained https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-openness-explained Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT TIA Openness is Siemens' API for TIA Portal. What it does, what it's used for, and how AI generates and imports SCL code through it. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-ci-cd-gitlab https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/tia-portal-ci-cd-gitlab Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Treat PLC code like software: run SCL unit tests in a GitLab pipeline, read JUnit XML and re-run only the suites whose block changed. https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/industrial-copilot-vs-multiprovider https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/industrial-copilot-vs-multiprovider Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Siemens Industrial Copilot is tied to one model and the cloud. What a multi-provider AI for TIA Portal does differently (and more). https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/llm-for-tia-portal https://anyautomation.ch/en/blog/llm-for-tia-portal Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude, GPT, Gemini or a local model for PLC programming? Why multi-provider beats a vendor-bound copilot for TIA Portal.