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Konnections, Jan. 2006 - OPC News

March 2006

OPC Downloads
OPC Webcasts

Sharing Process Data Between Control Systems using OPC

Thursday
March 16, 2006
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST
(GMT -5:00)


This webcast is designed for individuals who want to know how data sharing can be achieved using standards-based (off-the-shelf products) that leverage OPC's powerful connectivity.

Learn how to easily exchange process data between:
  • A PLC and a DCS
  • Two devices that speak different protocols
  • Two OPC servers
Webcasts presented by:
Presenter - Darek Kominek

Sean Leonard
B.Sc Eng. CompE. MBA
MatrikonOPC R&D Manager

What is OPC? Leverage Standardized Connectivity.

Wednesday
March 29, 2006
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST
(GMT -5:00)


This tutorial explores how OPC is used to build a standards-based communication infrastructure. It provides an introduction to OPC and the different specifications that are available to increase effectiveness through optimized industrial connectivity.

  • Vision of OPC
  • Various OPC Specifications
  • Benefits of Integrating OPC Solutions
Webcasts presented by:
Presenter - Darek Kominek

Eric Murphy P.Eng. (Alberta)
HDA Chair - OPC Foundation
MatrikonOPC Solutions Architect


 
MatrikonOPC Server for ODBC

Easily bring your OPC Historical data into applications like Excel, Access, and any other ODBC compatible application. This exciting new OPC server allows users to connect to just one, or multiple OPC HDA (Historical Data Access). These servers are then exposed as ODBC data sources for client applications.

Databases this server supports:
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Oracle OGI
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Rockwell RSSQL
  • Telemetry-SCADA
  • Citect
  • Sybase
  • Generic ODBC connections
  • ...and others
If your database is ODBC compliant, then MatrikonOPC can easily connect to it.




MatrikonOPC Explorer - New Release!

MatrikonOPC Explorer is still the program of choice to help test and troubleshoot OPC servers and connections with the added improved ability to view 10,000 items.

New Features include:
  1. MatrikonOPC Explorer's new ability to update/display 10,000 items easily at 2 second updates.
  2. The capacity to create and validate 10,000 items.









Databases are consistently being used as the gateway to interface with information. Almost everything that we do with a computer or process has databases somewhere in the process. With the industry acceptance of OPC to standardize the way that plant floor devices share data with software applications such as HMIs, Process historians and trenders.

Read more about how OPC utilizes standards based connectivity to easily keep pace with any database.



Read this paper





New OPC Product Releases
MatrikonOPC Server for GE System 1
The MatrikonOPC Server for MatrikonOPC Server for GE System 1 (Bentley Nevada) provides access to the System 1 Optimization and Diagnostic Platform using the GE System 1(Bentley Nevada) API. The MatrikonOPC server is installed on a Windows PC and uses connects to System 1 via the Ethernet network.
Get more information...


MatrikonOPC Server for Johnson controls N1
This OPC Server provides connectivity to a Johnson Controls HVAC network by communication with network modules (NCM) via the N1 Protocol.
Get more information...


MatrikonOPC Server for Bristol Babcock (Open BSI)
The OPC Server for OPENBsi provides connectivity to devices configured within Bristol Babcock's OpenBsi software Suite.
Get more information...




Propal Pulp and Paper Integrating Live Production Data with Business Applications
This in depth case study describes how Propal Paper Production in Valle del Cauca, leveraged standards-based OPC industrial connectivity to provide an off-the-shelf economical solution to stay competitive in the demanding paper market.
Read this case study




Explore the global workshop schedule               Learn more about the certification benefits

  • Quickly troubleshoot and diagnose Windows security problems
  • Solve system connectivity issues using field-tested OPC technology
  • Reduce integration time by learning to install, configure & test OPC
  • Improve system reliability using standards-based technology
  • Reduce long term ownership costs by building robust systems

"Anyone thinking of implementing OPC should consider taking this course."

Lynn Wheeler
DuPont





Ask The OPC Experts...
Question: What do the letters "O-P-C" stand for?

Answer: Microsoft’s OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology and were designed to solve a problem that was very prevalent in process control: real-time data transfer between industrial applications. Thus the acronym WAS Ole for Process Control. The specifications and their implementation by vendors were extremely popular. It ended up that not only process control people needed data transfer, people from all industries need real-time data transfer between software applications. OPC was no longer just for process control any longer. The OPC foundation felt that the acronym "process control" did not describe what OPC was about, so they removed the reference to process control. Currently, OPC can be referred to as "the specifications formally known as OLE for Process Control"

Ask the experts...


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