Articles and white papers on OPC and its member companies.
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Amcor PET Packaging Streamlines Plant Operations with Kepware By Kepware
Amcor, a maker of packaging solutions from corrugated board to blister packs and bottles, installed a KepwareEX server to connect Wonderware, Siemens, Allen Bradley and Apriso/SAP applications into a single network via OPC. Click here to read full article...
The Every Man's guide to OPC Darek Kominek, P.Eng. (Alberta, Canada)
MatrikonOPC
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. Read entire article by MatrikonOPC
Communicating Building Information Across the Enterprise with OPC and BACnet By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC Building automation systems have information to relay about energy management, optimized operating conditions, and asset utilization. Unfortunately, they are all speaking different languages and running into application barriers. These systems can be connected and the obstacles overcome using standard, open protocols: OPC and BACnet. Click here to read full article...
Implementing Successful OPC Projects By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC The issues associated with OPC projects include multiple data paths, data throughput, guaranteed data delivery and redundancy, network interoperability, communication disruption and recovery, maintainability and geographically disperse systems. Click here to read full article...
Winning the Battle for Interoperability By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC End users who purchase OPC-compliant products expect reliability, full data information integrity and validated, secure interoperability. The product should seamlessly integrate with existing architecture. To ensure this, the OPC Foundation created the OPC Enhanced Certification Program. Click here to read full article...
Communicating To the Enterprise Isn’t Science Fiction By MatrikonOPC Organizations are using OPC to integrate realtime and historic building information into existing business applications to improve the balance between people, infrastructure, facilities and their overall impact on the enterprise bottom line. Click here to read full article...
OPC Interview: OPC Test Lab Certifications By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The OPC Foundation is launching certification labs to ensure a high level of quality and reliability of OPC products. Automation.com's Contributing Editor, Bill Lydon, interviewed Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President & Executive Director and Paul Hunkar, Director of Compliance for the OPC Foundation and Consultant engineer for ABB, to learn more about the certification. Read full article.
