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| + | Look before You Leap: Implementing Successful OPC Projects
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The Right Way to Implement Industrial Automation Connectivity. Read More...
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| + | OPC is Hard and Gooey
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Murphy points out that OPC provides standardized data access that meets the characteristics of both process and discrete manufacturing. Read More...
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| + | Complacent with Compliance?
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OPC Certification creates a solid quality baseline for interoperability
that separates the wheat from the chaff, according to OPC specialist
Eric Murphy, and serious end-users will demand nothing less. Read More...
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| + | Dynamic Duo of Industrial Connectivity
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As industry standards evolve and strengthen, those with wide adoption and proven interoperability will continue down
the road of enterprise integration while others will fade into obscurity. Read More...
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| + | OPC enables interoperability
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Eric Murphy's article discusses how OPC UA improves communication from the field to enterprise levels. Read More...
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| + | If These Walls Could Talk
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This article discusses integrating building automation systems to industrial applications and the rest of the enterprise. Read More...
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| + | Energy Saving Solutions - Building IT with OPC
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The key part of the term Building Information
Technology (BIT) is information, and how it is used
in optimization and energy savings. Read More...
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| + | OPC UA Enables Business Intelligence – To Be or Not To Be?
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OPC UA
offers the promise of unifying individual business
units into true enterprise-wide solutions. Read More...
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| + | Winning the Battle for Interoperability
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End users who purchase OPC-compliant products expect 24/7 reliability, full data information integrity and validated, secure interoperability. The product should seamlessly integrate with existing architecture. However, achieving interoperability of some products is more like a running skirmish against hostile opposition -- painful and costly. Getting all sides to comply with the rules and best practices of interoperability can be an uphill battle at times. Read More...
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| + | Are Your Plant Calculations in One Excel of a Mess?
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The list of knowledge-intense calculations is boundless, and the information they provide is critical to any industrial operation. Accurate, efficient and timely calculations are required to improve operational efficiencies, optimize processes or conform to regulatory or reporting requirements. Read More...
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| + | OPC Security Better Safe than Sorry
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Security is once again on top of everyone’s mind. Incidents such as the Heathrow plot renew focus on the possible vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure, such as those in the power, oil and gas, manufacturing and other industries. One key area of concern deals with SCADA infrastructures using communication protocols such as OPC. Read More...
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| + | OPC UA - How Deep Does Interface Standardization Go?
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With any widely implemented technology, come discussions about its limitations or perceived shortcomings. OPC is no exception. With the recent release of the OPC UA (Unified Architecture), there is a lot of speculation about whether or not it actually solves existing OPC issues. Read More...
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| + | OPC – A Decade of Success by Any Standard
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Over the past decade, OPC has proven itself to be a reliable, widely accepted standard. Looking to the future, OPC is staying true to its same principles with the evolution of the OPC UA specification. Read More...
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