While Industry Giants Phase Out Legacy PLCs, Sinsegye Has Long Been Pioneering Their Targeted Future Direction

In the first half of 2026, a transformative structural shift swept the global industrial automation sector.Leading overseas industrial Giant A slashed roughly 5,600 roles within its digital industrial division, refocusing resources away from legacy PLC and drive product lines.Global business operations of Giant B faced sustained pressure with a sharp decline in profits.Giant C announced worldwide layoffs of 2,000 staff amid setbacks to its factory automation business in China.The three enterprises collectively carried out large-scale workforce restructuring.

Strikingly, these layoffs stem not from operational losses. Giant A posted revenue growth in fiscal year 2025, and Giant B has long maintained top-tier profitability across the industry.

Beneath their synchronized moves lies one core strategy: drastically scaling back investment in traditional hardware, and fully shifting resources toward emerging tracks including industrial software, digital twins and industrial AI.This is not mere downsizing, but a complete strategic overhaul of core business focus.

Sinsegye Has Long Occupied the Destination Now Targeted by Industry Giants

While overseas competitors are ramping up investment in industrial software, industrial AI and data services, Sinsegye has embarked on this exact path since its founding — with earlier strides and more thorough layout.

Focusing on high-end automation and industrial AI agents, Sinsegye ranks among front-runners in the primary market for industrial automation. Its products are widely deployed in wind power, semiconductors, robotics, embodied intelligence, process industries and other critical sectors.

Guided by the development philosophy of IT-driven industrial intelligence powered by computer technology and AI, Sinsegye has built a full lineup of core offerings: Industrial Intelligent PCs, MetaOS Dual-Domain Operating System, MetaFacture Hybrid Programming Environment, MetaCore Runtime Engine, industrial AI algorithm software, remote I/O modules, servo drives and motors.

Centered on Industrial Intelligent PCs, anchored by automation control, and complemented by I/O and motion modules, our flexible product portfolio achieves integrated computing and control, unifying the functions of traditional PLC, industrial PC, motion controller and edge server within one unit.

As a pioneer and benchmark player in China’s industrial AI computing space, Sinsegye has completed 7 rounds of financing. Its Series B2 funding round of 300 million RMB closed in 2025 set the record for the largest single financing deal in the industrial AI computing sector that year.From the very beginning, we have secured full independent ownership of two foundational core technologies: the operating system and unified development platform.

Verified Benchmark Case: Domestic Substitution for Wind Turbine Main Control Systems

In 2026, Sinsegye won the bidding for the wind turbine main control system procurement project of Yunda Energy. Leveraging core technologies of integrated computing-control and software-defined architecture, we delivered a highly adaptive and reliable main control solution with multiple technological breakthroughs:

• Industrial Intelligent PC (Central Control Brain): Stable operation under wide temperature range of -40℃ ~ 60℃ and high altitudes up to 4,000 meters.
• MetaOS Dual-Domain OS (Dual Intelligent Core): The real-time domain guarantees high-precision, deterministic core control logic; the non-real-time domain empowers edge computing and intelligent fault diagnosis.

The wind turbine main control segment was long monopolized by foreign brands. Drawing on end-to-end in-house R&D capabilities, Sinsegye has realized mass-scale import substitution for wind turbine main control systems.

This is no lab-based conceptual prototype, but a mature solution running steadily on wind farms for a full year.

What Giants Envision for the Future Is Already Sinsegye’s Present Reality

The three key verticals the three giants are betting heavily on — industrial software, digital twins and industrial AI — are all capabilities Sinsegye has already rolled out for large-scale commercial use.

• Industrial Software：With MetaOS OS, MetaFacture development suite, MetaCore real-time runtime, digital products and engineering templates, Sinsegye has built a full-stack industrial software ecosystem spanning underlying operating systems to end-user engineering applications, equipping conventional automation equipment with native computing and intelligent capabilities.
• Data Services：The awCenter® integrated device access & management platform enables fast device connection via mainstream protocols including MQTT, OPC UA, HTTPS and customized private protocols. It delivers one-stop IoT functions: full-lifecycle asset management, online debugging, status monitoring and visualized O&M.The Instaguard® intelligent equipment monitoring & diagnosis solution merges multi-dimensional data collection with pre-trained large models to enable predictive maintenance and pinpoint fault localization. It forms a closed-loop intelligent operation system covering data dashboards, real-time monitoring, diagnostic mapping and regular equipment health reports.
• Industrial AI：MetaOS natively supports Linux, mainstream AI hardware and frameworks for non-real-time tasks such as AI inference, with open SDKs and plugin toolchains to accelerate custom real-time application development.The SF2 series built on MetaCore Runtime is tailored for deep learning and machine learning scenarios, empowering industrial controllers with autonomous intelligent decision-making.

Sinsegye does not aim to seize leftover market share as foreign vendors retreat; instead, we compete head-on on these emerging strategic tracks with proven, field-tested products and solutions.

Mass layoffs from global incumbents mark the end of an era: the golden age of hardware-centric legacy PLCs is fading, replaced by a new era defined by software definition, data-driven operation and AI convergence.

When Sinsegye first committed to integrated computing and control, many questioned why we did not simply develop a domestic PLC, or invest in arduous, low-margin foundational OS development. Today, the three global industrial giants have answered that question with their strategic pivots.

Sinsegye’s solutions have been deployed across semiconductors, 3C electronics, wind power, robotics and process industries.

As legacy PLC-focused enterprises pivot toward software and AI, Sinsegye has long stood at their intended destination — not merely catching up, but advancing side by side and ultimately surpassing the established players.

Note: All images in this article are AI-generated except Figure 3 and Figure 4.