KW-Software is the worldwide leading software manufacturer of IEC 61131 programming and runtime systems in the field of industrial control and automation technology. KW-Software is also predominant provider of software for safety technology according to IEC 61508 up to SIL3.

MULTIPROG is the leading IEC 61131 programming system for control applications with medium to high requirements, easy to operate and fully functionable. MULTIPROG is extensively used in different industrial sectors, from machine building and plant construction via the automotive and transport sector up to the process automation.

Our many years of experience in the automation industry, the awareness of the requirements of our customers and the know-how for the implementation of the solutions guarantee a powerful, mature and practice-orientated programming system.

Special Features of MULTIPROG... Apart from its reliability and flexibility, numerous powerful functions, the intuitive user interface frequently praised by users, there are certain features that make MULTIPROG stand out from other programming systems.

• MULTIPROG supports all IEC programming languages (according to definition in IEC 61131-3). You can choose between the five standardised programming languages FBD, LD, IL, ST and SFC, or mix the graphical languages - depending on project requirements or your previous programming knowledge (for example, standard language programmers soon find their way in ST, experienced PLC programmers might prefer LD).
• A Toolkit for adjusting customer-specific runtime systems for controls is available
• Online changes are possible depending on the size of the user program
• MULTIPROG is multilingual, with regard to the user interface as well as project language. User interface in the languages German, English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese
• MULTIPROG supports distributed systems with multiple controls within one project
• Comfortable and efficient programming via powerful resources like wizards, cross references etc
• KW-Software manages a unique MULTIPROG version management with compatible versions  

ProConOS is the real-time and multitasking-capable, IEC-compliant and very fast PLC runtime system. It is designed in such a way that it can be adapted to almost any hardware.

The fact that ProConOS can be combined easily with already existing runtime programs and firmware packages enables PLC manufacturers to offer IEC 61131-compliant systems and keep their own features and capabilities to their full extent at the same time.

Complete PLC functionality - ProConOS enables loading and execution of PLC programs and supplies powerful debug functionalities for programming, commissioning and maintenance of PLC-controlled machines and plants.

High speed - ProConOS executes native machine code, which enables a very high performance.
 
ProConOS embedded and ProConOS Windows SoftPLC - ProConOS is available in different versions. With the installation of ProConOS, a standard hardware platform as well as a specific embedded hardware platform becomes a powerful PLC.

• ProConOS embedded, the real-time-capable solution for embedded systems. ProConOS embedded was adapted to a number of combinations of CPUs and real-time operating systems by KW-Software.
• ProConOS SoftPLC: If an industrial PC is available under Windows for operation and monitoring services, this can take over complete PLC functionality thanks to ProConOS. SoftPLCs include:
  • ProConOS Win RT, the software PLC with hard real-time for industrial PCs under Windows 2000/NT/XP
  • ProConOS Win RT MC, version of the real-time SoftPLC under Windows 2000/NT/XP extended by motion functionality
  • ProConOS Win CE, the real-time-capable software PLC for Windows CE systems
• ProConOS for Linux as SoftPLC and embedded variant for several platforms

The machine visualization ProVisIT stands out for its easy and intuitive usage and its powerful object dynamization. The possibility of instantiating objects several times allows the most effective way of working.

Many mechanical engineers have now resorted to programming machine visualizations in Visual Basic. The reason: The visualization systems available at the market today have mostly been developed for process visualization. Often, they are difficult to adapt to the requirements of the mechanical engineers with regard to functionality and license costs. Visual Basic may not incur any license costs and it enables access to the world of Windows, however, considering the total development costs, starting with the OPC Client for interconnecting the PLC, including user interface programming, the implementation of machine-specific know-how and maintenance and adaptation of the visualization to customer-specific changes on-site, the question arises whether this really is a cost-effective solution.

Another decisive factor: Automation projects are getting more and more complex. This fact requires the usage of software tools which support the trend towards decentralized control concepts and modular mechanical engineering. Functionality is no longer the only decisive criterion when choosing a visualization software. Integration and availability on the most diverse hardware platforms are rather significant today. 

ProVisIT solves these challenges, based on the open approach of programming visualizations in Visual Basic, by providing a graphical editor with an OPC Client interface for creating the graphic. In conjunction with the IEC 61131 MULTIPROG programming system and the IEC 61131 PLC operating system ProConOS, innovative and totally integrated automation solutions can be developed cost-effectively. Projects that were created in the Windows NT/2000/XP development environment can be run on Windows or loaded onto a CE device and executed there. For this purpose, copy, start and stop functions are available in the development system for synchronization of the project data.