Platforms & Partners
AVEVA PI System
AVEVA partners with over 6,000 global system integrators, solution providers, and technology vendors to deliver tailored solutions built on PI Technologies. Modern industrial automation relies on an ecosystem of platform vendors, control hardware, software frameworks, and hardware-enforced cybersecurity. Expanding your understanding of how AVEVA, SCADA platforms (like Ignition), automation giants (like ABB), and hardware security providers (like Owl Cyber Defense) fit into a unified ecosystem demonstrates how modern operational technology (OT) is built.
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Velotic Kepware
Kepware and the AVEVA PI System work together to bridge the gap between factory floor machinery and enterprise-level data analytics. Kepware acts as the universal translator, using its extensive library of protocol drivers to collect real-time signals—such as temperature, pressure, or run status—from diverse PLCs, controllers, and sensors regardless of brand. It standardizes these varied machine languages into a secure OPC UA or OPC DA stream and delivers it directly to the PI System. The PI System then ingests, archives, and organizes those data points into time-series historians, giving teams long-term visibility into operational performance, equipment health, and plant efficiency across the entire facility.
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Dell Business
Dell PowerEdge servers provide the robust hardware foundation and high-performance infrastructure required to run enterprise deployments of the AVEVA PI System. Because industrial data historians handle thousands (or millions) of high-frequency time-series data streams simultaneously, Dell servers—featuring enterprise multi-core processors, high-speed ECC memory, and low-latency NVMe/RAID storage arrays—ensure that data ingestion, long-term archiving, and real-time client queries occur without bottlenecks or data loss.
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Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform serves as the primary HMI/SCADA interface that connects operators directly to daily plant operations. Sitting on top of the control network alongside Kepware and the PI System, Ignition translates complex industrial data into real-time visual dashboards, control screens, and alarm systems. It allows operators to monitor live machine statuses, trigger control commands down to PLCs, and log process parameters—providing the interactive, day-to-day visual layer that runs the plant floor while seamlessly sharing operational data with enterprise historians.
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