Getting Started

Consystence is an industrial operations platform for monitoring and operating industrial facilities — from mining and coal handling and preparation plants (CHPPs) through to general process control. One codebase is published as two server artifacts, the hosted cloud service and the on-premises site server. It renders its UI from the server over a single wire format, and reads controllers through an edge runtime: EtherNet/IP CIP for Rockwell ControlLogix and gRPC for Phoenix Contact PLCnext.

This guide gets an engineer or technical evaluator from a first sign-in to a working sandbox. You do not need a PLC, an edge box or any installed software to start: the free individual sandbox runs on the hosted service, and you reach it from a browser.

Beta — not intended for production use

Consystence is in public beta. Use it for evaluation, authoring, simulation and supervised commissioning trials alongside your existing SCADA — production control stays on your existing system. Deterministic controller logic and hardwired safety systems hold final authority over physical outputs regardless.

Before you begin

Two principles shape everything that follows, so it is worth stating them up front.

Advisory-only AI

Consystence’s AI reads plant state, explains it and can recommend actions — it never issues commands to equipment. Control writes are an explicit, audited human action, and hard interlocks live in deterministic controller logic and hardwired safety relays — never in the server or AI path. Keep this in mind as you read about the platform’s automation features.

Simulation-first

Device types carry simulation profiles, so a site’s equipment can be built and tested in simulation before any hardware is involved. The free individual sandbox is the place to start: a tenant of your own on the hosted service, where you can browse the device-type library, build a site’s model and explore the server-driven UI without a controller or an edge.

The path through

Work through these three pages in order.

1. Get a free sandbox

Request a free individual sandbox (during the beta they are arranged on request), sign in at account.consystence.com, and take a first walk through it.

→ Quick Start

2. Join your organisation

How sign-in, tenant addresses and membership work on the hosted service, and how you join your organisation’s tenant.

→ Cloud onboarding

3. Learn the concepts

Understand the vocabulary before you build: organisations, tenants and sites, device types versus instances, the controller → module → channel → tag engineering model, the deployment topology, and the server-driven UI.

→ Key concepts

Beyond the sandbox

Using the CLI

The csy command-line client drives the same server-side UI from a terminal. CLI access is arranged through a beta engagement.

→ CLI Quick Start

Deploying at a site

Site-server deployments are arranged with our team during the beta: contact us. On-premises deployment describes what a site server needs.

Packages

There is no public download yet. During the beta, site-server, edge and CLI access is arranged with our team; the published packages will be announced on consystence.com/download.

Where to go next

Once your sandbox is open, branch into the area you care about:

• Platform overview — organisations, the org/site model, authentication, roles, and licensing.
• Architecture overview — the deployment topology and how the pieces communicate.
• Device types — the reusable type system, tags, alarms, and commands.
• Edge runtime — the edge runtime and how it reads ControlLogix and PLCnext controllers.
• API — the authentication model, tenant API keys, and the endpoint reference.
• Deployment — the hosted service and on-premises site servers.

Public beta

The hosted service is in public beta. During the beta, free individual sandboxes and paid organisations are both arranged with our team: request access. See plans for the Free sandbox, Integrator and Enterprise tiers.