Kepware: Optimizing Factory Operations for 25+ Years
Delivering solutions to meet the the demands of industrial automation applications, Kepware connectivity provides benefits to the plant floor, IT and the boardroom.
What is Kepware?
Kepware is a portfolio of industrial connectivity solutions that help businesses connect diverse automation devices and software applications. Utilizing a scalable, unified architecture, Kepware provides the flexibility to combine drivers and consume multiple protocols in a single server while offering a streamlined interface for simple installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
The benefits of Kepware
What could you accomplish if all your machines across all manufacturing operations were speaking the same language? Kepware provides critical technical features that enable accessibility, aggregation, optimization, connectivity, security, and diagnostics.
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Accesibility
Kepware provides data access for industrial client applications (such as MES and SCADA) and IoT (Internet of Things) and big data analytics software via OPC, proprietary protocols, and IT protocols. -
Aggregation
Kepware simplifies connected application configuration by providing a single point of entry to all information—eliminating the need for multiple solutions for discrete connectivity. -
Connectivity
Kepware drivers support a broad range of protocols found in various verticals, wired and wireless networks, databases, custom software applications, and OPC servers.
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Diagnostics
Kepware isolates device and application communications for troubleshooting, offering OPC diagnostics for real-time and historical views of OPC events. -
Optimization
Kepware optimizes communications and reduces network and device load via data conditioning and reduction, and protocol-specific optimization. -
Security
Kepware offers tools to control user server access, data source, or data values, regulate read/write access, connect or disconnect client applications, and configure secure data tunnels.
The Kepware Product Suite
Kepware delivers industrial-strength solutions that are designed, tested, and certified to meet the demands of industrial automation applications. Learn more about our portfolio of industrial connectivity solutions that help our customers connect diverse automation devices and software applications.
KEPServerEX
KEPServerEX is the industry’s leading connectivity platform that provides a single source of industrial automation data to all your applications. Users can connect, manage, monitor, and control diverse automation devices and software applications through one intuitive user interface.
LinkMaster
LinkMaster provides a means of linking data between OPC servers, thus serving as a universal bridge for OPC systems. LinkMaster acts as both an OPC server and DDE server, allowing it to bridge legacy DDE systems and new OPC-enabled applications.
RedundancyMaster
RedundancyMaster increases the reliability and availability of your OPC data by allowing multiple OPC servers to be configured into redundant pairs. Each redundant pair seamlessly appears as a single OPC server to any OPC client application. RedundancyMaster can be added to an existing client/server application without any reconfiguration of the application, keeping your processes going without any downtime.
ThingWorx Kepware Edge
ThingWorx Kepware Edge allows valuable features of KEPServerEX to be deployed in Linux-based environments, enabling connectivity directly at the site of the machine, device, or sensor. The product utilizes secure, efficient, and IoT-ready protocols such as OPC UA or MQTT to connect to local, remote, and cloud-based applications or platforms.
ThingWorx Kepware Server
ThingWorx Kepware Server unlocks industrial data from all your sensors and equipment—including legacy assets—so you can connect across an entire factory or enterprise with confidence.