Kepware and AWS
The collaboration between Kepware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) brings together best-in-class industrial connectivity with powerful AWS analytics, AI/ML, and data management services. This proven combination helps manufacturers accelerate smart manufacturing, turning OT data into insights to unlock innovation while ensuring cybersecurity.
Global industrial manufacturer unlocks AI-powered insights
"By deploying Kepware and integrating with AWS, we’ve unlocked real-time access to critical OT data across global sites, enabling AI-powered insights that are driving measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, and uptime. This collaboration helps us accelerate Industry 4.0, while ensuring scalability and security."
Shawn Eads, CIO, PennEngineering
Kepware AWS use cases
Predictive maintenance
A global automotive manufacturer struggling with unplanned downtime caused by unexpected production stops deployed Kepware and AWS for predictive maintenance. The solution reduced downtime by 40% and saved $2.8 million dollars annually with:
- Kepware industrial connectivity to access data across 15 plants
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) data lake to aggregate data
AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon SageMaker to analyze historical and real-time data for predicting failures.
Asset monitoring
A large renewable energy provider needed visibility into their wind farm operations to identify and address underperforming assets. The solution improves performance by up to 15% by leveraging:
- Kepware and AWS IoT Greengrass to access machine data from 2,200 wind turbines and send encrypted data to AWS IoT Core
- Amazon S3 Data Lake for data storage and Amazon Redshift for analysis
- Automated corrective actions and work order creation when necessary and engineering teams can remediate based on observations from the analytic charts, even deploying solutions remotely from a central control room
Energy optimization
An oil and gas enterprise reduced energy consumption by 15% across its drilling operations by:
- Connecting sensors and control systems via Kepware to AWS IoT Care for real-time energy monitoring
- Using AWS SiteWise and Amazon QuickSight to identify inefficiencies and inform operational adjustments
Quality track and trace
- Kepware securely logs data from production lines and sends it to Amazon S3 with versioning and encryption for storage
- AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon Athena detect early deviations in product quality, enabling rapid corrective action
- Centralized, time-stamped data logs simplify audits, reduce manual reporting, and enhance traceability
Kepware AWS features
Device connectivity
Kepware industrial connectivity normalizes data from virtually any industrial device via 150+ unique device drivers that reliably translate hundreds of industrial network protocols.
Secure integrations
Kepware uses MQTT with AWS Greengrass and IoT Core to share asset data and Industrial IoT data with the AWS ecosystem, streaming real-time data to AWS IoT SiteWise using OPC UA and AWS IoT Greengrass for industrial equipment monitoring at scale.
Data storage
Ingest data from Kepware into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT SiteWise, and other Amazon Services for secure, scalable storage.
Data management
Centralize OT data in a secure AWS data lake, use AWS Glue to create ETL pipelines, and query with Amazon Athena or Amazon Redshift for analytics.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
Leverage Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy ML models, and use generative AI services, such as Amazon Q Business, to answer questions, generate insights, and accelerate decision-making.
Connect Kepware and AWS IoT Greengrass
View the video to the right for guidance on how to integrate Kepware seamlessly and securely to AWS IoT Greengrass using Kepware’s IoT Gateway (MQTT).