.NET engineering software

Automation Framework is the development platform for the easy and fast development of own integrated .NET-based engineering tools.

With Automation Framework you can create integrated and homogenous software applications for different engineering tasks in automation.

The most important features of Automation Framework:

• Standardized look and feel of the software tools
• Consistent handling of all integrated software tools
• Common and consistent data of all software components that are integrated in one platform
• Fast development of new .NET-based software tools by reusing existing components

MULTIPROG 10 is based on Automation Framework. This means you can create automation tools modularly from a number of components. Programming according to IEC 61131 can be combined with other .NET-based tools, e.g. for configuration, parameterization, visualization and construction.

Automation technology today

Automation solutions are getting more and more complex, the engineering effort is growing continuously, the degree of automation is increasing steadily. It is increasingly more difficult and requires more effort and costs to solve centralized and decentralized control tasks economically and efficiently.

Requirements are:

• Open and integrated automation platforms
• Pre-programmed functional machine units which can be reused as a solution
• Minimum development time and costs for individual device versions
• Maximum reusability of (software) components
• Optimum maintainability and easy to change
• Maximum reliability
• Minimum test/application effort for individual versions

In comparison, the tools used today are device dependent and are often incompatible with each other, which results in huge integration efforts for heterogeneous systems. Synergy effects cannot be recorded very often, which frequently makes it impossible to calculate time and costs for software projects.

Automation Framework and MULTIPROG 10 provide the solution!