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OPC Desktop Historian

For manufacturers who need to analyze process data, OPC Desktop Historian is an affordable, easy to install, configure and administer data archiving tool. Unlike enterprise process historians that are designed to manage the needs of the entire corporation, OPC Desktop Historian focuses on data collection, not data presentation or processing. OPC Desktop Historian is a lightweight solution for time-based data storage that can stand alone or become part of a total enterprise data historian solution.
Features:
  • Easily log data from OPC DA Servers
  • Access the data in OPC HDA or OPC DA
  • Supports collecting data from text files

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Question:  We use a custom-built VB application  developed in-house for logging real-time sensor readings into  a relational database using SQL/ODBC. We had some  documentation but it is now obsolete due to tweaks and  fixes that have crept in over time. We recently upgraded our  equipment and again have to figure out how to modify the  VB code to accommodate the changes without breaking  what is already working.
I am getting real tired of having to dive into the code every time we need to change a tag or connect to a different database. Is there anything off the shelf that would do the same thing without all the hacking?

Sleepy hacker in Seattle  

Answer (Sean Leonard, VP MatrikonOPC):
This is a common problem. Getting into a custom coded solution for logging OPC data to ODBC-based databases is relatively straightforward but maintaining that solution is NOT. There are many reasons for this: original developers retire, documentation falls quickly out-of-date or is not there to begin with, communication specifications evolve, and solution requirements change. Standards-based, off-the-shelf-solutions avoid such issues because the vendor maintains them.

In your case, the MatrikonOPC Client for ODBC is the solution. It can connect to OPC Servers and log their data to any database supporting ODBC like MSSQL, Oracle, Access, and more without any programming.

Solve your problem now!


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Training

Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
ItalyMilano, Lombardia, Italy
February 5 - 6, 2009

Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
USABirmingham, AL, United States
February 9 - 10, 2009

Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
GermanyCologne, Germany
February 9 - 10, 2009

Level 3 - Implementing OPC Projects & Advanced Architectures
GermanyCologne, Germany
February 11, 2009

3 day Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
UnitedArabEmiratesDubai, United Arab Emirates
February 16 - 18, 2009

Level 3 - Implementing OPC Projects & Advanced Architectures
UnitedArabEmiratesDubai, United Arab Emirates
February 19, 2009

Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
indiaBangalore, Karnataka, India
February 23 - 24, 2009

3 day Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
SingaporeSingapore, Singapore
February 24 - 26, 2009

Level 1 & 2 - OPC Integration and Diagnostics
NorwayLysaker, Norway
February 24 - 25, 2009

Level 3 - Implementing OPC Projects & Advanced Architectures
SingporeSingapore, Singapore
February 27, 2009



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Spotlight on Integrators


Integrator: GIL Automations and Control Services Ltd
CEO: Lawal Gbolahan I

GIL Automations is a Systems Integrator and Technical Solutions company operating in countries across the
Gil
Gulf of Guinea.GIL specializes in design and implementation of industrial automation, Power Systems, Control Systems and process management solutions to the oil and gas, manufacturing and Power industries. We achieve this by drawing on our many years of practical engineering experience in working environments just like yours.

"MatrikonOPC Integrator Program will further help us provide best in class services to our clients in Nigeria, Angola and across West Africa. By leveraging the experience, technology and support of MatrikonOPC, we hope to continually provide industrial solutions that are simple to use, robust and very cost effective," said Lawal Gbolahan I, Vice President and CEO, GIL Automations and Control Services Ltd.

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