Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation Digital Work Instructions API

The Digital Work Instructions API provides endpoints for managing and retrieving process groups, process steps, and reporting on process step execution information for digital work instructions.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Operator Guidance Management BC-1010.40

Operations 22

POST /work-instructions/v1/process-groups Create Process Group #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups List Process Groups #
POST /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/install-bom Create Process Step Install BOM Components #
DELETE /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/install-bom Delete Process Step Install BOM Components #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/install-bom List Process Step Install BOM Components #
PUT /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/install-bom Update Process Step Install BOM Components #
POST /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps Create Process Step #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps List Process Steps #
DELETE /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{id} Delete Process Group #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{id} Get Process Group #
PATCH /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{id} Update Process Group #
DELETE /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/tool-component/tools Delete Process Step Tools #
DELETE /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId} Delete Process Step #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId} Get Process Step #
PATCH /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId} Update Process Step #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/checksheet Get Process Step Checksheet #
PUT /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/checksheet Update Process Step Checksheet #
GET /work-instructions/v1/reports/process-step-evaluation-status-report Get Process Step Evaluation Status Report #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/tool-component Get Process Step Tool Component #
PUT /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/tool-component Update Process Step Tool Component #
GET /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/validate-component Get Process Step Validate Component #
PUT /work-instructions/v1/process-groups/{processGroupId}/process-steps/{processStepId}/validate-component Update Process Step Validate Component #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/resources/enterprise-resource-planning-erp-apis.html
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Documentation
https://docs.plex.com/welcome
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GettingStarted
https://developers.plex.com/getstarted

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/openapi/rockwell-automation-digital-work-instructions-api-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-specification-dto-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-add-part-specification-dto-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-add-checksheet-dto-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-sync-customer-dto-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-process-specification-dto-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rockwell-automation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rockwell-automation-shipper-dto-schema.json

Other Resources

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Portal
https://developers.plex.com/docs
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Postman
https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/15704995/UVJfjvCx

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OpenAPI Specification

rockwell-automation-digital-work-instructions-api-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Plex (Rockwell Automation) Connect Digital Work…
  version: '2026-10-20'
  description: Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform REST APIs, converted mechanically from the structured operation documents the Plex Developer Portal (developers.plex.com, a Rockwell Automation property) serves at /api/documentation/{api}/{operation}. No operations were authored by hand.
  x-generated-from: provider-documentation-json
  x-source: https://developers.plex.com/api/documentation/info
servers:
- url: https://connect.plex.com
  description: Production
- url: https://test.connect.plex.com
  description: Test (from https://developers.plex.com/api/sandbox/url)
security:
- PlexConnectApiKey: []
tags:


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