"In 2018, we upgraded a cement plant’s grinding mill from pushbuttons to SCADA. Budget was $10k. Siemens WinCC was $18k. Movicon 11.5 Control came in at $7.5k with the Modbus driver. We installed it on a Dell OptiPlex with a PCI-e serial card to talk to a dozen Modbus RTU devices. Three years later, the system had 99.98% uptime. The only reboot was for a Windows patch. Visual Logic handled the complex interlocking logic that the old PLC couldn't manage. We still support it today."
— Senior Controls Engineer, Heavy Industry Sector
Movicon 11.5 is a SCADA/HMI platform for industrial automation. It aims to provide modular visualization, data acquisition, control, and historian features with improved performance and integration for modern IIoT environments. movicon 11.5
Unlike proprietary SCADA systems that lock you into specific PLC brands, Movicon 11.5 embraced open standards. It comes bundled with native drivers for over 200 communication protocols, including:
The driver manager in 11.5 is exceptionally stable. A major feature is the Auto-Diagnostic System, which continuously monitors the health of each communication channel without burdening the PLC. "In 2018, we upgraded a cement plant’s grinding
When Movicon 11.5 was at its peak, it competed directly with:
Where Movicon 11.5 won: Price-to-performance ratio. A mid-range Movicon 11.5 runtime license cost roughly 40% less than InTouch while offering more drivers out-of-the-box. The driver manager in 11
Where it struggled: Web deployment. Movicon 11.5’s web server (Movicon Web) required ActiveX and Silverlight plugins—technologies that browsers killed by 2019.
Movicon 11.5 is natively designed for the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. It runs seamlessly on:
The architecture is based on a 32-bit runtime engine, which, while limiting in an era of 64-bit dominance, offers exceptional memory stability and low-latency operations. The development environment (Movicon 11.5 Project Editor) mirrors the feel of Visual Studio 6.0—familiar, fast, and minimalistic. There is no ribbon interface or cloud clutter; everything is toolbar-driven and keyboard-shortcut friendly.
Machine builders love Movicon 11.5 because they can give one runtime license to a customer, locked to a specific machine. The recipe management system stores hundreds of product formulations (e.g., filling volumes, sealing temperatures).