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Company Details
Progea SRL
Membership Type: Corporate MemberMember Since: 08/02
Company Contact Information
Progea SRL
Via Sant’ Anna 88/E
41100 Modena
Italy
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Website: www.progea.com
Company Overview
Progea went into operation in 1990 in response to strong demands for software and services in the
automation sector. Their vast experience and ever increasing know-how, through research and
collaborating with leading companies, has matured to secure the foundations for developing user
interface solutions with their major Movicon Scada platform product based on their steadfast
philosophy of openness, quality, scalability and innovation combined with userfriendliness and
cost effectiveness. Thorough research is always ongoing in technology, ergonomics and
affordability to sustain and produce concrete all-in-one scada software that can be deployed in
absolutely any industrial and civil sector. The Progea products are rebranded by prestigious
worldwide players in the automation field among which include Phoenix Contact, Panasonic, Asem,
just to name but a few.

Progea has now gone International with subsidiaries in the major European countries including
Germany Switzerland and Italy, employing over 40 personnel. These subsidiaries present and sell
the Progea products through a capillary sales network covering all of Europe and beyond through a
global distribution network across USA, and Asia. Over 20 years of experience and 40,000
installations worldwide, providing technical support and top notch customer support, places them
at the top of one of the leading professional contenders in the industrial software product field
with worldwide recognition at a steady growing rate of 25% per year. Among many of its client
references listed are:

Ferrari
Nissan
Suzuki
Ford
Rolls Royce
Philip Morris
ABB
ENI
ESSO
TEXACO
SOL
Nestlè
Barilla
Campari
Perrier
Sasib
Carel
Tetrapak
SKF
Olivetti
Brausse Group
Saint Gobain
Procter & Gamble
Primary Markets
Each sector has its own specific history, knowhow and Certification Requirements all of which have
entirely been translated into the various features belonging to the Movicon scada platform for
quick, flexible and reliable vertical application implementation.

Movicon is equipped with all the necessary tools and can be easily integrated into shop floor and
plant systems through a network of distributed RTUs to run the various machine processes, relaying
all information to main servers in a historical recorded in a preferred database (all of the most
popular formats supported) allowing trending and other analytical auditing as crucially required
by any solution implemented in the automotive field.

In the Energy Field, accurate real time information, transmitted by specific and safe protocols,
can be kept under control by Movicon locally or remotely from the main control room housing
servers configured with hot backup architecture. Quick failure analyses can be produced thanks to
a powerful alarm and notification management combined with complete reporting facilities, with Mes
web KPI calculations for OEE indexing, available locally in internet or in intranet means reliable
energy production and supply with cost effectiveness in a increasingly competitive sector where
most government run power companies have become private enterprises.
Movicon also includes Millisec Field Time-stamps, interlocking functionalities between
clients/Servers and fast data-Logging, which are not just essential components to the energy
sector only.

Application design is particularly important and critical for the Food and Beverage or
Pharmaceutical sectors. Design engineers are spoilt for choice with a vast variety of tools
offered as standard into the Movicon suite including those for ISO ready project planning and
those for offering FDA 21CFR Part 11 standard conformity. Government agency inspections are
clamping down more than ever on price regulation and drug productivity monitoring in addition to
another great strain felt by many traditional pharmaceutical companies comes from the
manufacturing and increasing popularity to use the cheaper generic drugs. This makes it even
greater an need to have Audit Trail, Tracing and protected database managements in order to keep
up to government standards and stay competitive in an environment constantly looking to increasing
productivity and profit, decrease rejects, improve quality, with fast delivery with price
effectiveness.

The full integration of modem/router connectivity for interfacing remote RTU combined together with
powerful Webclient solutions for realtime web monitoring warrantee save remote control for the
water/wastewater treatment and drinking water sectors. The Embedded Web report facilities consent
powerful analyses to be performed, printed, archived and exported. The alarm dispatcher modules
permit prompt alarm notifications via sms, fax, email to allow quick intervention.

Movicon can also be applied to Building automation using the purposely designed Movicon BA software
offering many solutions for controlling private and public buildings and surrounding areas, such
as access, entrance control with CCTV, lighting, central heating, air conditioning (HVAC), with,
fire and intruder alarm and safety systems.

Controlling and monitoring any of the above applications can be intensified or dispatched to the
user’s smartphone or PDA. Movicon offers many solutions for third party integration (SAP), with
an intuitive database interface, open source project xml-base resources, a powerful Vba script
engine and many other powerful features.

Movicon has been installed in many sectors which include Automotive, Food & Beverage, Chemical, Oil
& Gas, Pulp & Paper, Metal & Mining, Plastics, Chemical, Consumer Products, Packaging, Utilities,
Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Water/Wastewater,Electronics, Power/Energy: Automation is
essential to all these sectors. Car manufacturing companies have to rely on the best flexible and
technologically innovated solutions to deliver especially safe and competitive end products, Food
and beverages cover all varieties that need to be safe for consumer consumption right through the
recipe stage to packing it off to the supermarket. Paper, metal and Plastics are now more
adventurous in variety of solutions with different shapes, sizes and colors. Mining, chemical,
Oil & Gas, Power/Energy plants are all critical and hazardous environments that need very careful
O/I monitoring and control at all times. Pharmaceutical industry if not programmed with the right
measures may be lethal, Water/Wastewater need complete control for general public safety. Train
station and Airport management and safety are essential to any passenger not to mention workers.
These are just some other aspects to take into consideration.

Movicon connects the shop floor to the managerial and administration offices, to become one truly
enterprise-wide company where everything and everyone is tuned in on the same wave length with one
main aim: to stay at the top.
Product Overview
Movicon12.Next: is the next revolutionary generation of Movicon .net based implemented with the most
recent Microsoft technologies, proposing real life-like 3D vectorial graphics and animation,
totally renewed concept in terms of data exchanging with the field though a totally integrated OPC
UA interface, a totally renewed concept in terms of client/server technologies, networking and
webclient technologies.

Movicon 11: the well known and most intuitive scada platform available on the market for your
powerful scada applications offering full connectivity to any database system within a few clicks:
Oracle, SQL, MySQL, open source xml based project resources, redundancy in hot-backup for zero
system failure.

Movicon 11 CE: Your solution for embedded devices whether light hmi or powerful scada solutions,
with no big different when it comes to the main features which nearly all have been provided: sql
datalogging, VBA scripting, webclient ....

Movicon 11 CE POCKET: a small server to run on your PDA for server synchronization in wifi/GPRS
network when requested.

Movicon 11 BA: the Movicon solution specifically designed for building automation/domotics with
specific drivers, symbol libraries and objects to assist you in your design covering all aspects
of public and private building need.

Movtracer: an essential tool for collecting production data on database to extract and analyze for
getting overall production efficiency indexes from various sources via production .net-based
reports. A must have for staying competitive.

Webclient: a powerful java based solution for remote access of server applications in
intranet/internet network using mobile phone or computer.

REMOTE CONTROL
MovBridge© is a software product designed to connect wireless third party applications or remote
devices enabled with SMS message management.
MovBridge is easy-to-use and secure when you need to exchange data using the OPC and GSM standards.
Products
MoviconClient Server Partially Tested 
MoviconClient Server Tested 
Movicon.ne(x)tClient Server Partially Tested 
Attendance at Interoperability Workshops
IOP 2005 - Nuremberg
IOP 2009 - Nuremberg
IOP 2010 - Nuremberg
IOP 2011 - Nuremberg
Marketing Contacts
Sales Manager: Willems Jean-Marc (Login Required)
Additional Company Locations
Progea Deutschland GmbH
Pankstrasse 8-10
D-13127 Berlin
Germany
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Email: (Login Required)
Website: www.progea.de