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The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech (Cincinnati, OH) introduces a standardized interface for industrial device servers, the OPC (OLE for process control) Server. An OPC server provides devices, such as an I/O device, to communicate with a wide range of HMI/SCADA software packages residing on a host. Any software system with OPC client capabilities can access the Advantech OPC server drivers.
Advantech OPC server drivers were developed using iCONICS's OPC ToolWorX V3.2 with the ability to create OPC servers for any Microsoft operating system including Windows CE; full source code version available; low-cost DLL library version available; and compliance with the latest OPC Data Access, OPC Alarm and Events, and OPC XML Data Access 1.0 standard, to name a few features.
The OPC server drivers also consist of the following OLE components: The I/O driver maintains the driver's channel, device, and datablock objects as well as performs all required functions for communicating with the process hardware and exposes the methods and properties to other applications. And the power tool accesses the I/O server and lets you view and modify channel, device, and datablock properties.
There are four different devices available: PCLS-OPC/ADM for ADAM-4000, 5000/485, and 5000E series modules; PCLS-OPC/MOD for Modbus/RTU compliant devices; PCLS-OPC/MTP for Modbus/TCP compliant devices; and PCLS-OPC/A8K for ADAM-8000 series
For details, contact Advantech Corporation, Industrial Automation Group.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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