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March 6, 2007

TOM BURKE

OPC Foundation Announces 2007 Training Seminars

Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, discusses educational opportunities in 2007 for the automation sector to learn more about OPC technology.

Welcome to the March 2007 edition of OPConnect, the official newsletter of the OPC Foundation. With this issue, we begin the third year of publishing OPConnect with our media partner, Automation World.

OPConnect was launched in 2005 to promote, educate and build awareness for OPC technology. OPC is a standardized interface by which data is passed between different computer systems running on Microsoft Windows platforms. Since its inception in 1996, OPC has become one of the most widely used standards for sharing data among disparate computer and control systems...Read more

Automation System Uses OPC for Metering Stations - ABB’s project delivery for the West African Gas Reclamation Project includes OPC connectivity and communication for the automation and SCADA systems, as well as the fire and gas systems... Read more

OPC Integrates Best-in-Class Products - A major Florida water and wastewater treatment complex deploys OPC trending solutions from Canary Labs to integrate multi-vendor products for a better overall system... Read more

Chemicals Giant Uses OPC to Improve Plant Information - A Russian chemicals company uses OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems to link its Yokogawa distributed control system to a proprietary plant information system that runs on the QNX real-time operating system... Read more

Cows Call Home for Dairy Integrator - A dairy industry systems integrator was able to meet FDA requirements with an innovative solution based on the unsolicited messaging features of OPC Servers from Cyberlogic... Read more

Hydrogen Fueling Station Leverages OPC to Read Non-standard Data - Engineers at Proton Energy Systems and Northern Power, wholly owned subsidiaries of Distributed Energy Systems, chose OPC solutions from Kepware Technologies to plug-in to error and warning data... Read more

Steel Company Uses OPC to Help Meet EPA Emission Standards - Matrix Technologies chose OPC solutions from MatrikonOPC when it upgraded the supervisory control system for an oxygen furnace at an AK Steel processing mill... Read more

OPC Client Monitors Synchrophasor Devices - Using Softing’s XML-DA Linux Toolbox, a senior Design Team of the University of Idaho is developing an OPC XML-DA Client-based Web application to monitor a network of Synchrophasor devices... Read more

OPC Tools Shorten .NET Learning Curve - An engineering services firm deploys TOP Server and OPC Extender from Software Toolbox to speed connection from Visual Studio .NET to OPC data sources... Read more

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