Kepware Technologies, established in 1995, develops a wide range of communication and interoperability software solutions for the Automation industry. Kepware provides flexible and scalable solutions are for connecting, managing, monitoring, and controlling diverse automation devices and software applications. Communications are managed through a robust software platform that supports an array of open standards, propriety communication protocols, APIs, and automation systems’ interfaces.

It is a Kepware policy to deliver industrial strength solutions that are designed and tested to meet the demands of industrial automation applications.

The industry endorsed software solutions improve operations and decision-making throughout all levels of an organization. Kepware Technologies’ mission is to be “Your Standard for Connectivity”.

 Kepware provides a variety of products and plug-ins, among them you may find the following:

  • KepServerEX – Communications for Automation

KEPServerEX is a flexible and scalable solution for connecting, managing, monitoring, and controlling diverse automation devices and software applications. Communications is managed through a robust platform that supports an array of open standards such as OPC, propriety communication protocols, API’s, and various automation systems’ interfaces. KEPServerEX enables improved operations and decision making throughout all levels of an organization

  • LinkMaster OPC Bridging Software

LinkMaster provides the means of linking data between OPC Servers, thus acting as a universal bridge for OPC Systems. Additionally, LinkMaster is an OPC and DDE server allowing it to act as a bridge between legacy DDE systems and new OPC enabled applications

  • Advanced Tags (KepserverEX Plug-in)

The Advanced Tag Option for KEPServerEX offers a convenient, cost effective, and straightforward way to generate new data and aggregate existing data into information suitable for high level archive and analysis. Through Advanced Tags, users can measure the duration of operations, totalize events, perform averages over a group of sensors, set trigger conditions for data acquisition, and combine machine conditions to generate an overall machine state. These capabilities are extremely valuable for future analytics

  • DataLogger(KepserverEX Plug-in)

The DataLogger is an easy-to-configure application that logs data from an OPC server to any ODBC-compliant database. DataLogger’s tight integration with KEPServerEX provides substantial, unique benefits such as simple installation, high-efficiency performance, and easy browsing of tags in the OPC browse space

  • Alarm & Events

Kepware’s Alarms and Events plug-in for KEPServerEX can help reduce costs and improve performance. OPC AE clients can receive and monitor process alarms, operator actions, informational messages and tracking/auditing messages directly from KEPServerEX’s Alarms and Events Plug-in. Monitor areas of a process that may require operator attention when defined thresholds are met, such as; safety limits of equipment, event detection, and abnormal situations. The Alarms and Events plug-in can also be used to help identify faulty equipment, create maintenance work orders and improve on operator’s effectiveness. In addition to the operators handling of Alarms and Events, the plug-in can also be used to collect and record alarm and event information for audits or used in correlation with other historical data.

Contel and Kepware have been working together for almost 15 years, during that time Contel had performed dozens of control & automation projects that rely on Kepware’s solutions and uses them in order to easily communicate between the software level and the PLC and automation level.

Recently, the two companies agreedto expand the services and products offered in the Israeli market, as a result of that Contel has become the local distributor and will provide a full range of services regarding Kepware’s solutions such as presale support and evaluation support, sales, project service and more.

Additionally, Contel will hold several professional training courses a year at Contel’s training center. Courses dates are published in our website (www.contel.com)

Sales Channels and System Integrators

All of Kepware’s products are available for download in the company’s website (www.kepware.com) in an evaluation version that allows 2 hours of use in order to supply enough time for the evaluator to get a proof of concept.

Contel supports each evaluator during the evaluation process (end-user or SI) and will provide the appropriate services in order to assist him with a POC.

Contel is distributing Kepware’s solution to system integrator as well as to end-users.
to avoid competition, we created a special program for system integrators that is available to any SI who would like to resell Kepware’s solutions and is qualified to do so.

For more information about our system integrators program please email kobi@contel.com

For general information and service support please contact Orly Nassi, sales coordinator, at 03-9260340 or email orlyn@contel.com