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May 2005
April Events Take OPC on a Wild Ride
For a month packed with activities, Thomas J. Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, discusses the OPC buzz at Hanover Fair, the OPC UA Developers Conference, held at the Microsoft campus, and the OPC Interoperability Workshop, held in Tampa, Florida.
Welcome to the second edition of "OPConnect," the 2005 OPC Foundation newsletter. You will receive this newsletter by e-mail every other month in 2005, and summaries will be published in select issues of Automation World magazine and at www.automationworld.com.
Hanover Fair abuzz over OPC
The word was on the street already about the new OPC Unified Architecture specification, at the OPC Foundation-sponsored booth at Hanover Fair, held in Hanover, Germany, in April. Conversations around the booth among end-users and vendors centered on how significant the new architecture is and what it means to the industry, with respect to solving the critical problems of reliability and moving information between the control system and the Information Technology environments. Companies in Europe are very excited about Web Services and platform independence, which are key components of the OPC Unified Architecture.
A technical update was presented on the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) and OPC certification, with attendees dancing in the aisles to the tunes from the video presentation. For all you classic rockers, "Born To Be Wild" seems to be the key song for the OPC UA team.
The other hot topic at the Fair was OPC Foundation's embracing and collaborating with the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) initiative, which also involves the Profibus, Fieldbus Foundation and Hart consortiums. Read more.
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Cactus Develops an Indigo Implementation of OPC UA
A highlight of the recent OPC Unified Architecture Developers Conference was the OPC UA demonstration that was implemented with Microsoft's Indigo framework and was jointly developed by Cactus Commerce, the . . . Read more
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Industry Embraces OPC
In a recent survey of manufacturers and solutions providers, nearly 95 percent of respondents use or plan to use OPC, an interoperable
communications standard, in their operations. . . . Read more
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Gasoline Producer Achieves All ROI Targets
An OPC server for the ABB Industrial IT automation system bridges communications between advanced and regulatory blend solutions. . . . Read more
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OPC Provides Remote Control for Heat Distribution Network
CAS, a software developer and services integrator based in Lodz,
Poland, deploys OPC as the communication engine for a municipal heat distribution system. . . . Read more
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OPC Links Wind Turbines to PLCs
Renewable energy generator, Hydro Tasmania, uses Matrikon OPC tunneling technology to overcome DCOM limitations. . . . Read more
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Pumping Systems Maker Increases Flexibility with OPC
A maker of pumping systems for delivery of chilled and hot water employs OPC servers from Software Toolbox to interface with multi-vendor building automation systems. . . . Read more
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OPC Guarantees Control Where Safety Is A Must
With OPC solutions from FAST SpA, the alarms chain is controlled across the distributed control and emergency shutdown systems. . . . Read more
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