Kepware announces Plant Floor Communications for Oracle Manufacturing Applications
RELEASE: Portland, ME February
4, 2008 -- Portland, ME – Kepware
Technologies, the
leader in Communications for Automation and member of Oracle
PartnerNetwork, announced today that its KEPServerEX Product
will provide manufacturing plant floor execution data to Oracle's
manufacturing applications, which are part of the Oracle® E-Business
Suite.
The latest generation of Kepware's OPC
server technology, KEPServerEX,
was designed to allow users to quickly setup communications
from equipment to control and business systems via a wide range
of available "plug-in" device drivers and components.
As part of this relationship, Kepware is enhancing its KEPServerEX
product to deliver several new features including; 1) OPC Client
functionality – enabling KEPServerEX to act as a gateway from
any OPC Server including third party device drivers as well
as higher level HMI/SCADA or Historian products, 2) a first
level of data analytics – generating derived information from
real-time plant floor data and 3) complex data tags – aggregating
information into concise time or event relevant structures.
"Kepware is extremely proud to work with Oracle", says Roy
Kok, VP of Sales and Marketing for Kepware. "As a partner,
we deliver plant floor data into their current and future products.
The architecture of our KEPServerEX product is a natural fit
for all OEM applications, delivering high reliability and consistent
operation across all 130+ protocols that we offer, in a solution
that is easy and straight forward to validate and support.
The new developments required for this project will be delivered
in the form of new options to benefit all existing Kepware
customers," he added.
"Oracle continues to look for companies that can support
our overall manufacturing strategy. We were impressed by what
Kepware has to offer and expect Kepware to help expand our
capabilities in the shop floor connectivity space," said
Jon Chorley, Oracle Vice President SCM Product Strategy. "Kepware
provides a combination of benefits including a wide range of
protocols for device communications, product capabilities to
handle complex data and a vast number of industry relationships
that will benefit our joint customers."
"This relationship is enabling customers to leverage the full
benefits of OPC as an open technology enabling connectivity
within the automation marketplace" stated Thomas Burke, President
of the OPC Foundation. "The combined solution will offer connectivity
to virtually any plant floor data through the use of Kepware
drivers, or their new OPC Client implementation. Kepware's
additional support to create complex data, as part of this
effort, will form the foundation for OPC-UA connectivity in
the near future," he added.
"The manufacturing performance and visibility market has emerged
over the last several years from a few startup software suppliers
focusing on OEE to a critical function that has attracting
most enterprise and operations software suppliers explained
Bob Mick, VP Emerging Technology, ARC Advisory Group. He continues,
"Oracle has been building out their Operations Management functions
and has reached the stage where they need out-of-the-box access
to a broad range of operations information, including legacy
systems, to be successful. A Kepware partnership provides immediate
access to operations information, help with OPC
related architecture,
and a method for remaining current with new developments from
automation and other suppliers moving forward."
ABOUT KEPWARE: Kepware is the world leader in
communication software for automation and offers a unique experience
in both OPC and embedded
device communications. Since 1995, Kepware
has focused on the development of communication drivers to automation
controllers, I/O and field devices. Operating system support
includes; Microsoft Windows Desktop, Windows Server and Windows
Embedded (Windows CE and Windows Embedded NT/XP). Today, with
over 100 communication protocols, and through the efforts of
our direct sales, distribution and embedded partners, Kepware
is the leading provider of communications with annual shipments
exceeding 100,000 units. Kepware's responsiveness to customer
needs and strong partnerships with other leading automation suppliers
ensure that your next application will be a success. Ask around
and you'll hear why automation professionals everywhere consider
Kepware Technologies "Automation's Best Friend". (http://www.kepware.com)
ABOUT THE ORACLE PARTNERNETWORK: Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global
business network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative
software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to
Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing
and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides
partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's
global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers
leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's
largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to
demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and
a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Certified
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Kepware Media Contacts:
Roy Kok
V.P. Sales and Marketing
Kepware
207-775-1660 x253 roy.kok@kepware.com
