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Kepware to supply device communications to Columbia Weather Systems  - 07/22/08
Columbia Weather Systems is a manufacturer of Weather Stations for fixed mount, vehicle mount and portable applications.
Matrikon supplies Alarm Management to LyondellBasell Europe  - 07/11/08
All LyondellBasell production facilities in Europe will integrate and use Matrikon’s Alarm Management software suite with a variety of different control systems.
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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.
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."
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.
GE Fanuc supplies PLCs and HMI to Macawber Beekay  - 05/08/08
Equipment includes PLC-based control panels, Proficy HMI/SCADA, CIMPLICITY, and VersaMax I/O to control ash material handling at Macawber Beekay's plant in New Delhi, India
Control Dynamics uses IntelliMax for offshore control systems  - 03/11/08
The first application will be the control system for a hydraulic workover unit being designed and built for a major offshore production facility in the Gulf of Mexico.
OPC Training Institute Selects Kepware for demonstrations  - 01/22/08
The OPC Training Institute (OPCTI) will use Kepware OPC products and technology in their training classes and webinars, especially when demonstrating OPC server functionality and device connectivity.
Softing announces Partnership with ILS Technology  - 11/28/07
Softing will integrate its OPC UA interface into ILS Technology's deviceWISE software that connects devices on the factory floor with enterprise systems.
National Instruments connects with Kepware  - 09/24/07
NI used KEPServerEX technology to create the new NI OPC Server.
Matrikon supplies asset management software to PPL  - 09/06/07
Software includes Operational Insight, Alarm Manager, various OPC interfaces and Resolution Intelligent Plant Data Model to monitor equipment performance and reliability.
PlantTriage improves performance at plastics plant in Finland  - 08/28/07
The Borealis Cracker operation is exceeding expected production targets, and discovering hidden process performance opportunities.
OMAC evaluates OPC link from CNC to ERP  - 03/24/07
The OMAC HMI Working Group organized a joint project between Boeing, Okuma and NIST to evaluate the integration of CNC to ERP and determine if part accountability could be achieved with minimal integration efforts using OPC/OMAC technologies.
ABB to provide controls for new $1 billion generating unit in Louisiana  - 02/28/07
ABB will supply burner management, boiler controls, and BOP controls for two 330 MW circulating fluidized bed boilers at Cleco Power's new $1 billion Rodemacher Power Station, a 660 MW generating unit near Boyce, LA. ABB will provide System 800xA with operator stations, Harmony Bridge controllers for monitoring and control, and PLC interfaces to the turbine controls via standard OPC technology.
Kepware supplies OPC server to TriA Solutions
Kepware's KEPServerEX suite will be used to supply device connectivity for TriA Solution's A3 Core, used in power monitoring and testing management solutions in Power and Distributed Generation.
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