STRATON AUTOMATION

STRATON AUTOMATION is the editor of the straton® software, designed to cover all areas of Industry and Automation control; from embedded solutions, through virtualized logic, to control-command systems in digital substations.

Founded in 2002 and subsidiary of the COPA-DATA group, the French company STRATON AUTOMATION is made up of experts who have been working in this field for more than 30 years to propose today a complete solution, adapted to all needs you may have in Embedded, Utilities and Automation sectors.

Our customers are machine or device manufacturers (OEMs). With more than 1.5 million licenses sold worldwide, you probably don’t know it but straton is everywhere! In the bus, ship or train you take for your daily travel, in the power plant generating and managing the energy you use every day, in devices (PLC, drives …) automating manufacturing in the industry, or even in the pumps allowing water to reach your home.

Since more than 20 years now, STRATON AUTOMATION provides a highly customizable solution able to bring automation and communication in virtually any electronic device.

Whether you already have an existing device or wish to create your own, the straton soft-PLC can be ported on any platform, allowing to bring automation capabilities into it, coded via an IEC61131-3 programming Editor and Runtime.

The Runtime can be ported on any platform, independently of the Operating System. Runtime and drivers being delivered as source code allow a fully customized integration, with your own C blocks, functions, access to local IOs etc.

Today, as almost any device can communicate via standard or industry-specific protocols, straton supports a wide range of protocols: from Modbus, CAN, J1939, through OPC UA, Profinet, Ethernet IP, MQTT, to IEC61850, DNP3, IEC60870 and many others. Cybersecurity has been tackled via the support of TLS and Authentication, available on few of those.

Developments of certain stacks are made internally or within the COPA-DATA group, allowing a quick response time in case of questions or new functionality needs.

To answer to the needs of programming, testing and debugging for the final user, we provide an Editor with a user-friendly interface, advanced development tools (IEC61131-3 Editors, SCL Editor, automated development…), debug tools (online debug, soft-scope, test sequence …), test tools (61850 Client tool, graphics …) and many other (web-monitoring, programs conversion …).

In few words, this is the kind of solution you need to provide a product at the edge of technology, and strong advantages compared to the competition!

Virtual PLC & Programming

straton is a fully hardware-independent software PLC. It can run on any type of hardware, from embedded systems to industrial servers, including virtualized environments such as Docker, virtual machines, or platforms like SEAPATH. This flexibility enables fast and future-proof integration into modern system architectures. straton supports IEC 61131-3 programming languages (ST, FBD, Ladder, SFC) as well as Python, giving engineers maximum development freedom.

IEC 61850 Edition 2.1

straton integrates a complete IEC 61850 Edition 2.1 stack, certified on the client side to ensure interoperability with market-standard devices. Server and GOOSE functionalities are also available, enabling reliable real-time communications for substations and critical applications. Compliance with IEC 61850 standards ensures secure integration into modern substation architectures and smart grid systems.

IEC 60870

straton provides a complete IEC 60870 stack supporting both controlling station (master) and controlled station (slave) roles. It enables real-time supervision, control, and data exchange with SCADA systems and existing energy infrastructures. This support ensures broad compatibility with traditional telecontrol architectures while facilitating the gradual modernization of control and automation systems.

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