Connectivity

Connectivity to your plant/facility devices is key to real-time information management. A broad library of connectivity solutions within your chosen manufacturing automation system will allow you to select the hardware that best meets your requirements, without constraint - resulting in the best possible manufacturing solution. Wonderware has long been known for its excellent connectivity, a feature that is the essence of an efficient automation architecture.

Wonderware Device Integration Servers

Wonderware maximizes your choices with the broadest possible communication options for industrial automation and information devices. In collaboration with more than 100 third-party interface developers, Wonderware provides the largest selection of connectivity options to hundreds of control systems such as PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, flow controllers, loop controllers, scales, gauges, bar code readers and other hardware devices. Wonderware has also fully embraced the openness of OPC technology, exposing data via OPC from our products as an OPC Client and also providing the means to connect to any third party OPC Server. Wonderware makes device integration more maintainable by using Device Integration Objects (DI Objects) within the Wonderware System Platform for seamless connectivity to any data source. Wonderware also offers the DAServer Toolkit which empowers you to create your own connectivity server.

Kepware Technologies

Kepware is the world leader in communication software for automation and offers unique experience in both OPC and embedded device communications. Applications include M2M (Machine to Machine) and M2E (Machine 2 Enterprise) communications. Operating system support includes; Microsoft Windows Desktop, Server and Embedded (Windows CE and Windows NT/XP Embedded).

Key Benefits

Separation of application code from device communications management- so both can be easily managed and updated
Takes a flat, non-structured device and gives it structure, where it can be more easily incorporated and managed in a distributed system.
Takes individual communications paths and makes them available globally for any application to use
Allows communications and device naming to be different for the same application, allowing re-use on any machine
Support for OPC standards

Key Capabilities

Create one application and have it automatically bind to PLC/DCS/RTU addresses at run-time
Create templates that can be used with any manufacturer of PLC/DCS/RTUwith different naming conventions for addresses
Create common SCADA and HMI Applications for different PLC/DCS/RTU types
Support for OPC standards