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January 2009 |
Sponsor: MatrikonOPC |
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Featured Articles & White Papers |
OPC Security: Seven Years, Seven Fears
Automated Buildings, October 2008
By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC
The first OPC Security specification was released in 2000, and the next major OPC security revision, OPC UA Security, was released in 2007, seven years later. It’s said that a little fear is a good thing. Here are seven security fears every OPC systems owner should consider, and what OPC options exist to soothe them.
OPC UA: An End-User’s Perspective
OPC UA (Unified Architecture) represents the OPC Foundation’s most recent set of specifications for Process Control and Automation system interconnectivity. This paper explains OPC UA from the perspective of the organization that will benefit from the connectivity, in other words: the End User.
OPC Tunneling - Know Your Options
By Bob McIlvride and Andrew Thomas, Cogent Real-Time Systems
Anyone who has attempted to network OPC knows that it is challenging, at best. This white paper looks at how tunneling solves the issues associated with DCOM, and show you what to look for in an OPC tunneling product.
The Every Man’s Guide to OPC
This paper explains how OPC solves modern industry’s growing challenge of accessing and sharing data between devices, controllers, and applications regardless of what their native communications are or what vendor they are from.
Introduction to OPC for Building Automation
By Darek Kominek, Matrikon
HMIs, historians, and analysis and reporting packages that originate in the process control industry may not have drivers that support such protocols as BACnet or other building automation protocols. OPC can solve the problem.
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Cogent releases OPC DataHub Web Demo
OPC DataHub demo lets anyone using a PDA or cell phone interact with a live system to view data in real time, and to send commands for controlling the system.
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| Application Stories |
Buhler's Grain Milling Automation Relies on OPC Technology
By Wolfgang Langer, Softing
Buhler standardized on Softing’s S7/S5 OPC Server to provide reliable connectivity between its WinCoS.r2 grain milling automation system and multiple S7-400 PLCs.
Emerson Smart Wireless Network improves safety at Boise paper mill
Boise enhanced safety at its paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon, by using Smart Wireless products to monitor its eye wash and safety shower stations.
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| Featured Training |
Level 1: OPC & DCOM Diagnostics
February 10-11, 2009 Atlanta, GA
Students learn how OPC works and how to troubleshoot and repair DCOM problems. The class covers all the OPC specifications, what they offer and how OPC applications are expected to behave. Then, students learn how to troubleshoot and repair OPC communication problems.
Level 3 - Implementing OPC Projects & Advanced Architectures
February 11, 2009 Koln, Germany
For engineers, developers and integrators who are integrating new systems, expanding current operations, replacing legacy equipment and looking for ways to improve data communication.
Level 2: OPC Security
February 12-13, 2009 Atlanta, GA
Students learn how OPC works and how to troubleshoot and repair problems. In this hands-on workshop, students use knowledge from previous workshops and learn how to design an OPC communication infrastructure that enables various other systems such as MES, CMMS, ERP, and others, to make use of the available digital information.
Level 2: OPC Security
February 19-20, 2009 Houston, Texas
Students learn how OPC works and how to troubleshoot and repair problems. In this hands-on workshop, students use knowledge from previous workshops and learn how to design an OPC communication infrastructure that enables various other systems such as MES, CMMS, ERP, and others, to make use of the available digital information.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Matrikon reports revenue down in first quarter
Revenue for the first quarter, which ended November 30, 2008, was $19.58 million compared to $20.16 million in Q4-08.
PLCopen publishes AutomationML requirements
PLCopen Technical Committee TC6-XML opened up the IEC 61131-3 development environments by specifying the XML schema.
Kepware to resell ConneXSoft BACnet and Echelon drivers
Kepware and ConneXSoft will develop BACnet and Echelon communications drivers and Kepware will become a reseller of ConneXSoft tools.
Malvern Instruments joins OPC Analyzer Integration Group
The group will develop a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers.
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Kepware supplies software to Specter Instruments
Kepware will provide KEPServerEX to Specter Instruments for its WIN-911 remote alarming solution.
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| Featured Events |
North American Interoperability Workshop 2009
March 2-6, 2009 Boca Raton, Florida
All OPC Foundation members are once again encouraged to use this upcoming test session as not only a mechanism to validate their products, but to also debug and diagnose any interoperability problems that may be discovered. This year's session will allow up to a maximum qty (60) vendors to validate Data Access (V1, V2 and V3) interoperability, XML-DA, Alarms and Events, Historical Data Access and OPC Unified Architecture.
OSGI Devcon 2009
March 23-26, 2009 Santa Clara, CA
Held in conjunction with EclipseCon.
Sensors Expo & Conference
June 8-10, 2009 Rosemont, IL
The 2009 Conference Program will offer 18 tracks with an expanded focus on data acquisition, data analysis, wireless, M-2-M and communications.
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