With the KEPServerEX you make changes when you need to, on the fly. In older versions, you could be online, but not add tags, or be offline to add tags but not read data. Online Full Time The KEPServerEX allows you to make changes to your tag database configuration at any time. Support for Existing KEPServer Tag Databases Your existing KEPServer version 3.x tag databases are readable by the new KEPServerEX so you can migrate your existing application seamlessly to the KEPServerEX

With the KEPServerEX you can connect to your legacy DDE clients today and move smoothly to the world of OPC when you are ready and not have to worry about replacing or re-configuring the communications driver connecting you to your production machinery.

For example, Microsoft Excel (pre Excel 2000 versions) supports Microsoft DDE. For this reason, the KEPServerEX is one of the few OPC servers on the market to also simulataneously support Rockwell's AdvanceDDE and Microsoft's standard DDE interfaces for connecting the KEPServerEX to your client application. While OPC has become the defacto format of choice for communications drivers in the automation market, we realize that not everyone can replace their client software with the latest OPC client versions. The KEPServerEX is continuously tested with the most popular OPC client applications on the market to insure ease of use, integration, and reliability, including popular names as Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, RSView and more. The KEPServerEX implements both the OPC 1.0a and 2.0 Data Access Specifications giving you the choice of the widest range of OPC client applications. The KEPServerEX family of OPC servers represents the latest in client-server communications technology for connecting HMI, Historian, Database, and other applications to plant floor equipment. This OPC server is a member of the KEPServerEX family of OPC servers and shares a number of powerful features in common with all of the OPC servers in the KEPServerEX family. Use the standard Siemens S7-200 programming cable if you wish for quick and easy connections.

This server provides a data exchange connection between client software supporting OPC, DDE, or AdvanceDDE interfaces and Siemens S7-200 family of PLCs using their PPI serial communications protocol via RS-485 multi-drop connections.

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