OPC UA Draws Sell-out Crowds at 2008 Events

The year 2008 continues to be a busy one for OPC UA technology, as Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, brings you up-to-date with new training events, developer conferences and product announcements.

Welcome to the August 2008 edition of OPConnect, the official newsletter of the OPC Foundation. By the time you read this message, we'll be well into the third quarter of 2008, where OPC Unified Architecture continues to be the dominant theme. The many significant events this year have resulted in significant announcements by vendor companies who are embracing and deploying products based on the OPC UA technology. At the same time, the OPC Foundation has a very good plan that allows Classic OPC to be easily migrated to, and be interoperable with, OPC UA.

Events of 2008 are building on the momentum created by the early OPC UA Developer Conferences (DevCons), held in Munich in October 2006 and in Phoenix, Arizona, in June 2007. More than 250 people attended the Munich jumpstart event, which was highlighted by a technical overview of the OPC UA specifications that were released in June 2006... Read more

OPC Foundation Launches New Certification Program - For its new OPC certification program, the Foundation has announced that Ascolab is the first Independent Certification Test Lab, and Cyberlogic is the first OPC developer to receive the program's “Certified” logo... Read more

OPC Improves Security in Plant-to-Corporate Connection - Secure OPC tunnelling is established between power plants and the company offices by using the OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems. In two recent projects, Italy's ABB Energy Automation has developed a control solution that feeds data from power plant facilities directly to corporate offices—in real time—using the OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems, located in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada... Read more

Building Better Solutions by Using Multiple Vendors - A municipal water treatment facility uses OPC products from Canary Labs to connect best-in-class systems and create a solution that allows operators, engineers and management to share information in a collaborative environment... Read more

Gasoline Producer Achieves All ROI Targets - An OPC server for the ABB Industrial IT automation system bridges communications between advanced and regulatory blend solutions. The PKN Orlen refinery in Plock, Poland, is one of the largest refineries and gasoline producers in Europe. Other Orlen products include diesel oil, furnace oil, aviation fuel, plastics and petrochemicals... Read more

Off-the-Shelf OPC Tools Create Custom Solution - A public gas utility leverages Software Toolbox's OmniServer Universal I/O Server and OPC Data Hub for gas analyzer connectivity and data logging of extended log files. A large natural gas supplier serving more than 1.5 million clients in several states has a wireless network of approximately 225 GasMicro analyzers that were being accessed via GPRS Modem... Read more

Effectively Employ OPC Communications - Softing's OPC Easy Connect Suite is an intelligent set of OPC middleware products that simplifies the commissioning and operation of OPC clients and servers, and significantly improves the data throughput of OPC interfaces... Read more

History is Built with a Hub and Spoke - Eric Murphy, chair for the OPC Historical Data Access (HDA) working group and engineer with MatrikonOPC, provides an overview of the hub-and-spoke standardized architecture for OPC HDA... Read more

Foiling Excessive Energy Consumption - An energy analysis and monitoring system for the metals industry employs OPC solutions from Kepware Technologies to provide a single source concentrator of data from PLCs and natural gas flow meters... Read more

Simple OPC UA Web Service Samples - The OPC Foundation has posted on its web site sample code that implements an OPC UA Client and Server without the use of any UA SDKs or communications stacks. Much of the recent focus of the OPC Unified Architecture team has been the completion and testing of the OPC UA communication stacks and SDKs in portable C/C++, .NET and Java... Read more

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