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Report observes a decline in the incident rate in the petroleum and chemical industries, but an increase in the incident rate in the water & wastewater and the power & utilities industries.

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.

MatrikonOPC supplies the only PKS Compliance Certified OPC connectivity for Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS).

One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors.

The Maine Technology Institute gave Kepware $500,000 for its embedded product development efforts.

Softing integrated its OPC Unified Architecture (UA) software into an OPC UA based application that communicates directly with Raima Database Manager.

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.

Kepware will deliver full support for Cisco networking products.

Matrikon Deutschland entered a license agreement with BASF for all production facilities worldwide to integrate and use Matrikon’s Control Performance software.

APC will use Kepware’s “IT and Infrastructure Suite” to deliver OPC interoperability standards, including OPC DA, OPC AE and OPC-UA.

Predator Software will use KEPServerEX client interfaces with its shop floor control system (SFC) software tools.

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.

Microsoft and MatrikonOPC will be demonstrating OPC UA connectivity for Microsoft StreamInsight at this year’s OPC Foundation training seminars.

Specializing in the electrical, instrumentation, and control integration fields, Supra Controls uses MatrikonOPC products for its OPC data connectivity solutions.

OMNI Flow Computers is the newest member of the MatrikonOPC Vendor Partner Program.

By Manny Mandrusiak, OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation’s 2010 Training Road Shows have been completely revamped to focus on providing technology overviews on the three core parts of the OPC Foundation portfolio: OPC Classic (OPC DA, OPC HDA, OPC A&E), OPC Xi, and OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA).

Matrikon will supply a Well Performance Monitor, an Equipment Condition Monitor, and tools for collaboration and workflow management.

Tony Paine, former Executive VP/CTO of Kepware, was promoted to President.

ARC says the short term forecast for discrete automation systems looks bleak, but moderate market growth is expected five years from now. China and India are doing well, of course.

The first step for the joined working group was the mapping of the IEC 61131-3 software model to the OPC UA information model.