INTEROPERABILITY OF PLC COMMUNICATION

Current approaches to integrating industrial ecosystems, for instance integrating automation functions across different vendors of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), lack efficiencies and capabilities. In an example aspect, a consumer, for instance a PLC, can poll PLCs for an automation function. In response to the polling, a first PLC that includes a memory defining a plurality of dedicated memory areas, can retrieve an interface from a registry memory area that stores information concerning available interfaces in a provider memory area of the plurality of dedicated memory areas, such that the consumer discovers the interface. The consumer can bind to the interface so as to establish a connection between the consumer and the first PLC at runtime of the automation function. In some cases, the plurality of dedicated memory areas further defines a consumer memory area. The first PLC can track available interfaces associated with the first PLC in the registry memory area of the plurality of dedicated memory areas.