OPC News and Events
OPC Tech Insider E-newsletter
You are here: Home > OPC News and Events > Press Releases > Yokogawa Connected Kepware
Yokogawa is "Connected with Kepware"
Yokogawa Partners with Kepware Technologies as Their Primary Choice for Controller and Recorder Connectivity
Kepware Technologies, the leader in Communications for Automation, announced today that it has been selected by Yokogawa Corporation as their primary provider of connectivity for their Controllers and Recorders.
As a "Connected with Kepware" partner, Yokogawa will deliver and support Kepware products. Kepware will work closely with Yokogawa as a "VEP" Vendor Endorsed Protocol partner to ensure they have solutions for the latest OPC connectivity standards and that our communications drivers deliver the highest quality and most reliable solution possible for their products.
Yokogawa Corporation of America is the North American unit of $4 billion Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of instrumentation, process control, and automation solutions. Headquartered in Newnan, Georgia, Yokogawa Corporation of America serves a diverse customer base with market-leading products including analyzers, flow meters, transmitters, controllers, recorders, data acquisition products, meters, instruments, distributed control systems, and more.
"Kepware has been working closely with Yokogawa for many years," states Roy Kok, VP of Marketing and Sales of Kepware Technologies. "Our success in supporting Yokogawa hardware has been very valuable to our software partners. This enhancement to our relationship will ensure we deliver the best communications for both Yokogawa and our OEMs on a go forward basis."
"Kepware is clearly the leader in device communications and a partnership with Kepware guarantees Yokogawa will have proven connectivity to virtually every software application on the market." explains Russ Graybill, General Manager of Yokogawa America. "Kepware is a great partner and our joint efforts will ensure our customers can integrate our controllers, recorders and data acquisition products into any automation infrastructure they may have in place."
ABOUT KEPWARE: Kepware is the world leader in communication software for automation and offers unique experience in both OPC and embedded device communications. Since its beginning in 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 YOKAGAWA: Yokogawa's global network of 19 manufacturing facilities and 89 companies spans 32 countries. Since its founding in 1915, the US$4 billion company has been engaged in cutting-edge research and innovation, securing more than 7,500 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement. Industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industry support are the core businesses of Yokogawa. For more information about Yokogawa, please visit our web site at www.yokogawa.com.
All product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
OPC Training Institute Media Contact:
info@opcti.com
www.opcti.com
Release by: Kepware Technologies
view complete profile | visit company website
Kepware is the world leader in communication software for automation and offers 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. Kepware's unique driver architecture combined with industry and third party vendor standards ensure Kepware's ability to deliver state of the art and ideal fit solutions for industry leading automation suppliers. 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. Our mission is to become the de facto standard for third party connectivity.
Kepware genuine OPC software products are known worldwide for quality, reliability and ease of use. 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".