Progea

Over 25 years of passion for innovation
and still going strong

The Company

Dynamic evolution is the basis of Progea’s philosophy.

The Progea group, with HQ in Modena, have been producing SCADA/HMI platforms for industrial SUPERVISION for over 25 years with a constant increase in yearly turnover and profits. They have gained a stronghold on the international market with exponential growth worldwide. Today, the Progea group has a Team of 40 employees operating throughout their Italian offices in Modena, Milano and Padova, and branches in Germany, USA and Switzerland where their international distribution is coordinated.

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Progea also has personnel operating throughout a sales and distribution network of agencies and distributors at home and abroad. Progea’s insight to regulate its growth has paid off in the last three years by investing many of its resources in marketing without abandoning its commitment to Research and Development which lies at the roots of their philosophy.

A dedicated team and a motivated group

Group harmony empowers optimal information sharing that render product integration possible at all levels. Enthusiasm and efforts of the group’s work are clearly shown in the resulting product quality to the benefit of all customers. The company is efficiently organized to design, support and promote one of the most powerful SCADA software on the international market today. The numerous Progea branches in Italy and abroad, a national and international sales and distributor network all refer to the company headquarters based in Modena, Italy. Progea currently employs more than 45 personnel of whom 75% are engineers and technicians dedicated to product development and customer care services.

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Management

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Paolo Fiorani

Founder

General Manager

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Claudio Fiorani

Founder

R&D Manager

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Giuseppe Bettini

Partner

Technical Manager

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Maurizio Zaniboni

Partner

Product Manager

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Alberto Rabboni

Partner

R&D Interfaces Manager

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Stefano Gozzi

Partner

R&D Senior

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Jean-Marc Willems

Partner

Key Account & Business Developer

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Detlef Brenndoerfer

Progea Deutschland GmbH

Sales Manager

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Marco Severini

Progea

Global Sales Manager

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Sergio Somaschini

Progea International SA

Export Manager

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Scott Ludwing

Progea North America Corp.

General Manager

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Since 1991, enthusiasm
and innovation.

Since 1991, Progea has been paving the way in the world of evolutional Industrial supervision, representing a reliable and competent reference point for all its customers. Right from the start Progea chose to develop their company based on their product technology know-how, customer help services, quality and professionalism. The past twenty five years have seen the company grow to become a unique Italian reality in the International sector of SCADA/HMI software. ’Present in your future’ is the company’s slogan and mission to offer nothing but the best in advance technology. Progea would like to express their deepest gratitude to all their international customers and partners for choosing them.

1991
Progea began operating as a software house in the automation sector. Progea initially focused its activities on the industrial supervision sector by developing applications for Windows-based PCs. In response to increasing demand, they decided to concentrate efforts on developing supervision platform software that was open, simple and intuitive and based on Windows based on their own experience and of those deriving from the market of system integrators.
1995
With the arrival of Windows 95 and Windows NT, Progea released Movicon 7, a new product generation for Win32 (32 bit) platforms, rewriting the initial 16 bit C code with new C ++ compilers.
1999
Progea Deutschland GmbH GmbH went into operation allowing Progea Srl, the mother company, to confront the German market head on being and the most important market in Europe.
2004
After constant product evolution, the company took another gigantic leap forward when releasing the revolutionary Movicon X, product version. This version incorporated emergent technologies, such as XML, SVG and Web Services, within the panorama of SCADA/HMI. By implementing these new technologies into their products, the company attracted more attention in the European market sectors and gained new important partnerships with multinational companies operating in the world of automation.
2009
Progea International, went into operation by setting up offices in Lugano (CH) with the mission to manage the international distribution network and promote Progea worldwide.
2013
The year that anticipated the release of Movicon.NExT, the brand new product generation. Windows 8 was also released and after 20 years in operation Progea proved once again to be the most innovative company in its sector. The new future-proof Movicon.NExT technology exceeded rival products and reconfirmed the state of art in SCADA/HMI platforms.
2020
Progea international presence is stronger as a result of important innovation projects and were developed and new strategic partnerships undertaken in 2019. This is the year that awaits the greatly anticipated Movicon.NExT 4.0, a platform completely redesigned to once again revolutionize the international panaramo of SCADA / HMI / MES.
1992
The “P.M.E. Project”(Progea Monitoring Environment) went into action. This led to the release of the first product for Windows 3.11 called Movicon (Monitoring, Vision & Control). as SCADA/HMI platform software for creating supervision, monitoring and control applications. Even though an experimental version, its huge success convinced the company to invest all its resources into developing it further.
1998
In response to the successes of the first trade fairs, Progea launched an expansion plan. Their new business strategy involved investing in a territorial sales structure by creating branches in Italy and overseas to support an international distribution network.
2000
Progea continued expanding by opening another branch near Milan and employing additional personnel to establish a nationwide sales network. The following year, Progea invested in larger modern offices in via S.Anna in Modena. This was a spacious and technological building designed to accommodate the company’s activities better. In the meantime, Movicon 9, was launched, a superior, more reliable and all included platform that increased the company’s success further by supporting Windows CE as well.
2008
Product evolution continued with the release of Movicon™11 which soon became a technological reference point within its sector. Its enhanced performance, openness, flexibility and reliability offered users even greater satisfaction. The success of Movicon 11 encouraged the company to push harder towards internalization.
2011
Progea celebrates 20 years in operation and the opening of a new branch in Wisconsin in the USAProgea USA LLC, The R&D team make further headway on new technologies by developing the future generation of Movicon, based on WPF, OPC UA, Silverlight, HTML5 and XAML technologies.
2016
The company celebrated 25 years in operation with many new future-proof innovation projects designed for Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, where Progea's innovative technology continues to be a reference point. The company HQ move to a new and modern building in Via Via D’Annunzio in Modena, Northern Italy: a modern and technologically designed building provides ample space to develop and expand the innovative technology of their software.

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