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OPC stands for Openess, Productivity, and Collaboration, symbolizing the new possibilities opening up in automation technology. As integration platform, the PC offer new perspec-tives and opportunities for OPC, both in technical and in economic terms. Client/server concepts implemented with OPC offer standardized, multi-vendor access possibilities. The new OPC UA Specification (Unified Architecture) aims global interoperability and defines an interoperability platform based on Web Services.
This book deals with # the birth, objectives, and fundamentals of OPC, # the technical specifications that currently exist and those that are in preparation, # the procedures for designing and implementing components, # a transparent presentation of the technology through application possibilities and examples, and # the outlook for the future of OPC.
Important perspectives and updates in this new edition include # an introduction to Web Services, # new specifications as OPC XML DA, OPC Complex Data, OPC Command Execution, and OPC UA, # extended concepts of the OPC Foundation for OPC compliance testing and certification, # new applications in car industry, building automation, paper industry, and plant control with OPC, and # performance assessments of OPC XML DA applications.
"Whether you are an end user of products from vendors that use the OPC foundation technology or you are a vendor that either currently builds products with the OPC foundation technology or potentially will in the future, then this is the book for you to truly get jump started on understan- ding the OPC technology and using the OPC technology in a highly efficient manner." ISBN-9789380386379
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Pages : 251
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