What Does SaaS Mean for Industrial Connectivity?
Software as a Service (SaaS) for industrial automation presents an enormous opportunity to manage industrial assets at scale to save time and cost while optimizing productivity. For connected enterprises, a single interface across the industrial automation landscape means that individual devices can be managed remotely and securely. Kepware+ is the management tool that offers a single, simple, modern configuration experience.
Configuration for process control and device connectivity can be painstaking; Kepware+ streamlines managing industrial connectivity at-scale. Unlike other web clients and connectivity solutions, Kepware+ is built alongside industry-leading Kepware server, providing easy access to remotely configure and manage connected equipment across the enterprise. It delivers the quality, security and interoperability that OT organizations need and that IT organizations demand.
Advantages of SaaS Industrial Connectivity Software
Key capabilities of configuring industrial connectivity in a SaaS environment offer benefits beyond traditional architectures and deployments. Adding value to administrators and projects across engineering domains, divisions, and production lines, Kepware+ helps to increase operational efficiency by removing barriers intrinsically related to conventional ‘on-premise’ management activities associated with individual protocols and devices.
Reduce Overhead Cost
Waiting for on-premise access or expertise can be costly. Single points of failure are introduced when production and configuration calibration is reliant on “boots on the ground.” SaaS-based capabilities for key workflows ensure that optimization can happen 24/7.
Embedded Best Practices
Leverage out of the box features with a modernized look and feel in an extensible environment. With built-in best practices and standards, spend less time validating software and integrations, and more time creating value.
Secure Access Points
Mitigate remote access challenges or security concessions often introduced by tools like Remote Desktop. Established infrastructure and edge agent technology enable secure anywhere-access without added risk.
Introducing Kepware+
For over two decades, Kepware has been the gold standard when it comes to bridging data silos by aggregating industrial connectivity across countless disparate device types. Now, Kepware+ streamlines managing industrial connectivity at-scale by providing SaaS capabilities built on a modern technology stack alongside Kepware server, enabling control of multiple installations from any location and delivering the quality, security and interoperability that is reputed globally.
OPC UA Gateway Powered by Kepware+
In today’s manufacturing environment, high volumes of data are requiring industrial leaders to communicate in a much more streamlined way. Seeking to future-proof the plant floor, factories are focused on consolidation and visibility across the enterprise for their automation data.
Kepware’s OPC UA Gateway introduces expanded capabilities for tunneling and structured data translation, namespace aggregation, and federated browsing to consolidate OPC UA connectivity throughout the enterprise.
Success with SaaS Industrial Connectivity Software: Top Kepware+ Features
As part of PTCs digital thread SaaS portfolio, Kepware+ enables key capabilities for industrial automation in a SaaS environment
