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October 2009 |
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| Featured Articles |
OPC says new markets opening for OPC technology
Message from OPC Foundation President Tom Burke
The desire to improve the operational efficiency of production facilities, plus the increasing importance of energy management, building automation and energy conservation, means vendors need to adopt standards, like OPC.
System Integration: FDT plus EDDL, equals FDI
InTech, September 2009
By Nicholas Sheble
Current FDI efforts focus on completing two remaining documents. The first is a functional specification detailing how to combine the benefits of EDDL, FDT, and the OPC Unified Architecture to best effect. The second will be a comprehensive technical specification. Release of the final functional specification will be mid-2010.
OPC UA Redefines Automation Architectures
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com
The new OPC UA technology provides an efficient and secure infrastructure for communications - from sensor to business enterprise computing for all automation systems in manufacturing and process control. OPC UA leverages web services to provide a single programming paradigm in a scalable architecture that can be implemented is a range of devices - from embedded to enterprise.
The myth and magic of OPC
InTech, August 2009
By Patrick Dixon and Michael Velarde
OLE for Process Control is a widely adopted industry standard for communication between applications in a control system: It’s a beautiful thing when it works. Unfortunately, there are times when OPC shows its uglier side.
Can OPC Bridge the Engineering-IT Divide?
Automated Buildings, July 2009
Randy Kondor, OPC Training Institute
Driven by technology, the IT-Engineering convergence continues to affect control and security systems where they overlap. The contentious and disputed area of intersection between Engineering and IT is also where OPC lives and works.
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Secure OPC Tunneling: Know Your Options
By Software Toolbox & Cogent Real-Time Systems
Anyone who has attempted to network OPC knows that it is challenging, at best. There are many options and solutions in the market that attempt to solve this challenge. This whitepaper shows how tunneling technologies solve the issues associated with networking OPC and what to look for in a tunneling product.
Optimizing OPC Communications with OPC Middleware Products
By Wolfgang Langer and Juergen Lange, Softing
OPC middleware products are designed to enhance any OPC-based application. An intelligent set of OPC products simplifies the commissioning and operation of OPC clients and servers, significantly improves the data throughput of your OPC interfaces, and ensures reliable OPC communication links.
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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| Application Stories |
ARC Informatique´s PcVue software controls wind farms in Spain
PcVue SCADA software centralized information from 10 Iberdrola Ingenier wind farms. Up to 2.5 million data items are monitored by 13 PcVue file servers and multiple FrontVue client stations, which communicate via OPC over a 1,000 Mbps redundant TCP/IP Ethernet network.
Saudi Aramco optimizes plant operations with OPC
By Integration Objects
Integration Objects used OPC to integrate a point to point connection infrastructure based on VMS and Unix platforms that connected all the Distributed Control Systems and other automation islands with Aramco’s PIMS (Plant Information Management System).
Achieving interoperability
InTech, July 2009
By John Haydock
The OPC driver is a key component of Rea Magnet Wire’s production processes in addressing device-to-device and bus-to-bus interoperability needs.
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| Featured Training |
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OPC UA Developers' Workshop New Orleans
October 27-29, 2009 New Orleans, LA
The course of instruction is for Development Engineers who will develop an OPC UA Server or Client in the near future. This training workshop will cover the OPC UA architecture on Tuesday and will cover in-depth C++ and .NET development on Wednesday and Thursday.
OPC & DCOM Diagnostics
November 3-4, 2009 London, England
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. Specifically, the workshop enables students to delve into DCOM configuration and diagnostics. Price: £1,495.
OPC Basic Training Webcasts
Software Toolbox offers three free one-hour recorded webcasts:
Part 1: OPC Basics - learn what OPC is, the kinds of problems it can solve, and how it works at the "user" level.
Part 2: OPC Data Access Applications - HMI/SCADA, Excel, Web, and More - take what you learn in Part 1 and apply it to the most common uses of OPC.
Part 3: Developing custom business and manufacturing applications using OPC and Visual Studio.NET.
OPC & DCOM Diagnostics
February 2-3, 2010 El Segundo, California
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. Specifically, the workshop enables students to delve into DCOM configuration and diagnostics. Price: $1,995
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| Company & Organizational News |
ISA selects Automation.com to provide E-Newsletters
The co-branded e-newsletters will be distributed to Automation.com’s subscribers, InTech subscribers, and ISA members and customers, creating a combined total distribution of more than 90,000 world-wide automation professionals.
OPC Technology finds its place on the map
Automated Buildings, September 2009
By Manny Mandrusiak
The OPC Foundation has been actively working in the building automation arena through its vendors to provide a vision for developing OPC clients and servers that empower information integration between industrial automation and building automation.
Longwatch signs Industrial Network Systems as systems integrator
Longwatch signed Industrial Network Systems as its distributor and systems integrator in Illinois, Indiana, Western Kentucky and Eastern Missouri.
Matrikon acquires Australian integration and automation company
Matrikon acquired Integration Automation and Control for AUD$1.65 million in cash for all issued and outstanding shares of IAC plus the value of the net assets of the company on September 1, 2009.
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| Project News |
Kepware to supply communications drivers to Mettler Toledo
Kepware will develop a suite of Mettler Toledo industrial weighing terminal communication drivers.
MatrikonOPC supplies Siemens Building Technologies with OPC Data Manager
Siemens Building Technologies is standardizing on MatrikonOPC’s SNMP Agent for OPC and OPC Data Manager.
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| Featured Events |
World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC)
November 4-6, 2009 Washington, District of Columbia
The WEEC features a large, multi-track conference agenda, a full line-up of seminars on a variety of current topics and a comprehensive exposition of the market's most promising new technologies.
4th Annual Global Refining Summit 2010
May 17-19, 2010 Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Global Refining Summit 2010 is the must attend conference and expo for anyone involved in the refining of hydrocarbons.
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