IEC 61131

MULTIPROG®
control

EXPRESS 5.50

Your advantages
-- Comfortable and intuitive
programming system with
intelligent additional functions
-- Fast runtime system for extremely
powerful control solutions
-- PLC programming in IEC 61131-3 and
high-level language (C#)

MULTIPROG Express is a less complex for clarity and plainness reasons): one
version of the well known IEC 61131 configuration, one resource and five tasks
programming system MULTIPROG. This are allowed per project.
slight and easy-to-use programming tool
mainly focuses on less complex PLC MULTIPROG Express
application programming and addresses MULTIPROG Express supports the
also to “IEC beginners”. programm­ing languages Instruction List (IL),
Structured Text (ST), Ladder Diagram (LD),
To satisfy these demands, MULTIPROG Function Block Diagram (FBD), and
Express has got an even more convenient Sequential Function Chart (SFC).
user interface and passes on some expert
features. Further outstanding features include:
-- A project manager including library
Nevertheless, MULTIPROG Express still management
provides a wide range of proven functionali­ -- Project Wizard and Edit Wizard
ty for a comfortable project creation, fast -- The modern Ladder Editor that facilitates
application development as well as easy the development of graphical LD/FBD
downloading, monitoring and commission­ code
ing of the PLC program. Additionally, -- Text editor with syntax highlighting
MULTIPROG Express provides some more -- and IntelliSense
intelligent automatisms such as the inser­ -- Grid-based variables editor for
tion of program instances within tasks or easy and error-preventing declaration
an easy to use variable handling. of variables and FB instances
-- Cross references window available
MULTIPROG Express is suited in an optimal in edit and debug mode
way to the IEC 61131 PLC runtime system -- Code compilation that is optimized
ProConOS embedded CLR which is the to only compile the changed parts
new, open and unified .NET-based runtime of the project
for embedded targets. -- Integrated PLC simulation with
expanded simulation mode
Intuitive functions and features support the -- Debugging and commissioning
user in all phases of the automation project: functions such as logic analyzer,
-- Project handling breakpoints, address debugging,
-- Creation of the control application single step mode, overwriting and
-- Parameterization and configuration of forcing of variables and recipes
the control -- A watch window with continuous
-- Code generation instance information
-- Test, commissioning and service -- A detailed, context-sensitive help system
-- Documentation -- User interface languages in English,
-- Archiving German, Chinese and Japanese

To simplify the project handling, the

hard­ware structure has been limited (again
 IEC 61131
control

System specification
PC system Processor Min. 1,6 GHz

RAM Win 7: 500 MB

Hard disk Min. 500 MByte free

Communication TCP/IP and/or RS232

Operating systems Win 7 (32 Bit + 64 Bit) or higher

Data types Bit stream BOOL(1/8), BYTE(8), WORD(16), DWORD(32)

Numeric SINT(8), INT(16), DINT(32), USINT(8), UINT(16), UDINT(32),

REAL(32), Time (TIME), arrays (ARRAY),
structures (STRUCT) and strings (STRING)

System limits Nodes in the project tree 8000

Configurations/resources in the project tree 1/1

Program instances per resource 11

Tasks per resource(1) 5

Program instances per task 15

Global variables/local variables per POU 5000 / 1500

Included libraries 32

POUs in one project (incl. POUs of libraries) 256

Number of I/Os supported per project 128 Kbytes

I/O groups 200

(1) Only periodic and default tasks

Scope of supply
-- Software
-- Online help system

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