Traditional system and software development methodologies and standards in industrial automation are reaching their limits with the ever growing requirements from the market and the authorities, and we are experiencing an inevitable paradigm shift in this area. Advances in research are slowly enabling the terms like e.g. "model driven development", "component/object orientation" or "Service Oriented Architecture", together with their advantages well known from the IT world, to also be introduced to the world of industrial automation (IEC61131-3 3rd edition, IEC61499, OPC UA, ...). By combining these advanced concepts with standards-compliant and renowned development tools and components, we create, or help you create, structured, robust, expandable and future-ready industrial automation systems.