Kepware
The industry standard for reliable industrial connectivity, trusted by manufacturers and OEMs worldwide for more than 30 years.
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Core capabilities
Access OT data in minutes
Kepware helps you access OT data quickly, connecting industrial equipment and systems without lengthy, complex integration projects. By providing ready-to-use connectivity across a wide range of devices and protocols, Kepware accelerates data access from the plant floor to business and analytics applications—helping teams start using valuable operational data sooner.
Improve data quality at the source
Kepware helps improve data quality at the source by standardizing and contextualizing industrial data as it is collected from OT systems. By delivering cleaner, more consistent, and more reliable data upstream, organizations reduce errors, simplify downstream processing, and give analytics, applications, and teams greater confidence in the information they use to make decisions.
Implement security best practices
Kepware enables a secure-by-design architecture by eliminating fragile point-to-point integrations and providing a centralized connectivity layer between PLCs, industrial systems, the cloud, and enterprise applications. This simplifies data flows, reduces the attack surface, and makes security easier to manage—while creating a scalable foundation for connecting OT data across the organization.
Scale faster
Kepware helps organizations scale OT data connectivity faster by providing a standardized approach to connecting new machines, PLCs, sites, and applications. Instead of building and maintaining integrations from scratch, teams can reuse proven connectivity patterns across the enterprise—reducing engineering effort, accelerating deployment, and making it easier to expand industrial data initiatives as needs grow.
Products
Start a free trialKepware Server
Connect virtually any device with the flagship Kepware offering.
Kepware Edge
Connect top name devices with the next-gen, containerized Kepware offering.
Kepware+ Manager
View, manage, and configure Kepware from a single SaaS control plane.
Connect with a partner
Find a local Kepware expert to help you access the data you need to drive smarter industrial operations.
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IMA Builds New Value for Themselves and Their Customers Using IIoT
Unlocking Efficieny Gains for Customers through Advanced Analytics and predictive Maintenance
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Electrolux Turns Connected Data into Transformational Insights
How the Electrolux Group is using Kepware to fuel global digital transformation
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Global Manufacturer Modernizes Operations with Kepware
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Kepware’s IoT Gateway Provides Faurecia with Data to Improve Traceability for Top Automotive Customers
Faurecia is recognized as a pioneer in technological innovations - reducing the weight of vehicles, offering customized comfort and style solutions, and mitigating any impact on the environment.
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Leading Data Center Infrastructure Management Platform Integrates Kepware Server to Expand Connectivity
With over 150 drivers and a single, consistent interface, Kepware Server provided ABB all of the connectivity tools they required in one easy-to-use package.
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Building Resilient Operations after a Cyber Attack
Following a ransomware attack that disrupted operations across a large portion of its manufacturing network, the packaging company recognized the need for a more consistent approach to industrial connectivity.
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Global packaging manufacturer improves efficiency and reduces downtime with industrial IoT
A leading packaging company leveraged Kepware to secure OT networks and unify data across all facilities—without replacing legacy equipment.
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Carlsberg Leverages IoT to Improve OEE and Launch Their Digital Transformation Journey
To improve performance of their manufacturing lines, Carlsberg needed a consistent, streamlined solution for tracking production data across its 28 brewing facilities throughout the globe. Learn how they leveraged ThingWorx, Kepware, and Microsoft to improve OEE by unlocking real-time performance monitoring and predictive maintenance across brewing facilities.
See how our products work together
Kepware remains open and interoperable for connecting OT & IT - but is now part of Velotic. Velotic brings together Kepware, Proficy, and ThingWorx to power smarter industrial operations. Learn more below.
Kepware + Proficy
Standardize connectivity for operations
What's included
Connectivity for diverse industrial devices
Kepware provides a common connectivity layer for PLCs, controllers, devices, and industrial systems, helping manufacturers standardize how operational data is collected across equipment, lines, and sites.
Scalable industrial applications
Proficy applications use connected operational data to support HMI/SCADA, MES, industrial data management, scheduling, and optimization across manufacturing operations.
Consistent, repeatable architectures
Together, Proficy and Kepware help organizations reduce connectivity complexity and create a more standardized foundation for scaling industrial applications across the enterprise.
Kepware + ThingWorx
Connect industrial assets to industrial intelligence solutions
What's included
Standardized industrial connectivity
Kepware connects diverse PLCs, controllers, devices, and industrial systems through a consistent connectivity layer.
Deploy purpose-built industrial applications
ThingWorx uses connected industrial data to support applications and experiences that make information accessible to users and workflows across the organization.
Create a future-proof foundation
Together, Kepware and ThingWorx help organizations connect diverse industrial environments and extend that information into scalable applications as operational needs evolve.
Kepware + Proficy + ThingWorx
Connect, operate, and optimize operations.
What's included
Connect diverse industrial assets
Kepware provides the connectivity foundation for bringing data from PLCs, controllers, devices, and industrial systems into a consistent operational architecture.
Operate with industrial software
Proficy provides applications for production execution, HMI SCADA, industrial data management, scheduling, and optimization across manufacturing operations.
Optimize across operations
ThingWorx can extend industrial information into connected applications and experiences, helping additional users access and act on operational context.
Resources
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Velotic Day
Join us on at LEGOLAND Hotel & Conference in Billund for Velotic Day - a full day dedicated to operational excellence, digital transformation, and the future of manufacturing.
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Meet Velotic at SPS Nuremberg
Join Velotic at SPS Nuremberg as the industry explores the latest advances in Industrial AI, interoperability, and connectivity. Discover how leading manufacturers are transforming industrial data into actionable insights, accelerating digital transformation, and building more agile, efficient, and connected operations. Connect with our experts to learn how open, scalable technologies are helping organizations unlock greater business value across the enterprise.
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Meet Velotic at Rockwell Automation Fair 2026
Boston, MA | Booth #1509
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Meet Velotic at MWorX US
Join Velotic at MWorX US in Chicago for conversations focused on the challenges and opportunities shaping modern manufacturing. Connect with senior industry leaders, explore strategies for improving operational performance and competitiveness, and discover practical ways to accelerate digital transformation and create value faster.
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Meet Velotic at SCOPE Manufacturing Summit
Connect with the Velotic team at SCOPE Manufacturing Summit and explore how smarter digital solutions can help address today’s manufacturing challenges.
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Standardize Kepware across the enterprise
One license. One strategy. Scalable industrial connectivity everywhere you operate.
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IMA Builds New Value for Themselves and Their Customers Using IIoT
Unlocking Efficieny Gains for Customers through Advanced Analytics and predictive Maintenance
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Electrolux Turns Connected Data into Transformational Insights
How the Electrolux Group is using Kepware to fuel global digital transformation
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Connecting with Kepware Customers: Electrolux
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Connecting with Kepware Customers: Howden
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Standardize Kepware across the enterprise
One license. One strategy. Scalable industrial connectivity everywhere you operate.
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Industry analyst report
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2026 Frost Radar : Industrial Connectivity Software, 2026 - Kepware Named Visionary Leader
Explore Frost & Sullivan’s perspective on industrial connectivity, including market trends, growth drivers, and why vendor-neutral OT data access is becoming a foundation for enterprise transformation.
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Kepware Leads 2025 QKS SPARK Matrix
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Introducing Velotic: Pioneering the Future of Industrial Software (from GE Vernova Proficy, PTC ThingWorx and Kepware)
Velotic is a new independent industrial software company formed from the combination of Proficy from GE Vernova and ThingWorx and Kepware from PTC.
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AI Ambitions are Skyrocketing. Data Foundations are Lagging.
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The Prerequisites of AI: Why Data Foundations Matter
Rather than acting as a simple transport layer, connectivity becomes the structural backbone that turns fragmented signals into usable enterprise data. Without that backbone, AI initiatives remain localized—capable of generating insights in pockets, but unable to drive impact reliably across lines, systems, or sites.
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Introducing Kepware Edge and Kepware Server
Learn more about Kepware’s Fall 2025 Release, including Kepware for Linux and a unified platform for Windows.
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Kepware Recognized as Outright Leader in Edge Connectivity by QKS
Get a free copy of the report and learn why Kepware is still the outright leader in connectivity.
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An Overview of Industrial Communication Protocols
Learn how industrial automation protocols like Modbus, OPC UA, Ethernet/IP, and BACnet drive industrial automation with data reliability and speed.
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PTC Announces Kepware Edge
Kepware Edge, a new Linux-based industrial communications platform, unlocks data from devices and integrates with manufacturing applications.
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PTC (now part of Velotic) Earns Leadership Placement in Nucleus Research’s 2024 Industrial IoT Assessment
PTC (now part of Velotic) named a Leader in Nucleus Research’s 2024 Industrial IoT Assessment and distinguishes Velotic as the top Industrial IoT solution provider.
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Kaizen Cost Reduction: An Overview
Learn how Kaizen cost reduction integrates continuous improvement to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and cut costs in today's fast-paced manufacturing environment.
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How Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing Work Together
Discover how Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing complement each other to drive continuous improvement and waste reduction in manufacturing.
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Case study
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IMA Builds New Value for Themselves and Their Customers Using IIoT
Unlocking Efficieny Gains for Customers through Advanced Analytics and predictive Maintenance
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Electrolux Turns Connected Data into Transformational Insights
How the Electrolux Group is using Kepware to fuel global digital transformation
Case study -
Global Manufacturer Modernizes Operations with Kepware
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Leading Data Center Infrastructure Management Platform Integrates Kepware Server to Expand Connectivity
With over 150 drivers and a single, consistent interface, Kepware Server provided ABB all of the connectivity tools they required in one easy-to-use package.
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Kepware’s IoT Gateway Provides Faurecia with Data to Improve Traceability for Top Automotive Customers
Faurecia is recognized as a pioneer in technological innovations - reducing the weight of vehicles, offering customized comfort and style solutions, and mitigating any impact on the environment.
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Carlsberg Leverages IoT to Improve OEE and Launch Their Digital Transformation Journey
To improve performance of their manufacturing lines, Carlsberg needed a consistent, streamlined solution for tracking production data across its 28 brewing facilities throughout the globe. Learn how they leveraged ThingWorx, Kepware, and Microsoft to improve OEE by unlocking real-time performance monitoring and predictive maintenance across brewing facilities.
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Global packaging manufacturer improves efficiency and reduces downtime with industrial IoT
A leading packaging company leveraged Kepware to secure OT networks and unify data across all facilities—without replacing legacy equipment.
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Building Resilient Operations after a Cyber Attack
Following a ransomware attack that disrupted operations across a large portion of its manufacturing network, the packaging company recognized the need for a more consistent approach to industrial connectivity.
Case study
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Connecting with Kepware Customers: Electrolux
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Connecting with Kepware Customers: Howden
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Getting Started with Audit Logs in Kepware
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Getting Started with Kepware Server in Less Than Five Minutes
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Introducing Kepware Edge
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Access insights from wherever you are
Learn how manufacturers deliver operational intelligence anywhere through industrial data management, visualization, connected operations, and enterprise-wide visibility.
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Act fast to improve productivity, quality, and safety
Learn how manufacturers improve productivity, quality, and safety through real-time visibility, connected worker strategies, digital workflows, and operational intelligence. Watch the three-part on-demand demo series.
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Connected Worker strategies: how to deliver context, visibility, and actionable insights across industrial operations
Learn how Connected Worker solutions improve productivity through contextualized industrial data, OT/IT convergence, operational intelligence, and AI.
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Speeding time to value demo series
Learn how manufacturers accelerate time to value through connected worker strategies, software adoption, change management, industrial data, and operational intelligence. Watch the on-demand demo series.
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Webinar
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Connected Worker strategies: how to deliver context, visibility, and actionable insights across industrial operations
Learn how Connected Worker solutions improve productivity through contextualized industrial data, OT/IT convergence, operational intelligence, and AI.
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Webinar: The Connectivity Choice: All-in-One Stacks vs. Best-of-Breed Platforms
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Velotic Day
Join us on at LEGOLAND Hotel & Conference in Billund for Velotic Day - a full day dedicated to operational excellence, digital transformation, and the future of manufacturing.
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Meet Velotic at SPS Nuremberg
Join Velotic at SPS Nuremberg as the industry explores the latest advances in Industrial AI, interoperability, and connectivity. Discover how leading manufacturers are transforming industrial data into actionable insights, accelerating digital transformation, and building more agile, efficient, and connected operations. Connect with our experts to learn how open, scalable technologies are helping organizations unlock greater business value across the enterprise.
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Meet Velotic at Rockwell Automation Fair 2026
Boston, MA | Booth #1509
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Meet Velotic at MWorX US
Join Velotic at MWorX US in Chicago for conversations focused on the challenges and opportunities shaping modern manufacturing. Connect with senior industry leaders, explore strategies for improving operational performance and competitiveness, and discover practical ways to accelerate digital transformation and create value faster.
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Meet Velotic at SCOPE Manufacturing Summit
Connect with the Velotic team at SCOPE Manufacturing Summit and explore how smarter digital solutions can help address today’s manufacturing challenges.
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Buyer's guide
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Tech-Clarity Industrial Connectivity Buyer’s Guide
Buyer's guide
Frequently asked questions
What is Kepware?
Kepware is a portfolio of industrial connectivity solutions that connect disparate legacy OT devices with software applications. Utilizing a scalable, unified architecture, Kepware provides the flexibility to combine drivers and consume multiple protocols in a single server, while offering a streamlined interface for remote visualization and connectivity configuration at scale.
How much does Kepware cost?
Kepware is priced and packaged to meet the needs of your organization. Whether you're looking to standardize your connectivity at scale, or just connect a handful of devices, we have solutions to meet your unique requirements. Please contact us for more information regarding enterprise packaging; for point connectivity, please visit our online store.
Is there a Kepware free trial?
Kepware provides a free trial of Kepware Server that is immediately available for download at www.velotic.com/en/kepware/kepware-server/trial
For inquiries regarding free trials for other Kepware products, please contact us today at www.velotic.com/en/connect