Allen-Bradley Suite
Product Overview
The Allen-Bradley Suite is a collection of Allen-Bradley drivers that have been bundled together for users’ convenience. It supports multiple protocol networks, seamlessly connecting a wide range of Allen-Bradley PLC and motion controllers to HMI/SCADA, MES/Historian, ERP, IoT, and custom OPC client applications—enabling Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things.
The Allen-Bradley Suite is especially helpful for users in the Manufacturing Industry, where various Allen-Bradley products are often used in the process, assembly, robotics, packaging, and material handling phases of the manufacturing process.
Kepware maintains a longstanding relationship with Rockwell Automation. This ensures that drivers remain compatible with legacy, current, and future Allen-Bradley equipment—as well as new firmware versions. As part of Rockwell Automation’s PartnerNetwork Encompass Program, Kepware has a reputation for delivering products that provide the highest level of connectivity to the Rockwell Automation architecture.
- Multithreaded architecture capable of connecting thousands of channels and devices and millions of tags (1024 channels, 1024 devices per channel, and an unlimited number of tags per device in a single server install)
- Advanced performance and communication optimization through the support of Symbol Instance Addressing, a CIP message size of up to 4000 bytes, parallel device connections, CIP multi-request packets, array reads, and physical and symbolic protocol modes
- Solicited and unsolicited communications for flexible system designs
- Real-time Automatic Tag Generation from an online Logix controller for easy data discovery and integration
- Logix device routing for access to devices on ControlNet, DH+, EtherNet/IP, and other brokered network topologies
- Extensive error handing
- Rich device communication and server diagnostics
- English
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Allen-Bradley Logix Family: ControlLogix, CompactLogix, MicroLogix, FlexLogix, and SoftLogix
- Allen-Bradley Micro 800 Series
- Allen-Bradley PLC5 and SLC
- Allen-Bradley ENI modules for Logix, PLC5 and SLC
- Smart, Micro, and Hardbook SoftPLC
- For ControlLogix Unsolicited: ControlLogix devices using CIP Data Table Writes
- For Unsolicited Ethernet: Allen-Bradley PLCs programmed to send PLC-2 type commands
Note: Unlisted devices may be supported. For a complete listing, please contact Kepware.
- EtherNet/IP
- DF1 Full and Half Duplex
- DH+ and DH485
- ControlNet via Logix Routing
- Ethernet Encapsulation for Serial RS-232 protocols