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OPC Portal: Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
OPC Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for OPC with valuable OPC and OPC UA information for controls and automation engineers to apply in creating systems with open connectivity from plant floor to front office, for increased productivity and efficiency. OPC and OPC UA provide engineers with a flexible and efficient way to implement systems without writing custom code. OPC interface products are built once and reused many times, therefore the products undergo continuous quality control and improvement. Subscribe to our e-Newsletter or get the latest information on OPC sent to your desktop as soon as they are published on this page.
Articles
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Online Diagnostics: Easy Access
- 03/19/10 Industrial Automation Asia, March 2010 By Jim Ralston, ProSoft Technology There are many ways to use wireless RF diagnostic data when made available in an OPC server. The best use is dependent on the process type, how wireless is being used in the system and user needs. |
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Just how safe are those 'standards-based' systems in your enterprise?
By Nathan Pocock, Director of Compliance, OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation Compliance and Certification program offers different levels of certification. It is extremely important for individuals who purchase this software to understand the rigors that each level of certification requires, and the benefits of those results. |
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What is OPC? It is all about the Tag
By Nathan Pocock, OPC OPC is still the connectivity standard for Process Control, for ADI, a part of FDI and FDT and STILL the connectivity standard for manufacturing, and PLCs. OPC is a Unified Architecture, and OPC is an Express Interface. |
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White Papers
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Facilities Management Solutions
By Jim Bishop, Wonderware The biggest problem in building automation, identified by organizations like LonMark and Echelon, is the proprietary distribution models offered by established Building Automation System (BAS) suppliers. This white paper describes Wonderware’s Facilities Management Software Solution. |
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OPC UA: 5 Things Everyone Needs To Know
By Eric Murphy, Matrikon What exactly is OPC UA and what does it mean to you? When will products be ready? Can you implement it and should you be doing it now? Not to mention questions about security, scalability and backwards compatibility. These questions are best summed up in the five things everyone needs to know about OPC UA. |
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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. |
Application Stories
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OPC simplifies integration of process vision, quality control systems
- 03/13/10 Control Engineering Europe, March 2010 Logicpark used the OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems to network an ABB quality control system to a Viconsys process vision system at the Kimberly-Clark production facility in Niederbipp, Switzerland. |
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Raima adds Softing OPC UA software to its RDM embedded database
- 03/03/10 Softing integrated its OPC Unified Architecture (UA) software into an OPC UA based application that communicates directly with Raima Database Manager. |
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Neutral building management system in facilities of German federal authorities
By Wonderware A Wonderware FactorySuite system, based on OPC, provides a building management system for Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (Federal Institute for Realty Projects) in Berlin, Germany |
Resources & Literature
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Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
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Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary
No technical library is complete without this comprehensive dictionary covering the entire vocabulary of automation, systems, and instrumentation. This authoritative fourth edition contains the latest trends in industrial instrumentation and automation. References relevant to ISA and IEC standards are included throughout, along with illustrations to enhance the definitions of more difficult terminology. With CDROM. |
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Integration Objects releases free OPC Server testing tool
- 10/20/09
OPC Server Simulators include both an OPC DA/HDA server and an OPC A&E server simulator, allowing users to test any third party OPC Client application using simulated data and messages. |
Training & Seminars
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OPCTI announces workshop schedule
Workshops provide automation professionals with a proven training program that enables them to quickly take on the challenging task of establishing a robust communication infrastructure. |
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Control Dynamics to offer OPC training
- 11/24/09
Control Dynamics entered into an agreement with MatrikonOPC to provide vendor neutral OPC Training. |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
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ProSoft releases Generic ASCII serial communication module
- 02/26/10
The MVI56E-GSC provides a way to add two fully configurable ASCII communication ports to the ControlLogix platform without consuming the front port of the processor. |
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Software Toolbox enhances TOP Server OPC software
- 02/08/10
TOP Server Version 5.2 now has OPC UA Server & Client Interfaces, an expanded OPC-A&E Server Interface and driver updates. |
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Kepware enhances KEPServer EX
- 02/08/10
Enhancements in KEPServerEX version 5.2 include an OPC UA Client and Server, an Alarm and Event Condition option, and updated Mettler Toledo and IDEC Drivers. |
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Company & Organization News
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MatrikonOPC joins Honeywell PKS Advantage Program
- 03/16/10 MatrikonOPC supplies the only PKS Compliance Certified OPC connectivity for Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS). |
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
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ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
Project News
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Matrikon to supply Control Performance Suite software to BASF
- 02/16/10 Matrikon Deutschland entered a license agreement with BASF for all production facilities worldwide to integrate and use Matrikon’s Control Performance software. |
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Kepware to provide interface software to Predator
- 02/11/10 Predator Software will use KEPServerEX client interfaces with its shop floor control system (SFC) software tools. |
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Kepware to provide device communications to APC
- 02/11/10 APC will use Kepware’s “IT and Infrastructure Suite” to deliver OPC interoperability standards, including OPC DA, OPC AE and OPC-UA. |
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