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NEW Top Server 5.7 Steps Up Upstream Oil Connectivity
Users in the upstream oil business can now get the best of TOP Server, powered by Kepware quality and Software Toolbox's world class support when connecting to Lufkin and Weatherford Rod-Pump Controllers and Bristol RTU's with the new drivers added to TOP Server 5.7. Learn more and get a FREE TRIAL.
Software Toolbox
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Faster, Easier Trending & Analysis System
Acquire, store, retrieve, view, analyze, extract and report trend data from PLC's, equipment and other software through OPC servers, compliant with OPC UA specification. Free Product Evaluation!
Canary Labs
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Cogent DataHub v7 gives you many ways to access and use your data.
Includes DataHub WebView (web HMIwith ulimited clients), OPC tunnelling, Data Logging, FREE DataHub QuickTrend (for real-time trends), Historian, Redundancy and much more. Click this ad for a free demo.
Cogent Real-Time Systems
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WHITE PAPER Cloud-Based SCADA Systems: The Benefits & Risks
Is moving your SCADA system to the cloud right for your company? There are many benefits, as well as risks, involved in using the cloud for your SCADA information. Learn the pros and cons in this white paper so you can make an informed decision.
Inductive Automation
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We Move Your Data, We Have Your Drivers, We Are Your Standard for Connectivity
Kepware Technologies develops a wide range of communication and interoperability software solutions for the Automation industry. Our OPC software products are known worldwide for quality, reliability and ease of use. Kepware's mission is to become “Your Standard for Connectivity”.
Kepware Technologies
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Get a “One Click” SCADA System Right on Your Mobile Device
Use the flexibility of OPC Systems.NET to get the information you need directly from the plant floor right on your mobile device exactly when you need it. Control Systems can be monitored, and device performance can be accessed anywhere in the plant to enable more flexible operations management. Download your trial today.
Open Automation Software
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FLEXIBLE.SECURE.FAST - OPC UA Technology Simplified
More than 1,600 companies rely on Softing's OPC development kits to generate thousands of compliant OPC products. Softing's OPC UA Toolkits are designed to assist software engineers to elegantly implement and integrate high-performance OPC Clients/Servers.
Softing
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MatrikonOPC Universal Connectivity Server - Connectivity in a Single Server!
MatrikonOPC's Universal Connectivity Server is a single OPC Server that provides connectivity to multiple devices, protocols and APIs.
It offers a wide range of plug-ins to support the most popular PLC and Building Automation protocols, delivering a new horizon of connectivity between vendors.
Matrikon Inc.
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FOUNDATION LETTER
Certification, Collaboration, Community
Welcome to the November 2011 issue of OPConnect. As the year winds down, the OPC Foundation remains focused on three C's: Certification, Collaboration and Community.
Ten leading vendors certified OPC products in 2011 using OPC Foundation-sanctioned test labs, with many more in the pipeline (see below). Important collaboration work is driving OPC success, including a cooperation between the OPC Foundation and PLCopen (more below). And we continue to support the “OPC Community” by sponsoring events throughout the world, with several still scheduled for this year.
In mid-November, we will hold two OPC Days, designed to educate attendees on the powerful OPC UA (Unified Architecture) specification. Join us in Antwerp, Belgium, on Nov. 16, for OPC Day Benelux 2011, where the focus is on Connecting Evolvable Automation and Business Components with OPC UA. Visit www.ima-research.org/opc-event/ to register. Later that week, on Nov. 18 in Paris, we'll host OPC Day France—a unique opportunity to connect with the French-speaking OPC community...Read more
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TECHNOLOGY NEWS
How open standards can increase OEM product sales
Increasing data visibility by using OPC Systems.NET from Open Automation Software to visualize real-time data directly from the source using popular Visual Studio
-capable graphics packages.
Customers are no longer satisfied with equipment that only communicates using proprietary technology, and can no longer afford to be locked into one vendor's product line. They need the flexibility to build quality
solutions which will enable them to utilize the best equipment/software on the market. They also want proven results that the equipment will increase production, decrease costs, and easy to integrate into existing
systems. The challenge for OEM's is how to overcome these issues and sell more products with documented stats. One solution is to use open standards to empower each device with the ability to connect to existing
systems, and the ability to visualize and share real-time data...Read More
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TECHNOLOGY NEWS
New integrated industrial automation reporting capability requires no programming
Software Toolbox launches “Dream Report” that simplifies extracting information from almost any data source and then deliver reports automatically to anyone, anywhere.
Dream Report is a real-time reporting generator solution, developed by Ocean Data Systems. It is easy to use right out of the box and yet powerful enough to work effectively with professional databases, such as SQL
Server 2005/2008 and Oracle with no programming or database development skills. Such comprehensive functionality is due largely to the configurable end-user interface, which relies on user-friendly check-box
configuration tools. The solution combines five key functions to make it a convenient reporting solution for industrial automation: data collection; data logging; data extraction and analysis; report design; and report
generation and distribution...Read More»
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
New automation concepts with OPC Unified Architecture
OPC UA technology complements the traditional OPC industrial standard by adding important characteristics such as platform independence, scalability, high availability, and Internet capability. Many automation
component vendors already offer OPC UA clients or servers for their PLCs, process control systems, field devices, or operator panels. An efficient and cost-effective way to develop OPC UA products is to use OPC
development kits such as Softing's OPC UA toolkit.
OPC technology has evolved into a de-facto standard for interoperable data exchange between multi-vendor software applications that is applicable in a wide range of industries spanning from manufacturing and
process industries to building automation and many others. Today more than 20,000 OPC products from over 3,500 different manufacturers are in use all over the world. OPC facilitates the data transfer between widely
distributed parts of a plant. The OPC interfaces bridge the divide between heterogeneous automation worlds...Read More»
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