ABOUT RISING EDGE AUTOMATION
Rising Edge Automation was created to make industrial automation learning feel more practical, engaging, and achievable through real hands-on experience.
WHY IT MATTERS
Industrial automation is evolving rapidly, but practical training and skills development are struggling to keep pace.
Across the UK, manufacturers and engineering businesses continue to face growing skills shortages in engineering, controls, and automation. At the same time, many learners still experience automation through outdated systems that can feel disconnected from real industrial environments.
Rising Edge Automation was created to help make modern automation learning more practical, engaging, and confidence-building — helping support learners, colleges, employers, and the future workforce entering industry.
Because modern industry does not just need qualifications. It needs people who feel confident working with real systems.
WHY WE STARTED
Rising Edge Automation was founded around a simple idea:
Industrial automation should feel exciting, practical, and confidence-building.
We believe learners understand automation best when they can physically interact with real hardware, test logic, build systems, and see real cause and effect in front of them.
The goal is not simply to teach PLC programming.
The goal is to help build real-world confidence with modern industrial control systems.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Built around low-voltage 24VDC control architecture with an external power supply approach to help create safer learning environments.
Designed and developed in the UK with a focus on quality, practicality, and modern industrial learning.
Learn using genuine PLC hardware, HMIs, industrial controls, indicators, and professional-grade components used across real environments.
Portable, desk-friendly architecture designed for classrooms, workshops, engineering environments, and practical training.
Built to help learners gain confidence through practical interaction, testing, programming, troubleshooting, and real-world exercises.
Rising Edge is being built as the foundation of a broader industrial automation learning ecosystem for the future.
OUR VISION
Rising Edge is being built as more than a single PLC training system.
The long-term vision is a modern industrial learning ecosystem combining hands-on hardware, guided learning, practical projects, and future digital learning tools designed to help bridge the automation skills gap.
Over time, we want to develop a wider range of training kits built around commonly used industrial manufacturers and platforms, including Siemens, Schneider Electric, WAGO, Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation, Phoenix Contact, and other trusted brands seen on real shop floors.
The aim is to create different kits with different learning focuses, so colleges, training providers, employers, and engineers can choose equipment that better reflects the tools and systems they actually work with.
We are also interested in working with companies and training providers who deliver industrial automation training and want to use Rising Edge kits as part of their practical learning offer.
We want to help make industrial automation feel more approachable, inspiring, and achievable for the next generation of engineers.
BUILD. LEARN. MASTER.
We want more people to feel confident stepping into industrial automation. Because practical skills, real understanding, and hands-on confidence matter more than ever.