This capability is critical for suppliers who would like to make further inroads and eliminate barriers to entry into the industrial automation market. Automation users can now use the NI OPC Server to incorporate LabVIEW into their automation systems with concurrent connections to multiple PLCs.NI is a leading vendor in the test, measurement, and control marketplaces and we are excited to have been selected as a supplier of industrial communications technology to NI, said Roy Kok, VP of Marketing and Sales for Kepware Technologies, This relationship will significantly enhance the ability of NI to serve the automation marketplace with its industrial measurement and control solutions.∺ guiding principle for NI is openness, and working with Kepware enables our customers to easily connect NI platforms with their existing automation systems, said John Hanks, Vice President of Product Marketing at National Instruments, Kepware products have an excellent reputation in the marketplace, and we are confident that this relationship will enable NI customers to more easily optimize their existing automation systems with NI tools for machine vision, data acquisition, and embedded control technologies.Manufacturers are expressing a desire to procure their OPC communications solutions, both client and server, from a single source, according to Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. NI used KEPServerEX technology to create the new NI OPC Server. The latest generation of Kepware's OPC server technology, KEPServerEX, was designed to allow users to quickly setup communications from equipment to control systems via a wide range of available 'plug-in' device drivers and components. SeptemPortland, ME Kepware Technologies today announced that it was selected as a provider of communications technology to National Instruments (NI), allowing engineers and scientists using LabVIEW to easily incorporate advanced measurements, analysis, and control into their existing industrial systems.

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