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Automation Weekly - Largest VFD, IEC 61131 in OPC-UA, Webinar - Using video in HMI/SCADA, Application wins for ABB, Siemens, Emerson
The August 20, 2008 issue of our Automation Weekly eNewsletter is online now. This issue includes a world record VFD from Siemens, PLCopen adds IEC61131 to OPC-UA, Webinar on using video in HMI/SCADA, Application wins by suppliers, plus other latest automation news and products. Sponsored by AutomationDirect, Citect and Wonderware.
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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.
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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.
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Wonderware steels Nucor
South Africa Instrumentation & Control, May 2008
Nucor’s mill in Berkeley, South Carolina, updated the InTouch application already in place with Wonderware’s IndustrialSQL Server historian and Application Server.
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OPC Drives Overall Equipment Efficiency from 65% to 75%
By Thomas R. Cutler
"Supporting OPC creates great new opportunities for collecting data from production equipment in real time, performing statistical analysis on the data and then feeding information back to operators, engineers or to the equipment itself," says Byron Shetler, Chief Technology Officer for Hertzler.
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Linux to ControlLogix solution uses OPC
Control Engineering Europe, April 2008
At Task Force Tips, product orders are fulfilled by a robotic picker that moves among hundreds of parts bins on a 100-foot-long, multilevel picking line. TFT decided to overhaul the robot, using ControlLogix PACs, servo drives, and TOP Server OPC Server and the Cogent OPC DataHub from Software Toolbox.
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Ethernet Direct releases SNMP OPC Server
- 08/14/08
SNMP OPC Server software supports SNMPV1/V2C/V3 and LLDP, so users can integrate industrial managed switches to a SCADA/HMI system.
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Software Toolbox upgrades OmniServer 2.6
- 07/22/08
Version 2.6 OPC and I/O Server adds support for Windows Vista and Server 2008, along with the ability to generate alarm notifications via email.
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Jemmac upgrades OPCFailover
- 06/24/08
V1-7 of OPCFailover provides pre-emptive failover, detached I/O management and sophisticated handling of deadlocked OPCServers.
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OPC DataHub connects new and existing systems
By Cogent
BP’s control center in Tulsa, Oklahoma is responsible for the transport of oil and natural gas from South-Central and Midwest oil fields to locations nationwide. They decided to add leak detection to their SCADA system. The challenge was to feed process data from Sybase database to the leak detection system, which had available an OPC server.
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China uses Wonderware to modernize railway stations for Olympics
- 06/05/08
Wonderware System Platform 3.0, Historian and InTouch 10.0 HMI will be installed at four railway stations and operate the "Passenger Information System." |
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MatrikonOPC provides data connectivity for Nova BioProfile FLEX analyzer
- 05/21/08
BioProfile FLEX reduces cell culture analysis time, labor, and operating costs by consolidating chemistry/gases/electrolytes, cell density/viability, and osmolality into a single workstation. |
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ISA Marketing & Sales Summit
September 17-19, 2008 Cleveland, Ohio
Summit helps marketing and sales executives in automation markets meet the strategic and tactical challenges of the 21st century.
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Japanese Interoperability Workshop 2008
June 18-20, 2008 Tokyo
All OPC Foundation members can use this 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 (40) participants to validate Data Access (V2 and V3) interoperability, XML-DA, Alarms and Events and Historical Data Access.
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OPC UA DevCon 2008
October 27-29, 2008 Munich, Germany
Attendees will have the opportunity to understand the business model and learn about the UA components and specifications, the technology used to deploy OPC UA products and solutions, plus a detailed dive-down into the core of UA.
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