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Technical Expertise Center - OPC
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 By providing a means for standardized interoperability between multiple vendors products since 1996, the OPC software to software integration standards have significantly reduced engineering
and integration cost and risk while increasing manufacturing competitiveness and profitability for its users. Use the materials here to help you learn more about OPC, what it is, how it works, and how
to apply it.
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OPC Basic Training Webcasts
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In these free 1 hour recorded webcasts, you will learn OPC to the depth you want, based on how you plan to use OPC. Great for users and non-users alike
to learn more about OPC.
Part 1: OPC Basics
- learn what OPC is, the kinds of problems it can solve, and how it works at the "user" level - a great way to get started. Viewable in the free webex player.
Part 2: OPC Data Access Applications - HMI/SCADA, Excel, Web, and More
- take what you learn in Part 1 and apply it to the most common uses of OPC and learn some of the other creative ways that users leverage OPC to help their businesses. Viewable in Windows Media Player with the free GotoMeeting Plug-in.
Part 3: Developing custom business and manufacturing
applications using OPC and Visual Studio.NET
- learn how to integrate OPC into your custom applications. Turn your custom applications into OPC Servers, consume data from OPC data sources in your custom applications. Viewable in Windows Media Player with the free GotoMeeting Plug-in.
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Presentations & More OPC Webcasts
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OPC DataHub Webcast Series. An extensive series of short videos and webcasts that cover topics such as OPC data tunneling through firewalls w/o DCOM, automated reporting,
email/sms notifications, OPC to Excel connectivity, viewing OPC data in Web Browsers, and more.
- OPC Systems.NET Webcast Series. Learn about OPC data
reporting and analysis, codeless OPC client development with Visual Studio.NET for winforms and web applications.
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Using Visual Basic and C#.NET (VS2003/2005/2008) as an OPC Client - learn how to easily consume OPC data in your custom application by using off-the-shelf rapid development
components.
- Using Visual Basic 6 as an OPC Client - All Visual Basic to OPC connectivity tutorials are now located on our OPCActiveX.com website.
- Applying Internet Technology to Production Environment Monitoring
- this paper from a user, Unifi Technology Group, shows how browsers, VB, and OPC servers were used to provide internet/intra-net based production environment monitoring systems for a global textile company.
Download paper (PDF- 409 Kb) | Download Powerpoint Presentation (1706 Kb)
- OPC Data Access 2.0 Technical Overview - Powerpoint PPT file - From the OPC Foundation, this presentation by Al Chisholm, the Technical Committe Chairman, covers the OPC Data Access 2.0 specification and its key interfaces.
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