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Read the Full StoryKEPServerEX 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. KEPServerEX leverages OPC (the automation industry’s standard for interoperability) and IT-centric communication protocols (such as SNMP, ODBC, and web services) to provide users with a single source for industrial data.
Ready to get connected? Contact sales or purchase drivers, suites, and advanced plug-ins today.
KEPServerEX provides the connectivity, usability, and performance required by the modern enterprise
—offering competitive benefits from the plant floor to IT to the boardroom.
Secure
Advanced application security features to meet site security requirements. Enhanced messaging security via SSL and TLS across network topologies.
Reliable
The KEPServerEX code base is trusted on more than 75,000 sites globally and was built by industrial automation connectivity experts.
Scalable
Scalable unified architecture, providing the flexibility to combine drivers and consume multiple protocols in a single server.
KEPServerEX connects disparate devices and applications, from plant control systems
to enterprise information systems.
Here’s a closer look at how connecting devices and applications from the shop floor
to the top floor supports a variety of use cases.
Support the broadest range of drivers available, including current and legacy devices across various verticals, a variety of wired and wireless network mediums, and connectivity to databases, custom software applications, and other OPC servers.
Provide data access for client applications (such as MES and SCADA) and IoT and Big Data analytics software via OPC, proprietary protocols, IT protocols, and flow measurement export to common Oil & Gas industry formats.
Simplify the configuration of connected applications by providing a single point of entry to all information—eliminating the need to purchase, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain multiple disparate solutions for discrete connectivity.
Control user access to the server, data source, or data values, regulate read/write access, provide the ability to connect or disconnect client applications, and support the configuration of secure data tunnels.
Isolate device and application communications for troubleshooting, offering OPC diagnostics for real-time and historical views of OPC events and communications diagnostics to capture the protocol frames transferred between the server and any device.
Sharing data and increasing visibility between your industrial systems can positively impact key business metrics—from quality and compliance to speed and efficiency.
A single source of industrial automation data for all your applications, KEPServerEX provides critical technical features that enable accessibility, aggregation, optimization, connectivity, security, and diagnostics. Explore the latest features and enhancements that make KEPServerEX enterprise-ready and IoT-friendly.
The KEPServerEX connectivity platform offers simultaneous accessibility to client applications through an ever-growing list of supported industry standards, proprietary technologies, and native client interfaces including:
With the Configuration API, remotely apply programmatic changes to KEPServerEX configuration via third-party client applications that utilize a REST-based API—such as web clients, SCADA software that supports HTTP, and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. With minimal programming, remotely change any project and use templates to standardize creation and naming among different device types. All changes take effect immediately. The Configuration API is helpful for users with large, constantly changing projects.
The Configuration API offers the features needed to bundle actions into a single transaction, programmatically complete key tasks, and easily optimize KEPServerEX performance such as:
Explore it further by downloading the sample Configuration API code today.
Top-tier Kepware drivers and core components of KEPServerEX are localized into Japanese, German and Simplified Chinese. These localizations give native Japanese, German and Chinese speaking-users more accessibility and confidence when configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting KEPServerEX.
Language selection is easy to access, so users can change their preferred language at any time. Japanese, German and Simplified Chinese localizations are installed by default where available.
Media Level Redundancy establishes a redundant connection to a single device or a pairing of two devices.
Media Level Redundancy for KEPServerEX enables users to quickly and easily establish redundancy, ensuring reliable communications with critical assets. In the event of a failure, Media Level Redundancy allows the duplicate device or redundant system to take over without interrupting service—preventing data loss, maximizing uptime and increasing the availability of industrial data. Redundancy supported includes:
Kepware's OPC tunneling solution uses a client/server architecture for secure and reliable real-time data tunneling through firewalls and across the internet, WAN, or LAN. It allows for easy remote communications between devices, data sources, and applications by eliminating the reliance on Microsoft COM and DCOM technology.
Key OPC tunneling benefits include:
Streamline your OPC data and project security. KEPServerEX Security Policies allow administrators to assign security access permissions on individual objects (such as channels, devices, and tags) based on user roles. It is used in conjunction with the server's User Manager, which enables management of user groups, users, and default security settings. Security Policies are included with KEPServerEX, no additional purchases required. The tools allow you to:
With minimal configuration required, the ThingWorx Native Interface feeds industrial data—provided by KEPServerEX—directly into ThingWorx. All the data in KEPServerEX is immediately available to browse within the ThingWorx Composer, so users can easily manage tags for all their connected Things, visualize and analyze data, kick off events in other systems, and more.
The ThingWorx Native Interface takes less than ten minutes to implement—enabling unparalleled time-to-value for IoT applications across diverse industries.
Key benefits of the ThingWorx Native Interface for KEPServerEX include:
KEPServerEX gives industrial enterprises the tools they need to overcome connectivity challenges. Connect disparate industrial systems and devices from plant control to enterprise IT with one source of automation data. Explore our industry-specific case studies to learn more about how these solutions are helping companies like yours.
Teel reduced human error in manufacturing by deploying PTC's Internet of Things solutions to automate processes on the shop floor.
Read the Full StoryHirotec launched an IOT initiative supported by industrial data from Kepware to reduce reactive maintenance and minimize downtime.
Read the Full StoryFacing new traceability requirements across 330 sites across 34 countries, leading automotive equipment supplier Faurecia utilized Kepware solutions to standardize operations across the entire organization.
Read the Full StoryAbb, a leading power and automation company integrated KEPServerEX for scalability across thousands of well sites.
Read the Full StoryBrembo relied on KEPServerEX to integrate disparate sources of process data and gain insights into plant floor operations.
Read the Full StoryAs a global provider of contract drilling services, Rowan was able to implement an all-encompassing data initiative utilizing Kepware within a mere six months, enabling secure data transfer, real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and more between onshore and offshore locations.
Read the Full StoryReady to see how KEPServerEX solves common connectivity challenges? Watch this two-minute video on how the KEPServerEX connectivity platform provides secure and reliable access to real-time industrial data so everyone from the shop floor to the top floor can make smarter decisions.
Discover how the KEPServerEX connectivity platform can transform your operations with streamlined industrial connectivity solutions and how it's helping to transform businesses like yours today.
The following frequently asked questions can help you navigate the KEPServerEX product offerings.
There is no specific line item or cost associated with KEPServerEX when making a purchase. KEPServerEX is sold “à la carte” based on the different drivers and advanced plug-ins needed to establish the desired communications. These are what determine the price.
KEPServerEX is more than an OPC server—it's a connectivity platform for industrial automation and IoT. Simply download KEPServerEX, and then select from Kepware's library of more than 150 device drivers, client drivers, and advanced plug-ins to fit the communication requirements unique to your industrial control system.
A suite is a collection of drivers and advanced plug-ins for KEPServerEX. These products have been bundled into suites by vertical industry, device manufacturer, or industrial application for the convenience of our customers.
Additional suites can be licensed on demand as connectivity needs evolve.
A driver is a software component that enables KEPServerEX to meet the connectivity requirements of a specific device, system, or other data source. The driver handles all proprietary communications to the data source for KEPServerEX; the client interfaces handle all supported OPC, proprietary, and open standards connectivity to applications that monitor or control the devices. Drivers may be licensed individually or in suites.
Additional drivers can be licensed on demand as connectivity needs evolve.
An advanced plug-in extends the capabilities of the KEPServerEX connectivity platform. It provides enhanced server functionality, increasing the usefulness of data by transforming it beyond raw data in a device register.
Advanced plug-ins may be licensed individually or as part of suites, and can be licensed on demand as connectivity needs evolve.
The majority of our products are not sold with a limit. There are, however, a handful of products that are sold on a tiered basis as it relates to device or tag count. Please feel free to contact us if you need help identifying those products.
Kepware products are currently licensed on a permanent basis. Once you have acquired the license with the initial product purchase, you do not have to purchase it again.
While a Support & Maintenance Agreement is mandatory for the first year, extending it is strongly encouraged as it provides you with on-going access to our Technical Support team and upgrades to the latest version of the KEPServerEX connectivity platform (generally released two times a year).
KEPServerEX products are licensed on a per server basis; each server would need its own license. As an example, if you had two servers that needed to utilize our Allen-Bradley Suite, you would need to purchase two Allen-Bradley Suite product licenses—one for each instance of KEPServerEX.
Yes—Whether you’re an existing PTC Kepware customer or if you’re ready to start your connectivity journey, a subscription plan is available that will give you access to the following among its many perks:
Find out how the subscription plan can up-level the benefits of your current or future Kepware implementation in our Kepware Enterprise Licensing E-book.
Discover what KEPServerEX can do for your business with a free trial download. The demo software is fully functional and only limited in its runtime to 2-hour periods. Channel, Device, and Tag counts are unlimited. If further testing or proof of concept is required, please contact us to extend your free trial.
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