Find out the answer to the question: which is better — an open computer system or a closed one? Without hesitation, 9 out of 10 computer savvy consumers will say “open.” This response is the result of nearly 30 years of PC development during which the hardware has been open and the various Microsoft operating systems have been de-facto open.

  Power and automation solutions for electricity and water applications.

  Overview of the security measures that need to be taken in order to protect an integrated SCADA network.

 Western Kentucky Energy uses OPC to share and display critical alarming information, plant data and equipment status from its ABB Harmony control system and third-party solutions.

 Electric Power Systems Inc. deploys the OPC-based Trend Historian package from Canary Labs to troubleshoot and resolve problems, keeping rural power systems up and running.

 By using OPC products from Software Toolbox, Control Products Unlimited supplies telemetry solutions that insure a seamless movement of information among multiple brands of remote field equipment.

 ABB’s System 800xA and OPC DA turn real-time data into actionable information for energy company Petrobras.

 AMT uses OPC servers from Kepware to develop energy-saving control solutions for refrigeration plants.

 When selecting a supplier, the issues of standards, reliability, price and interoperability are of top importance to users of OPC technology, according to a recent survey of industrial manufacturers and software developers.

 CAS, a software developer and services integrator based in Lodz,Poland, deploys OPC as the communication engine for a municipal heat distribution system.

 Renewable energy generator, Hydro Tasmania, uses Matrikon OPC tunneling technology to overcome DCOM limitations.

 OPC-enabled video recorders replace existing paper recorders, to make plant-wide data available in the same historian database.