This ARCview addresses the growing need for an enterprise service bus that enables communications and data sharing between plant floor devices and enterprise applications and presents one supplier’s solution.
Kepware Technologies, a developer of communication and interoperability software solutions for the automation industry, recently briefed ARC Advisory Group about the company’s KEPServerEX Communications Platform. This is de-signed to provide enterprise applications with direct, real-time access to machine- and device-level data.

M2M technology in manufacturing allows exchanging and gathering information between sensors and controllers during collaborative machining process and motion control. In a manufacturing environment, industrial M2M serves an integral component of a much larger and more complex manufacturing infrastructure. Industrial M2M can mean intelligent bi-directional plant floor communications to PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems to MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) systems or often ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. At ...