OPC UA Book
The first OPC Unified Architecture Book, written by Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm one of the co-founders of ascolab.News
SPS/IPC/Drives 2010
Nuremberg November 23-25, 2010
ascolab GmbH showed OPC UA technology on the SPS/IPC/Drives. On the impressive new booth of the OPC Foundation (7-190) ascolab presented development and training services for OPC UA. The shared booth was designed under the head line "From Controller into the Cloud" and demonstrated the advantages of OPC UA communication in modern IT infrastructure. Visitors were invited to see live demonstration of PLC vendors and HMI/SCADA systems that are already OPC UA-enabled. The large team of exhibitors form different OPC member companies answered all questions around Unified Architecture and its application in the field.OPC UA on Security Essen 2010
Essen October 08, 2010
ascolab GmbH represented the OPC Foundation and showed OPC UA technology on the Security Essen. Many visitors and exhibitors already knew the classic OPC Standards, but learning about the new possibilities and flexibility of OPC Unified Architecture made them enthusiastic. High interest was shown in platform independence, secure communication especially for fire detection systems, access control systems, card readers, doors management and also the large area of video surveillance. This trade show revealed new opportunities and an emerging marked for OPC Unified Architecture not only for management and visualization systems also for device communication. Device description and diagnostic needs to be standardized analog to industrial automation components. Vendors and integrators agreed on a benefitial work force investigating how OPC UA can help them to create cost effectice solutions for their customers.Most sophisticated Server on the Marked
Erlangen, Karlsruhe May 03, 2010 - Siemens released their new, more sophisticated OPC UA Server. The communication product SIMATIC NET (CD 2010) already had OPC UA capabilities of the Data Access profile, but now was enhanced with Alarms & Conditions. Together with ascolab GmbH this UA Server was developed, it is the first OPC UA Server on the marked that supports not only Data Access but also Alarms & Conditions and Method Calls. In addition the performance was dramatically increased. First measurements showed that this new OPC Server reached locally the same speed than the old classic OPC Server, but remotely OPC UA reached twice the speed of DCOM. The new SIMATIC NET OPC UA Server is available for S7-protocol and PNIO-protocol. The ascolab GmbH assisted the development phase and the system testing of this new server, making it the leading edge of UA technology on the marked.OPC UA - running on QNX
Erlangen, August 22, 2009 - The ascolab GmbH ported the OPC UA ANSI C Stack to new embedded operating system. Together with QNX Software Systems the OPC UA Server was ported and tested on the new QNX Neutrino V6.4.1 running on an Intel Atom processor. The QNX real time operating system natively supports a full set of SSL functions. This made porting much easier and directly enables the OPC UA Server for encryption and authentication. Toolchain files including cross compiler settings were adapted and the new OPC UA Software Development Kit (SDK) for QNX will be available for evaluation download soon. Unified Automation GmbHWireshark - OPC UA Protocol Diagnostics
Erlangen, Germany - April 07, 2009 . ascolab updated the source code of the OPC UA Wireshark Plugin to comply with the latest OPC UA Specification. Using this plugin you can decode and analyze the OPC UA TCP-Binary protocol directly on the wire. The code will be integrated into the next release of Wireshark which will be available within the next 4 to 8 weeks. For more information please click here . For more information on Wireshark visit www.wireshark.orgPage 1 of 7
