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The heart of any control system is the computers and servers that run your automation software. For example, when PLCs talk to AC drives over Ethernet, the drives will shut down if they lose ...
In this edition of OPC Talk with Win and Marc, we’re going to address some common questions we get about redundancy involving OPC software. If you’re new to the industrial automation space and want ...
It is common for companies to use databases for long-term storage of their critical information. In our experience, we also see machine setup information, short term operational data and much more ...
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I’m excited about the recent release of the OPC Data Client development toolkit – and you should be too if you’re an active developer of custom OPC Client software applications. This post is highly ...
We’ve been working with the OPC software interoperability standards since 1996, and it’s easy to forget that others who are new to this space often find the whole discussion around the OPC standard ...
So you've been tasked with bringing data from a new device (maybe a weigh scale or barcode scanner or RFID system) into your HMI/SCADA system. But you just have a protocol document from the ...
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What's "It"? The "it" can mean a lot of things. What we mean is solving software and information integration challenges the way YOU want to solve them, and not being totally limited by the fill in ...
A Topic Variable is a flexible special OmniServer element that gives you the ability to define a device specific variable such as a Device ID at the OmniServer topic level. This effectively makes ...