Monitor, automatically manage, and empower human control of production processes and machines with ease.
Industrial automation helps manufacturing and other industrial organizations to streamline industrial processes, reduce costs, improve quality control, manage supply chains, and achieve energy efficiency by connecting, monitoring, and programming industrial assets. As part of Industry 4.0 trends, organizations are embracing industrial connectivity, IIoT, data collection, machine vision and machine learning, robotics, programmable logic control, and other solutions to automate production processes and meet today’s most important production goals.
Collect, aggregate, and manage data to easily adjust and improve production. Take action on these insights and adjust machines and processes with simple commands to save time and money.
Use aggregated data and insights to reduce downtime and increase reliability while hitting production targets. Automation helps to eliminate errors and ensure that each run delivers maximized productivity.
Gain visibility into quality control and information accuracy with automation tools for data aggregation, seamless communication, and real-time monitoring of production projects.
Manage the bottom line with less unscheduled downtime and better cost management, by using industrial automation to streamline production management.
Fixed automation, also called hard automation, uses permanent equipment to create a fixed assembly process. It’s often used in environments that rely on standardized machinery to complete set tasks. This type of industrial automation can have a high barrier to entry and be difficult to change. It requires a significant upfront investment. However, in structured environments with high volume production, continuous workflows, and a long-term production plan, fixed automation can yield powerful benefits.
Programmable automation systems
Flexible or soft automation systems empower your team to enter codes into a computer-controlled manufacturing environment. Instructions at each production node can trigger things such as changing tools, loading components, or transferring end products to new machines with ease. In manufacturing settings that serve a range of customers with low-to-medium production volume, flexible automation can provide the benefits of automation with a higher degree of control to support fast-changing production models.
From automotive factories to healthcare and beyond, industrial automation and control is helping manufacturing companies to increase efficiency, reduce cost, and streamline essential production processes. See what our industrial automotive customers are saying.
A distributed control system is an integrated web of sensors, computers, and controllers that are connected through diverse communication networks. By following standard automation protocols, manufacturing companies are able to implement and achieve their production goals through systematic industrial process control planning. Using an HMI (Human Machine Interface) and object-oriented programming, organizations can empower their workforce to use industrial control systems to configure production, improve productivity, and much more.
Kepware has been automating industrial operations for over 25 years. With connectivity solutions for the plant floor, boardroom, field, and beyond, Kepware industrial automation software helps you harness, control, and utilize your industrial data to improve operational performance and efficiency, reduce downtime and waste, save cost, and provide insight into all aspects of the manufacturing process.