Andritz Inc. uses high-speed Ethernet radios to create a robust anti-collision network for three different dual Portal Crane projects.

  Since the mid-1990s, Ethernet networks have become ubiquitous. They are used in offices, in homes, in workplaces, in building automation, and with increasing dominance, not just frequency, on the factory floor. In this whitepaper, Paul Wacker of Advantech Corporation explores Gigabit Ethernet, and what the future holds.

 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.

 By employing OPC in its process control systems, ABB provides customers, such as Pemex, with efficient connectivity to third-party solutions and a single source of information.

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

 With OPC solutions from FAST SpA, the alarms chain is controlled across the distributed control and emergency shutdown systems.

 In an interview with Automation World Editorial Director, Jane Gerold, Rashesh Mody, Chief Technology Officer at Wonderware, an Invensys company in Lake Forest, Calif., and Chief Architect for the OPC Foundation, discusses the new OPC Unified Architecture specification.