Sugar manufacturingMulti-site rollout
Multi-site sugar producer retired Kepware — and now runs analytics themselves.
A leading sugar manufacturer running multiple plants replaced Kepware OPC servers across every site with the KMS soft gateway, consolidated their data into a single dashboard, and handed the keys to their own plant team. No integrators, no recurring OPC licenses, no specialised skill sets to build a view.
The challenge
- Kepware OPC server at every site, with a recurring per-site licensing bill
- No unified view across plants — operations stitched data manually each shift
- Every dashboard or report change needed an external integrator
- Plant team had no way to do their own analysis on the data they generated
What we did
- Replaced Kepware at each site with the KMS soft gateway, native PLC connectors and store-and-forward built in
- Streamed every site into a single central KMS cluster with a unified ISA-95 model
- Trained the plant team on KMS Studio's no-code dashboard builder — no SCADA / scripting expertise required
- Gave operations self-service analytics and a single multi-site dashboard from day one
The results
- One pane of glass across every plant — operations finally compares like-for-like across sites
- Recurring Kepware licensing fully retired — straight savings to the bottom line, every year
- Plant team now builds and edits dashboards themselves — no consultants, no support tickets
- Operators run their own analyses; no specialised skill set needed to ask a new question
1Single multi-site dashboard
100%Kepware licensing retired
0Consultants needed to extend
“We were paying for licenses we kept forgetting about, and waiting on a vendor every time we wanted a new chart. KMS gave us one screen across every plant — and now the operations team builds their own dashboards.”
— Plant Operations Lead, Sugar Manufacturer