Through a versatile and scalable portfolio, Rockwell Automation's Industrial Communications software solutions help empower our customers to more efficiently control, manage, and monitor their data — from the plant floor throughout the enterprise, and every point in between. Transporting data and successfully reconstructing it at its intended destination is what keeps your operations humming – with industrial communication at the heart of it all. Without it, commissioning, controlling, monitoring and securing your operations would be impossible.
Our Industrial Communications portfolio can help you:
- Evolve your operations with the addition of new features that offer enhanced benefits to our customers with each release
- FactoryTalk® Linx provides an indispensable foundation for all things that speak FactoryTalk® (including third-party devices that are integral partners in your industrial ecosystem)
- Designed to enhance efficiency and productivity by helping data move precisely where it must go
Explore the Industrial Communications Software Portfolio
RSLinx® Classic
Provides connectivity and real-time monitoring for operations using legacy communication protocols
FactoryTalk® Linx
Delivers premier connectivity for FactoryTalk® systems by supporting modern, more secure protocols, high available system architectures and more
FactoryTalk® Linx OPC UA Connector
Allows FactoryTalk Live Data clients to connect to OPC UA servers to access data
FactoryTalk® Linx Gateway
Enables third-party software premier access to control system data via OPC DA/UA, MQTT, DDE and Excel RTD interfaces
FactoryTalk® Linx Data Bridge
Moves data between FactoryTalk sources for consolidation and runtime operations
FactoryTalk® Action Manager™
Changes the controller wall clock at pre-defined times or periodically to ensure information correlation
KEPServer Enterprise
Enables FactoryTalk software access to third-party hardware, expanding information sources for plant floor interoperability
Learn from our subject matter experts
Our Industrial Communication software solutions provide a breadth of capabilities, including OPC UA protocol support, to move data more seamlessly among plant floor devices to the Enterprise. In this webinar, the FactoryTalk® Linx portfolio is positioned alongside Embedded Edge Compute Module with FactoryTalk® Optix™ and Logix Controllers (version 36+) to understand the differences and scale of this protocol support. The growing support for OPC UA and other traditional IT protocols gives our customers architectural flexibility to achieve their data availability goals.
Unlocking the Connected Enterprise Experience through Powerful Integrations
FactoryTalk® Linx is designed, built, and tested alongside Rockwell Automation® control hardware to the software portfolio to seamlessly deliver control system information. It is proven to be the most efficient and secure communication service for FactoryTalk® software with capabilities for enhanced automation network visibility, communications and user productivity. Experience the power of premier integration with Rockwell Automation hardware and software portfolios made possible by FactoryTalk Linx.
Our software supports:
- Flexibility. Utilize common communication software and services across local, distributed, or enterprise deployments for seamless data flow and enhanced visibility.
- Security. Configure and manage secure device communications with layered security configurations, auditing, and logging.
- Availability. Confirm that your network is reliable and highly available by supporting various redundancies from data servers to networked hardware platforms
- Efficiency. Rely on the high-performance communication layer to relieve processing constraints on hardware, allowing it to allocate resources to other critical tasks
Connect, Collect, Comprehend: Enabling a data rich plant floor
FactoryTalk Linx Gateway extends the powerful data access capabilities of the FactoryTalk portfolio to third party visualization, information, or MES software, including other FactoryTalk software. Take advantage of the versatile communication software as it efficiently handles large-scale data movement throughout your plant floor or prepare it for cloud applications. FactoryTalk Linx Gateway is the flexible data connection solution to help you prepare for efficient enterprise integration.
FactoryTalk Linx Gateway can help you:
- Acquire and Deliver Data. Deliver automation system data to third-party HMI/MES/Information for control, monitoring, dashboards and analysis.
- Prepare for Cloud Connectivity. Seamlessly connect to cloud platforms with product support for common protocols such as MQTT and OPC UA.
- Startup/Debug. Use Excel for productivity with emulation, testing, debug and startup.
- Optimize Productivity. Utilize automation software leveraging FactoryTalk Linx on enterprise computers while maintaining enterprise-to-plant floor network best practices and without compromising efficiency.
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