SPS - Smart Production Solutions
SPS 2026 puts the spotlight on the technologies shaping automation today: Industrial AI, drive technology, sensor technology, software, and industrial communication. For manufacturers, machine builders, and industrial software vendors, this means one thing above all: More intelligence in automation also means more software value to protect, control, and monetize.
Industrial AI Needs Industrial-Grade Trust
Industrial AI is turning machines, devices, and production systems into adaptive, data-driven environments. But AI models, control algorithms, configuration data, and intelligent functions must be protected against tampering, misuse, and unauthorized access if they are to become reliable assets in the field.
CodeMeter helps secure the software foundations behind Industrial AI with encryption, integrity protection, licensing, and secure key handling across devices, PCs, embedded systems, and cloud environments.
CRA Compliance Becomes Enforceable
The Cyber Resilience Act requires more than policies, documentation, and good intentions. Digital products need technical mechanisms that can enforce security requirements during operation, after deployment, and across the full product lifecycle.
CodeMeter turns CRA-related requirements into operational controls: protecting software integrity, restricting access to vulnerable versions, enforcing updates, supporting corrective measures, and enabling targeted remediation without disruptive physical recalls.
Talk to us at SPS to understand how licensing can become a continuous control layer for cyber resilience.
CodeMeter License Reporting Turns Usage into Insight
Industrial software vendors often know which licenses they have sold, but not how their software is actually used. That gap limits upselling, capacity planning, billing accuracy, trial conversion, and product strategy.
CodeMeter License Reporting transforms license usage data into actionable business intelligence, with dashboards and APIs that reveal adoption, failed accesses, license peaks, regional usage, and billing-relevant metrics.
See us at SPS to learn how licensing data can support smarter commercial decisions.
Licensing for the Smallest Industrial Devices
Automation does not stop at powerful controllers and edge systems. Sensors, actuators, frequency converters, valve controls, and other compact devices often contain valuable IP, but have only a few kilobytes of memory available.
Wibu-Systems enables secure licensing even on resource-constrained microcontrollers by combining CodeMeter license management with compact verification mechanisms and the built-in security features of modern chips.
Meet us at SPS to explore how licensing can reach even the smallest devices in your automation architecture.
Licensing-as-a-Service for Faster Market Entry
Innovative software companies need to protect, license, and monetize applications quickly, without building a complex licensing infrastructure from scratch. Speed matters, especially when new industrial applications, AI-based functions, and digital services must reach the market fast.
CodeMeter Licensing-as-a-Service gives vendors a ready-to-use entry point into the CodeMeter ecosystem, including predefined license models, support for CmDongles, CmActLicenses, and CmCloudContainers, and self-service license management via CodeMeter License Portal.
Visit us at SPS to see how faster licensing can shorten your path from innovation to revenue.
CmDongles Built for Industrial Reality
Industrial environments demand more than standard license storage. Robust form factors, reliable operation, driverless options, certifications, qualifications, and consistently high quality standards make a real difference when software protection becomes part of machines, devices, and production systems.
Wibu-Systems offers CmDongles designed for demanding industrial applications, with a broad portfolio that supports secure licensing across heterogeneous automation environments.
Come to SPS to find the license container that fits your technical, operational, and security requirements.
Protection Suite for Simpler, Stronger Deployment
Software protection must be strong, but it must also be practical for developers and easy to deploy for customers. With the latest CodeMeter Protection Suite technologies, applications can benefit from advanced protection mechanisms, improved usability, and consistent security across platforms.
AxProtector NC and CPSRT enable secure execution, automatic encryption, modular licensing, CodeMoving, file encryption, and direct use of local CmDongles without installing CodeMeter Runtime in selected scenarios, now also for native Windows applications on Intel and ARM.
See us at SPS to discover how strong protection can also simplify deployment.
CodeMeter 9.00: Architecture Ready for the Future
With CodeMeter 9.00, Wibu-Systems begins a major architectural transformation of CodeMeter Runtime while maintaining API compatibility for existing integrations. This evolution lays the groundwork for a universal runtime environment that supports today’s licensing needs and prepares for future cryptographic requirements.
New capabilities include modernized logging with CmLogger, expanded Universal Data for CmActLicenses and CmCloudContainers, and UserDefinedShare for flexible license sharing based on custom criteria such as tenant IDs or external device identifiers.
Meet our experts at SPS to understand what this evolution means for your roadmap.
Cloud Licensing, Globally Grounded
Industrial software is deployed worldwide, but cloud licensing must still respect regional requirements, availability expectations, and business continuity needs. Global automation needs cloud services that are flexible, resilient, and close to where customers operate.
Wibu-Systems provides regionally available CodeMeter cloud services for cloud licensing, license management, license reporting, and self-service activation, with options in key regions and the ability to extend hosting where business needs require it.
Visit us at SPS to discuss a cloud licensing architecture that fits your global market strategy.
One Platform for Protection, Licensing, and Growth
At SPS 2026, Industrial AI will show how automation is becoming smarter. Wibu-Systems will show how to make that intelligence secure, controllable, compliant, and profitable.
When software becomes the core of automation, trust can no longer be added later. It must be engineered, enforced, and monetized from the start – with CodeMeter.