Industrial Automation
Safety-Critical Automation at Scale.
IEC 61508 SIL-certified toolchains for PLCs, drives, sensors, and Industry 4.0 edge computing, with real-time performance and legacy migration support.
Industrial automation systems, PLCs, drives, sensors, and safety controllers, form the backbone of modern manufacturing and process industries. As Industry 4.0 drives convergence between operational technology and information technology, the software in these systems must meet both functional safety (IEC 61508) and cybersecurity (IEC 62443) requirements. GSAS provides the toolchains that enable industrial automation developers to build safe, secure, and reliable control systems.
Our portfolio includes PicoScope for high-resolution signal analysis of industrial buses, Flasher Pro for production-grade firmware deployment with traceability, and Arm Keil MDK with its IEC 61508 SIL 3 certified compiler. For testing and verification, Klocwork provides MISRA-compliant static analysis with the quality metrics required for SIL certification, while TESSY by Razorcat delivers automated unit testing with MC/DC coverage qualified for IEC 61508 SIL 3.
Machine Connectivity & Edge-to-Cloud (Industrie 4.0)
Industry 4.0 is won at the boundary between operational technology and IT, where machines, sensors, and controllers become data sources for the enterprise. GSAS connects the factory floor to the cloud over the protocols plants actually run: Modbus RTU/TCP (via SEGGER emModbus), OPC-UA, MQTT (via SEGGER emNet/emSSL), and CAN and industrial Ethernet (EtherCAT, PROFINET). Edge gateways built on AutoPi edge compute and Docker aggregate, normalise, and securely forward machine data; multi-channel data acquisition (GW Instek DAQ-9600) captures the telemetry that feeds dashboards and MES integration through FlashTask Pro and XTL-I. Security is built in from the gateway up, TLS transport, IEC 62443 alignment, and Klocwork SAST in the DevSecOps pipeline.
This lets manufacturers modernise brownfield lines: connecting legacy machines through gateways without re-engineering the production line. See our dedicated Industrial IoT & Machine Connectivity capability for the full edge-to-cloud engineering offering.
GSAS supports India’s growing industrial automation sector, from established manufacturers in Pune and Chennai to emerging Industry 4.0 startups. Our engineering services team assists with legacy codebase migration, MISRA C compliance, and setting up modern CI/CD pipelines for embedded firmware development.
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What We Bring
GSAS Capabilities for Industrial Automation
Beyond tools, engineering services, compliance consulting, and hands-on support tailored to Industrial Automation teams.
Embedded Software Engineering
IEC 61508 functional safety firmware, PLC integration, industrial protocol stacks (Profinet, EtherCAT).
Safety & Compliance Engineering
IEC 61508 SIL 1-4, IEC 62443 cybersecurity, functional safety assessment and consulting.
Test & Measurement Integration
Production test benches, high-resolution signal analysis of industrial buses, multi-channel data acquisition and protocol debug.
Training & Enablement
Functional Safety Fundamentals, Klocwork Static Analysis Workshop and Secure Boot Architecture training.
Recommended Tools
Products for Industrial Automation
Curated from our portfolio of authorized global partnerships, the tools that Industrial Automation engineering teams use most.
Klocwork
Klocwork by Perforce is a scalable SAST tool for C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin, built for DevSecOps with incremental analysis, MISRA, CERT, and CWE enforcement, and TUV SUD certified ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 tool qualification. Deployed and supported across India by GSAS.
TESSY
Automated dynamic unit, module, and integration testing for embedded C/C++ with MC/DC coverage. Qualified by Razorcat for safety-related software development per IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ISO 26262 and EN 50128. Buy in India from GSAS.
Keil MDK
A productivity, debugging, and reliability platform for professional Cortex-M development, MDK v6 brings dual IDE workflows, safety-certified compilers, Arm Fixed Virtual Platforms, and subscription licensing. Buy in India from GSAS.
Flasher Pro
Professional production flash programmer with SEGGER Top-Speed programming, standalone SD card operation, and full traceability logging for manufacturing compliance. Local stock and support across India, GSAS.
PicoScope 6000E
High-bandwidth USB oscilloscope spanning 300 MHz to 3 GHz bandwidth, FlexRes 8-to-12-bit resolution, and up to 4 GS deep memory. Authorized India partner, GSAS Micro Systems.
DAQ-9600 Series
GW Instek DAQ-9600 modular data acquisition system and multi-channel data logger, a 3-slot mainframe scaling to 120 single-ended (60 two-wire) channels, 6½-digit DMM, 14 input signal types and up to 450 channels/sec scanning for temperature, voltage, resistance and strain monitoring. Available in India from GSAS Micro Systems with module-selection guidance, demonstrations, GST-compliant quotations and calibration support.
AutoPi TMU CM4
Open-platform vehicle telematics unit built on RPi CM4, dual CAN-FD, OBD-II, 4G LTE Cat 4, Docker edge computing, HAT expansion, and AutoPi Cloud fleet management. Buy in India from GSAS.
Compliance
Standards & Toolchain Mapping
Standards listed for Industrial Automation, and the GSAS tools this site places against each. A chip shows a published qualification scope where one exists, and the bare standard name where none does.
IEC 62443 is listed in this page's standards set, but no tool in the table below carries a published qualification against it, and GSAS does not claim one. Whether this applies to a given programme depends on its scope, jurisdiction and certification basis.
| Tool | Applicable Standards |
|---|---|
| Klocwork (Perforce) | IEC 61508 up to SIL 4MISRA C |
| QA-C / Helix QAC (Perforce) | IEC 61508 up to SIL 4MISRA C |
| Arm Compiler for Embedded FuSa | IEC 61508 SIL 3 (qualified releases) |
| embOS-Safe (SEGGER) | IEC 61508 SIL 3 |
| TESSY (Razorcat) | IEC 61508 (T2 support tool) |
Blog
Latest Thinking: Industrial Automation
SWD & JTAG Debug-Port Isolation Explained: Protecting Your Probe, PC & Engineers (SEGGER J-Link, Flasher & J-Trace Isolators)
Plugging a USB-grounded debug probe into a motor drive, inverter, or high-voltage battery board can destroy the probe, fry your laptop's USB controller, or expose an engineer to a hazardous potential. Here is how SWD/JTAG debug-port isolation actually works, why SEGGER ships separate target-side and host-side isolators, and how Indian power-electronics, EV, and industrial teams should specify them, with verified specs only.
PicoLog: Long-Term Industrial and Environmental Data Logging for Indian Field Deployments
How Indian engineering teams use the PicoLog TC-08, PT-104, CM3, ADC-20/24, and PicoLog 1000 for multi-week industrial, environmental, and field data logging deployments.
SEGGER emFile: FAT vs exFAT for Indian Industrial and Railway Data Logging
How to pick between FAT32 and exFAT in SEGGER emFile for Indian railway, industrial and genset data logging programmes, with Journaling, interop, and per-file size limits explained.
Reliable NAND Flash Storage for Indian Industrial and Railway Devices: SEGGER emFile in India
How Indian industrial and railway firmware teams use SEGGER emFile with raw NAND flash, ECC, wear-levelling, bad-block management, power-fail safety, and RDSO-grade data retention.
SEGGER emModbus for Indian Industrial Automation, Energy Metering, and Solar Plant Monitoring
Indian industrial-automation, smart-metering, and solar-inverter teams pick SEGGER emModbus for commercial Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP on STM32, i.MX RT, and Renesas RA, with multi-vendor interop testing, embOS integration, and commercial support via GSAS.
SEGGER emUSB-Host for Indian Medical and Industrial Products on STM32H7 and i.MX RT
Indian medical-device and industrial-controller teams turning a Cortex-M product into a USB host for mass-storage, barcode scanners, printers, and vendor-specific peripherals pick SEGGER emUSB-Host for class-driver coverage, commercial support, and IEC 62304 traceability.
SEGGER emUSB-Host MSC: USB Mass Storage File Transfer for Indian Medical and Industrial Devices
How SEGGER emUSB-Host with the MSC class, combined with emFile, delivers production-grade USB stick file transfer for Indian medical devices, industrial HMIs and test equipment.
RS-485 and Modbus Testing with Binho Pulsar for Indian Industrial Automation
RS-485 carries Modbus RTU across most of India's installed industrial base, and the specification that decides whether a link survives a real plant is the common-mode range, not the baud rate. Binho specifies the Pulsar's RS-485 interface as half-duplex with a -7 V to +12 V common-mode input, which covers the ground offsets of long runs between panels.
Power Measurement for Server PSUs: Microtest 7140 Power Analyzer
Server power supplies must meet efficiency standards from full load down to standby. The Microtest 7140 measures power from 0.001 W standby to 16 kW full load in a single instrument.
Binho Pulsar: 50 MHz SPI, 1 MHz I2C, UART and RS-485 in One USB Host Adapter
The Binho Pulsar ships with a 50 MHz SPI controller, a 1 MHz I2C controller, UART at 115200 baud, half-duplex RS-485 rated -7 V to +12 V common-mode, six configurable GPIO and programmable 1.2 V to 3.3 V downstream power. CAN-FD and 1-Wire are published by Binho as coming soon, so this guide covers only what ships.
Impulse Winding Testing for Motor and Transformer Manufacturers
Hipot testing catches gross insulation failures. Impulse winding testing catches shorted turns, the defect class that hipot misses but that causes motors and transformers to fail in the field.
The Economics of Board-Level Repair in India: Why More Workshops Are Investing in Diagnostics
For decades, the dominant approach to failed electronics in India was board-swap: remove the faulty board, install a replacement, and either scrap the o...
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