OPC DevCon Delivers UA Education, First Demo Products

Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, reviews the recent OPC Developers’ Conference, where attendees gained detailed information on the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specifications and upcoming deliverables, such as OPC UA solutions and wrappers to migrate legacy systems.

Welcome to the August 2007 edition of OPConnect, the official newsletter of the OPC Foundation. We’ve just concluded our 2007 Developers’ Conference, and I’m excited to provide some insight into this important event.

DevCon 2007, which was held June 25 through June 28 in Scottsdale, Ariz., offered a first-hand look at demonstration products and deliverable technology based on the OPC Foundation’s ground-breaking Unified Architecture (UA) connectivity solution. In my keynote address, I remarked that the multiple man-years of development in this technology are now delivering the OPC vision of a platform independent, firewall-friendly and secure method of open data exchange among automation and information technology (IT) systems in manufacturing enterprises worldwide... Read more

Pipeline Company ‘Pumped’ About OPC - The Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is using OPC solutions from Kepware Technologies to help create a simulated I/O and valve system that will predict and modify programming and operating configurations before they reach the field... Read more

Dynamic Duo of Industrial Connectivity - MatrikonOPC shares how the “dynamic duo” of OPC and Modbus are key standards in achieving enterprise-wide integration and interoperability, from the Control layer through to the Operations layer and the Business layer... Read more

OPC in Oilfield Operations - Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services corporation, is using Softing’s OPC Toolkit and CAN technology to operate wireline units used for running reservoir evaluation services... Read more

OPC Tackles a Radioactive Challenge - KCC Software used OPC DA tools from Software Toolbox in developing a software application that collects and logs RTU and sensor data to detect radioactive material in scrap steel. Deploying OPC saved the developer thousands of dollars in time and effort... Read more

Real-Time Vertical Integration a Reality with OPC - By deploying standards such as OPC and ISA 95 in its ECS Enterprise Connectivity Solutions, ABB helps frozen food producer Dafgård reap the benefits of integrated plant and enterprise business systems... Read more

OPC-HDA Speeds Regulatory Reporting and Monitoring - Canary Trend Historian and Canary Trend Link/Trend Web standard products are at the heart of a pipeline pumping station project that uses the OPC-HDA historical data access standard to consolidate historical data from remote stations to central facilities... Read more

OPC Goes Into Space for Autonomous Control - A mining technology company, working under NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, chooses OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems to support lunar mining missions with sophisticated power and communications... Read more

OPC Helps Reduce Costs for Car Makers - A systems integration company uses OPC Servers from Cyberlogic in its turn-key error proofing systems that help prevent bad parts from being shipped out of parts plants, saving automotive manufacturers time and money... Read more

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