Automation Framework, the open .NET engineering platform

Automation Framework is a very open Microsoft .NET based engineering platform for automation engineering.

With Automation Framework, a long-term software strategy can be realized. This is because: Automation Framework enables the economical realization of functional software tools and integrative software platforms in automation with Microsoft.NET!

Development platform and software strategy

The situation of the automation sector ...

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 control tasks economically and efficiently. Requirements of today are:

• Minimum development time and costs for individual device versions
• Maximum reusability of (software) components
• Optimum maintainability and possibility to change
• Maximum reliability
• Minimum test/application effort for individual versions

But: 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 etc.

Open up optimization potentials with Automation Framework!

The solution: Automation Framework

The answer to this problem is Automation Framework, the open .NET engineering platform for medium-sized businesses. Automation Framework is an independent and embracing approach, which is suited as a basis for the development of integrated software tools, individual software platforms and implementation of functional engineering.

Depending on the purpose we distinguish between different use cases of Automation Framework. You use Automation Framework as "Tool Builder", as "Suite Builder" or use our KW-Software Solution Suite:

What are your advantages of using Automation Framework?

Based on the Tool Builder, device manufacturers and manufacturers of engineering software develop their tools at least 2 times faster and thus more efficiently than ever before. Development of the tools is simplified because tools are now created mainly through configuration and reuse of available objects, instead of programming.

With the Suite Builder, system architects and manufacturers of automation hardware and software create their own suite for tool integration and use all advantages of Automation Framework at the same time. The integration of existing ("traditional") software as well as new .NET-based tools is supported optimally.

The KW-Solution Suite is the realization of KW-Software based on the Suite Builder. It is intended for the machine and system manufacturer who uses functional engineering for plant modularization. This Suite already contains the integration of the KW-Software engineering tools (MULTIPROG, ProVisIT).

 [Details of the Tool Builder]
 [Details of the Suite Builder]
 [KW-Solution Suite details]