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Mettler Toledo Teams with Kepware for Communications — Kepware to Develop Scale Communications and Deliver Mettler Toledo Drivers to all Kepware OEMs |
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RELEASE:
Portland, ME September 1, 2009 — Kepware Technologies, the leader in Communications for Automation, announced today that it has been selected to develop a suite of Mettler Toledo industrial weighing terminal communication drivers. These Drivers will be added to the Kepware KEPServer communications solution, and will be delivered to Kepware's long list of OEMs and resellers.
As a "Connected with Kepware" company, Mettler Toledo will work with Kepware to ensure Kepware will develop and deliver the best communication support for Mettler Toledo industrial weighing terminals. Kepware will deliver drivers for use on desktop (Workstation and Server) operating systems as well as Windows CE embedded operating system environments, used in many OEM HMI Panel products. Kepware will deliver connectivity with the vast range of automation industry software products through vendor defined native interfaces as well as latest OPC Foundation interoperability standards. The first Mettler Toledo Driver will support the Continuous Output Protocol and will be available in the October release - KEPServerEX v5.1.
"Mettler Toledo is the world leader in weighing systems," explained Roy Kok, VP of Sales and Marketing of Kepware Technologies. "We are proud to have been selected as their OPC communications solution for their industrial weighing terminals. Our relationship is a very attractive one, Kepware delivering excellent communications, and validation with virtually every automation software solution on the market, and Mettler Toledo customers benefit from having communications drivers that they can purchase, that will remain current with interoperability standards such as those from the OPC Foundation."
"Kepware offers a strong value proposition." stated Felix Klebe, Strategic Product Group Leader at Mettler Toledo. "Scale connectivity to peripheral devices and higher level systems has been a traditional strength of our weighing terminals, however a relationship with Kepware extends that capability by delivering a market leading, certified, OPC communication solution - tested and validated with virtually all leading automation solutions on the market today. This collaborative relationship with Kepware helps allow Mettler Toledo customers to integrate weighing data via OPC into a broad variety of industrial automation systems".
ABOUT METTLER TOLEDO: Mettler Toledo is a global manufacturer and marketer of precision instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. The Company has strong worldwide leadership positions. A significant majority of instrument sales are in segments in which we are the global leader. In addition to a broad product offering, we have one of the largest global sales and service organizations among precision instrument companies. METTLER TOLEDO is geographically diversified with sales in 2008 derived 43% from Europe, 35% from the Americas and 22% from Asia and other countries. The Company has an extensive global sales and service organizations with approximately 5,400 or more than one-half of our employees providing sales and service in 35 countries. The Company has a manufacturing presence in Europe, the United States and China. www.mt.com
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Kepware Media Contact:
Erik Dellinger
Product Marketing Manager
Kepware
207-775-1660 x209
erik.dellinger@kepware.com
Mettler Toledo Contact:
Felix Klebe
Strategic Product Group Leader
Mettler Toledo Corporation
(614) 438-4444
felix.klebe@mt.com |
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